People reading this comment in the future might care to know that the broken statue in booty bay is home to a secret that is a big reference to these Pointless Top Ten videos, which, I gotta say are getting more polished. I appreciate the quilboar fight mini-machinima
The drama surrounding Ezra was really heartbreaking. I remember because Ezra had been given the phoenix mount before anyone could obtain it officially, after he passed and his dad was playing on the account because of course he would, people demanded the phoenix mount be taken away from him. Would bombard his account with whispers demanding he destroy the mount or otherwise not play on the account because it was "unfair". Dude lost his son and losers were mad they didn't have the mount...
Korgran hit me so hard because I lost my dad in April this year and he had been experiencing dementia. The conversations and things that happened in the quest just brought back so many similarities to my dad.
Korgran's quest literally brought me to tears, and even thinking about it or typing this now has me tearing up. My recently passed Oma had bad Alzheimer's, and only remembered my Granpa after a while. Since he passed a month or so before she did, she must have spent that last bit of time so lonely and confused, which is so heartbreaking. It's also a heavy reminder that both of my parents may also have bad memory issues as they get older. I love that WoW isn't afraid to tackle such heavy topics, even if it's heartbreaking on a personal level.
Thank you! I was so expecting to see him here. That's the one quest that legit made me cry. More than once even. Wish there was some kind of follow up to that so we could help him somehow :(
I replayed it just the other month, while leveling a new character. It was heartbreaking. He can feel himself lose his mind, he loses his sight and just before he turns asks if you're there, if you can hear him, before he thanks you for his last hours...I needed a moment after that. I'd forgotten how hard that quest hit.
YES. Every time I go through his questline, I always tear up a bit because he was fighting his addiction and trying to get better... but then he loses himself and uses his final words to say his goodbyes to you
I couldn't finish his questline or Lyndras (the nightfallen tailoring trainer). I got too attached to them both and couldn't stand to watch them Wither 😢
The saddest bit about Wenren is that when you go back to the house, there is an older woman holding back tears as she is cleaning up the blood. Outside the house is a memorial placard for him.
Fun fact: Ahab Wheathoof is even more invincible than that. He is unaffacted by NPC AoE and all status effects, and cannot even be altered by toys. For example Ye Ole Shandris Feathermoon's extinction leve event mass Starfall. During the Cataclysm when Mulgore's turn to get roasted by DW comes up, Ahab Wheathoof is standing there absolutely engulfed in flames lookingly decidedly unbothered. Lok'tar Ezra. Tough lil mfer.
@Geraldo_Rivian Back in the day, until about MoP, Shandris Feathermoon was an ?? NPC in Feralas. Her tether was broken, meaning unless an attacking Horde player left combat, she would continue following and attacking, rather than return to her post like normal NPCS. One of her attacks was Starfall, just like Druids and Tyrande. Except that was also broken: it had a vast, uncallibrated targeting area, as it was never intended to see much use or many enemies. U can guess what happens. Players kited her to any major Kalimdor hub they could manage, usually Org, TB and Ye Olde Crossroads, and when Shandris gets to the Starfall phase of her rotation, it essentially targets the entire Valley of Strength and the upper tier leading to Wisdom and Spirits, at raid boss damage. Every player and NPC dead. Except its 2011 and a lot more people are playing on potatoes, so you found out you were dead after a restart, when the glaring flash of a thousand thousand megasparklies nearly bricked your HP Pavilion college laptop.
I agree. I think Runas or the quests involving Taivan in Dragonflight should have been number 1. Or at least 2 and 1 in this video should have been swapped imho.
@@katm8128 During DragonFlight, there is a questline in reforging Tyr in which you'll travel the timeways, and in one of them is the uncorrupted version of him called "Runas the Bright"
I like making people that call Ahab Wheathoof "creepy" feel bad for calling Ahab creepy. Ezra also got to design a weapon for Season 2 TBC. So if you go check out the pvp gear you can get in Area 52, there's a crossbow that has the flavor text "Made to E.Phoenix's specifications". Korgran's quest chain made me cry. Like, after I was finished with the chain, I stopped & had a good cry, because I'm seeing the beginnings of dementia set in with my 83 year old grandmother. Just like after the second MSQ trial fight made me cry because my mother had passed away the year before.
The saddest NPCs, to me, were the gorlocs in the Sholazar Basin. The Mosswalker Victims. They are being eternally dragged around by those horrible zombies, and they say things to you like, "I do something bad? I sorry" and "We not to anything... to them... I no understand" and "please... take my shinies. All done..." right before they die. It's the saddest thing. The first time I did the quest I almost cried, and I've never been able to bring myself to do that quest again.
