Level 76
We Must Fly
For the last couple of weeks we've been spending most of our time in Northrend, in part for exploration, but also to gather materials for sale. It took us an age to get from level 74 up to 75 because we spent more time gathering and getting our other skill points up (we're both Grand Masters at all the skills we have, and I'm not too far of maxing out fishing and cooking), but then we powered through and hit 76 fairly quickly, thanks mostly to a series of quests in the area around the Westfall Brigade Encampment in the Grizzly Hills.
Grizzly can be a rough area, even at these high levels. There are elite giants wandering from south to north along the coastal strip, and they move faster than they look – you might see one some way off and think you have the time to knock down a wolf or two, then the next thing you know the bugger's on top of you. Mostly a zero survivability situation, although at one point I did manage to shake one off me by running for it and jumping into the sea.
Still, there are a lot of quests in the area including a handful that take you into the ruins on the coast east of the encampment; all good for XP, and you get to meet Harrison Jones (looks like Indy, talks like Indy, but doesn't have a whip). Right now we're pushing hard for level 77 with one major goal in mind – to get our cold weather flying training so that we can fly. Among other things we both want to get our Explorer achievement and title and there are places we just can't go until we can fly, which we realized when trying to explore an area on the east side of Sholazar Basin; it's way up the side of the crater and it turns out you just can't get there on foot. I don't remember if I mentioned this in an earlier post, but we completed our explorations of the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Outland and we've covered all but four or five of the Northrend regions, so we really don't have much more to do for that.
Of course, being able to explore these high reaches isn't the only advantage – I'm expecting that just as in Outland, being able to fly gives a better chance of staying out of harm's way. The next big step after that will be to put together enough cash to buy an epic flying mount, but at five thousand gold it'll be a while before we get to that point. (At least, I think it's five thou... I may be wrong.)
For the last couple of weeks we've been spending most of our time in Northrend, in part for exploration, but also to gather materials for sale. It took us an age to get from level 74 up to 75 because we spent more time gathering and getting our other skill points up (we're both Grand Masters at all the skills we have, and I'm not too far of maxing out fishing and cooking), but then we powered through and hit 76 fairly quickly, thanks mostly to a series of quests in the area around the Westfall Brigade Encampment in the Grizzly Hills.
Grizzly can be a rough area, even at these high levels. There are elite giants wandering from south to north along the coastal strip, and they move faster than they look – you might see one some way off and think you have the time to knock down a wolf or two, then the next thing you know the bugger's on top of you. Mostly a zero survivability situation, although at one point I did manage to shake one off me by running for it and jumping into the sea.
Still, there are a lot of quests in the area including a handful that take you into the ruins on the coast east of the encampment; all good for XP, and you get to meet Harrison Jones (looks like Indy, talks like Indy, but doesn't have a whip). Right now we're pushing hard for level 77 with one major goal in mind – to get our cold weather flying training so that we can fly. Among other things we both want to get our Explorer achievement and title and there are places we just can't go until we can fly, which we realized when trying to explore an area on the east side of Sholazar Basin; it's way up the side of the crater and it turns out you just can't get there on foot. I don't remember if I mentioned this in an earlier post, but we completed our explorations of the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Outland and we've covered all but four or five of the Northrend regions, so we really don't have much more to do for that.
Of course, being able to explore these high reaches isn't the only advantage – I'm expecting that just as in Outland, being able to fly gives a better chance of staying out of harm's way. The next big step after that will be to put together enough cash to buy an epic flying mount, but at five thousand gold it'll be a while before we get to that point. (At least, I think it's five thou... I may be wrong.)
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