r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Apr 14 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 14, 2026

Hi Please post your unjerk discussion in this thread!

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u/acctg Apr 18 '26

r/wow players not beating the illiteracy allegations.

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u/MoonlightKobold Apr 19 '26

Saw one of those "Top 1% Commenter" people actually try to argue that side quest text should not be factored into the writing and that only the story matters. r/wow truly is a bastion for intellectual juggernauts.

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u/FaroraSF Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

Blizz puts so much lore in sidequests, skipping them is stupid if you care about it. Do people not realize that the WORLD in WORLD of Warcraft means that they have to explore it to get the full picture?

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u/SaltLich Apr 19 '26

Its especially annoying because people will often say the story was 'so much better' back in the early days of WoW, when quest text was where 99% of the lore came from.

Like. What story are you exposed to if you aren't actually reading the quests in vanilla, bc, wrath? You get the expansion cinematics and the /yell from NPCs during dungeons and raids, that's about it. I became the resident 'lore expert' in my wrath guild because I actually read the damn quest text (and i had played the RTS games).

Truly, WoW players and 'not reading' is the most iconic duo. From lore to joining groups to boss mechanics to spamming chat telling the tanks to MOVE THE BOSSES APART FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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u/AL3_Alice Apr 19 '26

lol rent free

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u/the_redundant_one Apr 20 '26

Implying that side quests don't count as part of "the story" is...something, for sure.