Time for another edition of “Monday Musings”. Hopefully, by now, most of you have…
What?
It’s Tuesday?
Wednesday in some places? Like where?
Oh. Oh I see.
Welcome to the first edition Mostly Wednesday Reflections. Hopefully, by now, most of you have had the opportunity to play through a fair amount of the new quests, if you didn’t get into the beta.
(Special uber thanks to beta key. You know who you are. I’d offer to bear your children, but I’m afraid I lack the organs.)
Some liked original WoW better than BC, some liked BC better than vanilla WoW, but they all agree that Northrend is awesome. While they may disagree on the differences in raiding, I think pretty much everyone adores the questing in Northrend so far.
And if you thought the stuff in Howling Fjord and the Tundra were awesome… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Some fantastic random quest moments:
Demoralizing Mmmrrrggglll!
“I don’t know the whole story, but apparently they cry a lot right before they die. Go figure.”
Watching Saurfang tank an entire field of scourge so I can Blizzard them all down. *cough* What?
Annihilating entire herds of Shoveltusks in Howling Fjord, for a quest I completed roughly half an hour ago… I couldn’t remember why I was killing them, but I had to kill them… they were all grouped up in a nice circle, just begging to be destroyed.
Also, this may have occurred at the tail end of a 16 hour quest session. Just saying.
The infamous torture quest. I know many are going to have many reactions when torturing something, even if it is a program.
For some, it’s definitely understandable and reasonable. A Paladin? Torturing someone? I don’t recall even Arthas doing that.
Me? Oh, I was filled with glee and happily tortured that guy until he begged for mercy. And after he told me everything he knew… I shocked him again. And again and again. I was hoping he would eventually start saying things like “gk… hk… k… hh… kkrr….” or at least pass out.
Sadly, it was not to be. Though he did keep screaming. Glee!
I was going to set him on fire, but the Kirin Tor might have frowned on that.
And yes! I am specced super fire right now. I did three levels as frost, and have been fire since roughly 73. I’ll be swapping to a frostfire leveling build at 75, and will likely be staying with that for the remainder of the leveling process.
I’ll probably swap around a lot. I haven’t seen a respec cost under 50g in over a year, so I won’t be surprised if I end up with several different specs before I hit 80.
Speaking of frostfire leveling, that should be going live tomorrow, provided nothing horrifying happens.
HOLY CRAP MALYGOS IS HUGE.
Maybe it’s all relative, maybe it’s because, as a mage, I’m scared witless of a bloody dragon aspect who’s made it his personal duty to extinguish every mage in the universe.
From a mage’s standpoint, a lot of the quests out here feel like the epic class quests I never had leveling up. I mean, c’mon, I’m doing quests to thwart an entire faction who’s only goal is to kill me and those like me.
Dear Malygos:
I’m in yer base, killin’ yer girlfriendz! Haha pwnd!
Signed:
Euripedes
There have been lots of quests where I had to wait around for the named guy to respawn. I usually try to group up with any horde that appear to hanging around to kill the same guy. Ninja’ing a mob from your own faction is the pinnacle of jackassery, and I hope to never accidentally do that to someone else.
This goes for escort quests to.
I also try to be nice to alliance folks, if they’re hanging around. Generally, anyone who was there before I got there, I’ll wait for them to grab the kill and move on before I try to snag the mob.
I see it all the time on alliance side. It’s… strange. How hard is it to quickly flash of an invite? You’ll only be grouped for, at most, 60 seconds, and you don’t even need to say anything.
And yet… I see it all the time. Some alliance player patiently waiting for a mob to spawn… it spawns! Yay! Oh look, some jackass rogue tagged it first. The mob dies, the ninja… I mean, rogue, loots and leaves, and the original alliance player continues to stand there, no doubt seriously peeved.
Ah well. Jerks will be jerks.
Killing robots, then “mining” them for spare engineer parts. I don’t know why, but this is immensely satisfying.
Maybe it’s because I killed a mechagnome, harvested said gnome, and used parts I got from him to build a grenade, and then threw that grenade at another mechagnome. Which I then harvested… and so the cycle continues.
Yeah, that’s probably it. The perverse glee I get from throwing an exploding piece of someone at their friends.
This is probably how the Forsaken feel most of the time.
Forsaken and trolls really are quite similar in many respects. Both have unleashed plagues on unsuspecting populations, both have fought wars with themselves, both cut off their own arms to win bets.
Where was I?
