The Shattering: Bring It.
By maryvarn on November 23rd, 2010Posted In: NPC Blog,Video Games,World of Warcraft
A few weeks ago, I completed Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms, the achievement that required Alliance players to complete 700 quests throughout the Eastern Kingdoms continent of Azeroth. (I believe the count is different for the Horde.) On Sunday I finished off the Kalimdor version of the achievement. It was a chore that at times I regretted getting myself into, but in the end it was a nice way to see the World of Warcraft before it is forever fractured.
Before today.
Grinding through Loremaster gave me an appreciation for the old world I didn’t previously have. And it gave me some insight into quests designed for players who took a much longer time to level, and for whom the end game was approaching at level 55.
But it also made me realize that I’m ready for a change. A big one. Can you imagine what an expansion would be like if Deathwing DIDN’T cause major upheaval throughout the old world? If we still had to run the long road from Auberdine to Ashenvale to progress our level 17 night elf? To grind another lowly alt through the gloomy wasteland of Desolace? On LAND mounts?? No thanks.
The last thing Fenwick did in the old world was finally defend Stormwind from the elemental attacks she kept missing all week. The first thing she’ll do in the new world is run out of the front gates and to Westfall to witness the changes there, and then on to Dun Morogh to see what’s happening with her gnomish brothers and sisters. And then the rest of the world of course.
What’s the last thing you did in the old world? What’s the first thing you’ll do in the new one?
I’m going to make a gnome priestess and a Forsaken huntress and then fret over which one to play first.
Go explore the world a bit and marvel at the changes.
explore. EVERYTHING. then be super motivated to level some alts (hopefully)!
In europe, we still have tonight
I think I’m going to take my gnome mage and fill a hard drive with nice screenshots of all I’ve lived through during those long years.
And tomorow, I’ll be so happy to make 50g off people wanting a TP from Dalaran MUHAHAHAHA
I logged my mage out in Thousand Needles hoping to drown but does not look like he will be in luck. Tonight I am going to Explore. Go see all the changes.
The last thing I did was run the various cata bosses on my 80s and then positioned them all in strategic locations – Booty Bay, Tanaris, Stormwind, Ironforge, and Darnassus. The goal is to see what the cities look like and then to run the two toons from the bottom of each continent to the top.
I parked all my toons in different areas to wake up to the new world:
- Mirage raceway in the shimmering flats
- Kodo Graveyard in Desolace
- Stonewrought Dam in Loch Modan
- Auberdine in Darkshore
- Light’s Hope Chapel in EPL
- Southshore in Hillsbrad
- Stormwind and Ironforge
It was a tedious task as not all my toons had the flight points, but i’m not regretting it!
Happy new world!
I’m gonna try to predict where Deathwing’s flyovers will be so I can get the achievement for dying to his fiery wrath.
I got within 27 quests for Loremaster of Eastern Kindoms, Horde side. But I was too tired to finish off Western Plaguelands last night. I’m a little bit disappointed, but I guess I’ll see just how many quests I get set back after the patching.
Then I moved all my toons from Dalaran and mourned the loss of convenience, considering my main has had his hearth there since level 29 thanks to a friendly summon. I’ll miss that magical city as my hub.
Today? I’m going to roll a Tauren paladin, something I did on the beta server and am excited to do live.
I’ve quit the game, but I think I’d have rolled the nelf mage and the gnome priest if I was still playing.
Create my troll druidess! Voodooraven will be born!
Oh yeah. I may have to ditch my under-lvl-10 gnome mage and dwarf priest and make a gnome priest.
And conquer new achievements!
Currently grinding Wintersaber trainers Q_Q
I’m in Europe so the shattering wont happen before tomorrow, 8 hours or so.
9655/21000, started yesterday.
last thing was turn in quests in Southshore and defeat the flowers in Mara. First thing, show my level 5 orc hunter what her world has turned into.
I logged my Dwarf hunter main in Dalaran, stupid me. The last thing I did in the old world was defend the Ironforge king from a full horde raid. They bunched up inside the main chamber and we shot them all down one by one from the door. I do believe they failed.
My Paladin alt left the old world behind on her way to Outland last week, and my Death Knight is still leveling in Northrend. The only ones left are my little orc spy alt and my 32 mage. I’m sure they’re quite frightened right now.
Can’t wait to get burned by Deathwing!
Oh, and the first will likely be shooting a rogue with a turkey cannon. Yeah, that sounds about right.
I’ll probably log my druid and fly over the world. Starting with Auberdine…
The last thing Darah did was getting her Pilgrim title, setting her HS in Stormwind and wishing good luck to some guildies going to raid HC ICC.
The first thing she will do is Argent Tournament dailies (have all of the mounts/pets already, I do it for the money! ;p)… then hearthing to SW, getting a look of the new city, congratulating on Varian for his grew-up son and finally, going buy those faction pieces of cloth to have that 25 tabards achievement!