Top 10 patrolling NPC's having conversations (such as the trio of human women walking around SW talking about weird stuff) or the emissaries in Silvermoon City
Yeah.... i actually stopped the Urtago quest in the middle of it once he started forgetting things.... my mom was diagnosed with early onset dementia when i was 10. She died when I was 29. She was pretty much completely gone by time i was 20.... she didnt speak... she laughed sometimes.... yeah... i cant wait till we figure out how to cure it.
I'm sorry you and her had to go through that, it's really hard watching someone slowly lose who they are. My partners father is going through it now and he changes a lot day to day. He gets embarrassed when he forgets things or people and then gets angry when you try and remind him about stuff. He lives alone and is very resistant to accepting help because he doesn't trust strangers and we live far from where he is so we worry a lot. Urtago's quest did a super good job of letting people who might be unfamiliar learn what it can actually be like and it was cool just helping to people who care about one another...those are my favorite quests.
I knew something bad was going to happen because there's no way narratively that they would actually let him establish contact with the Arathi Empire. I raced back so fast when he teleported home...
Mankrik meets a new lady when you do his Barrens quest in Cataclysm. And you see him with his new wife in the anniversary celebration. So he had a somewhat happy ending. Apparently you meet his first wife in Maldraxxus, but I don't remember seeing her myself.
Mankrik's first wife, Olgra, is indeed in Maldraxxus, but she is only a flavor NPC iirc, and unless you remember her name from that one Draenor Nagrand quest, or go talk to her and make the right connection with her line about Quilboar screams, you don't realize it's her. She also doesn't use an orc model, but one of the Generic female bulky humanoid models.
5:00 Forgot to mention about his older sister Emma Felstone (aka Ol' Emma), who lives in Stormwind. (who is still alive, as of this posting) 7:20 It's too bad we cant tell him how his wife is doing (and how she became a badass in the process.) But maybe when his time comes, they'll meet once more.
Runas the Shamed and Jeremiah Peyson were teh 2 saddest NPC moments that really stuck with me. Okay NOW helping Scrollsage Nora move on, but that one was a bittersweet emotional punch in the feelings. Poor Jeremiah man, he really got a rough break of it. I always try to be nice to him and his little buggos going through Undercity when I'm there. Give em a hug. He went through so much.
One of the Tauren in MULGORE was voiced by a kid called Ezra with terminal brain cancer; he was also given the first ever Alar mount before he passed. o7
@@skentttheir a memorial for an RL child who past behind Goldshire , wild he didn't mention that it's equally as sad as the Tauren who lost their Dog quest
I'm only sad you didn't cover Mankrik's story BEYOND "Lost in Battle". In Cataclysm, he basically tries to kill himself fighting endless waves of quilboar, but the Earthen Ring shaman Mahka asks you to give him a gift & calm the pain in his heart, telling Mankrik there *are* people who would miss him if he died. And now, during the 20th anniversary celebration, Mankrik & Mahka appear to be a true couple; while Mankrik's dead wife Olgra is kicking ass in the afterlife as one of the Necrolords of Maldraxxus. (not even getting into their alternate universe appearance in Warlords)
His story of the interpersonal relationships of the black dragons with the other dragonflights, and how it all got completely uprooted by uncontrollable madness that destroyed relationships in the most violent ways possible, was absolutely harrowing to me. Nobody should ever need to witness such, and in a way draws parallels to the plague outbreak of former family, friends and colleagues becoming undead and trying to kill you while still having some humanity in them.
I think you should make Another top 10 saddest NPC in World of Warcraft cuz there is a lot of them. - I immediately remember the quest in the New Nagrand, where you help the spirit of an orc reunite with his beloved in afterlife. - Duskwood is one big sadness. For the first time in 16 years of playing, I read the quests in Darkshire and was surprised at how much drama there is in this place. - The spirits in Dragonblight, which you mentioned in previous videos, who do not even understand that they are no longer alive and still don't give in to the return of A*rthas and that they will return home. - Thrall. If anyone has done the chain of quests related to the Firelands in CATA, where you help his wife restore Thrall's powers, then you know what he went through. And these are just the ones I immediately remembered.
I unfortunately have to agree on the Duskwood thing. Going through those quests as a kid (I used to, and still do, read everything in them) and eventually having to see what happened to Morgan was awful. I had been playing a Paladin (though a Dwarf one) and I had picked it because I thought it was cool how you could randomly bless or Heal people you came across. I had loved Uther during WC III, and Muradin too, so when WoW launched and I found out I could be a Dwarf AND a Paladin it was amazing. I know we as the player characters don't really die in the game, but that whole questline gave me anxiety that somehow, no matter how much good you want to do, something like the Scourge could still destroy and twist you like that into the very thing you hated (it wasn't even like Lillian Voss or other Forsaken / high-level Scourge, where they get to keep her sanity). The other rough part in Duskwood is that that long quest with Tilloa basically finishes there, not to mention the whole Stitches debacle..... I never understood why so many horrible stories were thrown into this one zone, and the atmosphere didn't help it one bit. Sometimes I got so depressed I'd just run into Elwynn to listen to the music and see some sun, all the while thinking how these two zones could exist within such a close distance... Westfall was bad too, but at least there you had some solace from helping some of the farmers and ultimately by getting rid of the Defias, but in Duskwood everything was just decrepit and sad. I was honestly glad when I moved to Stranglethorn because at least the trolls, raptors, crocolisks and tigers were straightforward enemies and the environment didn't drive me to depression.
