Mania’s Arcania

(You can read all of Kaet’s adventures, starting with why I’m doing things this way, by checking out the series Table of Contents at the end of this post. Alternatively, if you are here primarily for juicy pet-related news, feel free to skip these bits — they’re optional.)

Let’s see … Where were we? Oh yes! Redridge! Land of many surprising (because I didn’t know they were here) quests! I start with a quest to kill Gnoll Mongrels and Poachers, leading to my new favorite expression of disbelief: “Gnoll spittle!”

While I was killing Black Dragon Whelps I ran into Snarlflare, a rare whelp. He dropped a nice green cloak of stamina. When I come to think about it, though, I had already found something like 8 green items in Redridge so far. It seems very lucrative here.

But after killing the whelps I realized that I had a bunch of traveling quests piling up in my journal so I decided to get them out of the way. I ran to Goldshire, then to Stormwind, then flew to Westfall, then flew to Redridge, then ran back to Goldshire … I don’t think I took the optimal route there. But I was somewhat surprised that these quests kept sending me back to Goldshire. I don’t remember dwarf quests this level sending me back to Kharanos, or orc quests sending me to Razor Hill at this point. Hmm …

And don’t you hate quests that tell you to hurry hurry hurry when they aren’t actually timed quests?

Then a quest sent me to Duskwood. I’ve done a bit of wandering through Duskwood on vaious characters, but I’ve never leveled there. It has an entirely different feel when you enter on foot (and several levels below the creatures waiting for you along the road). I do the delivery and pick up the flight point, but there doesn’t seem to be much else for me here yet.

Finally, after running and flying back and forth for what seems like hours, I ended up back in Westfall, being sent off to kill the Defias Messanger. (I had killed him twice already, not realizing who he was the first time and helping some other guy the second time). The town of Moonbrook often seems to have lots of people around, so I was worried about being able to get the Messenger for myself, but it worked out okay. I figured out where he comes from and just hung around there until he showed up. Unfortunately, the next part of the quest is a group escort quest (and after there it seems to go into the Deadmine dungeon quests anyway), so I decided to skip it. (I really don’t enjoy escort quests and a general rule.)

But even without the escort quest, I still had the Defias quests that I wasn’t having any luck with two levels ago, which is why I went to Redridge. I imagined that these would be a lot easier with an extra two levels under my belt, and indeed I was right! I headed down into the Dagger Hills; the last time I was here I couldn’t kill the highwaymen well enough, but now it was no trouble at all. I got sidetracked with mining, though, wandered into the (disappointing) back entrance to the Deadmines, and ended up at the Westfall Lighthouse. Hey, there’s a questgiver ghost here! I don’t think I’d ever been out here before.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t take the murlocs he wanted me to kill yet. Instead I wandered off to kill more Harvest Watchers and collect hops and flasks of oil. At least until I died …

Tip: A level 17 hunter with a level 14 crab (I’ve switched to the white one, pictured here) can’t quite take a level 20 rare — at least not when that level 20 rare is immune to Growl and Serpent Sting and the hunter doesn’t know how to kite properly. *sigh*

I’ll think I’ll pause there for now and try again tomorrow.