Kalimdor and Northrend
Mulgore
Thunder Bluff wasn't half the problem that Silvermoon and Orgrimmar had been - we were able to add it to our maps just by getting close enough, and we didn't have to try to get inside.
Unfortunately it still put us into PvP mode for 5 minutes and during that time, while looking for a secluded spot to wait for it to wear off, we ran into a level 80 Hordie. He followed us while we ran around some, then he went PvP and attacked Kate. He may have had a bit of a shock when a mere level 74 knocked his health down to 10%, but unfortunately for me he was somehow able to heal himself, at least three times. I kept the bugger fighting for what must have been a couple of minutes and I know I had him on his knees several times, but eventually I ran out of mana, I'd used up all my healing options, and he got me. Still, I have his name and I'll be watching for him when we hit level 80.
After that we both held off from resurrecting until our PvP went off, then at least we were able to explore the rest of Mulgore without further problems. With that, our exploration of Kalimdor was complete.
The Howling Fjord
With Kalimdor completed we have only Northrend to complete, and we already had five of the ten regions completed - Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul'Drak and Crystalsong Forest. Of the rest we've explored almost nothing, except that we'd covered all but a handful of the subregions of Howling Fjord. Our plan was obvious - go to the Fjord and finish those last handful. Along the way we had a quest to finish off ("Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir", or something like that).
It went pretty easily, as all the areas we needed to cover were close together in a strip down the eastern coast. The Armor of the Kvaldir we found on a ship anchored next to a small island a little way off the coast, and once we'd got it we were able to save even more time because there was a small plane we could use to fly to Scalawag Point, just south of the Ancient Lift. All we had to do then was let the lift take us right to the person we needed to turn in the quest. He gave us another quest, to take the armour and three other items that we'd picked up on related quests to a graveyard and place the items on the correct graves. We've yet to complete that one but we'll get to it soon, I'm sure.
Sholazar Basin
Yesterday we started off in Valiance Keep, or rather on the ice floes off the coast there, fishing. I was mostly interested in Musselback Sculpins, since the grilled sculpins are great for boosting stats. I was able to get a whole stack of twenty, and shortly after that Kate finished getting the Suckerfish she wanted and we moved on.
Next stop was Fizzcrank Airstrip on the way to the area to the northwest, where there are a bunch of fire, earth and air elementals. We spent quite a time there knocking the elementals down for points and the various crystallized elements, then we moved north and got our first sight of Sholazar Basin.
Sholazar is a very pretty area, in some ways similar to Un'goro Crater only smaller, more fertile and very crowded with large snakes, crocolisks and big cats. There's also ore there worth mining, and a lot of herbs, it seems. Most important, there's a flight point pretty much in the middle - which is great because we mapped perhaps half the area and we need to go back to finish up, and the flight point will make that very easy.
Thunder Bluff wasn't half the problem that Silvermoon and Orgrimmar had been - we were able to add it to our maps just by getting close enough, and we didn't have to try to get inside.
Unfortunately it still put us into PvP mode for 5 minutes and during that time, while looking for a secluded spot to wait for it to wear off, we ran into a level 80 Hordie. He followed us while we ran around some, then he went PvP and attacked Kate. He may have had a bit of a shock when a mere level 74 knocked his health down to 10%, but unfortunately for me he was somehow able to heal himself, at least three times. I kept the bugger fighting for what must have been a couple of minutes and I know I had him on his knees several times, but eventually I ran out of mana, I'd used up all my healing options, and he got me. Still, I have his name and I'll be watching for him when we hit level 80.
After that we both held off from resurrecting until our PvP went off, then at least we were able to explore the rest of Mulgore without further problems. With that, our exploration of Kalimdor was complete.
The Howling Fjord
With Kalimdor completed we have only Northrend to complete, and we already had five of the ten regions completed - Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul'Drak and Crystalsong Forest. Of the rest we've explored almost nothing, except that we'd covered all but a handful of the subregions of Howling Fjord. Our plan was obvious - go to the Fjord and finish those last handful. Along the way we had a quest to finish off ("Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir", or something like that).
It went pretty easily, as all the areas we needed to cover were close together in a strip down the eastern coast. The Armor of the Kvaldir we found on a ship anchored next to a small island a little way off the coast, and once we'd got it we were able to save even more time because there was a small plane we could use to fly to Scalawag Point, just south of the Ancient Lift. All we had to do then was let the lift take us right to the person we needed to turn in the quest. He gave us another quest, to take the armour and three other items that we'd picked up on related quests to a graveyard and place the items on the correct graves. We've yet to complete that one but we'll get to it soon, I'm sure.
Sholazar Basin
Yesterday we started off in Valiance Keep, or rather on the ice floes off the coast there, fishing. I was mostly interested in Musselback Sculpins, since the grilled sculpins are great for boosting stats. I was able to get a whole stack of twenty, and shortly after that Kate finished getting the Suckerfish she wanted and we moved on.
Next stop was Fizzcrank Airstrip on the way to the area to the northwest, where there are a bunch of fire, earth and air elementals. We spent quite a time there knocking the elementals down for points and the various crystallized elements, then we moved north and got our first sight of Sholazar Basin.
Sholazar is a very pretty area, in some ways similar to Un'goro Crater only smaller, more fertile and very crowded with large snakes, crocolisks and big cats. There's also ore there worth mining, and a lot of herbs, it seems. Most important, there's a flight point pretty much in the middle - which is great because we mapped perhaps half the area and we need to go back to finish up, and the flight point will make that very easy.
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