1:14 LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING TO ONE OF YOUR POINTLESS TOP 10 WHILE EXPLORING KRASARANG AND SAW THIS GUY AND THOUGHT,,, this is the kind of npc that appears in your videos OMG
Wow, your number 10 was so shocking - every other NPC should feel so lucky not spending all of his existence in endless drawning! For me, the most saddest NPC I met was Dezco in Krasarang Wilds. Attention, SPOILER ALERT!!!! | | V His wife is pregnant and about to give birth, and there is even a cut scene, but in the end, she dies in the process - and left Dezco back with Tauren twins. That was really heartbreaking.
I thought Wenren was a really cool bit of storytelling. From his model and voiceover he came off to me like he would he a recurring character. His death caught me off guard cause at a meta level you expect him to have a long questline and he then he's just dead.
One of the encounter that has always hit me really hard was Shade of Aran in Karazhan. All of his lines... Everytime I get to this boss I just don't want to kill him, it's so sad :(
0:08 I like how there's just random people at the treasure statue now, since Crendor's been doing these Top 10s for such a long time, people are just going to Booty Bay when he's about to record.
Didn't realize you finally hit 500k Subs, been watching since the Truth Rage days, Congrats Crendor! In celebration I shall make my tea in my Crensloth Mug this morning
i don't know who on the writing team has experience with dementia but as someone who was in the same boat just a few years ago, i hope they're doing better now.
The Urtago and Korgran quest is one of the most beautiful and poignant quests I've ever come across in a game. A quest about no one specific and yet it is a quest about every single person at the same time; watching the decline of someone you care for or being the one that is declining... Seeing Korgran decline more with each quest, then becoming scared and running off because he couldn't remember anything... this hit me in the feels. I have 3 WoW friends in my small group alone with family members with dementia. Such a cruel, *cruel* illness to endure, and WoW handled this with dignity and respect.
Hey! Also know that Ezea has another seasonal NPC an elder from the noble garden season! The only NPC that has a pet with him! A phoenix pet wich is something Ezra wanted! so the ahses of alar and the phoenix pet are also triblutes to him and so is that elder (he is in thunder blufff during the event). Best wishes from Sweden
I was literally less than 40 minutes into WW when I stumbled on the quest with Korgran. My grandfather was struggling a lot with alzheimer's before he passed and when I started realizing what was going on in the questline it hit me quite hard.
The Urtago quest about broke me the first time through. I just sat there and stared at that end quest text and literally tearing up. The writers need a raise for that one.
anytime i start a new tauren character i always do the 'find kyle' quest because i love hearing his voice since its not the normal tauren voice instead its 'have you seen my dog????'
Wenren's quest actually made me sad. I knew there was no way we were going to be opening a portal to his home but it sucked he had to die. He seemed like a cool character.
Yeah , this bias AF , there even a funeral tombstone of an RL child in Elywnn behind goldshire , similar situation the Tauren child who lost his Dog story . The first 1 those orcs are plotting a hostile take over , its hard to be sad about their passing
Later on Blizzard added an additional quest chain with regards to Mankrik. You have "rescue" him from his rage because a lady orc falls in love with him. The end of the quest chain has him letting go of his rage and grief for his wife and finding new love. They are also part of the 20th year anniversary even. You can see Mankrik and his new wife close to the story telling area by the string of tents near a tauren.
No Galgar's sad apples? Eating your reward literally makes you cry. But on a more seriously sad note: the Nightfallen, which have some really great dialog imo, that you have to watch Wither into zombies, are absolutely crushing.
Mankrik got a happy ending though, he got to avenge his wife with the cata revamp, then later after the trading post is added he's going there to get a gift for his new missus, and in the anniversary event they are seen together. I felt genuine sadness when Wenren was assassinated, it really did quite upset me.
The earthen quest line was almost definitely written by someone at Blizzard as a tribute to a friend or family member who died from alzheimers/ dementia. I’m sure of it. I’m not usually a touchy feels person with games and I usually skip over most quest text in WoW but that quest chain made me slow down and pay attention p. It felt so much more personal and real compared to the rest of WoW.
The Last Mage quest pisses me off because of how the Arathi offers ZERO protection for the guy. He was the only person in Hallowfall that knows the magic and they just let him lives by himself. Unbelievable
Gerk in Zul'Drak, the little dwarf who spent an eternity in a vat and treaded its greenish contents to stay afloat. He would choke and gurgle while speaking to you.
by far the one npc story that actually broke me is number 2, the caretaker earthen. 😭i know all earthens who watch over the dead are called caretakers but it really felt like that quest was also a homage to the caretaker's "everywhere at the end of time".
