The last few weeks, I’ve been getting back into World of Warcraft. It turns out the Burning Crusade expansion really did a lot to re-kindle my enjoyment of the game. While it didn’t address many issues I had with the game’s first incarnation, it did solve a couple.
1. Money isn’t extremely rare anymore. The enemies and quest rewards in Outland award exponentially more gold. This means that its actually feasable for casual players (like myself, who, on a GOOD day, can get in about two hours) to do certain things, such as saving up for that epic mount.
2. The new areas offer dozens of new quests that are soloable, instead of one or two. This means that rather than riding all over the world trying to do a small amount of work, there are many things to do in a smaller area, meaning that time is spent actually playing the game, rather than travelling.
Anyhow, Zai and I have been questing in Outland, getting cool new loot, and gaining a couple of levels. We decided it was finally time to get our epic mounts. This is where Blizzard gets its revenge for just giving Warlocks and Paladins their first mounts.
I walk to my trainer, and tell him I want my epic mount. After he laughs at me, he tells me to see an armorsmith in the city, and a priest in another. I visit these two people, both of which want 150 of my hard-earned gold. That’s not enough for the armorsmith, oh no. He wants to make my horse’s armor from some of the rarest stuff in the game, including Holy Water from the undead-infested city of Stratholme.
I ask him, “There’s a church in this city. In fact, its the head church, home of the arch-bishop, likely one of the holiest places in the world.”
“Aye,” he answers.
“Surely I can get some holy water there?”
“Nope.”
“No, really, I’m good friends with them over there, they bless things all the time. I’ll just walk over there, and get you all the holy water you need.”
“Nope, Stratholme Holy Water.”
“What’s so special about it?”
“Its laced with LSD.”
“Ahhhh.”
Ahem.
Anyhow, last night I tagged along with two level 70 paladins (who slaughtered their way through that place), who were going to Stratholme to farm things, anyway. We ended up doing a full dead run (only took about 40 minutes!) and got my holy water.
It smells funny.
Now tonight I’ll see what other insane things I need to do for this new horse.
Zel-kun out.
Zai | 28-Mar-07 at 2:40 pm | Permalink
Yeah, when I finally travelled out to get my Xorothian stardust that I needed for my epic mount, it wasn’t till I got there that I found out it was 150 gold to purchase it (after a mini side-quest there before I could ask the vendor for it) I had about 60 gold on me. I had to travel back to a city with a mail box, log out, have my Mage mail me the extra gold, logged my warlock back in, then traveled back to Jadenar in Felwood. Yup. Fun.
Zel-kun | 28-Mar-07 at 2:47 pm | Permalink
Now time for a look at the Blizzard Dictionary.
Epic (adj.) - 1. Extremely rare 2. Time-consuming 3. Annoying to achieve
Sabrejack | 01-Apr-07 at 4:24 am | Permalink
GRATS!
And I don’t mean your epic mount (which I know we weren’t able to get done the other night.)