Southeast Ashenvale
It turned out that we'd already been to Silverwind Refuge on an earlier exploration of southern Ashenvale - I recognized it as soon as we got there. There isn't a cooking trainer there, but there is a trader named Shandrina who sells an expert cookbook for 90 silver. Kate had 96 so buying the book left her pretty much flat broke, but this was our first stop out of Astranaar and we had a lot of exploration and questing ahead, and plenty of opportunity to gather stuff to recoup the cash. Kate read the book and that pushed her maximum skill level up to expert level (225, I think). I don't know if the book taught her any new recipes at the same time.
Silverwind Refuge is on the north shore of Mystral Lake in central southern Ashenvale. From there our plan was to scout east and then north, mapping the last of southeastern Ashenvale and ideally finding our way back to Forest Song. On the way we had quests to complete.
We hacked our way east and found the Silverwing Outpost where we had a quest to close out, in the form of a message to be given to one of the NPCs. There's an entrance to a battlefield instance; I need to read up about battlefields and arenas, although I know at the moment we're way too low level to take these on. I suspect that when we get to much higher levels we may need to enter a battlefield or arena to progress, but we'll see about that when the time comes.
The next milestone was the Bloodtooth Camp a little further east, where we had a raging battle with a bunch of furbolgs. Just a little to the east from there is the north-south road leading down into the Barrens, and leading off to the northeast from this road is the back road into the Warsong Labour Camp. The last time we tried to go up this road we were attacked by a bunch of enemies and only just made it out in one piece. We're quite a bit stronger this time around but we didn't need to head that way just yet.
Instead we went north, keeping to the east side of the main road. We had a quest here that said that some druids who'd been keeping the last part of the magical rod (last heard of in the July 28 post), had been in this area and been wiped out. We were looking to find traces of them and hopefully find that last part.
There are slime creatures there. One attacked me and I took it out, and it exploded (as slime creatures do). In with the bones that it flung out there was a box; I opened the box and found the last part of the rod - another quest complete. It also answered the question of what had happened to the druids.
There was a trail leading northeast and we followed that. This led us to the Dor'Danil Barrow Den - another place on our quest list, where we were supposed to pick up a bottle of poison to be returned to someone at Forest Song for analysis. There were five or six pretty tough guys around a tent, with the poison bottles out in plain sight on a table. I was hoping to make a discreet intervention, pulling the bad guys out one at a time, but it ended up being something of a free-for-all. But we pulled through and got the poison.
At this point our plan - to continue to explore in the general direction of Forest Song - went a bit pear-shaped because we decided to explore the underground Barrow Den itself. There were quite a few bad guys in there but not so many that we couldn't handle. However the place is a maze and we ended up getting lost trying to find our way back out, and in the end we gave up and hearthstoned out to the Exodar. What we should have done then was just take the minimum time to sell junk and make repairs, then head right back to Forest Song and finish exploring. Instead we stayed in the Exodar too long, ran out of time and had to pack it in for the night.
So the plan for the next trip out that way is to fly to Astranaar then head north to find the moonwell where we can close out one quest by handing over the last part of the rod that we found. From there we go cross-country, back through Night Run to Xavian, where we have a quest to complete, then on through Satyrnaar to Forest Song, where we can close out the quest with the bottle of poison. After that we can go either north or south - we have a quest to find the Howling Vale to the north, and somewhere to the south we have to locate Felfire Hill where we have two more quests waiting. With those done I think we'll have completely mapped Ashenvale and have most if not all of the quests done, and be ready to move on somewhere new.
There's something else that we want to do, at Kate's suggestion: we have a pile of 'grey' quests in Darkshore. I was going to abandon them but Kate wants to do them - they won't bring much XP but they could be worth doing for the quest rewards, and it'll give us an opportunity to finish mapping the area. I think we can take care of most them in a single sweep along the coast. We may do this right after finishing up in Ashenvale.
I also still have my Paladin quest, but that means going to the Deadmines and Loch Modan and these areas are so low level that Kate wouldn't get any XP - the only reason for her to do them would be for dropped items, a little cash, and maybe to do some mining. Kate suggested that she could do something more productive while I run these quests; they shouldn't take long, after all. One option would be for her to go mining in the Dagger Hills while I'm in the Deadmines, and find a similar mining area in the hills around Loch Modan while I take care of my own thing in that area.
