The Searing Gorge
We had some open quests in the Searing Gorge so we decided to go and try to clear three or four. Unfortunately it wasn't quite that simple.
As we've been getting higher levels, more and more quests are turning out to be Dungeon quests, which we don't like too much - they take too long, and the instances are filled with elites which means that (1) they're tough but (2) you only get the same XP as you would for knocking down a regular mob of the same level.
Yesterday was a case in point - we found ourselves in the Blackrock Spire instance and although we gave it a fair shot we just could not locate the item we went in there for - the minimap showed a location but there were several floors and it could have been on any one (it wasn't on any of the ones we checked). Finally we walked into a room full of level 58 elites; we'd had no problem up until that point taking these guys on in threes and fours (well, mostly - Kate got wiped at one point and I nearly bought it myself), but a whole roomful?
We figured that the XP from fighting these guys wasn't worth the effort, and that our time would be better spent elsewhere.
Also, we've started to get quests marked PvP, meaning that they're Battleground quests. We're really not up to battlegrounds - we found ourselves in the Alterac one a few weeks ago and it was extremely annoying - I could barely see what was going on because the fighting was all happening around some fat Tauren and nobody would move far enough away from the dopey sod where I could see what I was doing; Kate couldn't react in time because her system wasn't fast enough to provide a decent screen refresh rate with so many Horde guys on us.
So as a result we're restricting ourselves mostly to whatever plain, ordinary, non-dungeon, non-PvP quests we can find. Unfortunately, they're getting a bit thin on the ground.
So we did actually manage to clear up one quest that meant collecting thirty Dark Iron fragments, but other than that the only real achievement was that we completed mapping the region.
We'd hoped to hit level 62, but we didn't get enough XP to push us much more than about halfway, so I think our plan next is to explore the Terokkar Forest area near Shattrath; the mobs around there are high enough level to get us a level in a reasonable time, and at the same time we can be gathering valuable materials (adamantite and fel iron, in my case) to help with the cash situation.
As we've been getting higher levels, more and more quests are turning out to be Dungeon quests, which we don't like too much - they take too long, and the instances are filled with elites which means that (1) they're tough but (2) you only get the same XP as you would for knocking down a regular mob of the same level.
Yesterday was a case in point - we found ourselves in the Blackrock Spire instance and although we gave it a fair shot we just could not locate the item we went in there for - the minimap showed a location but there were several floors and it could have been on any one (it wasn't on any of the ones we checked). Finally we walked into a room full of level 58 elites; we'd had no problem up until that point taking these guys on in threes and fours (well, mostly - Kate got wiped at one point and I nearly bought it myself), but a whole roomful?
We figured that the XP from fighting these guys wasn't worth the effort, and that our time would be better spent elsewhere.
Also, we've started to get quests marked PvP, meaning that they're Battleground quests. We're really not up to battlegrounds - we found ourselves in the Alterac one a few weeks ago and it was extremely annoying - I could barely see what was going on because the fighting was all happening around some fat Tauren and nobody would move far enough away from the dopey sod where I could see what I was doing; Kate couldn't react in time because her system wasn't fast enough to provide a decent screen refresh rate with so many Horde guys on us.
So as a result we're restricting ourselves mostly to whatever plain, ordinary, non-dungeon, non-PvP quests we can find. Unfortunately, they're getting a bit thin on the ground.
So we did actually manage to clear up one quest that meant collecting thirty Dark Iron fragments, but other than that the only real achievement was that we completed mapping the region.
We'd hoped to hit level 62, but we didn't get enough XP to push us much more than about halfway, so I think our plan next is to explore the Terokkar Forest area near Shattrath; the mobs around there are high enough level to get us a level in a reasonable time, and at the same time we can be gathering valuable materials (adamantite and fel iron, in my case) to help with the cash situation.
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