‘ello me ol’ china
I’ve been terribly remiss, too busy playing the game to stop and write about it.
I made the right decision not going into beta, so much to see and do and so little time to do it all. I love new quests. When they revamped Dustwallow Marsh Ari was dispatched there to experience every quest even though she massively out levelled the zone.
With the revamping of Azeroth there are just too many new quests for a single character to experience them all. Blethyn didn’t last long, disliked the face so rerolled and gave her a new name Bethnal. Seems everyone is going with the wolf theme so I decided to go with a London theme instead. Finally a character who can speak mockney and not be out of place in Azeroth.
It’s rather annoying that if you want to give your Gilnean a haircut you only see the Worgen form. I wanted her human hair to match her skin colour but went a bit too red on the first attempt which meant having to use the character creation scheme to figure out how many times to click to get the mousy brown and see which human hairstyle went with which Worgen hairstyle.
As Elly levelled via Kalimdor Bethnal was meant to level via Eastern Kingdoms. She’s in Felwood because I hit the Badlands, Searing Gorge, Blasted Lands bit of EK and from past experience I don’t like them. She’s going back though because the zones I remember aren’t the zones today and I might enjoy them after all.
We’ve just finished the plaguelands on her and they are very different and much more fun. Truth is all the zones are more fun now.
I have a dwarf shaman and a gnome priest waiting in the wings to quest in the zones that Elly & Bethnal miss.
Horde haven’t been forgotten either, I have a blood elf hunter who has done the starter forsaken zones. I cannot play Forsaken, every time I try the simple fact that they turn all their gear into rags annoys me. I like creating sets even if its just for wandering around town.
The storyline in Trisfal Glades & Silverpine Forest has been completely redone and continues some of the storylines started in Gilneas. It’s a bit odd that you need to roll Horde to get more of the Worgen storyline, certainly doesn’t seem to be any Goblin storyline on Alliance side, though a lot more Goblin towns around.
I’m now at the ‘calm down’ stage. I don’t need to gobble up all this new content in the first month of release I have at least two years till the next expansion and possibly longer before old Azeroth is revamped again.
As Bethnal approaches 50 (and the speed she’s levelling with heirlooms and guild perks it won’t be long till she hits 60) I realise that I’m facing Outland to get her to 70 and Outland isn’t new and fresh its just a grind I’ve already been through on four characters. Blizzard have drastically reduced the XP a character can get in Azeroth once they hit 60 to force encourage players to level in the appropriate zones, but I find myself wondering if I can level to 70 via a combination of PvP, archaeology and herbing. We’ll see I may be able to grit my teeth and do Outland for one more character but I suspect any more are doomed to stick at 60
Oops nearly forgot to mention Elly is 83 and should probably be given some attention before I go back to Bethnal
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