We have one outstanding quest from Forest Song that takes us to the western end of Thousand Needles, an area to the south, beyond the Barrens. The big question right now is how to get there - the last time we went near the gate into the Barrens we saw that it was guarded by two level '??' Horde sentries. I have no idea how we're supposed to get past them.
Silverwind Refuge is on the north shore of Mystral Lake in central southern Ashenvale. From there our plan was to scout east and then north, mapping the last of southeastern Ashenvale and ideally finding our way back to Forest Song. On the way we had quests to complete.
We hacked our way east and found the Silverwing Outpost where we had a quest to close out, in the form of a message to be given to one of the NPCs. There's an entrance to a battlefield instance; I need to read up about battlefields and arenas, although I know at the moment we're way too low level to take these on. I suspect that when we get to much higher levels we may need to enter a battlefield or arena to progress, but we'll see about that when the time comes.
The next milestone was the Bloodtooth Camp a little further east, where we had a raging battle with a bunch of furbolgs. Just a little to the east from there is the north-south road leading down into the Barrens, and leading off to the northeast from this road is the back road into the Warsong Labour Camp. The last time we tried to go up this road we were attacked by a bunch of enemies and only just made it out in one piece. We're quite a bit stronger this time around but we didn't need to head that way just yet.
Instead we went north, keeping to the east side of the main road. We had a quest here that said that some druids who'd been keeping the last part of the magical rod (last heard of in the July 28 post), had been in this area and been wiped out. We were looking to find traces of them and hopefully find that last part.
There are slime creatures there. One attacked me and I took it out, and it exploded (as slime creatures do). In with the bones that it flung out there was a box; I opened the box and found the last part of the rod - another quest complete. It also answered the question of what had happened to the druids.
There was a trail leading northeast and we followed that. This led us to the Dor'Danil Barrow Den - another place on our quest list, where we were supposed to pick up a bottle of poison to be returned to someone at Forest Song for analysis. There were five or six pretty tough guys around a tent, with the poison bottles out in plain sight on a table. I was hoping to make a discreet intervention, pulling the bad guys out one at a time, but it ended up being something of a free-for-all. But we pulled through and got the poison.
At this point our plan - to continue to explore in the general direction of Forest Song - went a bit pear-shaped because we decided to explore the underground Barrow Den itself. There were quite a few bad guys in there but not so many that we couldn't handle. However the place is a maze and we ended up getting lost trying to find our way back out, and in the end we gave up and hearthstoned out to the Exodar. What we should have done then was just take the minimum time to sell junk and make repairs, then head right back to Forest Song and finish exploring. Instead we stayed in the Exodar too long, ran out of time and had to pack it in for the night.
So the plan for the next trip out that way is to fly to Astranaar then head north to find the moonwell where we can close out one quest by handing over the last part of the rod that we found. From there we go cross-country, back through Night Run to Xavian, where we have a quest to complete, then on through Satyrnaar to Forest Song, where we can close out the quest with the bottle of poison. After that we can go either north or south - we have a quest to find the Howling Vale to the north, and somewhere to the south we have to locate Felfire Hill where we have two more quests waiting. With those done I think we'll have completely mapped Ashenvale and have most if not all of the quests done, and be ready to move on somewhere new.
There's something else that we want to do, at Kate's suggestion: we have a pile of 'grey' quests in Darkshore. I was going to abandon them but Kate wants to do them - they won't bring much XP but they could be worth doing for the quest rewards, and it'll give us an opportunity to finish mapping the area. I think we can take care of most them in a single sweep along the coast. We may do this right after finishing up in Ashenvale.
I also still have my Paladin quest, but that means going to the Deadmines and Loch Modan and these areas are so low level that Kate wouldn't get any XP - the only reason for her to do them would be for dropped items, a little cash, and maybe to do some mining. Kate suggested that she could do something more productive while I run these quests; they shouldn't take long, after all. One option would be for her to go mining in the Dagger Hills while I'm in the Deadmines, and find a similar mining area in the hills around Loch Modan while I take care of my own thing in that area.
We have one outstanding quest from Forest Song that takes us to the western end of Thousand Needles, an area to the south, beyond the Barrens. The big question right now is how to get there - the last time we went near the gate into the Barrens we saw that it was guarded by two level '??' Horde sentries. I have no idea how we're supposed to get past them.
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