A Day of Firsts

Today I started questing through Darkshore for the first time on a Warlock for the first time. I'm working on getting the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement, and since I have to do all of the zones, I figured I should start with the former kin of my void elf.





I started by being notified that survivors had washed up along the shore. These must've been survivors from events from the Cataclysm, and my guess is that there are quests in Teldrasil that connect what's going on.

One of the survivors was concerned about his pet Grimclaw, and I'm later sent to find Grimclaw to reunite the two. Unfortunately shortly after being reunited, the night elf, Volcor, dies from the toxins inflicted by the water elementals. A really sad end, but at least Grimclaw made it back to him before he died.

There was also a quest to learn about the wild like through the Buzzboxes throughout the woods. I had never quested in Darkshore before, but I had seen guides that mention the Buzzbox quests. The investigation led to a cave with a satyr who was infecting the wildlife in the area to disrupt the forest with his foul magics. While in the cave, I rescued some of the caged wildlife, and stumbled upon a forsaken apothecary seeking to use the satyr's magic for his on nefarious purposes. There is some follow up to that story I still need to do.

One of the night elfs who escaped the infection sent me to find his wife who was not so lucky at the Ruins of Bashal'Aran. He wanted me to release her spirit, and while there I released some other haunting spirits. Nearby I found Grimclaw and a keeper who wanted me to gather some items from the nearby wildlife to help him heal Grimclaw. I plucked some whiskers off of some sleeping nightstalkers, tuffed some fur from feasting bears, and snagged some hair from the the nearby does while the stags weren't looking. After completing this ritual I was able to commune with the animal spirits and game one of their blessings. I chose to gain the nightstalker cat's blessing, which grants me increased casting speed within Darkshore, so that's pretty nice.

I'm enjoying the zone very much, and I'm looking forward to continuing to learn more about the night elven story. Also, the kittens I'm fostering make an appearance while I'm questing, so that's a bonus.

Questing in Stranglethorn, Saving Booty Bay

This morning I completed the Stranglethorn Vale quests, which culminated in the defense of Booty Bay against a combined assault from the Bloodsail and Brashtide Pirates. While doing the normal killing of Bloodsails just off the southern coast of the Cape, you find that they are planning an attack. The Bloodsails on their own aren't a very formidable foe, so what is up their sleeves?

You're tasked with infiltrating their ranks by faking the death of Fleetmaster Seahorn, by killing a local cow and tossing her head around. That was a pretty funny part of the quest chain, since human pirates think all cows look alike.

Once you're in their ranks you work your way up to captain one of the three main ships in their fleet. As the captain you're able to thin out the ranks by claiming mutiny, and you sabotage their cannons, gun powder, and grog. Getting back to Booty Bay, you find the full force of the Worgen and Bloodsail pirates attacking, and after some killing and bombing you help save the day.

It's a fun quest chain, and most of the gameplay is below. The stream disconnected about half way through, but you can see the finale, which was fun times swinging from boat to boat and dropping bombs from above.

Now that I've finished with Stranglethorn, I'm moving on to the Wetlands. I'm already level 58, which means the combined quests in both Northern and Southern Stranglethorn gained me over 10 levels. I'll probably reach beyond 60 before finishing the Wetlands, and once I do that, I'll work on Kalimdor on either my Void Elf Warlock, my Kul Tiran Druid, or my Pandaren Monk. I'm leaning warlock at the moment. I haven't really played a lock for any considerable amount of time ever, so it should be fun to give the class a try.

Starting to Stream in Preparation for Classic WoW

I am beyond excited for the release of classic wow, and I want to try my hand at streaming as I play. Facebook seems like the easiest platform as it's already integrated into the Battle.net client.

So I'm going to stream as I try to complete the Loremaster achievement for Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. I never did all of the quests during Vanilla wow, and I've only accidentally done the quests since the Cataclysm. So my goal is to complete the achievement before I venture back in time and begin questing and leveling in Classic WoW. I'm got the Cape of Stranglethorn and Wetlands left on Eastern Kingdoms, and Kalimdor is completely undone.

I'll post all of the streams to Sevo's WoW Time on Facebook , and I'll try to keep up with this blog as it goes.

This first video is just a test of me trying to see how the tool works trying to take down some orcs. It ends with an epic fail on disengage in an orc cave, and in hindsight Feign Death would have been helpful.





I'm looking forward to playing with ya'll