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** Even lowly [[NPC]]s will order you around while doing nothing. They typically won't even do anything with the quest items you bring them (blacksmiths don't make weapons to defend the settlement, etc). ''Wrath of the Lich King'' has taken steps to advert this. For instance one quest requires you to retrieve some weapons for peasants who are being attacked by the Undead. Turning in the quest causes them to run and use the weapons for a short time.
*** Other [[NPC]]s require you to do things like gather Berries before they'll open their shop for your use, where they sell items related to what you got for them. Others will sometimes have tasks you have to do to access the flight path and the Phasing system sometimes requires a chain of quests to be done before an area is filled with friendly NPCs (or have them leave instead).
*** In ''[[Shamus Young|Shamus]] [[Let's Play|Plays]]'', this is often the reason why his heroes give up their attempts at being heroes or, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420021227/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/shamusplays in the World of Warcraft example], trigger his [[Face Heel Turn]]. The [[NPC]]s that order him to do their job or perform meaningless tasks before they'll perform their jobs, coupled with the [[Surrounded by Idiots|lack of common sense to some of the quest goals]] causes the Warlock Norman Deathbringerr who was trying to go the [[Dark Is Not Evil]] route to be talked into going into full fledged villany by his imp.
** This is sometimes averted, as your NPC quest givers may fight alongside you in a quest, or justified in that the NPCs' hands are tied (Drakuru is stuck in a cage after the player captures him, so while he knows what to do, he needs the player to do the legwork). Or even more if they maintain the base camp or ask you as a recon/private assassination team as they hold the fort outside.
** Largely changed in the Cataclysm patch, now each zone has a story and goal you're working towards (and generally a theme, like a murder mystery or an extended Rambo parody).
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