Ahh, yes, Dragonblight.
I have been enjoying WotLK VERY much the past week. I unfortuantely didnt get to hook up the stadium pal and sit for 24 hrs straight….but my time to play has been enjoyable.
The thing that got me was that I wanted to see EVERYTHING…. so I did …. lemmie tell you you die lotz as a 71 running around the L80 zones …. but as of last night I am “Goratrix the Explorer” (or “Gora the Explorer” as a guildy named me… groan) and have an ugly tabbard to go with it
Been great fun so far and I cant wait to raid it !
Loving it so far. Did Tundra with an elem shaman, and Fjord with a prot warrior. Had a blast. Intend to have more fun when my work week is over. Also, I recommend that everyone go check out the Death Knight start quests. If you want to delete it once you’re a ‘good guy’ that’s fine, but it’s an awesome questline, and a class that plays differently than any other class at this point.
Also, anyone doing that Ymiron quest in the spirit world at Wyrmskull needs to make sure they visit Arthas, hear his monologue, and get popped before you turn the quest in. (No repair costs from it)
Dragonblight = WIN of all quest areas.
Of course, the cinematic is great.
I’d be a liar to say I haven’t watched it twice everytime I come within a couple minutes of riding distance from it.
(It is epic, don’t you think? Seriously, chilling.)
Anyway, about class quests.
I DEFINITELY feel that mages are a huge part of WOTLK.
I mean, come on. Dalaran- only mage trainers.
No idiotic warriors there- no,
they know who to put on guard duty.
Fireball’n M.A.G.E’s
Next to that, I am so… so happy about the remainder of that quest line (the one that leads to the raid on undercity to kill that mother f***er Putress. Mind you, I am alliance.
I know, I know. Our king was a little… fiesty towards Thrall.
But just wow, if you read his whole speech before hearing Thrall in the main room, or even read when he entered the room with Thrall and Lady Sylavanas, you must know that he is a AWESOME addition to the Alliance side.
Cmon. Even we for awhile began to believe our faction was filled with those who wern’t man enough to roll a evil class.
Now we had a badass king who isn’t taking no shit
Man… that quest made me go from…
“Well, I would have rolled Horde…”
to
“I hate PvP. But I’ll be dammed if I don’t get the Alliance tabard.”
I really am sorry this post is long, but you bet it’s going to be a tad longer. I would not have it be that by some act of the allmighty Hamburgler that you wouldn’t witness the greatness of King Varian Wrynn’s speech to the Alliance. While, you may not like or believe it, it doesn’t prevent you from seeing the Awesome in it.
King Varian Wrynn says: The time has come to make things right. To disband your treacherous kingdom of murderers and thieves. Putress was the first strike. Many more will come.
King Varian Wrynn says: I’ve waited a long time for this, Thrall. For every time I was thrown into one of your damned arenas… for every time I killed a green-skinned aberration like you… I could only think of one thing.
King Varian Wrynn says: What our world could be without you and your twisted Horde… It ends now, Warchief.
King Varian Wrynn says: ATTACK! FOR STORMWIND! FOR BOLVAR! FOR THE ALLIANCE!
I will now allow the rest of your devoted following to post. But I found it necessary to vent my newlyfounded attatchment to the King and his faction into what could almost be called a Comment Box Confession.
Almost.
-side note: bolvar is the guy talking to arthas in the cinematic, calling him out on the behalf of his father and his people. man… i love this game too much…-
I’ve done every quest in Borean Tundra and was sad to leave. It’s an awesome zone. I made three levels there, a little bit of AoE Blizzard grinding was required to top me off but I don’t mind. Now I’ve got one level so far from Dragonblight and I’ll have at least one more from there for sure. I’ve also been doing dailys for the Tuskar, walrus men for the win! Although I do feel evil kidnapping children for them, but ah what the hell.
I have been running UK and Nexus. Did alot of the quest in Howling Fjord and haven’t touch the tundra yet. I plan on starting the tundra with my mage here shortly.
I completely agree with mavfin about the death knights. The last couple of quests was completely and utterly BADASS. A must do for all wowheads
King Varian is a blessing to the alliance. For too long have the alliance leaders been meek kings, inscrutable priestesses, napping druids, and children.
Meanwhile the horde is headed by military geniuses, generals, warlords and assassins.
It’s about flippin’ time the alliance got somebody in command who can get something done.
As a full time horde player, it’s nice to finally have a worthy opponent in the grand scheme of things.