By The newest update for World of Warcraft is already live, and adventurers are responding exactly as you’d picture to a 19-mission narrative arc (25 if you tack on the prerequisite tasks) that is inexplicably 100 percent about bees.
Conceptually, it sounds sweet. These honey-heavy assignments are folded into the Ecological Succession arc, where your long-term goal is rehabilitating a ravaged world by first looking after its tiniest winged pollinators. In execution, you’re merely lathered with rinse-and-repeat chores that wear thin almost instantly.
“Honestly, what on Azeroth were they thinking?” mused one Reddit post summarizing the ordeal. “For people who missed it, the loop looked like: grab honey, pacify bees, collect bees, pacify them once more, gather extra honey, tranquilize again… snap photos of bees, then round them up because we’re relocating. Oh wait—collect additional honey, tranquilize again…” And it keeps going. “By the final stage I just wanted to exterminate every last bee and torch the dome.”
Another player chimed in: “Over and over I told myself ‘surely that’s the finale,’ only for a new task demanding I photograph another ten bees or toss darts or whatever to pop up.”
“I rarely get tilted while questing,” added a third, “but when I had to herd bees back to a ‘hive’ that turned out to be a nearly invisible cluster on the ground, I was yelling at my screen. Something went seriously off the rails here—it felt like being pranked.”
As PCGamer points out, rescuing the bees is technically skippable, yet clearing the quest ribbon unlocks a weekly assignment whose chest might contain a Restored Coffer Key—the ticket to some of the juiciest delve rewards. Anyone chasing the best loot, then, had better brace for buzz—uh, busywork.