Across the very large realms of World of Warcraft, there are hundreds of different regions that all have something unique about them. A majority of all these different regions in all these different realms also have their own quests which you’ll be able to find scattered across the worlds.
To make it a little easier to find these quests, the game displays easily visible exclamation marks over the heads of NPCs which are supposed to be providing the quests in the first place. If these exclamation marks aren’t showing up for whatever reason, here’s some solutions that can be tried.
How to Fix WoW Quest Exclamation Mark Not Showing?
- Phasing Issue/Display Bug
One thing that players can note is that this issue usually only occurs with NPCs that are located in relatively bizarre positions. For example, those that are standing or levitating on top of a unique surface or those that are underground.
The reason why this problem is especially common with these types of NPCs is due to the fact that they are more prone to display bugs which can prevent the quest exclamation mark from showing.
There is a relatively easy solution in this specific scenario and one that can be tried without any problems whatsoever. All you have to do is go near the specific NPC with which this problem is occurring and then log out from your World of Warcraft account.
Log back in only a few moments after and your character should be almost right where you left them, with the quest exclamation mark now showing up over the NPCs head.
- Low Level Quest Settings
An arguably helpful feature in WoW that was added to the game to make things more convenient and less distracting for players was the low level quest marker removal. This makes it so that players do no longer see the quest exclamation mark over an NPCs head if they have a mission for them, given that the character being used is well above the recommended level for the mission in question.
That said, make sure that this isn’t a problem happening with every single quest. If this is only happening with a few specific ones, make sure that these aren’t too low levelled for your character. Players can easily check the required level by just typing the name of the problematic mission in their internet browser.
To make it so that even low level quest exclamation marks appear above NPCs’ heads, just change the quest tracking settings.
- Reset the World of Warcraft UI
The data of add-ons that you’ve installed on your device for WoW and the data of the game itself can sometimes cause problems with one another which results in problems such as this one. To fix these problems, the best option that players have is to completely wipe out their add-ons and the data left behind by them by resetting the UI of WoW.