After two hours of running around the Blasted Lands trying to pick up a flawless draenethyst sphere, you notice that you've picked up enough items to make your very first lung juice cocktail, and that last kill you just made dropped the sphere at last! You realize you're closer to the questgiver to get the lung juice, and because you're full of quests, you abandon the quest to find the sphere to pick up the one for the cocktail.

After getting the lung juice, you now find yourself running across the Blasted Lands to find Kum'isha and pick up his quest again... only to find that your sphere has disappeared from your inventory.

*cue screams of "OMGNO!!!" from players*

That's one of the potentially mind-blowing events you can find yourself in as a result of World of Warcraft's 1.12.1 patch. According to Blizzard Entertainment, abandoning quests will now remove quest items from your inventory. On the one hand, that's a pretty fast way of emptying your inventory of needless clutter. On the other hand, it also means that if you mistakenly abandon a quest with a very important item (or set of items), you're going to have to farm for the things all over again.

One of the things left up in the air is the status of non-quest quest items, such as runecloth or the above-mentioned flawless draenethyst sphere. It isn't soulbound to you, but will abandoning a quest that needs such an item remove that item as well? In the case of stacks of items, will that take away all 970 pieces of dark iron ore you've been collecting because you abandoned a quest that needed three pieces? We're not giving a definitive answer 'til every item gets tested, but WoW players, you better be careful with what quests you take on and abandon for a while.