Kaet: Where the heck am I?
As I mentioned at the end of the last Kaet entry, I largely wrote that entry before I took a two-week trip cross-country to a new home. I haven’t had much chance to play lately as I get settled in, although I have managed to sandwich in a few hours of Kaet around the edges — but I haven’t been keeping my normal notes on her progress. Which leads me back into my normal state of affairs with characters when I don’t make an explicit effort to keep track of them (and one of the big reasons I am trying not to play several alts at once): I lose track of where they are and what they are doing.
So, let’s piece this together for Kaet. I appear to have finished Duskwood — I have three quests left there, but two are group quests plus one deep, deep red. I’ll go back and grab the red in a few levels.
I have one yellow solo quest left in Redridge to kill Lieutenant Fangore, but I remember trying that several times and dying horribly each time. I’ll just skip it and call myself done with Redridge as well.
I have a number of dungeon quests in The Stockades and Gnomeregan, but I don’t do dungeons. I’ll just delete those.
And that leaves … the Wetlands! Which explains why I’m standing in Menethil Harbor, I suppose. *grin* Many of my Wetlands quests are green but there are a few yellows as well. That’s fine — all I need is a level or two so I can head on down to Stranglethorn Vale. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to know that’s where I should head next, but perhaps it’ll pop up in a quest in the next two levels. We’ll see.
I have my blue crab Frore with me. Frore is my secondary crab so he’s been running a few levels behind me. These Wetlands creatures may be just the thing he needs to catch up.
So I guess that’s where I am: doing quests in the Wetlands until my crab catches up. Yay for deduction!
Some random thoughts while I’m here:
I really wish I could turn off the shoulder armor graphics. Kaet’s profile before she found any shoulders was unemcumbered, slender and lithe — or at least as slender as a female dwarf gets. Now she has this bulky profile that makes her look hunched and worried. And she is really not a worrier.
I know that Blizzard invests a lot of time in their shoulder armor and that they feel it’s very important for distinguishing silhouettes, but … it’s annoying me enough that I’m considering ditching the shoulders. Hey, if trolls can fight naked, I can afford to bear a little skin too!
I keep forgetting Stoneform. I’ll be fighting some annoying creature that poisons me and I’ll sit there cursing and waiting for it to wear off, only to stop several minutes later and shout, “Hey! I’m a dwarf!”
One of my favorite weird tricks happens to be in the Wetlands. The Cursed Crew of the Lost Fleet will often turn you and your pet into undead sailor ghosts as you fight them. On the one hand it’s really neat to see your pet running around in human form; on the other hand, it gets very confusing very fast!
[later]
So, after running about in the Wetlands for a bit, I am level 29, Frore is level 27, and I’m out of quests. Time to switch back to Tibri crab and head to Stranglethorn!
[edit] Except … that while turning in my last quest I stumbled on the starter for the Missing Diplomat quest. I decided to pursue it as far as I could — which was all the way to the final step, where Private Hendel kicked my butt. *sigh* But at least now I know what people are talking about when they reference this long and abruptly cutoff quest line!
Table of Contents for Series: Kaet
- Introducing: Kaet
- Kaet: Northshire Valley
- Kaet: Goldshire
- Kaet: Level 10!
- Kaet: Taming the Crabs
- Kaet: Finishing Up Elwynn
- Kaet: Westfall
- Kaet: Redridge
- Kaet: Westfall Interlude
- Kaet: Finishing Up Westfall (Mostly)
- Kaet: Back to Redridge
- Kaet: Getting Disgusted
- Kaet: Duskwood
- Kaet: Where the heck am I?
- Kaet: The Post-Brewfest Blues
- Kaet: Eight Levels Later
- Kaet Gets a Pony!
- Kaet: On Hold
- Kaet: Where was I again?
- Kaet: Forced Playtime
- Kaet: Level 60!
- Kaet: Kill Command
- Kaet: A Quick Note From Nagrand
- Kaet: Level 70!
14 Comments
First.
Yeah I know what you mean about the shoulders. I usually leave capes and helms off, cept if I’m in a group with another tauren, where I leave the helm on/
When you’re done with wetlands, head up to SS in hillsbrad. People always forget about it.
I don’t know if part of what you’re doing is learning the alliance quests, but I highly, highly, highly recommend at least trying Jame’s free guides. I’ve been using his 20-30 guide for my first horde character and it makes old azeroth play like outlands. You do enough quests to get the feel of an area, but not so much that you get bogged down. Get a group of quests, do them all, get a new set of quests instead of following all those useless stragglers all over for no real reward. I started the 20-30 one at level 22 and I’m now at 28 with no grinding and very little running. The extra levels make everything a bit easier and eliminiate the times when he says to grind.
The first alliance one starts at 30 http://www.wow-pro.com/node/600
Also it makes it easy to keep track of where you are. For instance, on my horde I’m on Level 25 step 9.
Second!
I also keep my helm off. Why did I spend all that time picking out my spikey troll mohawk only to have it covered up by some unsightly helm?
Darn you two other people!
Being a feral druid has it’s privelages. I don’t care what my hat, shoulders and cape look like because they are all hidden by my sleek and stylish cat-form, or my big and menacing bear-form.
I remember being so anxious to get into Stranglethorn Vale and then after getting there, being overly disgusted with it. LOL - There are like 300 quests there. Granted, you can get a good 10+ levels there, but boy does it suck the life out of you.
