Faster
Plaguelands
I flew to Lakeshire then rode to the Eastvale Logging Camp to get Journeyman riding training (480 gold - argh!). After that I rode across country to Stormwind City and went to the Cathedral of Light to get my Charger training (another 16g, but at least it's cheaper than a horse). The Charger is distinctly faster than the Warhorse.
I was planning on flying direct to Chillwind Camp in the Western Plaguelands but Kate decided after all to say hell to the expense and go get the same horse training; I took the Deeprun Tram to Ironforge and we went back to the Logging Camp together and Kate got the training and a Fast Palomino.
We made our way north to Chillwind Camp the fastest way we knew: ride back to Lakeshire (definitely quicker on the new faster horses) then fly from there. Once there I started by making a circuit of the Western Plaguelands looking for ore and whacking the odd spider, bear, wolf and Scarlet Lumberjack.
After that I ran across the bridge into the Eastern Plaguelands and detoured north to the Terrorweb Tunnel to grab the last five crypt fiend parts I needed for a quest, then did another circuit grabbing more mithril and thorium. I found a road leading north out of the area and took a second detour to check it out; it leads through a portal and takes you into the Ghostlands, a low-level hostile area - I saw a couple of level 17 mobs and a copper vein and that's all, then I headed back.
Kate spent longer in the Western Plaguelands and followed through to Light's Hope Chapel after a little while. We had a new plan - explore the area around Shattrath City.
Terokkar Forest
We could have hearthstoned to Shattrath directly but that would have been taking a risk - with a sixty minute cooldown on the hearthstones, if we'd got into a bad situation in the wild we wouldn't have had an easy escape option - so instead we flew down to Nethergarde Keep and rode to and through the Dark Portal. On the other side we found the flightmaster near the portal and flew to Shattrath.
We did a few quick things in the city - dumping auctionable items in the bank temporarily, and finding Haris Pilton in the World's End Tavern (she sells a pair of sunglasses for five copper that go for ten gold and up on the auctions). After that we went to the bridge on the east side of town and headed out into the Terokkar Forest.
It's a high level area - mobs from level 59 to about 64 - but although it was a bit heavy it really wasn't that bad; about the worst thing that happened was that we'd get attacked by nearby baddies while trying to mine ore or gather herbs. Kate was able to get some of the rarer herbs and I found Adamantite and Fel Iron.
We made our way northeast and found a path leading back directly to the Hellfire Peninsula (bypassing Zangarmarsh) and we went a little way that direction before heading back.
The path runs along the edge of the world - Outland is the largest remaining fragment of Draenor, the destroyed Draenei homeworld, and we'd seen from the air that it's easy to get to the edge and look over. Unfortunately it's a little too easy... out of curiosity I went to take a look and went onto a part of the slope that was just a bit too steep. Strangely, my body appeared near the edge of a cliff on the north side of the Terokkar Forest, so I had to make my way north while Kate came back west, and we met up on the road just outside Shattrath.
Time was up - we headed back into Shattrath through a short tunnel that leads right into the Lower City, then took the portal to Ironforge and after grabbing the stuff we'd put in the bank for safekeeping, set up a whole bunch of auctions and packed it in for the night. I'm curious to know how the Haris Pilton shades will sell...
I flew to Lakeshire then rode to the Eastvale Logging Camp to get Journeyman riding training (480 gold - argh!). After that I rode across country to Stormwind City and went to the Cathedral of Light to get my Charger training (another 16g, but at least it's cheaper than a horse). The Charger is distinctly faster than the Warhorse.
I was planning on flying direct to Chillwind Camp in the Western Plaguelands but Kate decided after all to say hell to the expense and go get the same horse training; I took the Deeprun Tram to Ironforge and we went back to the Logging Camp together and Kate got the training and a Fast Palomino.
We made our way north to Chillwind Camp the fastest way we knew: ride back to Lakeshire (definitely quicker on the new faster horses) then fly from there. Once there I started by making a circuit of the Western Plaguelands looking for ore and whacking the odd spider, bear, wolf and Scarlet Lumberjack.
After that I ran across the bridge into the Eastern Plaguelands and detoured north to the Terrorweb Tunnel to grab the last five crypt fiend parts I needed for a quest, then did another circuit grabbing more mithril and thorium. I found a road leading north out of the area and took a second detour to check it out; it leads through a portal and takes you into the Ghostlands, a low-level hostile area - I saw a couple of level 17 mobs and a copper vein and that's all, then I headed back.
Kate spent longer in the Western Plaguelands and followed through to Light's Hope Chapel after a little while. We had a new plan - explore the area around Shattrath City.
Terokkar Forest
We could have hearthstoned to Shattrath directly but that would have been taking a risk - with a sixty minute cooldown on the hearthstones, if we'd got into a bad situation in the wild we wouldn't have had an easy escape option - so instead we flew down to Nethergarde Keep and rode to and through the Dark Portal. On the other side we found the flightmaster near the portal and flew to Shattrath.
We did a few quick things in the city - dumping auctionable items in the bank temporarily, and finding Haris Pilton in the World's End Tavern (she sells a pair of sunglasses for five copper that go for ten gold and up on the auctions). After that we went to the bridge on the east side of town and headed out into the Terokkar Forest.
It's a high level area - mobs from level 59 to about 64 - but although it was a bit heavy it really wasn't that bad; about the worst thing that happened was that we'd get attacked by nearby baddies while trying to mine ore or gather herbs. Kate was able to get some of the rarer herbs and I found Adamantite and Fel Iron.
We made our way northeast and found a path leading back directly to the Hellfire Peninsula (bypassing Zangarmarsh) and we went a little way that direction before heading back.
The path runs along the edge of the world - Outland is the largest remaining fragment of Draenor, the destroyed Draenei homeworld, and we'd seen from the air that it's easy to get to the edge and look over. Unfortunately it's a little too easy... out of curiosity I went to take a look and went onto a part of the slope that was just a bit too steep. Strangely, my body appeared near the edge of a cliff on the north side of the Terokkar Forest, so I had to make my way north while Kate came back west, and we met up on the road just outside Shattrath.
Time was up - we headed back into Shattrath through a short tunnel that leads right into the Lower City, then took the portal to Ironforge and after grabbing the stuff we'd put in the bank for safekeeping, set up a whole bunch of auctions and packed it in for the night. I'm curious to know how the Haris Pilton shades will sell...
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