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.

Getting to the Gurubashi Arena

I am very excited to have access to the classic beta stress test realm today. After a stressful stress test, I was glad that I spent the evening playing Overwatch last night. The realm was offline for most of the night, and it sounded like a significant number of people had trouble logging in.

Thankfully the realms are still open until tomorrow, which means I can test out my trek to the Gurubashi Arena in the Cape of Stranglethorn Vale. I decided to try it out on a dwarf priest. Since the test realm only has a max level of 5, I wasn't interested in leveling. No, my real goal is to get a bank alt to the Gurubashi Arena to get a chance at the chest that spawns there every three hours. Vendoring the items from the chest can yield a nice chunk of gold, and since that character would primarily be in a major city working the auction house anyway, I might as well put him to good use (at least at the beginning of the server). Even if the character is only level two, if I can get lucky a couple of time when most people are asleep, I think it'll be worth it.

I found that it took just over an hour to make it all the way to the arena. The trek from the dwarf starting zone to Ironforge was no problem. I could have saved some time if I would have caught the Deeprun Tram in time. Running through Elwynn and Westfall was no problem, and my first death didn't come until I was about to leave Westfall. As I was crossing the bridge that leads into Duskwood, a high level shredder ended me life. Then a Venture Co. Drone got me as I was following the river south into Stranglethorn. I managed to die about 16 times, which meant that many corpse runs to make the incremental progress towards the arena.

I didn't see anyone else in the zone, but as the chest event is nearing there are some more level fives in the area. So I anticipate more people having this idea when the game launches in August.

What I am going to try next is the time to get to level 5, to see if it would be worth it to get to level 5 before making the run, so that I'll have a little more armor and health, as well as the ability to level trade skills, since this character will be meant to be my disenchanter.

Also, I tried to stream my numerous deaths, but the streaming capability seems only for retail.

PS. As I typing this I saw a level 5 Tauren also in the arena, so my hopes of getting the chest this morning have decreased mightily. Might get to level 5 to improve my odds this afternoon if I get the chance.

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