Brave old world?(2)
By Abalathes | September 2, 2010
Pride goes before a fall
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Further in the north the landscape is getting more friendly and playfully and I wonder whether this isn’t even worse than the area I just have left. More and more I now meet some creatures which are hostile but harmless. Many buildings are quite ornamented, have no walls and fly in mid-air. I visit some of these buildings but none of them is of real interest for me.
Silvermoon
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Until I find a city in the far north: Silvermoon. A city of many contradictions. Large but almost unhabitated in the mid of an almost unhabitated area. Beside of some blood elves of very low level nobody seems to visit this place. Nevertheless everything which eases live could be found here: a flight point, craftmen, teachers (even one for juwelry) and merchants who offer relativly mighty reciepes considering their low leveled customers.
Emergency session
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I make clear to the local leaders Grand Magister Rommath, Lor’themer Theron and Halduron Brightwing, that an overboarding architecture alone (about which’s beauty could even be argued) is not even close to what I consider a succesful administration of a region. Singing, dancing and hanging stupidly around as it seems to be the favour of the blood elves is not earning my pleasure. I never though to even consider this: but implementing a leader from Ogrimmar instead would still be an improvement for that place.
(Translation of the German version of this Blog: “Schöne alte Welt?”)
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Brave old world?(1)
By Abalathes | August 29, 2010
Watching the plague from above
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Unfortunally there seem to be no larger cities in the Outlands, up to now I just found more or less fortified outposts. So I am happy to find out that my hearthstone does work here and so I can always quickly return into my stable old world, e.g. to visit the auction house. After I paid a visit in Undercity I spontanously decide to follow another trace: what is the background of all those regions which are shown on so many maps: The Ghostlands, the Eversong Woods and the Islands of Quel’Thanas? Do they really exist? If so they should be reachable somehow through the Plaguelands. This is reason enough for me to go there and find out.
Ghostly Gray
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And in fact in the very north of the Eastern Plaguelands I find one of these pulsing gates behind which I can guess the silhouette of some landscape. Eager to visit another part of my still growing lordship I pass the gate to find myself within some neglected and grey land. So here is the hidingplace of all those ghosts. So it is no longer surprising why so many of them tend to have depressions and are of bad mood and character. But in the beginning I do meet neither a living nor a ghostly creature.
Who has build this?
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It seems as if this region has once seen better times. Many huge buildings are a sign of a prosperous but long gone might. These buildings haven’t been visited for a very long time. I find spider webs everywhere around and the dust lays several inches deep on the floor. Who might have been the ones who lived here before? I find a ruin named Zul’Aman and hope to gain some pieces of information there. But the gate denies my access as it considers me not mighty enough yet. So I will come back.
(Translation of the German version of this Blog: “Schöne alte Welt?”)
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Tower hunt
By Abalathes | August 26, 2010
Translation of the German version of this Blog: “Läufer sucht Turm”
I didn’t not expect that would work
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He who is carrying the combat horn of the unshakable could be sure of having the necessary attention. It is said that the horn would call the legions of the unshakables from their graves into combat. But as many of the deads rest deep beneath the surface and as the hearing ability in all these years surely has not improved, the horn is quite loud. Nevertheless one has to find the right place for its tune: an old and rotten watch tower. Though I am quite sure to be at the wrong place I play a vivid marsch at the walls of Zeth’gor.
I had more hope here
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The resonance is quite poor and I am almost hoping Grillok were still alive to throw in an eye. So I ride on to the west to find another promising place. But my interpretations of a little night music only brings some straying helboars to come along.
It seems to be hopeless
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Not much further I find another tower but here there are not even helboars paying attention to my sonates and improvisations. It seems hopeless. Where might the tower in question be?
Divide and conquer
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Too much farther in the west at least it can’t be, as I am already reaching the Void Ridge, a place far from any civilization, where the voidwalker wish each other a goodnight. At least I manage to find some Void Ridge Soul Shards here. Or more exactly I let them be found by enslaving some voidwalkers and sending them against their collegues, while I look around hoping to find some sort of tower. The minute I have collected my forty soul shards a level 70 ally mage arrives. But he neither resurrects from the death when I play him a tune with my horn.
