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** The "Thelsamar Blood Sausages" quest actually ''does'' send you out to collect Bear Rumps. You need eight of them, though, not twenty, and needing them for a recipe makes some sort of sense even if the recipe doesn't. This may or may not be an [[Ascended Meme]].
** Special attention needs to be brought to the item crafting portion of the game, which frequently requires this sort of action ''en masse''. The Heavy Clefthoof armor set, for instance, required leatherworkers to skin 94 Thick Clefthoof Leather hides... which had a drop rate between 8%-30%. This means you had to kill a minimum of 310 Clefthoofs. Considering there were rarely more than 50 or so in the game at any given time, this is tantamount to extinction-level genocide. The kicker: the set was aimed at ''druids'', which are supposed to be in harmony with nature.
** The game also has an interesting side-quest that defies the trope, possibly put for players who are getting a little too comfortable with such quests. In the ''Battle for Azeroth expansion'', a quartermaster tells player to slay 8 Thieving Snappers, which are small raptor dinosaurs - seems simple enough. After doing so however, it goes completely off-script, and the player is caught by [[Physical God|Jani]], a powerful loa who [[Mama Bear|happens to be their mother]]. [[Oh Crap]]. Jani decides to teach the player a lesson, [[Baleful Polymorph|turning them into a Snapper]] and [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|telling them to steal the quartermaster's hat]] if they want her to change them back. You will be able to do a quest chain for Jani later, hopefully not as overconfident as before.
* ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' has a trillion of these. On a quest? Good for you. Want to progress to the next screen to continue the story? Not until you give me 15 sabre-tooth tiger fangs. Oh, and did I mention that some sabre-toothed tigers don't have fangs?
** This gets especially bad as some quests, like those from Dage the Evil, can require you to gather up to 50 of a given item, and you usually have to get 2 or 3 different items per quest. It get's even worse when you realise that logging off forces you to start all over again.
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