So I got my second Hunter to 85. But again, no fireworks going up and no chorus singing, but this time I don’t feel ashamed of him.
It’s just… getting to 85 wore out its joy after Benie got it. Why not Level 90? Why only 5 levels? Blizzard listed the reason before, but I didn’t read it, nor can I find it.
Anyway, thanks to the rested XP I had to Level 83, I was able to get ahead even my Rogue when he dinged in Twilight Highlands. Dinged in Dragonmaw Hold, after defeating their corrupted fel warchief and turning in the quest.
Now, to talk about how I got here. I saw no difference in Deepholm and Uldum on the Horde side. But in Uldum, several things happened that were different than what my Rogue went through. Also, I was able to afford 280% speed flying, so that’s good.
Now, in Uldum, the quest that isn’t listed as a “(Group)” quest but involves killing an Elite. I started by pulling the elite’s guards away and killing them, then started working on the elite.
It went good until he summoned the snakes. I thought I could take them out with Multi-Shot so I used it, and it didn’t kill them. Snakes went over and started to delightfully kick my fat ass. And they managed to kill me. Rage time. 😛
Came back and… it was like I did nothing. Tried to think of another way to do this, thinking I may have to ask for help. Suddenly I heard fighting behind me, and a Level 83 Worgen Druid popped up and started attacking the non-elites. I thought “meh..” at first, wishing that was my Druid, then though “Heh.. good luck” then another person joins him. A Shaman. Both Alliance.
They start attacking the elite, and I’m thinking “fuck…” but then notice that the elite isn’t tagged so they would get the quest credit and not me.
Seeing that, I immediately started attacking the elite.. and got it!! I thanked them and left the area. Hellscream would’ve been pissed about that.
The next thing is Neferset City, taking down the two named guys before the boss. I took down the scorp tamer guy in one go. But the biggest thing that helped to redeem my fail Rogue, was defending the group going up the mountain to secure it.
It was a hard as hell battle, but I managed to get three left, just like my Rogue did to the top. My pet tried to keep the baddies off of them but failed and died. Feign Death saved my life, and the baddies are attacking the final guy so I would fail again. I was like “NO!!! I will NOT fail this time!!”
I quickly resurrected my pet to have one final chance at this, and did it! The mountain got secured! So that finally proved I could do it, and redeemed my Rogue. That quest bugged the hell out of me that I couldn’t do it, and I was able to do the rest of the quest chain, capturing Neferset City.. which lead to a dungeon quest.
The last thing in Uldum I want to mention, is the best quest ever [Gnomebliteration], seemed.. bugged to me on the Horde side. First thing I saw was the Fusion Core, was invisible. But I went with it. It was still fun rolling over those gnomes with it. But something happened with the fusion core and it went invisible again, only showing gnomes that got stuck to it. When I got done with it, I decided to do it again. This time, the quest wasn’t working like it should. Seemed like I was lagging.
Alittle later, I saw another guy doing the same quest, and he was getting the gnomes, but I wasn’t. So I decided to get out, but the fusion core did not let me out. I was able to roll around all over Uldum! Was really funny, yet I was also lagging.
Places I would see other mobs, I saw nothing. Yet I still heard the sound of gnomes being ran over, and seeing gnomes stuck to the ball. So I tried to relog and showed up back at the area where you roll over the gnomes, under attack. Made it out of there alive. That’s pretty much it.
Since I was done with Uldum with 10% to go to 85, I flew back to Org where I grabbed ‘Warchief’s Command: Twilight Highlands!” and had to speak to the new Warchief of the Horde, Gorrash Hellscream.
Preparing to go to Twilight Highlands is alot different than the Alliance side. Starts off of making sure Hellscream’s War Machines are ready, trusting the Goblins in building them. Then it went to go to the new area in Azshara; Bildgewater Cartel, of checking to see if everything is ready to go to the Highlands. Having to deal with AWOL Soldiers and stuff like that.
It all lead up to being part of the Horde’s air fleet. The air was filled with zeppelins and planes. It was awesome. Soon we were over Wetlands, approaching the Highlands. One of the zeppelins was destroyed by its pilot being stupid and crashing it into a wall. When we entered the Highlands, Hellscream showed up next to us and started his “we will take this land FOR THE HORDE!!!” and yadda yadda yadda. Then the Twilight’s Hammer began to attack us. First Deathwing showed up, then the twilight drakes.
Meanwhile, the sea fleet began to be attacked by the Alliance, and Hellscream with his pure hate for them stupidly told our defense to aid the sea fleet, leaving us open to attack. And attack we got. Zeppelins going down one by one of the twilight drakes. Hellscream was under attack by one of the drakes and kicked its ass, but his zeppelin went down too.
Soon it was “our turn”, and one of the twilight drakes gets entangled in the cabling attaching the blimp to the carriage, but still was able to attack. Now the zeppelin’s going down, forcing you to abandon ship and get the fuck off of it before it too crashes.
Back in Azshara, there was these two goblins that try to show you how these special parachutes work. Should’ve told me that those parachutes would come in handy.
I landed on one of the Horde sea fleets which was still seaworthy, and all I could think of is “HOLY SHIT that was awesome! I wanna do that again!”
Now, I had to get the Dragonmaw Clan to ally with the Horde. Turns out the Warchief is from Outland. The same guy who you tried to tell about Thrall and the Horde, way before Cata was announced. You’re forced to kill him, which finally unites the clan with the Horde. I, personally, want them all to burn in hell, never will forget what they did to the Nether Drakes back in Outland. But I try to tell myself that they must’ve been corrupted (they were working with Illidan), and this is the ‘good version’ of the Dragonmaw.
So now I have my first Horde 85, I guess it’s time to make that Goblin Warlock. Haven’t thought of a good name yet. Something like “Darkcash”, maybe. Starting to have second thoughts about making the char, though… with Gorrash Hellscream being the Warchief, I imagine I’m going to be forced to do alot of things to ruin it for the Alliance. Liked it better when Thrall was the Warchief.
In a way I want to see how it’s like leveling on the Horde side, in the “new” Azeroth. I imagine I’m going to be questing mainly in Kalimdor, like my Rogue quested mainly in the Eastern Kingdoms. But I don’t want to see “we must kill the Alliance!”. I did my best to ignore that on my Tauren Hunter. But with Org looking more… menacing, will the new quests to level you to 60, really push you to be evil and hate the Alliance?
I was planning on doing two things for my Tauren Hunter;
1. Questing for fun on the Horde side in Twilight Highlands.
2. Do… the rep to get a Nether Drake again. I can use wowreputationcalculator.com to see how many times I have to do quests, and how many days to become Exalted with them.