At least it is useful as hunting horn
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So I return to the camp and deliver Oyath his soul shards. In addition I managed to collect enough Netherweave Cloth to improve my first aid skills to 375. O tempora, o mores of all job abilities it has to be the least important I have to learn in perfection. To improve at least in cooking as well I hunt down some Helboars to gather some Purified Helboar Meat. Funny thing that I am watched by an ally rogue who was lurking near the entrance of the camp. Again and again he tries to sneak to my back but with the paranoia of my felhound he has not a chance to succed. Unfortunally the rogue also has enough paranoia to escape just in time when I try to punish him.
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The Outlands suck
By Abalathes | August 24, 2010
Translation of the German version of this Blog: “Die Scherbenwelt ist doof”
World in fragments
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Foreman Razelcraz thinks the Outlands suck. Beside of the usual problems (Alliance, lost items, malicious monsters and bad luck when fishing) here is nothing than wide empty skies filled with some floating rocks, mad demons and fire bursts which always and everywhere could shoot out of the ground.
chest quest
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To soothe him a bit I collect his lost shredder parts from the nearby canyon. While I am doing so I got a call for help from Threzzpai, a level 61 tauren druid, who needs some support as well.
Better doubleing in
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This suits me well as I could profit myself if I had a companion for some more difficult missions. I meet him in the hell fire valley where he is placing his demonic focus device. Only shortly later dark black clouds appear out of nothing. To make the thing more interesting I place my demonic device right next to his one. But the issue is solved so quickly and easily that directly afterwards we go to kill Grillok “Darkeye” in his cavern.
Subsidence slope
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Now again I have reached the Spinebreaker Post. A good opportunity for a visit at my unshakable friends. But not alone that my hosts are quite shaking also their world seems to went to a subsidence slope. So I better hurry to find Field commandant Thalvos to get his combat horn. Afterwards I speed up to leave this camp before it totally crumbles.
Dark spheres
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To avoid crossing the whole shaking camp again I leave it on the nearest side and immediately the sky darkens. Lightning is flashing and instead of imps voidwalkers are running around here - I have found the sphere fields. But all in all the voidwalkers look quite stable to me, especially when punching them into their huge tummies. But I am looking for unstable voidwalkers. To lure them I take my Warp Rift Generator out of my bags and activate it. I do not have to wait for too long until three premium species of unstable voidwalkers appear. As they almost explode by just watching them it is no hard work to kill them.
DEAD Zeppelin
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I leave the sphere fields. But even though it gets noticable brighter the dark smoke and some lightening remains. But this time it aren’t spherical phenomenons but another spectacular crash of the stupid folk of the gnomes. Not the first but at least the third crash which comes to my mind spontanously. As I consider it my duty I ask whether any of the survivors has been hurt. But they seem quite well and introduce themselves as “Screaming” Screed Luckheed and as Legassi. They do not want to be rescued but already have a bunch of new ideas and plan. This over activeness bothers me a bit and so I decide to take a rest for now.
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Narrow is the path of honor
By Abalathes | August 23, 2010
Searching for a victim
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Close to the Facon kepp there is a large canyon where Stonescythe Alphas and Stonescythe Whelp dwell and which I hunt for Ranger Captain Venn’ren. But this guy will surely not keep his post for too long if he isn’t even able to make the few metres across the canyon himself and do his job. Maybe he simply is afraid of the worms in the ground which though beneath the surface seem to know exactly what is happing above and who break accurately through the ground to poison my poor Fzuughon.
Searching for fame and honor
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Even though I have only explored a small part of the new world it does not seem very big. After finishing my job I am already that close to Thrallmar that it is much quicker to use my thunder steed and ride thereto instead of returning to the flight point and take the flight route. On my way I soon cross the so-called “Path of Honor”. This name is widely exagerated and seem more like a promenade for the followers of a “smashing hand”. Maybe I overdo the smashing a little bit when I take the time to look around a while.
