Lvl 30: I Still Hate Gnomeregan

Yesterday was a mixed bag for me in game. After running a few Twilight HCs on my DK and Spriest I decided what the hell, I’ll see if I can heal one and logged to my shaman. Zoned into End Time and the first boss was Baine Bloodhoof, who I had only ever faced once before. But it went fine, we lived. Then it was Tyrande. And I suck liked a Dyson. Kept getting hit by the silencing thing, and after two wipes I left in disgrace. How DO I avoid that anyway, never had an issue with it as DPS.

Anyway, feeling foolish I logged onto my Undead Warrior to hide from the shame. Alterac hasn’t altered THAT much it seems, and I duly hit level 30. I decided to try a low level dungeon and joy of joys, it was Gnomeregan. A place that I loathe with a passion.

Back in Vanilla as a hordie you had to do a quest that opened up a transporter in Booty Bay to get there, unless you wanted to run all the way there through hostile territory. But most of the time the transporter was bugged, and it took 30 mins on jumping like a looney to get it to work sometimes. Now getting in is easier, but bloody hell it’s still annoying.

People just jump off edges to get places, which creates all kind of chaos. I zone in, we clear the first few mobs, and the healer tells us to jump down. We do, and…. They don’t follow. We’ve aggroed mobs and the healer just doesn’t jump, and we wipe, at which point said healer starts calling us names. Screw that for a game of soldiers, I dropped the group and had dinner. After dinner I got back, and same thing happens.

So yes, I still hate Gnomeregan. And have probably been spelling it wrong too.

Lvl 20: Hello Hillsbrad and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT I DON’T EVEN…

Raiding with my normal guild still hasnt started again, so I’m still playing my baby warrior.  She is now level 20, and that means Hillsbrad!  Oh yay, I thought, I hear that this has had a total makeover and The Forsaken now rule the area.

The first quest in Hillsbrad is quite funny.  You become a questgiver and meet 3 NPC’s based on stereotypical WoW players.  My favourite of which is Johnny Awesome

After giggling at this for a few minutes I went on to the next quests.  One is called Glorious Harvest. So off I go to find these bears.  Infested Bears.  And if the first quest in Hillsbrad is funny then this is down right nasty.  Bears infested with spider eggs.  For the first time in nearly 6 years in WoW this is the first time I have felt kind of ill doing a quest.  Yeah yeah, it’s all pixels, but bloody hell… I won’t post screenies but if you go off to find these bears then be warned, they are nasty.  I am thinking this may not bode well for the rest of the area.

Ah, Nostalgia!

As I am sure most guild have been, my guild has been quite quiet over the holiday season, taking a raid break etc.  So in a fit of nostala I decided to revisit the first starting area I ever did, Tirisfal Glades for the Undead.

My first ever character back when I started in 2004 was called Caisha, and was a priest.  She does still exist, but now she is a Blood Elf and is called Elphane.  I played Caisha for a year or so before I rerolled Alliance to play with some freinds, and apart from a brief stint back in BC, I have been Alliance ever since.

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