No, no, I knew I was right! Check out this quest chain:
Mmm... Amberseeds! - Quest - World of Warcraft (be sure to read all three parts).
Ew. 
I’m enough of an RPer that if that were a Horde quest, my blood elf mage would refuse to do it. Even if it meant losing Loremaster. Fortunately, I don’t have to make that choice.
And don’t forget the delightful outhouse quest at Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills!
There are outhouses behind the inn at Honor Hold, along with an impatient NPC waiting outside of one and hollering all sorts of fun stuff at the person inside who’s taking way too long: “You’re holding up important military business!” “Do you need me to call you a priest?” etc. 
I figure SW, at least, has indoor plumbing. What do you think the canals are really there for?
Had an amazing run of luck encountering and killing rare spawns on my RP mage yesterday. Leprithus, Brack, Large Loch Crocolisk, and Shandra the Spinner. Also stayed up late and got her to level 20. Geez I was getting tired of running everywhere! I’m also leveling this mage as Arcane. We’ll see how that goes. I didn’t enjoy my attempt at leveling a Frost mage a while back (though that may have been more the result of it being an undead mage and there were too many quests that involved descending into small crypts where she had no line-of-sight on anything and basically had to get into melee range to be able to cast anything, so maybe the spec didn’t really matter in that case), but I’ve really enjoyed my Fire mage. We’ll have to wait and see if Arcane is as much fun.
One thing I notice when starting a new caster is the different quest/mob philosophy that was present in “vanilla” they sort of moved away from in the expansions: Blizzard must have had it in their heads in the beginning that everybody was going to be running around teamed up with other players. So they didn’t see the potential problems inherent in mobs almost always being clustered up in groups of 3-4-5. For example, gnolls in their little “camps”. Those are absolute murder for solo casters at low levels, because you just don’t have enough CC or AoE to deal with groups of mobs. So I always end up skulking around the outskirts of these camps, looking for solo patrols to pick off.
Also a PITA for a Warrior. I don’t remember if you get ranged weapon skills right to start off with, but in any case I didn’t have any, so the ONLY way I could deal with those gnoll poachers in the Tauren starting area was to run up and hit them. Which generally meant pulling 2 or 3 or more, which meant a lot of deaths on a level 5 quest.
That reminds me, I really need to start using Cannibalize again. Is that still a racial ability? It’s fairly useless but fun. NOM NOM NOM
Yeah, that’s the one at Amberpine Lodge. And the way it ends, I’m pretty darned sure that the whole thing is meant to be a practical joke that the NPC “veterans” play on “noobs” that arrive. Basically, it’s like they discovered that a local plant has a powerful laxative effect, and they thought to themselves, “Hmm, what kind of fun can we have with this?” Kind of like sending the new guy at the airfield to fetch a bucket of propwash.
Birdie birdie in the sky
Dropped some whitewash in my eye
Boy I’m glad that cows don’t fly
Yeah, that’s right. I remember my orc warrior’s endless frustration dealing with quilboars in the Barrens.
It’s like at first they designed the whole world poop-less, and same as they eventually realized that “platemail pasties” didn’t work well with the ladies, they also realized that poop humor works well with almost everybody.
Yup. I just did it earlier this week. I think it’s given at Amberpine Lodge…
I know, it’s like someone learned about kopi luwak coffee (digested by civets, mm) and decided they had to make a quest line around that.
As for that Alliance quest line in Grizzly Hills - :eek:
Can’t get there from work–can you copy-paste the text under spoiler, maybe? Sounds like people are saying it was at Amberpine in Grizzly Hills; I only ended up going back there for Loremaster, and I still don’t remember what I all did or didn’t do. I think there were some at Amberpine I never bothered with.
There were always enough solo packs that it didn’t present a huge problem, from what I recall. And half the fun was in figuring out if you could take a pack of more than two (and how you’d do it). (Of course, the other half was sometimes intense frustration. :p)
IIRC, anything you don’t start with, you can train right away (Guns, Bows, Crossbows, and Thrown). So, my reaction would be, “tough shit, go train the skill you need next time.” (Although I’d agree that it’s pretty stupid to assume that ubernoobs are going to *know *that they can go train those other skills.)