Here’s something to ponder…
Iron Forge is indoors and you can mount there but Booty Bay is outdoors and you cannot. Make sense? LOL
Messyah, as an Elekk rider, I’m glad that I can’t break through the wooden planks that compile most of Booty Bay, but feel quite comfortable riding thought the stable steel reinforced masonry of Ironforge. And as for SS, good call, great place to quest very little running. Never been a big STV fan unless I can get a group and blow through it in 6-8 hours. Those’re my 2 cents, enjoy.
“so I can head on down to Stranglethorn Vale. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to know that’s where I should head next, but perhaps it’ll pop up in a quest in the next two levels. We’ll see. ”
Actually, STV is not necessarily the “follow-up” to Wetlands! You can go to Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Thousand Needles and Desolace and, if you haven’t been in Hillsbrad Foothills, there may be some late 20 quests left there that you can use to level up your pets a bit…
About Private Hendel: he’s 6 levels above you and 8 (EIGHT!) levels above your pet! Did you really expect to do him? Granted, you only need to take him to 30% or so, but still, 6/8 levels equals PLENTY resists/misses/etc! I barely did Stalvan tonight on my other hunter (went to dinner with family and only had 1 hour left to WoW or do WoW related stuff, so opted to quest a bit with that one!). That’s a 26 hunter with a 26 boar! Stalvan was 32 (seen it as 31 for the guy doing it before, but was red in either case!). I had to kite the guy a bit, especially since my boar’s initial aggro from charge was resisted (that’s what you get from charging a red mob!). Was a bit of work, but he his alone (after you kill the surrounding mobs, which I was doing to spend time waiting for him to re-spawn). Private Hendel, on the other hand, “spawns”, 2 guards to help him, so that’s 3 mobs on you!… BTW, if you’re BM, you *may* be able to make him at 30 if you choose Intimidation as the first 30ish talent *and* your pet is 30 too. Just prep a trap or even ready up for double trapping, and start with intimidate; stand back and freeze trap his ads while DPSing Hendel. You should be able to do it if Intimidate doesn’t get resisted as it will get you a nice aggro *and* prevents Hendel from being the one ending up frozen! Don’t even bother DPSing the other two ads first: ALL on Hendel and when he’s at 30%, the guards come help and the ads flee. I’ve read in wowhead that he can be kited to the North Tower, although I wonder what happens with the 2 ads…
Phew: lengthy comment! :)
so you know, the “tapping of the kegs at brewfest will help you level. Every day at 6 am and 6 pm at orgrimar (im assuming there is an alliance version of this) Vol’jin comes out and whacks a keg, whitch gives a buff witch Increases your experience gained by 10%. This may help you gettin those next few levels till stranglethorn.
Also as a side note, this affects hunter pets as well, so if your leveling a pet, i suggest getting him this buff if you have the chance.
That’s a nice move from Blizzard that completely copes with those that can’t play in those two timeframes! Totally shows what they think about hardcore “I have no life other than wow” players and “casual” players…
Probably not a good idea to get in a casual/hardcore debate about a holiday. The hardcores I know see them as a waste of time that takes people out of their raids, and the dev time could be put to better use making more dungeons few will ever see. A 4 hour timer would have been nice tho. Or a 5 hour so that it would change a bit every day.
I am very disappointed with the execution of brewfest. There’s so few ways to get tickets, that there’s no way for me to get a ram. It’s sad that there’s some really cool items to get and yet they made the freaking clothes so expensive. IMO, the clothes should all be obtainable in a days work. The goggles, keg, and ram seem reasonable effort for the reward _IF_ the quests were working properly. With all the bug issues they’re currently having, dropping all prices is almost necessary so that people can actually get what they’ve been trying for.
Suddenly I realize I’m talking about brewfest on a post about Kaet…
So, on topic, Private Hendel. That’s one of the things I really hated in old quest lines: sudden jumps in difficulty. The quest to go to Theramore for that is only like 32, and the next few parts are just go talk to X. Suddenly, the quest jumps 2 levels and you have to kill Hendel, and it ends. Really, who thought “lets lead the player on and think that they can finish this quest and then pull the carpet out from under them?”
Thanks for the suggestions about where to go next. I’m actually quite looking forward to Stranglethorn Vale — I never developed the antipathy to it that a lot of people have. (Although this may be because I’ve never done it with an Alliance character before.)
Although I’m not being completely strict about it, I am trying to keep Kaet in the human zones when I can (she wants a pony at 40) or more generally in the southern part of the Eastern Kingdoms. Obviously I’ll go elsewhere — like the Wetlands — when I run out of quests, but I want to cover all the content that’s out there as well as I can so I can get as many different experiences with my billions of characters as possible.
Re Private Hendel: I knew he’d kick my butt — I wasn’t really trying — but since I was there anyway it was worth checking him out.
Re Brewfest & casual/hardcore: As it happens, I was just about to post on that. Meet me there. :>
I believe Hillsbrad and Arathi Highlands are both human faction areas for your pony. There are also a few quests in Duskwallow in your mid 30’s.
I totally agree with you about the shoulder graphics. I was so happy when the orc shoulders were “broken” and they were nice and small and unobtrusive. But the Bliz fixed them… /cry
Mokk
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