My personal pick for Saddest WoW NPC is Auctioneer Gullem. He doesn't have any sad lore or anything, it's just everyone at thunderbluff wants to talk to Auctioneer Stampi because he has bugged voice lines. Gullem sits there all alone, at one point he must wonder why he doesn't get another job, but he stays there, all day, everyday.
The saddest NPC is actually the players who watched wow go in a direction they know they wont follow and so we stay in classic forever living old memories we refuse to let go.
Can someone direct me to an old crendor video I've been unable to find? It featured a frosty the snowman parody replacing frosty the snowman with arthas the lich king, and one of the lyrics was something like "the voices in his head began to take their toll"
For me the saddest is Ren Firetongue in vale of eternal blossoms in pandaria. Before he was all laughter and dirty jokes. After the destruction his sits alone at his camp above the ruins of gun-li and asks you to just leave him alone now.
Honorable mention to almost all NPCs in the Spires of Arak that have any story. The whole zone is just full of sadness and tragedy. Come to think of it, extend that to Arakkoa in general. The ones in Outland are not better off.
people watching this in the future are going to be confused why there are so many players inside the pointless statue
People reading this comment in the future might care to know that the broken statue in booty bay is home to a secret that is a big reference to these Pointless Top Ten videos, which, I gotta say are getting more polished. I appreciate the quilboar fight mini-machinima
I'm confused right now
That means the statue is no longer pointless...
How could Blizzard do this to Crendor?
@@morpen1234 felcycle
The drama surrounding Ezra was really heartbreaking. I remember because Ezra had been given the phoenix mount before anyone could obtain it officially, after he passed and his dad was playing on the account because of course he would, people demanded the phoenix mount be taken away from him. Would bombard his account with whispers demanding he destroy the mount or otherwise not play on the account because it was "unfair". Dude lost his son and losers were mad they didn't have the mount...
this story really encapsulates the wow community, what a bunch of losers
Most normal wow players
Wasnt there a bunch of those harasser that got perma banned? Remember hearing about it and about some punishment finaly falling on those jerks.
Just goes to show gamers have always been entitled little shits and today is nothing new.
Karens and Kens exist everywhere.
Korgran hit me so hard because I lost my dad in April this year and he had been experiencing dementia. The conversations and things that happened in the quest just brought back so many similarities to my dad.
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Both grandfathers, this quest line made me cry.
the Urtago Quest hit very close to home as I had a grandmother with dementia. it really was so beautifully told.
I had to log for a bit after that quest. I've been the caregiver for family members with Alzheimer's and it just took me back hard.
Korgran's quest literally brought me to tears, and even thinking about it or typing this now has me tearing up. My recently passed Oma had bad Alzheimer's, and only remembered my Granpa after a while. Since he passed a month or so before she did, she must have spent that last bit of time so lonely and confused, which is so heartbreaking. It's also a heavy reminder that both of my parents may also have bad memory issues as they get older. I love that WoW isn't afraid to tackle such heavy topics, even if it's heartbreaking on a personal level.
I wonder if Rude Sho's depression is the reason why the Sha of despair manifested in that area.
The Runas Questline is the saddest for me. Watching him completely lose himself was heartbreaking
Thank you! I was so expecting to see him here.
That's the one quest that legit made me cry. More than once even. Wish there was some kind of follow up to that so we could help him somehow :(
I replayed it just the other month, while leveling a new character. It was heartbreaking. He can feel himself lose his mind, he loses his sight and just before he turns asks if you're there, if you can hear him, before he thanks you for his last hours...I needed a moment after that. I'd forgotten how hard that quest hit.
YES.
Every time I go through his questline, I always tear up a bit because he was fighting his addiction and trying to get better... but then he loses himself and uses his final words to say his goodbyes to you
@@Junillustrates One of the times I really wanted a hug-option
I couldn't finish his questline or Lyndras (the nightfallen tailoring trainer). I got too attached to them both and couldn't stand to watch them Wither 😢
Honorable mention to Uuna, the Draenei ghost kid, who lost her family and needs you to fight the darkness surrounding her.
Yeah I still have her follow me around. She'll give you a hug if you /hug her too
The saddest bit about Wenren is that when you go back to the house, there is an older woman holding back tears as she is cleaning up the blood. Outside the house is a memorial placard for him.
Fun fact: Ahab Wheathoof is even more invincible than that. He is unaffacted by NPC AoE and all status effects, and cannot even be altered by toys. For example Ye Ole Shandris Feathermoon's extinction leve event mass Starfall. During the Cataclysm when Mulgore's turn to get roasted by DW comes up, Ahab Wheathoof is standing there absolutely engulfed in flames lookingly decidedly unbothered. Lok'tar Ezra. Tough lil mfer.
