I think they even removed some of them from the older parts of the game. Remember these? They always were part of some interesting quest chain and often had an interesting reward.
You would fight your way into someplace and free someone held captive and then walk with them back through the enemy to get them to safety.
They were awful and no one really liked them.
“Always” is a big word. Many of us are scarred from escorting that ditzy elf through Feralas, ringing a bell every time she saw a squirrel.
Jailbreak was also horrible. HORRIBLE.
We escort Jaina a couple times in the Maw in the Shadowlands intro. That’s enough for me.
I remember impatiently waiting for slow NPCs to take the scenic route and pull everything they can. Fun times, good quests. But not really >.>
I think every expansion should have one obligitory escort quest. They’ve updated the follow algorithm for NPCs so they shouldn’t run back to where they left off every time there’s a fight.
Oh, I remember this video. A perfect representation of how those quests really worked. Even more the more recent ones still kind of suck.
The only one I liked was Flynn’s. But I was biased cuz I thought he was cute. That was his only saving grace that quest lol
The video shows it on a PvP server. Getting ganked in the middle of one of those was infuriating.
I think the turtles in Tanaris kinda wore me out on them. Those were long, cross-zone escorts.
That’s true. I guess the stealth follow quests could be considered escorts in a way.
Have you leveled in SL? There are a ton of them.
Not vanilla levels of annoying RP walking … but definitely a lot of standing around waiting for them to move, or pre-canned adds to spawn, etc.
The one where you escort her to the cave is the other one. It resets if you get too far away from her and you have to go back to the beginning (of the escort) and start it again.
Ask me how I found that out. 
There were two Escort Quests in Ardenweald I remember very clearly doing while leveling to 60. There have also been “Escort” world quests of sorts where you protect a creature while it travels on a path.
Thanks. I’m about halfway through Ardenweald, I’ll keep an eye out for it.
A lot of the old ones were removed or toned down in Cataclysm, but I’ve still escorted my fair share of OOX robochickens.
Put hands on Op’s mouth* shut your dirty little mouth. We didn’t forget we just don’t want them. Now I’ll let you go but you better play it cool
OP…if you truly miss these I have good news. YOu will love the many in SL.
The mad duke escort one…truly great times. If you are a masochist.
I let his bar run to zero and dared him to die or reset the quest. He didn’t. He was whiny about it, but he stuck with me until it was done.