Yup. I never use it, though, since my 80 Undead is a Mage and it doesn’t restore Mana.
They did? My DK Scribe alt is wearing a bunch of Outland Plate gear that makes her look like a stripper (look up Amritam on Eldre’Thalas), and my very geared 80 Warrior is wearing a Plate belly shirt (can’t remember if it’s my Fury chest or my Prot one… or both).
Same reason I never use it on my Priest, when I can drink and then heal myself without eating. But still I imagine it would be fun in PvP to add insult to injury.
Same with my lvl 70 paladin. I finally went and got a tabard just because I was tired of a plate chestpiece that was little more than a few chains draped across my chest.
That’s always been my thought, too. 
I always kick myself for forgetting 'til it’s too late.
I have so many damned tabards these days that I always make a point of wearing one (plus, I got into the habit back when ToGC was progression content, because of the tabard port there), which is part of the reason why I don’t remember which chest piece it is that leaves my Warrior’s tummy hanging out.
Speaking of tabards, following Shin Kell’s lead a few weeks ago I went ahead and did the level 60 paladin questline. It used to be for the Charger mount, but nowadays you just get the tabard. That’s probably the coolest tabard I’ve seen in game; it’ll be sad when I start doing WotLK champion runs and have to wear something else for faction rep.
“Mmm… Amberseeds!”
[spoiler]Your stomach growls as the pungent smell of hearty nuts draws your attention to the the bucket of seeds.
Some thoughtful soul has obviously left these complimentary morsels here to rejuvenate weary visitors. Grateful, you take the remaining few and devour them.
The seeds do not disappoint. Finding yourself hungry for more, you set out to discover their origins… [/spoiler]
You talk to a quest-giver for the followup, “Just Passing Through”:
[spoiler]We must act quickly, <race>! We can’t risk letting those precious seeds become fully digested. They need to come out, NOW.
Forage up some blackroot from the riverbank just west of here and I’ll make you a purgative that should get things moving.
Hurry now! And remember, you brought this upon yourself… [/spoiler]
And then there’s the final step, “Doing Your Duty”:
[spoiler]Anderhol in Amberpine Lodge wants you to take the Anderhol’s Slider Cider and use the nearby outhouse to retrieve the Partially Processed Amberseeds.
Alright, <race>. Here’s the juice.
It works immediately, so don’t use it until you’re safely inside the outhouse.
Now go get me those seeds![/spoiler]
It’s nice for undead warlocks; Life Tap down to fill up your mana, then Cannibalize to get the health back.
Oh, that chain. Apparently I just didn’t read it closely enough (or pay attention to “Duty” puns), but I assumed you were going to throw them up, not poop them out. If you’d just eaten them, they’d still be in your stomach, anyway, so the other way makes no sense.
The Castle Breaker’s Battleplate, the iLvl 264 off-tier chest, leaves my female paladin’s midriff bare, but the boxing champion’s belt she also wears pretty much conceals what the chest piece doesn’t. The T10 pally chest appears to leave the midriff bare as well.
What, didn’t you enter the outhouse and finish the quest line? It leaves no doubt as to what happens
Actually, you don’t even need the quest. Just visit that outhouse at any time and right-click. Loads of fun!
Honestly, I don’t remember one way or the other. But you can’t tell me the *obvious *reaction to “we need to get back those nuts you *just *ate” wouldn’t be an emetic rather than a laxative.
You’re overthinking it. It’s a sophomoric bathroom humor bit. Frankly, I could have done without it, but I’m sure legions of teenaged boys found it highly amusing.
Hell, I was 43 the first time, and thought it was hilarious 
But if you look at it the way I did — “veterans” pulling a fast one on new arrivals, i.e. a practical joke — then filling you up with laxatives is the “obvious” thing to do. 
Woo, I love rested XP - my nelf hunter on my RP server gained 3 levels last night.
I dinged 77 on my main yesterday, bought my cold weather flying, did Wintergrasp, did one successful random dungeon…then logged in my DK in BDL for a bit. Got him to 59 puttering around HP.