…And then I’ll go roll my Tauren Pally, to level her until Cata hits. XD
Last thing: Try to (and succeed to) get a nice pendant for my Night Elf Priest from the flame ambassador guy during the elemental invasion.
First thing? Probably log my 57 Draenai Pally. I’ve been wanting to work on her herb skill, so maybe I’ll do that while exploring all the changes. I may still do stuff in Outland, though, especially if the other places are too crowded.
Seems they’ve extended the maintenance. I wonder if we’ll have a repeat of the pre-Wrath update, where they’ll do a bunch of extensions and then when the realms are finally up, there will be so many people seeing the new stuff that instant spells will take 8 secs to cast? I guess only time will tell.
And are they really releasing the new race/class combos right away? I thought they were saving that for the expansion. o_O I suppose it makes sense, though.
The last things I did were move my seven 80s to old world cities. My death knight went to Stormwind to weather the storm in the Park. My paladin (my only Horde toon) went to Thunder Bluff to pay her respects to Cairne Bloodhoof. The other five went to Ironforge, with my shaman kneeling before Magni Bronzebeard as the server shut down.
I’m going to get on my shaman, redo my talents, then run around getting all the new flight points all over the old world. Then it’ll be onto my 4 alts that I’m working on the Pilgrim achievement on.
I’m not making any of the new classes, because I’m saving my last two character slots on my main server to make a Goblin hunter and a Worgen mage.
Finally found and fought one of the Dragons of Nightmare last night, before they went away. Ysondre squashed me flat as expected, but still it was so satisfying to get the chance to try. (This is the first time I’ve encountered one of them since before level 55.)
Spam trade.
I helped fight the elemental invasion in Orgrimmar.
last thing i did was log out in auberdine, looking at the lighthouse. i loved darkshore–it was tough seeing it get wrecked in the trailer
first thing i did (and am doing now) is riding around, picking up all the new flight points. this way i can see lots of the changes!
I parked most of my characters in the void underneath Stormwind. Hopefully they’ll wake up in amusing places when I reactivate my account.
Three Words – Night Elf Mage … I have waited 6 years for this, this was why I bought World of Warcraft… I wanted to play a Night Elf Mage, and I was disappoint when I found out 6 years ago I couldn’t. Sure, I like the other characters I’ve played over the years, but after the Shattering the 1st thing I did was roll up a Night Elf Mage!
Hahaha, the last things I did were somewhat simliar to yours Mary. I just finished Lore Master in Kalimdor a couple of weeks ago and then finished the Elemental invasion in Thunder Bluff. First thing I did was head to Orgimmar to see the new city… it was really akward at first and I got lost several times (it felt like my first time in Darnassus) and then I explored a couple of regions in Kalimdor. Though, tbh, I was hoping to see more of and event than just a bunch of changes to the maps.
I got all my toons out of Dalaran into Ironforge the night before the Shattering.
Then I started picking up all the new flight points (and admiring the scenery) when the server came back up.
Lasting: Visit Cairne
Frist thing: try to find his grave or any proof. still looking
Yeah, I just read the shattering and I was hoping to see something about Cairne in game, but nithing I could find in TB. BTW, Taurens don’t bury their dead, they cremate them in a very stoic and honorary ceremony. I strongly dislike Garrosh.
Last thing: run through every alt I had touched in the last 3 months, finishing off any Cataclysm event quests. I loathe abandoning quests uncompleted.
First thing: run around stormwind surveying the damage.
Second thing: See if Archaeology was trainable yet.
The last thing I did was run around all my favorite places with Fraps and take clips. I plan on making a montage later. First thing I did after the Shattering was port my fiance out of Dalaran… Twice.
I said goodbye to the old world. In tears. I’m a very old school players and those places meant stuff to me.
Then I went and made a new toon to explore new stuff with while levelling.
Last thing I did was go to my favorite place in all of Azeroth, the top of Ironforge (Yes i know I am not *allowed* to go there) to take some pictures. I took time to admire the time and effort the programmers put into the game to make it as beautiful as it is. I took screenshots of the little dwarf settlement that you fly over each time you are flying into IF and out of IF. Made a screenshot of the crashed plane on the side of the mountain. Danced on the summit, waved goodbye to the ice trolls as they were fighting the dwarves at the airport…
Only to find all those places still remain after the shattering.
Me and one of my friends let the server tick down standing on the dock at Auberdine, our final salute to one of our favourite zones. After taking nearly all my alliance characters through Darkshore (and there’s been quite a few over the years) the new quests there were some of the most heartbreaking I’ve ever experienced, amazingly written, but very hard to come to terms with if you knew the npcs. I’ve had Loremaster for nearly two years now, but I’m working my way through all the zones again for fun (and hysterical laughter in the case of Redridge!).