What is the right way to get from northern to southern barrens (or vice versa) these days with that lava-filled chasm in the way?
I simply cannot get past the pumpkin stage. >.<
I own PvZ and love it, but this…I dunno. I am not planning things out right or something.
Practice!
I really struggled with that stage at first too. The thing that seemed to get me over the top is really focusing on sunflowers in the beginning… so that by the time lots of zombies are comming you have a lot of sunflowers up. like 7-10.
If you’re at-level to be in the Barrens, I would imagine that if there’s a need to cross the chasm, NPCs will point you in the right direction with leading quests. If you’re higher level, you should already have flight points in Thousand Needles or Dustwallow Marsh. And when Cataclysm lands, you’ll be able to just fly over it.
The closest flight point my level 32 nelf priestess had was Astranaar in Ashenvale. I had to start there and then make my way through Stonetalon Mountains into Southern Barrens. She outleveled all the mobs on the way, but it still wasn’t easy - Stonetalon has changed drastically and so it wasn’t a matter of just making a beeline for the road. I actually had to find my way.
Hey, if anybody’s been putting off grinding Timbermaw rep, now’s the time. 5 Deadwood Headdress Feathers now gets you +2200 rep. The old quests there have been reset, so you’ll have to do those over again if you already did them, but they’re quick and easy. There are also 2 new quests added at the Felwood end of the tunnel, 1 from the old questgiver and a cute rescue quest given by a Timbermaw furbolg cub. Anyway, my main is now Exalted with Timbermaw and just needs to go grind some Sporeggar rep for The Diplomat achievement.
My main also bit the bullet and disenchanted her complete T9 tank set and all the other purple tank pieces that went with it that she never actually got around to using (turned out to be a real waste of badges - I could have saved those Triumph badges and gotten them converted to Justice Points eventually, had I known).
Going to gloat over the corpses of innocent Tauren, Alliance scum?
(The way I did it was to fall into the chasm and res on the other side. Oops.)
I’m a little peeved at the changes to Shadowfang Keep. I guess it’s a mirror plot for the Alliance and Horde; the Alliance come in to clean out the Forsaken who have taken over the castle, and the Horde come in to clean out the Worgen who have taken over. But it’s obvious that the Horde version of the castle is just a re-skinning of the Alliance version; the trash (aside from the ghostly servants/lieutenants and so on) are all undead (ghouls, skeleton mages, etc), and the bosses all have powers that would make more sense on an undead (spoiler’d for those who care):
one does a buncha life draining stuff; another summons the ghosts of dead Worgen from the earlier version of the Keep (that one actually makes some thematic sense); the third has the classic Death Knight arms-up-from-the-ground thing; the fourth is an alchemist who throws around poison and ice flasks; the final boss summons a smallish horde of ghouls.
I wonder if that’s how it’s actually supposed to be; if so, it’s annoying. (And not only because my character is a skinner/leatherworker and didn’t get to loot like 50 medium leather from the run).
Okay, is this new? My undead warrior waved /farewell at a passing gnome near Grom’Gol, and the voice emote was “Have a bad day.”
Also, helpful baby raptor! Squeeee!
That’s great. 
I am currently waiting for my 30 Pally’s death sickness to wear off.
Seems he inadvertently decided to take on a Horde flight master all by his lonesome.
I’m hoping that’s a new Horde camp, in the middle of all those otherwise-smooshable Venture Bay gnomes. :dubious: My graphics didn’t help me there, as nothing showed up but the troll until I was dead; THEN all kinds of lovely bat-wings fluttered around to give me the clue that I had wandered just a weeeee bit off the path.
I finally crested 400 Inscription which got me access to the final tier of stat scrolls, boosting me up to 425. So I can now use Books of Glyph Mastery. But even now, at the end of the expansion, they still cost 70-90 gold on the Cairne AH. Wah. :smack:
Well, yeah. Right now glyphs are selling for significant amounts of money due to their now-permanence, so it makes sense that the glyph books are so high. It’ll be made up in no time.
Naw, not unless they’re Grimtotems. I hate those guys. I was just takin’ a seat at the table–even passed a flagged hunter some turkey before I booked it just to prove I was the man. 
As an aside, man, I really want there to be an option to bail out of the factional pvp and join the Earthen Ring or something. As much as I love pvp, I hate the lore that is heating up the ol’ cold war.
Having finished the Silverpine quest chain, I’m going to retract this complaint; Shadowfang actually does make sense, although I am getting a bit tired of Blizzard’s overuse of the “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal” plot. Also, I miss skinning all the worgen.
Ah, I was thinking it was just obnoxious on the Horde side (and lord is the Silverpine quest line obnoxious). At least there’s some extremely heavy foreshadowing that Garrosh isn’t going to stay in charge for long.
yay for sunflower pets! Took me forever to get through the pumpkin phase, I almost gave up.
Thank Ogg that the next level is actually easier.
As continuing evidence that I need help, I hit level 80 with my fifth toon today – a human rogue on Windrunner. I’m trying to decide how much effort I should put into running heroics at this point. I figure that any gear I get at this point will immediately be supplanted by Cataclysm gear.
I’ve also been toying with whether or not I want to start some new toons, just to explore the changes to the various starting zones – but I don’t know that I want to keep track of more characters. Still, it would be something different, and would beat the heck out of running my rogue through the Zul’Drak quests (and the subsequent zones) for the fifth time. Sounds like others have created new toons, are you finding them fun?
Yeah, I’m finding it very difficult to get motivated to run any heroics lately, even on my fresh 80 warrior. Heck, I can’t even be arsed to finish my warrior’s Crusader title at the Argent Tournament. I am trying to get my mage to Revered with Knights of the Ebon Blade, purely so that she can buy the Abyssal Bag pattern now that my main, who had that one, dropped Tailoring.
I’m rolling some fresh toons to see the new lowbie content. I already have Loremaster on my main, and I’m not concerned with getting it on my alts, so I’d rather do the new stuff on appropriately-leveled toons rather than drag an 80 through it all. I deleted the level 26 dwarf hunter on my main server that I hadn’t played in a long time, and replaced him with a brand new dwarf BM hunter who I’ve now gotten to level 17. I’ve also been leveling a tauren prot paladin. I sure picked the right hair color for him (solid brown), because he happens to perfectly match his current set of quest reward gear. I also intend to make an effort to level as much as possible using only quest reward gear.
I’ve noticed that, while the quest rewards are new items designed for Cata, the stuff that drops from mobs is the same old crap. I’m going to assume that will change once the expansion officially goes live. One thing I like about the new quest rewards is the cloaks. They all seem to be the waist-length and longer varieties; I haven’t seen any of those silly little shawl things yet.
ETA: Oh, and I guess dwarves and trolls are officially the most versatile races in the game, each of them able to be every class but one (dwarves can’t be druids, trolls can’t be paladins).
I just hit 80 with my Mage today too, making it my third 80. The Justice Points you earn now will carry over to Cataclysm, so if you have any intention of doing endgame stuff with the character, heroics are still useful.
I told myself I wouldn’t do anything like this ever because it makes me look like a big loser weeaboo, but when I saw the silver foxes in the Ruins of Gilneas I couldn’t resist - I now have a silver fox named Gin. 