Searching for peace and silence
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And so I detect above the path some massive constructions: the cannons of the Alliance. Those lately went on my nerves with the thunder which could be heart up to Thrallmar. So it is a very satisfying feeling to ignite those sound machines. Now I could return to Thrallmar to report many fulfilled jobs and look forward to an undisturbed night’s sleep.
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Trip to Zangarmarsh(2)
By Abalathes | August 22, 2010
Then I start to explore the surrounding and find some new herbs which I already knew from my alchemy books but never saw in real life: Flame Caps and Ragveils. Unfortunally I do not yet know how to collect them properly and so I have to leave them growing for now. But I find a camp of the Horde which has the poor name “Swamp Rat Camp” but at least it has a flight point. With one of the inhabitants, Magasha, I start a discussion on fashion and good food. She really likes my new hat, which I found today and as in addition it has the effect of increasing my power I decide to continue wearing it.
Hunting fish is not fishing
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Magasha can cook very tasty mushroom dishes I decide to invite her to one of my fish meals for them. So I ride to the Umbrafenn lake and hunt some of the eels there until I got enough filets for a tasty feast. At the end of my fish hunt another rogue is swimming along. He is of level 70 and looks for a while with interest what I am about to do. But then he tries to get himself invisible and to sneak around. This did not really work but within the water I could not get away quickly enough. But rogues as well do not know much about the benefit of a soul stone and so this unpleasant fight did not keep me off too long from my lunch date. After a good meal it is time to get back home. As I do not know yet where exactly “home” would be in this new region I decide to fly back to the falcon keep.
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Trip to Zangarmarsh(1)
By Abalathes | August 15, 2010
Among vultures
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Why the Falcon Guard has got its name is hard to guess. The only birds around are vultures and those dwell here in large swarms. At least that is making it easy to gather some tail feathers for high performance sniper arrows.
Zangarmarsh
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But further in the west the landscape suddenly changes. Here is the beginning of the so called Zangarmarsh which somehow is of eleven origin. While I still look around and fight some of the aggresive creatures around there is a rogue trying to sneak to me. But thanks to the paranoia of my felhound I notice that in time and simply change my position in combat. Unfortunally I could find the rogue no more after the fight.
Trees are neutral
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Directly beyond the border the is a camp of Cenarius which seems to be neutral. At least the inhabitants behave quite neutrally and so I am carefully watching all those Allies who are allowed to visit that camp as well. I am not really sure whether the people here would come to help me in case I would get attacked by some of those Allies. Nevertheless I get a bunch of new jobs here but I can’t accept them all as my quest book is already very full with quests in the new world. So I take over only a few jobs to make at least a good impression and search(in vain) for a flight point.
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The master’s book
By Abalathes | July 30, 2010
Because of all the threats which lurk in the new undiscovered world it is important to create a save base in the old world and to enforce new steps for taking my leadership there. Even though I already managed to get many strong followers from both fractions who are ready to strike on my command I have also to care for new blood. As a guide and help for all my followers I have written down my knowledge at least in some parts in a book.
It contains descriptions of my world with a list of flight points and a map of all connections between the regions (I haven’t included the planned connections there yet as their creation will start after my taking over the total dictatorship). To avoid possible problems quickly I added hundreds of exact descriptions of quest of the Horde and of the Alliance as well. And for all those who could not remember things well there is a list of all needed quest items. A description of races, classes and jobs also is part of the book.
This work written by my own hand should be published to be a service for all my followers and along with that I hand over the duty to let this book never get into the hands of my enemies. All writers, explorers and tacticians among you are allowed to add articles of your own to increase the knowledge of the right side.
So here is bound in leather my handwritten work which glows bluely in magical lightning:
Addition:
This book is written in German. As this blog is the translation of the German version of the blog this blog article is included even though the linked collection of tipps and tricks might be difficult to read for english speaking users.
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