Duskwood and Westfall
I wanted to take care of my Paladin-only quest before I added so many levels that it wouldn't do me any good, so instead of continuing with Stonetalon we made a diversion. From the Exodar we took a sea trip to Menethil Harbour via Auberdine then flew to Stormwind and ran over to Sentinel Hill to open up that flightpath. From there we flew to Lakeshire and yomped down into Duskwood so that we could open up the Darkshire flightpath - that means we now have seven major flightpaths open in the Eastern Kingdoms.
The problem with Westfall, from Kate's perspective, is that the mobs there are so low level that she wouldn't have got any XP had she gone there with me, so my suggestion was that she could stay in Duskwood where the mobs are tougher (levels 25-30, roughly). I was originally planning on flying from Darkshire back to Sentinel Hill but I escorted Kate out as far as the Ogre mound in southern Duskwood. The ogres there are tough enough to give good XP (over 400 for some of the higher level ones), they drop good money, they have a couple of chests to open up for goodies and there are some copper and tin veins in the area to mine.
I continued out west (stopping in a couple of places to mine some copper and tin) and made my way to the Longshore to find my contact for the quest, Daphne Stilwell. It took a while - I started at the cliffs west of Moonbrook and followed the beach all the way around to where it leads back into the Elwynn Forest. No luck finding Daphne, so I found a safe spot to leave my character for a minute so I could check with WoWWiki. It turned out that she's located just a bit south of where I'd picked up the Longshore near Moonbrook, along a cliff trail that I hadn't seen.
I found the place, closed the quest and got the next quest in the chain: to defend Daphne against three incoming waves of Defias, three of them in the first wave, then four, then five. The last wave was a bit of a challenge because my health and mana was a little low from the second wave and I didn't get time to eat and drink before the bad guys were on me, but I prevailed.
That led to the next quest in the chain, to return to Duthorian Rall back in Stormwind. That was for later; I took a shortcut through the Dagger Hills to pick up the road east back into Duskwood and hooked back up with Kate. While I'd been kicking Defias butt she'd been whacking ogres and had been having some problems with the higher level ones. I had the same problem after we met back up - I was level 25 and I could take a level 28 ogre, but it turned out that the level 30 guys were just too tough. Level 29 was marginal (except at the point where two of them latched on together - nothing marginal about the spanking I got). By this time we were both close to levelling up so we stayed in the area for a while longer, concentrating on the ogres at the eastern end of the mound since they're easier (levels 25 to 27).
As soon as we got our levels we took off - Kate hearthstoned directly to the Exodar while I ran back to Darkshire and took a Gryphon to Stormwind. At the Cathedral I found Duthorian Rall, closed out the quest and got a new spell - Sense Undead, which will show me nearby Undead on the mini-map - and a new shield eighty-odd armour points better than my old one. While I was at the Cathedral I hit up the Paladin Trainer, but I only had enough cash to pay for two of the five lessons on offer. That done, I joined back up with Kate at the Exodar.
I was able to sell some of the junk I'd picked up from the Defias guys and the ogres, and that made enough cash that I was able to pay for at least one of the remaining Paladin lessons. I smelted the copper and tin I'd picked up and made a couple of things for auction. With that all taken care of and repairs done, it was time for bed.
The problem with Westfall, from Kate's perspective, is that the mobs there are so low level that she wouldn't have got any XP had she gone there with me, so my suggestion was that she could stay in Duskwood where the mobs are tougher (levels 25-30, roughly). I was originally planning on flying from Darkshire back to Sentinel Hill but I escorted Kate out as far as the Ogre mound in southern Duskwood. The ogres there are tough enough to give good XP (over 400 for some of the higher level ones), they drop good money, they have a couple of chests to open up for goodies and there are some copper and tin veins in the area to mine.
I continued out west (stopping in a couple of places to mine some copper and tin) and made my way to the Longshore to find my contact for the quest, Daphne Stilwell. It took a while - I started at the cliffs west of Moonbrook and followed the beach all the way around to where it leads back into the Elwynn Forest. No luck finding Daphne, so I found a safe spot to leave my character for a minute so I could check with WoWWiki. It turned out that she's located just a bit south of where I'd picked up the Longshore near Moonbrook, along a cliff trail that I hadn't seen.
I found the place, closed the quest and got the next quest in the chain: to defend Daphne against three incoming waves of Defias, three of them in the first wave, then four, then five. The last wave was a bit of a challenge because my health and mana was a little low from the second wave and I didn't get time to eat and drink before the bad guys were on me, but I prevailed.
That led to the next quest in the chain, to return to Duthorian Rall back in Stormwind. That was for later; I took a shortcut through the Dagger Hills to pick up the road east back into Duskwood and hooked back up with Kate. While I'd been kicking Defias butt she'd been whacking ogres and had been having some problems with the higher level ones. I had the same problem after we met back up - I was level 25 and I could take a level 28 ogre, but it turned out that the level 30 guys were just too tough. Level 29 was marginal (except at the point where two of them latched on together - nothing marginal about the spanking I got). By this time we were both close to levelling up so we stayed in the area for a while longer, concentrating on the ogres at the eastern end of the mound since they're easier (levels 25 to 27).
As soon as we got our levels we took off - Kate hearthstoned directly to the Exodar while I ran back to Darkshire and took a Gryphon to Stormwind. At the Cathedral I found Duthorian Rall, closed out the quest and got a new spell - Sense Undead, which will show me nearby Undead on the mini-map - and a new shield eighty-odd armour points better than my old one. While I was at the Cathedral I hit up the Paladin Trainer, but I only had enough cash to pay for two of the five lessons on offer. That done, I joined back up with Kate at the Exodar.
I was able to sell some of the junk I'd picked up from the Defias guys and the ogres, and that made enough cash that I was able to pay for at least one of the remaining Paladin lessons. I smelted the copper and tin I'd picked up and made a couple of things for auction. With that all taken care of and repairs done, it was time for bed.
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