Shandris's what?
@Geraldo_Rivian Back in the day, until about MoP, Shandris Feathermoon was an ?? NPC in Feralas. Her tether was broken, meaning unless an attacking Horde player left combat, she would continue following and attacking, rather than return to her post like normal NPCS. One of her attacks was Starfall, just like Druids and Tyrande. Except that was also broken: it had a vast, uncallibrated targeting area, as it was never intended to see much use or many enemies. U can guess what happens.
Players kited her to any major Kalimdor hub they could manage, usually Org, TB and Ye Olde Crossroads, and when Shandris gets to the Starfall phase of her rotation, it essentially targets the entire Valley of Strength and the upper tier leading to Wisdom and Spirits, at raid boss damage.
Every player and NPC dead. Except its 2011 and a lot more people are playing on potatoes, so you found out you were dead after a restart, when the glaring flash of a thousand thousand megasparklies nearly bricked your HP Pavilion college laptop.
These might indeed be saddening characters... but the one who hit me the hardest will forever be Runas the Shamed. He chokes me up every time.
Yep but at least they added an alt version of him later on in which he never had to go through that.
@@Dremag_Gamingdid they? Where or when?
I agree. I think Runas or the quests involving Taivan in Dragonflight should have been number 1. Or at least 2 and 1 in this video should have been swapped imho.
that and Veritistrasz in DF
@@katm8128 During DragonFlight, there is a questline in reforging Tyr in which you'll travel the timeways, and in one of them is the uncorrupted version of him called "Runas the Bright"
When talking to Wenren as a mage he has special dialogue. You basically ask him nerd mage stuff about Portals.
I like making people that call Ahab Wheathoof "creepy" feel bad for calling Ahab creepy. Ezra also got to design a weapon for Season 2 TBC. So if you go check out the pvp gear you can get in Area 52, there's a crossbow that has the flavor text "Made to E.Phoenix's specifications".
Korgran's quest chain made me cry. Like, after I was finished with the chain, I stopped & had a good cry, because I'm seeing the beginnings of dementia set in with my 83 year old grandmother. Just like after the second MSQ trial fight made me cry because my mother had passed away the year before.
The saddest NPCs, to me, were the gorlocs in the Sholazar Basin. The Mosswalker Victims. They are being eternally dragged around by those horrible zombies, and they say things to you like, "I do something bad? I sorry" and "We not to anything... to them... I no understand" and "please... take my shinies. All done..." right before they die.
It's the saddest thing. The first time I did the quest I almost cried, and I've never been able to bring myself to do that quest again.
Apologizing when scared or hurting is such a kid mentality thing to do. It "normally" fixes things right? You are right, it is extremely sad
SAME, it's why I'll never have the achievement for Frenzyheart rep, because I'll never be able to betray the Oracles
Top 10 patrolling NPC's having conversations (such as the trio of human women walking around SW talking about weird stuff) or the emissaries in Silvermoon City
Yeah.... i actually stopped the Urtago quest in the middle of it once he started forgetting things.... my mom was diagnosed with early onset dementia when i was 10. She died when I was 29. She was pretty much completely gone by time i was 20.... she didnt speak... she laughed sometimes.... yeah... i cant wait till we figure out how to cure it.
I'm sorry you and her had to go through that, it's really hard watching someone slowly lose who they are. My partners father is going through it now and he changes a lot day to day. He gets embarrassed when he forgets things or people and then gets angry when you try and remind him about stuff. He lives alone and is very resistant to accepting help because he doesn't trust strangers and we live far from where he is so we worry a lot. Urtago's quest did a super good job of letting people who might be unfamiliar learn what it can actually be like and it was cool just helping to people who care about one another...those are my favorite quests.
the sad npcs in war within ... yeah the one with korgan actually broke me, my gran is fading, she has dementia and the quest hit way to close to home
I'm so glad Wenren Althal made it in this list. What happened to him was honestly a gut-punch. Easily one of my favorite questlines so far in TWW
Yep, I was afraid it was gonna happen because he was so happy but when I walked in I was just like... I'd love to be wrong for once...
I knew something bad was going to happen because there's no way narratively that they would actually let him establish contact with the Arathi Empire. I raced back so fast when he teleported home...
Every single time: "this character is exceptionally charismatic and likeable...so they'll probably be dead by the end of this questline 🫠"
@@peacefulgrotesque1510 Wow leans too heavily on that.
Mankrik meets a new lady when you do his Barrens quest in Cataclysm. And you see him with his new wife in the anniversary celebration. So he had a somewhat happy ending. Apparently you meet his first wife in Maldraxxus, but I don't remember seeing her myself.
