Been a long time between posts. I have a different idea for this blog, but I do want to keep a record of levelling and exploring in World of Warcraft. Hopefully, there will be a post in the next day or so detailing what I plan to do.
Exploring Azeroth
Friday, 6 March 2015
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
The Journey Begins...Ammen Vale
After watching the opening cinematic, Khojna stands in the wreckage of a space ship.
Khojna's first view of Azeroth |
The quests that confront you in Ammen Vale gave a strong sense of duty with regard to the Draenei. The first priority was powering the healing crystals, which required (reluctant) harvesting of moth blood samples. There was a recognition that the crash landing had produced a negative effect on the wildlife. Much of the initial quests focussed on attempting to write these wrongs. One of the first of these was to try and neutralise the effect a crystal was having in polluting Silverline Lake.
Silent Spring in Azeroth? |
The Draenei come across as a reasonable people, except when dealign with blood elves. A small scouting group, led by Surveyor Candress, is found, and the Draenei are not happy.
In exploring the vale, I stumbled upon a few interesting objects.
Love the animation on the Emitter Part quest item! |
Owlkin Scarecrows unsettle me... |
The blue bottle and floating candelabra were two favourites from the Blood Elf camp |
Found behind the elemental, is a perpetual battle between elementals, complete with rifts.
I was surprised when the Guardian waved back!
Before I finish up, I thought it might be interesting to take a picture of Khojna at the end of each zone. Our explorer is now level 5!
See you next time!
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
A Star is Born!
In deciding upon the character who will be the Azerothian Explorer, many questions had to be answered.
In order to answer these questions properly, some background is required.
In Vanilla, I played Horde initially, then due to a lack of people playing in my time zone, swapped to Alliance. With the advent of Oceanic Servers, I returned to Horde.
In terms of classes, I have max level Hunter, Shaman, Death Knight, Paladin, and Mage. I also have a level 85 Warlock. I have recently swapped mains from Mage to Paladin (Protection with Retribution Offspec) and couldn’t be happier.
So how does this impact our future star?
Well, as you can see, I have only ever seen Alliance questing in Vanilla, so I kinda feel like I pay this money, and don’t get to see everything. So I have decided Alliance is the way to go.
Secondly, I want to play a class that will be strong solo-ing a range of content, including group quests, and have fast queues for Dungeons. A paladin seems to fit that. Also, I do worry that when I play different classes, I don’t play my main as well, so that makes it an easier decision too.
Now since we know we are going Alliance Paladin, what race? I personally find Humans boring, so that rules them out. I do love dwarves, but not necessarily as Paladins. I have always liked Draenei, so I have decided on that race. And I have chosen a Male. (My current main is a Blood Elf Female, so its meant to be a bit of an opposite to her).
Now in terms of appearance, I had a look at the Burning Crusade Cinematic and have tried to make a Paladin that resembles the one seen there. What do you think?
Burning Crusade Cinematic Paladin |
What the Azeroth Explorer may eventually look like |
What the Azeroth Explorer currently looks like |
Next time, a quick talk about professions, and how Khojna plans to tackle his new world. Take Care!
Introduction
Hi Everyone.
This blog is going to be the record of at least one character levelling through the World of Warcraft.
Now, that has been done many times before, so how is this going to be different?
I am going to attempt to follow the guidelines listed below.
- All zones will be explored.
- All levelling quests will be completed.
- All text quest (and other books and quest items etc) will be read.
- Experience will be stopped so as to complete quests at approriate level. (This will start with a halt at level 20 and continue every 5 levels after this).
- All Dungeons will be completed when quests are available.
- No heirlooms permitted
- Only buying enhancements, not items from the Auction House.
I would imagine that I will try and post on a weekly basis, although there may be more than that early on.
This is a learning experience for me, and I hope you enjoy it as it progresses.
The next post will be discussing Character, Faction, Gender, Server and Name choices (maybe more).
See You Next Time
Azeroth Explorer.
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