That quest actually wasn’t hard at all–but there was a trick to it, and if you didn’t know the trick, it was a pain in the neck. The trick was that you had to run your camera out so you could see all the injured folks, tilt it a bit so you were essentially looking down on the scene, and stand in a particular spot (it took a bit of experimentation to find the spot) where you could bandage every one of the injured without having to move.
The Horde version was easier than the Alliance, but I’ve done both. I had trouble with the Alliance one (the first one of the two that I did) until somebody explained the trick to me.
Hah, I had no idea there was a first aid trainer in the Orgrimmar-side Northrend town. I just flipped over to Vengeance Landing to pick up my training.
Conversely, there are some mobs in the area where Darkmaster Gandling spawns that turn into ghosts at low health - and the ghosts are immune to physical damage.
I was, of course, referring to living in a confusing building/structure, not a city
Of course, the Stratholme in EPL (and I assume in the CoT) is laid out nothing like the Stratholme in WCIII, at least as far as I remember. It seems the WCIII version was laid out on a grid.
The gnome leader isn’t exactly a “king”, per se, of course. As I understand it (or rather, as somebody explained in Burning Dog Legion chat), gnome society is a meritocracy, so the leader is essentially the “Top Nerd”
Interesting that both of these characters are illustrations of “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
I hit exalted with Booty Bay tonight. Everlook and Gadgetzan are close (~2.5K rep each to exalted). Ratchet is lagging behind by a fair amount, at only about 8.5K / 21K. A good day’s worth of pirate-killing in Tanaris should help with that, though. Zandalar rep is up to revered, and Netherwing rep should hit revered tomorrow. Slowly, but surely, I’m closing in on my goal…
Also got Snarly’s Bucket from today’s Outland fishing daily, and won an auction for a Dun Morogh Cub, bringing me up to 87 pets. I should get the remaining 2 Horde pets from the Argent Tournament in 4 days (I have 2 toons working the dailies concurrently), and I need to find an Elwynn Lamb for sale to complete the Argent Tournament collection (until 3.2 is released, anyway).
I kept getting told that there was a trick, and even what that trick was (although different people had different ‘tricks’), but I could never manage to find the magic spot that would let me bandage without moving around.
I’m not entirely sure there was one. When I did Triage, I still had to take a couple of steps when targeting someone on the opposite side of the room.
What helped me most was hitting Shift+V so the NPCs’ nameplates appeared, making it easier to prioritize, and putting the bandages on the action bar, so I only needed to tap a key and click the target, much faster than clicking on the bandages then on the target. You could probably write a macro to bandage on mouseover, which would be even faster. (Not that it really matters now, but.)
Yay for insomnia! I found a PUG last night to do Blackfathom Depths with my midbie undead priest and picked up the +11 INT +10 SPI staff from the next-to-the-end boss. Then the tank lit up all four braziers at once and we mass-wiped to the 20 or so mobs that streamed in, so I called it a night =).
I went out and caught a Tundra Crawler for my hunter, and named him Leto. I also joined a few guildies on the last quest of a nice long chain that netted me a hideous but very useful gun.
So I’ve been questing in Howling Fjord for a few days now. Is it me, or does the XP come in really slowly? I’ve been hearing about how it’s just so easy to get from 70 to 80 in Northrend, but I’ve been pumping through quest after quest and I’m barely halfway through 71. Heck, it took me 5 quests just to finish the last 5% of level 70. I actually started in Borean Tundra halfway through level 69, and I had to switch to Fjord when I started running into level 72 quests while still only level 70. It baffles me that they expect you to choose either BT or HF at level 68 and still advance smoothly.
Dailies have been helping; every day I log on I make sure to play Break the Blockade and Steel Gate Patrol. But even then that’s not much XP.
Now, granted, most of the quests are easy; a lot of quests involve riding a vehicle or on-rails flying mount with absolutely no risk involved (both the Blockade and Patrol dailies are a lot of fun!). Is it just that the quests are easy, but you need to do a billion of them? Or am I missing something else entirely?
I’m sorry I didn’t respond sooner, I had forgotten my participation in this thread. Thank you for trying to help but my main is a my main is a Rogue, so the ‘of Dominance’ gear wouldn’t be a very good option. I’m just going to have to grind out arena I guess. My partner has been distracted by Fallout 3 for now though…
No, it’s just that pre 70 the xp come in really fast. When wrath was released they increased the leveling speed for 60-70 a lot and 1-60 had been increased in an earlier patch. What you’re seeing now that you’re at 70 is the normal leveling speed.
They don’t, they expect you to choose at level 70, they just let you do it at level 68 if you really want to.
I think I zapped my DK over to Northrend at level 69 + some, and did the first set of quests around Vengeance Landing in Howling Fjords before shifting over to Borean Tundra and levelling my way up pretty steadily from there.
I did manage to find the “sweet spot” where I could reach everyone, and I don’t think it would even be possible to do that quest without the nameplates up. I did the same thing you did with the bandages on the action bar and a key mapped to it. It still took me two tries.
I hear about how quick it is, too, but my priest is putting in about ten hours of play time per level.
Aha, of course. That makes sense, especially for Outland. It seemed really odd that I could hit 70 in Nagrand and not need to bother with Blade’s Edge, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon.
I really can’t wait for patch 3.2. My Paladin, who’s on hold until my partner wants to play again, is currently 67; I think we’re gonna stay in Outland until 72 to get a head start on Northrend, and cheap flying mounts will make that really easy.
You have always been able to hit 70 by the end of Nagrand if you were able to run several instances in the process. I came close with my first character right when BC opened without rested XP and made it with the others with rested. You do need to do all of Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, Terrokar and Nagrand. The thing I have noticed now making my third trip through Northrend is that you can’t do grand quest circuits like you could in Outland. Most of the quests are chains that open sequentially. I can recall heading to any of the early Outland hubs and picking up 8-12 quests and then running a circle to turn them in. With Northrend, you tend to pickup two or four quests and then find a quest starting item while working that set and heading back to town to pick up two or four more quests. The back and forth travel cuts down on efficiency. Additionally, the zones are once again larger and frequently have terrain features or mob density that make quick travel problematic. While Howling Fjord is my preferred starting zone, that fjord really does add a whole lot of travel.
There is a lot of travel, but I’ll give it this: it’s interesting. I think back to old-world zones like Darkshore and Felwood and Stranglethorn that require a lot of travel, and they’re pretty boring on the main route. You don’t see much unless you actually go off the main path. Howling Fjord has really interesting geography and hotspots (like Ember Clutch, yuk yuk), unusual paths, and there’s always something to see while traveling. While Outland was grander than Azeroth and introduced some unusual scenery, it feels more like Azeroth than Northrend does so far. I’ve yet to see anything beyond Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord, but it feels new and different in a way that not even the prettiest and most unusual zones in Outland do. I’m sure I’m just seeing the advance in technology and refinement of ability from the designers, but it works well for me.
