With maintenance looming tomorrow, I kicked my leveling speed into overdrive.
I finally repaired the World Pillar, and the tear between the world of rock and our world is slowly being repaired by Thrall and The Earthen Ring. I was surprised I only had to complete just a few quests for the Stonemother before she said “Ok, I believe you. Take your shard and gfto!”
After grouping up with another person to kill an elite, all three shards were finally locked in place and the pillar is repaired. The Stonemother herself helped weaken the elite enough for me to land the final blow before the elite could be Deathwing’s second in command.
After that I went to Twilight Highlands, but I had to complete a quest for the king of SW before then; escort the Prince of Stormwind. Years ago he was the acting King of Stormwind. I still remember looking at him as my Human Warlock and saying “That’s the king?”
It turned out the Twilight Hammer is secretly active in SW, which I stopped before they could blow up the cathedral and cause mass chaos.
They kept telling me that nomatter what I do, I cannot escape what will happen in the future. That “future” was actually seen in the Twilight Highlands. I saw what looked like the forces of the Blue Flight joining Deathwing. With Malygos on Deathwing’s side… Azeroth is fucked. NO ONE will be able to stop two powerful dragon aspects.
I eventually snapped out of the thought of the future and continued focusing on leveling to 85. Several times I panicked thinking I’m going to run out of quests, but it seemed like they knew what I was trying to do and wasn’t going to force me to grind.
And after turning in one final quest of rescuing someone, the moment finally came.
“You’ve reached
Level 85!”
showed up on my screen.
Did a little dance and then flew back home on my dragon, playing some proper victory music on the way back. On the way back I saw the Red Dragonflight as I flew by, like they were congratulating me. There’s also a place where you see the reds train for battle against Deathwing’s forces.
Back in Goldshire, it was raining and unusually quiet. Bigboss logged in and did his standard “i am the boss” speech. I asked him about seeing “him” in Uldum as an 83 Gnome Mage named Joeciver. He said it was one of his.. followers.
Later these two Level 30+ gnomes come in and act like they now own GS.
Then this other Level 85 and a Worgen Hunter telling me that those two are popular, and can “beat” a Level 80. The Worgen’s all “im serious lol”. It didn’t take much to know this one 85 standing before me is one of the little nimrods.
The rest of the night was boring so I went to bed, knowing it’ll be awhile for the servers to come back up. But I didn’t care. I got my 85.
All I’m going to do now is;
1. Get my Wolf up to 85 by heading back to the Twilight Highlands and complete all the remaining quests.
2. Work on my new Archaeology profession.
3. Continue working on Wrymrest Temple rep to get a Red Drake to call my own.
4. Maybe roll as a Worgen… something. Not sure yet.