Mankrik's first wife, Olgra, is indeed in Maldraxxus, but she is only a flavor NPC iirc, and unless you remember her name from that one Draenor Nagrand quest, or go talk to her and make the right connection with her line about Quilboar screams, you don't realize it's her. She also doesn't use an orc model, but one of the Generic female bulky humanoid models.
He also shows up at the orgrimmar trading post occasionally to buy a gift or something for his new wife
Was hoping somebody would mention the updates to Mankrik's story.
For me it was Pamela Redpath's questline and Runas the shamed that made me tear up a bit 😢
Mankrik's wife send fairly successful in the afterlife, she's even a hearthstone legendary
5:00 Forgot to mention about his older sister Emma Felstone (aka Ol' Emma), who lives in Stormwind. (who is still alive, as of this posting)
7:20 It's too bad we cant tell him how his wife is doing (and how she became a badass in the process.) But maybe when his time comes, they'll meet once more.
Grats on 500k!!!
Runas the Shamed and Jeremiah Peyson were teh 2 saddest NPC moments that really stuck with me. Okay NOW helping Scrollsage Nora move on, but that one was a bittersweet emotional punch in the feelings. Poor Jeremiah man, he really got a rough break of it. I always try to be nice to him and his little buggos going through Undercity when I'm there. Give em a hug. He went through so much.
One of the Tauren in MULGORE was voiced by a kid called Ezra with terminal brain cancer; he was also given the first ever Alar mount before he passed.
o7
5:23 yeah that’s him there!
The amount of jealousy by some in the forums was ... disappointing.
e.g. Why should this sick kid get that sweet mount?
Oooh man , I played a little retail last year. I wonder if the voice was either a child voice or a female , first time hearing this back story sad af
@@skentttheir a memorial for an RL child who past behind Goldshire , wild he didn't mention that it's equally as sad as the Tauren who lost their Dog quest
@ indelin right? I know, really sad
I'm only sad you didn't cover Mankrik's story BEYOND "Lost in Battle". In Cataclysm, he basically tries to kill himself fighting endless waves of quilboar, but the Earthen Ring shaman Mahka asks you to give him a gift & calm the pain in his heart, telling Mankrik there *are* people who would miss him if he died.
And now, during the 20th anniversary celebration, Mankrik & Mahka appear to be a true couple; while Mankrik's dead wife Olgra is kicking ass in the afterlife as one of the Necrolords of Maldraxxus. (not even getting into their alternate universe appearance in Warlords)
I am surprised that Veritistrasz from the quest stay a while isn't even on the list
His story of the interpersonal relationships of the black dragons with the other dragonflights, and how it all got completely uprooted by uncontrollable madness that destroyed relationships in the most violent ways possible, was absolutely harrowing to me. Nobody should ever need to witness such, and in a way draws parallels to the plague outbreak of former family, friends and colleagues becoming undead and trying to kill you while still having some humanity in them.
Crendor you have a great voice for a goblin NPC, i hope you get to voice one someday
No Crusader Bridenbrad?!?! He's by far my saddest NPC! I can barely do that quest anymore...
The Light never abandons it's champions
Every single character of mine does that quest. It's too important.
I think you should make Another top 10 saddest NPC in World of Warcraft cuz there is a lot of them.
- I immediately remember the quest in the New Nagrand, where you help the spirit of an orc reunite with his beloved in afterlife.
- Duskwood is one big sadness. For the first time in 16 years of playing, I read the quests in Darkshire and was surprised at how much drama there is in this place.
- The spirits in Dragonblight, which you mentioned in previous videos, who do not even understand that they are no longer alive and still don't give in to the return of A*rthas and that they will return home.
- Thrall. If anyone has done the chain of quests related to the Firelands in CATA, where you help his wife restore Thrall's powers, then you know what he went through.
And these are just the ones I immediately remembered.
I unfortunately have to agree on the Duskwood thing. Going through those quests as a kid (I used to, and still do, read everything in them) and eventually having to see what happened to Morgan was awful. I had been playing a Paladin (though a Dwarf one) and I had picked it because I thought it was cool how you could randomly bless or Heal people you came across. I had loved Uther during WC III, and Muradin too, so when WoW launched and I found out I could be a Dwarf AND a Paladin it was amazing.
I know we as the player characters don't really die in the game, but that whole questline gave me anxiety that somehow, no matter how much good you want to do, something like the Scourge could still destroy and twist you like that into the very thing you hated (it wasn't even like Lillian Voss or other Forsaken / high-level Scourge, where they get to keep her sanity).
The other rough part in Duskwood is that that long quest with Tilloa basically finishes there, not to mention the whole Stitches debacle.....
