Peter's Blog

An impromptu extra issue as I have ten minutes spare to knock one out and it'll save me having to remember all this stuff.

• I was in Zangamarsh and saw a sign to Shattrath City so I decided to follow it. Zangarmarsh itself is a bit like night elf land, fairyish and irritating. There are weird tall plant things walking around. I was tempted to have a go at a level 61 elite but decided it wasn't a rare spawn and wouldn't be worth dying for. Shattrath was only two minutes down the road (on epic mount that is) and was very different to the other citys. I found it very disorientating in its layout, I'm not looking forward to staying there. I found portals back to the old cities and the bank and a flight path on a different route to Honor Hold but no flight back to Honor Hold or an inn where I could hearth to. All the other players were on epics or flying mounts so I was glad to be travelling in some style. I don't think I like Shattrath, Ironforge is still my preferred residence.
• I found one quest there and it was very dull. I had to follow a voidwalker around while he spouted twaddle about the history of the city. I got 5000 XP from it.
• Ultimately I got no new quests in the area and couldn't find a place to hearth so decided to return to Honor Hold and finish the quests there. I hearthed back.
• I had a quest that involved killing Orcs and then killing their ghosts or something. First problem was finding the orcs since the quest gave no compass bearings or other information about where they were apart from the place name. I found some orcs and killed a few but the ghost widget didn't work. I jumped down into the 'path of glory' to see if it was the place and found myself deep in enemy territory. I tried rushing out on snowy but was dismounted and attacked by five or six level 63's. I didn't fight, just died with dignity and used the spirit healer. After paying 4g for repairs I googled for the location of the orcs, then waited patiently for the ten minute debuff to expire.
• Killing the orcs went quite smoothly. I used my new mace and I am very pleased with it: judging Seal of Crusader then using Seal of Righteousness it kills level 61's in about half a minute and leaves me with maybe 75% health left so a flash of light and I'm ready for the next fight, I needed few health/mana breaks. I could do an orc and his ghost in quick succession with few problems. On occasions where I got adds I would switch maces to the fast one-hander and judgement of light/seal of crusader, using the slow one-handed mace was not good with the seal of light but maces can be swapped instantly.
• Linken's boomerang proved to be worth the time spent getting it, I could use it to pull an orc to the do-dah that created the orcs ghosts. However did I do without it?
• On the way to the orc camp I found another easy quest, gathering 30 pieces of a crashed zeppelin. The monsters nearby were only level 58's and my new mace handled them easily. The reward was yet another fine new piece of armour, some leggings with 700 armour points.
• There was a follow-on from this, killing voidwalkers to gather 10 voidwalker essences and again my new mace was great, killing level 61-62 voidwalkers no problems at all. Reward for this was a trinket that seems to do much the same as Blessing of Salvation but it was a choice between this and another trinket that didn't look useful and both had the same vendor value (the auctioneer addon is good when none of the quest rewards are useful and you just want the one that will vendor for the most cash).
• Saw a player getting ganked by a fel reaver, an enormous robot thing that roams around these parts. The player tried some ice cube thing to protect himself but once this melted the big robot just stamped on him. Squish.
• I'm still finding new quests around Honor Hold so haven't finished here yet and that's excluding group quests that are starting to pop up, one of them in the 'ramparts' dungeon.
• My bags are becoming full of a selection of pieces of armour, weapons and trinkets. There isn't vast amounts of vendor trash to fill them so this is only a problem if I go raiding in the old world (lowbieland: no that's cruel).