Darkshore and Ashenvale
We started this time with a boat trip to Teldrassil to open up the flight path from Auberdine, so now we should be able to get to a bank and auction house from anywhere in Kalimdor in a single flight.
Many of the quests available from Auberdine are obviously intended for lower level characters and I guess the game intended for us to take these on earlier. As such they show up as Green or even Grey difficulty and don't deliver much XP or cash. Kate decided she'd rather grind for better XP so she went back to Menethil to whack murlocs in the marshes while I persevered in Darkshore.
I abandoned all the 'grey' quests - about five of them - and explored pretty much all of Darkshore starting at the northern end, finding mushrooms in a cave behind a waterfall and lockboxes from two sunken ships off the coast, and taking message parchments from warlocks around the Tower of Althalaxx.
As I went south the quests and the mobs got harder and by the time I crossed into Ashenvale and got to the area around Maestra's Post I was getting enough XP to push my level to 23 in a short time. Kate brought her warrior back to this area after I'd already done a couple of the quests so I was able to give her a couple of pointers (such as how to find the plant bundles needed for one of the quests - they're hard to spot until you know what you're looking for).
Continuing east we got to Astranaar where we were able to close out three or four quests, set the inn as 'home' for our hearthstones and open up the flightpath. We made a quick trip over to Darnassus to do a little auction house business then returned to Astranaar and quit for the night.
One thing I didn't do was to explore Darkshore's coastal region and I'd like to do that soon, starting at Auberdine and following the beach south as far as it goes. The flight out of Astranaar takes you over a stretch of the beach and it looks like there may be things of interest to explore there.
Ironforge Airport
A little resarch into the airstrip in the hills near Ironforge showed that it's actually quite difficult to get there and there's not much point anyway. One opinion is that the place was put into the game for a purpose that was abandoned, and it was left in for scenery; another is that it'll be opened up later. In any case I'd like to try to get up there at some point, just for the sake of doing it, but it can wait.
Many of the quests available from Auberdine are obviously intended for lower level characters and I guess the game intended for us to take these on earlier. As such they show up as Green or even Grey difficulty and don't deliver much XP or cash. Kate decided she'd rather grind for better XP so she went back to Menethil to whack murlocs in the marshes while I persevered in Darkshore.
I abandoned all the 'grey' quests - about five of them - and explored pretty much all of Darkshore starting at the northern end, finding mushrooms in a cave behind a waterfall and lockboxes from two sunken ships off the coast, and taking message parchments from warlocks around the Tower of Althalaxx.
As I went south the quests and the mobs got harder and by the time I crossed into Ashenvale and got to the area around Maestra's Post I was getting enough XP to push my level to 23 in a short time. Kate brought her warrior back to this area after I'd already done a couple of the quests so I was able to give her a couple of pointers (such as how to find the plant bundles needed for one of the quests - they're hard to spot until you know what you're looking for).
Continuing east we got to Astranaar where we were able to close out three or four quests, set the inn as 'home' for our hearthstones and open up the flightpath. We made a quick trip over to Darnassus to do a little auction house business then returned to Astranaar and quit for the night.
One thing I didn't do was to explore Darkshore's coastal region and I'd like to do that soon, starting at Auberdine and following the beach south as far as it goes. The flight out of Astranaar takes you over a stretch of the beach and it looks like there may be things of interest to explore there.
Ironforge Airport
A little resarch into the airstrip in the hills near Ironforge showed that it's actually quite difficult to get there and there's not much point anyway. One opinion is that the place was put into the game for a purpose that was abandoned, and it was left in for scenery; another is that it'll be opened up later. In any case I'd like to try to get up there at some point, just for the sake of doing it, but it can wait.
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