I never understood why so many horrible stories were thrown into this one zone, and the atmosphere didn't help it one bit. Sometimes I got so depressed I'd just run into Elwynn to listen to the music and see some sun, all the while thinking how these two zones could exist within such a close distance... Westfall was bad too, but at least there you had some solace from helping some of the farmers and ultimately by getting rid of the Defias, but in Duskwood everything was just decrepit and sad. I was honestly glad when I moved to Stranglethorn because at least the trolls, raptors, crocolisks and tigers were straightforward enemies and the environment didn't drive me to depression.
1:14 LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING TO ONE OF YOUR POINTLESS TOP 10 WHILE EXPLORING KRASARANG AND SAW THIS GUY AND THOUGHT,,, this is the kind of npc that appears in your videos OMG
Dude is so depressed, the sha of despair came to him for tuitions
Pamela Redpath for me. Very sad quest that.
Grats on hitting 500k!!! Half way to a million, we got this
He actually hit it before. Then the purge came
Congrats on 500k!
Mankrik used to cry when you gave him the news, but I guess at some point Blizzard decided crying wasn't man(krik)ly.
Wow, your number 10 was so shocking - every other NPC should feel so lucky not spending all of his existence in endless drawning!
For me, the most saddest NPC I met was Dezco in Krasarang Wilds. Attention, SPOILER ALERT!!!!
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His wife is pregnant and about to give birth, and there is even a cut scene, but in the end, she dies in the process - and left Dezco back with Tauren twins. That was really heartbreaking.
I thought Wenren was a really cool bit of storytelling. From his model and voiceover he came off to me like he would he a recurring character. His death caught me off guard cause at a meta level you expect him to have a long questline and he then he's just dead.
I was saddened by the cat loving mage Wenrun also lol
runas the shamed... :(
this might be the first time noticing for me, but hey, i didn't know you play vulpera. That's awesome!
One of the encounter that has always hit me really hard was Shade of Aran in Karazhan. All of his lines... Everytime I get to this boss I just don't want to kill him, it's so sad :(
Thanks Crendor 👍🏼
0:08 I like how there's just random people at the treasure statue now, since Crendor's been doing these Top 10s for such a long time, people are just going to Booty Bay when he's about to record.
Actually, it's a step in one of those secret things. It does reference "Inside pointless things are treasure", though.
I like to think that Gory was accidently stitched together only with the corpses of farmers, which gave him his personality.
Didn't realize you finally hit 500k Subs, been watching since the Truth Rage days, Congrats Crendor! In celebration I shall make my tea in my Crensloth Mug this morning
i don't know who on the writing team has experience with dementia but as someone who was in the same boat just a few years ago, i hope they're doing better now.
The Urtago quest made me cry when I finished it man. Such a good little story
I actually felt horrible the first time I did Lunk’s quest and he ran off, so fully relate on that one. 😢
The Urtago and Korgran quest is one of the most beautiful and poignant quests I've ever come across in a game. A quest about no one specific and yet it is a quest about every single person at the same time; watching the decline of someone you care for or being the one that is declining... Seeing Korgran decline more with each quest, then becoming scared and running off because he couldn't remember anything... this hit me in the feels. I have 3 WoW friends in my small group alone with family members with dementia. Such a cruel, *cruel* illness to endure, and WoW handled this with dignity and respect.
Hey! Also know that Ezea has another seasonal NPC an elder from the noble garden season! The only NPC that has a pet with him! A phoenix pet wich is something Ezra wanted! so the ahses of alar and the phoenix pet are also triblutes to him and so is that elder (he is in thunder blufff during the event).
Best wishes from Sweden
I was literally less than 40 minutes into WW when I stumbled on the quest with Korgran.
My grandfather was struggling a lot with alzheimer's before he passed and when I started realizing what was going on in the questline it hit me quite hard.
Duroz and Veritistrasz quests at the Ruby Lifeshrine are pretty damn sad if you ask me.
The Last Mage is the most relatable NPC for me, when he casts teleport instead of portal.
The Urtago quest about broke me the first time through. I just sat there and stared at that end quest text and literally tearing up. The writers need a raise for that one.
Congrats on being immortalized in WOW " Pointless Skeleton Vendor"
Mankrik is seeing someone else now and, yknow what, good for him! I'ts about time he put himself out there.
anytime i start a new tauren character i always do the 'find kyle' quest because i love hearing his voice since its not the normal tauren voice instead its 'have you seen my dog????'
The conversation with the dwarf in the ruby life pool is quite sad
Korgran was absolutely brutal. Having had family members defend into the slow decline of dementia, it really hit home.
Thank you for sharing where the muffin man was!!!
every time i see your youtube icon it makes me smile! such a chill face
Crendor, all these provocative bots seem to dig what you put out. I do too, but I'm not a bot. Probably.
BEEP BOOP I mean, me either.
Nice list
Wenren's quest actually made me sad. I knew there was no way we were going to be opening a portal to his home but it sucked he had to die. He seemed like a cool character.
I mean... Cranius made a song about Pamela Redpath in Darrowshire a decade and a half ago, and it's still the saddest thing that comes to mind.
