First off, I brought my Druid “back from the grave” about four days ago. Found out the hacker sold all of his gear which Blizzard helped to restore. Had to re-skill into Feral and shit like that.
Also, Thorns got nerfed.. badly. It used to last a half an hour (even then it was annoying to keep it active). Now it lasts for 20 seconds.
I did what I planned to do; re-train myself to level as a Druid by going to The Storm Peaks in Northrend. Got good with Cat Form, then decided I was ready for Cata questing.
It started pretty much the same way it did with my Rogue, but I did my best to ignore it… until I tried to do the [In the Rear With the Gear] quest, that involves two mobs, an ogre and a random mob walking together, with three slaves behind them.
On my Rogue, I simply sapped the ogre and killed the random mob, then looted and vanished. My Druid isn’t so lucky, especially the fact I’m not trained for multiple high health mobs, all hitting me at the same time.
I tried using Entangling Roots on the ogre so I could just kill the random mob, but roots can break quicker than it’s stated on the tooltip, and had for me alot, allowing the ogre to run up to me full speed and attempt to knock me into last week.
I eventually gave up, then flew back to GS in hopes I could ask another Druid to train him to know what to do and when, since mob training isn’t going to work, since mobs won’t stop attacking you and say “ok, good. Now do this”. I got no such help. So… for two days, I was on Benie, waiting for Terlarer to get on, in hopes he would give me the advice I need to keep going. But I got sick of waiting for him and decided to ‘leave’ the unhelpful Alliance for awhile and join the Horde as my Tauren Hunter, Beefhunter.
I’m not going to seek revenge on them, though. But anyway, another reason was to make a Goblin Warlock. Since I’ve seen how the Worgen start, it’s time to see how the Goblins start. Once my Hunter hits 85, I will make said Goblin.
But I instantly ran into snags when I logged in as my hunter. One being I didn’t have enough to get 280% flight speed and the flight master’s license. But Blizzard also restored something for him; his gold. Gave me enough just to afford the license. I also had to … somehow alot of the skills I had when I was leveling him up were forgotten. My Druid went through this as well.
So with that matter taken care of, I started up leveling to 85 on the Horde side, wondering if it’s different. From what I’ve seen, leveling in Mount Hyjal is no different, except this Orc sees Worgen as “flea-ridden”.
Saw a few changes in Vashj’ir. There’s some new Horde-only quests. But there’s something that really bugged me. The quest descriptions were exactly like the Alliance side, said by the Horde. And there’s also ones where it seems the leader of the group I was in when I got on the boat outside of Org, actually had… feelings!
One example is the Bio Fuel quest, when you get the ingredients. The goblin says about caring about the environment… since when do the Horde care about the environment?! They just didn’t seem like the war-thirsty savages that I always saw the Horde being.
But it does start turning back into what the Horde should be, seeing one telling me “if I must die, I want our greatest enemies to go with us!” During the final battle, the guy (leader of the group again) treated the shaman like shit. And after the Shaman was captured, the guy said something like “follow me if you got the balls”. Completely different from the dramatic Alliance version of: “Do what you will.. I’m going after him!”
Anyway, there’s two other things I want to mention; both about addons I use.
First one is Pawn. I use it to tell me to upgrade my gear. But now I feel it’s giving me the wrong information. Everytime it tells me to upgrade and it’s a BM item, there’s always less Haste with it. Hunters need haste! Haste helps to attack faster.
Second thing, not as serious. Atlas. How come it’s not showing Cata dungeons? The only one I see is The Stonecore in Deepholm. But it does show the classic raid dungeons that were re-added in 4.1. ZG and AQ20/AQ40.
There’s also Zul’Aman. I have no idea where that is, but it’s a raid dungeon.