Druid of the Moon

For tonight I have decided to mill around a little, first stop Darnassus…

• There is now a flight path in Darnassus!
• Flying to Darkshore…
• Big treetops still don’t look right to me. Blizzard hire a tree artist to fix up Azeroth trees before release please.
• Rutheran Village looks different.
• Darkshore is very different, basically California after the big one.
• Off to Ashenvale…
• Did I mention the need for a tree artist?
• Wow, Felwood is a little different… unexpected.
• Did I mention a tree artist… I take it back, there are too many trees.
• Ok… an Apprentice Hippogryph Master… kooky
• OMG, A level 24 Worgen Druid… some testers are hard core… you go Lanford!
• Astranaar looks…um, interesting.
• Off to Ratchet…
• Flying over the Barrens I see few if any changes.
• Ratchet looks the same… next.
• Is that island new?
• Theramore looks the same…assuming Mudsproket does too.
• Whoa, ok right away I can see Tanaris has some new beach front real estate… The Inn in Gadgetzan just went to 400G a night. I am guessing the old ghost quest is gone as the cemetary might be underwater from what I remember.
• OMG a sea gull
• Flying to Waterworld… I mean Thousand Needles…
• Whole lotta water and a boat… that is a lot of sunk ore.
• Headed to Desolace
• Desolace is greener in some parts.
• FYI, Flying in Ahn’Qiraj in not recommended…. however…
• Mounting your flying mount here will let you spacebar and get some cool animation on a Bloodbathed Frostbrood.

Tonight I hit 82.

I continue to move along questing in Hyjal. Blizzard has done a nice job at an entertaining story line and using phasing. I have yet to step foot in an instance (I hear they take forever.)

I still have not dropped a profession in order to pick up bear form… prob need to do it.

I found a hole in the world… that was fun… it was covered by an invisible wall… less fun, as I was stuck and stomped by a BIG creature.

Note that I am not very detailed in my posts, I don’t want to spoil the expansion for anyone. If I find anything really useful for our class I will chime in. Nothing yet.

More notes…

• No upgrades yet.
• Some side grades maybe if mastery is working as there are a couple quest blues with lots of mastery.
• All my arp gems are now crit gems, my DPS shows it. Might want to consider having agility or strength gems ready for the xpac. 61% crit is just too much and I am hitting like a pansy.
• Talented FFF is a must. I started using it and now hit less like a pansy.
• Consider leveling as boom in cata if you have T10 level casting gear. Ranged and AoE attacks will most likely speed things up… I am considering it.

A parting note before bed…

Jacemoradamus!

Level 81.

Supposedly leveling in Beta is faster… we shall see.

Tonight’s notes…

• Found another FP at the Shrine of Aviana
• Things die faster when you equip your Deathbringer’s Will instead of your Piccolo of the Flaming Fire.
• World Server is down…

Bah…

My hunter is in Dal…. Logging… Speccing BM…. Flying to Amberpine…

No spirit bear… /sigh

Logging Jacemora… World back up!

• Some Harpy wardrobe leaves little to the imagination.

Questing, Questing, and more Questing… time for bed. 81 and 7 bars… that is 81.33%

Logged in as Jacemora, hearthed to Dalaran and ported to Stormwind… WOW. Flying over SW is cool, and now I am not sure I will visit IF nearly as much.

Nice, found the starting point for Level 80′s in Cataclysm. Right in the middle of the trade district.

Whoa, let me highly recommend going to SW, accepting the quest to Hyjal, and taking the port to Moonglade instead of porting yourself to Moonglade and flying yourself to Hyjal. That is all I am going to say… if for no other reason some easy XP.

Ok, I see the FP now at Nordrassil… son’t know how I missed that early excpt that the green ! are no longer on the mini map for some reason… could be me… I now have connecting Flight Paths in Hyjal.

More observations…

• Still getting Wrath dust for DEing
• I hit Honored with Guardians of Hyjal

Dinner Time, more later.

Having fun playing a Worgen starting toon… Druid of course.

I think they have done a really good job with the zone and phasing, I like the “This is where we show a movie of you turning into a worgen” indicating where a cutscene should be I assume.

Unfortunately my regular server was down so I could not start back up in Hyjal with Jacemora… but this is fun too!

New players starting Worgen characters will not be disappointed, the story line and quests are way more fun than the level 1-5 ones I remember from starting other races. Hopefully those are undergoing a revamp as well… lets face it, killing 10 level 1 boars on a farm isn’t overly exciting.