Those drowning warriors are on alliance side as well. Also we see mankriks wife in shadow lands
Yeah , this bias AF , there even a funeral tombstone of an RL child in Elywnn behind goldshire , similar situation the Tauren child who lost his Dog story . The first 1 those orcs are plotting a hostile take over , its hard to be sad about their passing
Aw geez the alzheimers earthen quest. Man . . .
They did a good job if anyone has ever went through that with someone.
Crendor, you are a treasure
Nilah, I got my character to sit a while with her after her intro quests 🥺
Honourable mention for Kindy Sparkshine in the Tides of War novel
There is more to Mankrik's story now though.
WWhat atrocities will people do for one extra unused mount ... Killing innocent happy beavers ... :D
I remember when the Lordaron fight happened in bfa and so many people were yelling that Jeramiah better be ok
I love Lunk. He was one of the best parts of the Cataclysm remakes in my opinion. Him and the Badlands story time about Deathwing.
Beginning to become my favorite wow content creator
Later on Blizzard added an additional quest chain with regards to Mankrik. You have "rescue" him from his rage because a lady orc falls in love with him. The end of the quest chain has him letting go of his rage and grief for his wife and finding new love. They are also part of the 20th year anniversary even. You can see Mankrik and his new wife close to the story telling area by the string of tents near a tauren.
No Galgar's sad apples? Eating your reward literally makes you cry.
But on a more seriously sad note: the Nightfallen, which have some really great dialog imo, that you have to watch Wither into zombies, are absolutely crushing.
Mankrik got a happy ending though, he got to avenge his wife with the cata revamp, then later after the trading post is added he's going there to get a gift for his new missus, and in the anniversary event they are seen together.
I felt genuine sadness when Wenren was assassinated, it really did quite upset me.
Mandala effect: I thought it was ManKIRK haha
I just did that Wenren Althal questline last week or so. Such a sad questline.
Why is #3 sad? 20 yesrs of Warcraft and we can't res some NPCs now?
Lunk the pacifist will pronebrone Xalatath. That's how we will get the knifu without her becoming a raid boss
The earthen quest line was almost definitely written by someone at Blizzard as a tribute to a friend or family member who died from alzheimers/ dementia. I’m sure of it.
I’m not usually a touchy feels person with games and I usually skip over most quest text in WoW but that quest chain made me slow down and pay attention p. It felt so much more personal and real compared to the rest of WoW.
#1 should have been Ordon the fire god. Guy is perpetually burning
The Last Mage quest pisses me off because of how the Arathi offers ZERO protection for the guy.
He was the only person in Hallowfall that knows the magic and they just let him lives by himself.
Unbelievable
You can see Mankrik's wife in Maldraxxus... And you can find them young in WoD Nagrand.
In fact, the two of them are a part of the Felcycle secret.
I would have put Lt. Thorne and Baros in here but that's an Alliance quest, so maybe you never ran into it
Gerk in Zul'Drak, the little dwarf who spent an eternity in a vat and treaded its greenish contents to stay afloat. He would choke and gurgle while speaking to you.
by far the one npc story that actually broke me is number 2, the caretaker earthen. 😭i know all earthens who watch over the dead are called caretakers but it really felt like that quest was also a homage to the caretaker's "everywhere at the end of time".
I thought it was the same intro pre-recorded over and over, now I see is a new one in every video.
My personal pick for Saddest WoW NPC is Auctioneer Gullem. He doesn't have any sad lore or anything, it's just everyone at thunderbluff wants to talk to Auctioneer Stampi because he has bugged voice lines. Gullem sits there all alone, at one point he must wonder why he doesn't get another job, but he stays there, all day, everyday.
Not playing Ahab Wheathoof's voice lines in the video is criminal
The saddest NPC is actually the players who watched wow go in a direction they know they wont follow and so we stay in classic forever living old memories we refuse to let go.
Lol you should do one for insane/crazy NPCs
Been watching you since 2009 🥲🥲 the OG Machinimas like how to win at pvp were the best
Didn't know about some of these.
Can someone direct me to an old crendor video I've been unable to find? It featured a frosty the snowman parody replacing frosty the snowman with arthas the lich king, and one of the lyrics was something like "the voices in his head began to take their toll"
For me the saddest is Ren Firetongue in vale of eternal blossoms in pandaria. Before he was all laughter and dirty jokes. After the destruction his sits alone at his camp above the ruins of gun-li and asks you to just leave him alone now.
doing the quests with Lunk one of my absolute favorite lines from one of the dwarves is. Why is it wet.
Honorable mention to almost all NPCs in the Spires of Arak that have any story. The whole zone is just full of sadness and tragedy. Come to think of it, extend that to Arakkoa in general. The ones in Outland are not better off.
So sad that Runas didn't even get a mention here.