Questing has been pretty good. Started in Vashj’ir which got me to 82 easily. Has really slowed down after leaving it due to no quests.
Mount Hyjal was a big disappointment. I expected as many quests as Vashj’ir but it let me down. Maybe because Blizzard undid something that I was able to do in WoTLK. When I started at Fjord, then went to Borean Tundra. Now it seems you can either go here OR here to get to 82.
I was forced to grind to 83 in Mount Hyjal by killing some molten mobs, seeing hardly anyone else was killing them. As I was, I got a PM from *namehere*, asking if I’m Ben. I questioned him and he said “This is Troy!”, I asked if it was the same Troy I was friends with two years ago and he said yes. We talked for awhile and I explained what has happened.
I then crossed the ocean to Kalimdor to get to Uldum, expecting to get to 84. When I arrived it was like I was in Egypt. Notice the mob levels were around 83-85 here. A bit too high for me but I went with it. Notice there wasn’t any “Welcome! Come here to get started!” quest givers.
But I managed to do a few, including this absolutely hilarious one of frying/running over 1,000 Gnomes with a giant fireball known as a Fusion Core that rolls around which you can control.
After some flying around and still noticing no Alliance quest hubs, I began to get concerned that I might be too low to do any real quests here, so I flew back to SW and found out there’s a new quest on the Hero’s Call Board, of going to Uldum. I picked it up and had to fly to Tanaris to get it.
When I arrived, I was told to escort this caravan into Uldum. Instead, I’m the one being escorted. For the first time in WoW history, YOU are in cutscenes. You’re treated like a NPC.
When you finally arrive in Uldum, you and the people you went with are captured and put in cages, but are rescued by one of the NPC’s who happens to have a lockpick on her.
Later on you find out Harrison Jones (aka Indiana Jones) is back, and he does alot more than he did in WoTLK. You’re his partner in unlocking the secrets of Uldum by lighting the three obelisks to re-activate the shield that has kept outsiders out of Uldum for many, many years.
Soon you find out this german-speaking goblin and his cronies are working with Deathwing, who plan to activate a device that will wipe out every living thing on Azeroth. Of course you’re not going to let that happen.
The next day (today) when I logged in to continue a quest I planned to do later, Cooleow PMs me and asks like he doesn’t know who I am. I did my best to remind him and finally he remembers and asks where I’ve been. I told him that I was going to come back before Cataclysm’s release but he claims I didn’t tell him.
I fly back to SW to hang with him, and decide to give him the 250g needed to fly and he thanks me alot.
The rest of the day, I found out I could had gone to Deepholm as an 82 after asking a group who were waiting for a bugged quest how in the fuck are people able to get to 85, when I can’t seem to find any quests. So I decided to go to Deepholm, knowing the only way out is my Hearthstone.
I expected to go through it on my mount. Instead I’m riding a Horde flying mount with a Tauren driving it, telling me about Deepholm and then we enter it.
When I get dropped off, I’m told “We are all counting on you.” Ohh the pressure. But I can understand why they’re so serious and need my mob combat skills.
I’m tasked with finding three fragments of the World Pillar to repair it after what Deathwing did. I’ve found two of them so far. The third one is more difficult to acquire, as I have to become friends with the Earthmother who has taken a hating to all things not made of stone due to untrust.
And due to the plentiful quests, I’m now an 84. With 75% away from 85.
Cooleow keeps trying to drag me back to Goldshire to hang out, but I keep trying to focus on getting to 85. He doesn’t understand how critical it is to get the World Pillar repaired, and I’m the only one that can do it.