i’m an idiot. i had no idea the boat when to menethril from auberdine.
rywill, you’ve saved my night elf from fading into obscurity…
As Rywill also said, the NE lands past Teldrassil aka Darkshore aren’t that great. Ashenvale doesn’t seem so bad but I’m about 5-6 levels above most of the quests there now after having leveled my NE hunter in Loch Modan and the Wetlands. Darkshore, for every good/tolerable quest there is, there seems to be a really dumb one (like that one the dwarf gives you to recover the crap from the sunken ships).
You know, I would bind at Orgrimmar like the rest of the normal horde folk.
But no where else in the world are there druid trainers, cept in thunder Bluff.
WHY???
Don’t druids get a spell at level 10 to transport them to the private druid city?
Yeah, but it only transports you there, it doesn’t transport you back. For Nightelves, you then have to take a griffin back to Auberdine, and then from there back to wherever you started from. I’m not sure about the Horde.
The one good thing about the Night Elf’s opening areas - very difficult for Horde to get there to harass you (I’m talking the World Tree)
Which would matter if it was possible for the horde to attack people in the NE home areas without being attacked first.
Which would matter if it was possible for the horde to attack people in the NE home areas without being attacked first.[/quote]
Yeah. Night Elves actually have it worse in PvP than the other races. Humans, Elves and Dwarves can expect to be free of PvP until the mid-20’s, when you’ll hit a few gankers in Redridge and Duskwood, and you won’t see any heavy PvP action until the 30’s when you’re in Arathi and Hillsbrad (at least, in my experience). Night Elves, OTOH, will see their teen-level city (Auberdine) get demolished once a month or so, and are forced into fairly heavy Horde areas right at (or even before) level 20. Or even earlier if you’re a Druid and have to go to Moonglen, or whatever that place is called.
I heard they sometimes invade newbie lands just to kill NPCs (quest disruption etc).
Can’t they kill the NPCs? I don’t really know the Contested rules for PvP since I don’t really play on PvP servers. I know that’s the objective whenever some dumbass alliance members get together and raid the horde towns of Ashenvale
I know in PvE I’ve had some high-level Horde players run back on forth on the corpses of mobs I kill so I can’t loot them, as well as repeatedly challenge me to duels when I’m soloing and they’re ?? to me
Yes there is :/ I’m not ingame so I can’t point it out on the map, but if you go a little south of Kargath, the path to burning stepps is right there
Yeah, that’s why I said just the world-tree areas. A week and a half into the release launch, Auberdine was getting raided almost every day. Two weeks in, Astranaar in Ashenvale would get levelled every night. The main problem is, there’s more high-level quests on the other continent (Dead Mines, Gnomeregan), so there’s barely any high-level Alliance players around
Gee, guys. Ever learn any manners? Guy asks a straightforward question – punctuated by “Am I crazy?” and “Am I wrong?” – and you feel obligated to be jerks in response. Keep it up.[/quote]
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Are you sure you aren’t thinking of Searing Gorge? There’s a path leading to the Gorge from Badlands, just south of Kargath. If there’s also one to the Steppes, I’ve missed that.
so i’ve migrated my NE to the alliance continent and it’s like a different game. night elves are so screwed that even trying to get up in cooking skill is nigh impossible…none of the basic foods (boar, wolf, egg) seem remotely common on darnassus and the dark shore.
In the grand scheme of things and considering you plan to advance beyond level… oh 20 or so, things like this aren’t going to matter. Eventually, everyone will have explored the entire map and will be able to pick and choose where they are going to be based and where they are going to explore. Not trying to flame, but saying night elves are screwed because of this is a tad myopic.
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Are you sure you aren’t thinking of Searing Gorge? There’s a path leading to the Gorge from Badlands, just south of Kargath. If there’s also one to the Steppes, I’ve missed that.[/quote]
Hrm. Maybe :( I haven’t been there in so long (I hate hate hate badlands and that general area) and I pretty much consistenly mix up searing, blasted, and burning :( If so, sorry :(
There’s a zepplin that is free transport to and from Ogrimmar to Undercity? What’s your point?
Well, it does seem like bad game design on Blizzard’s part that they wouldn’t give more recipies that local fauna can more readily supply ingredients for on Teldrassil. I also dislike how on the Horde side the isolated group, the Forsaken, are connected via free Zepplin transport but the Night Elves have no free transport except to Menethil – which requires you to make a perilous first time run through the Wetlands, Dun Algaz, Loch Modan, all the way to Ironforge just to get the flight path. The flight path itself costs 3s and change. Horde gets a better deal there, for sure.
I think it’s pretty harsh to come down on him for that kind of judgement because leveling up to 20 is a fair investment of time for a first time player, especially a first time MMO player, who has no real indication of game content beyond their own level unless they forked out for a guide or are avid Thottbot perusers.
I just meant to say that in the bigger picture it won’t matter. You’re right insofar as casual players who play night elves have the right to be a bit miffed by this design. But still, to proclaim the race as screwed is not accurate.
Which would matter if it was possible for the horde to attack people in the NE home areas without being attacked first.[/quote]
Yeah. Night Elves actually have it worse in PvP than the other races. Humans, Elves and Dwarves can expect to be free of PvP until the mid-20’s, when you’ll hit a few gankers in Redridge and Duskwood, and you won’t see any heavy PvP action until the 30’s when you’re in Arathi and Hillsbrad (at least, in my experience). Night Elves, OTOH, will see their teen-level city (Auberdine) get demolished once a month or so, and are forced into fairly heavy Horde areas right at (or even before) level 20. Or even earlier if you’re a Druid and have to go to Moonglen, or whatever that place is called.[/quote]
You’re talking Alliance right?
We at the management of Horde’s teeny area known colloquailly as XRs, (Crossroads to all alliance players.) feel the need to point out to you that no less than 3 races (Tauren, Troll, Orc) get directed into this wonderful nexus of level advancement. Be it a pit stop to the moody mysterious forest of Ashenvale or the sun blasted scar known as Thousand needles. Or the deep valleys of Stonetalon Peaks.
As such, we would politely request Alliance players to stop loading up the boats at Booty Bay, come over to Rachet and proceed to wipe out the lowbies before they get a chance to see the real world.
Yes yes, we know that it is a long journey between booty bay and Rachet, all of roughly about a minute of loading time. And yes yes, perhaps you are bored. But i implore you, please. The Barrens is, after all, big and tedious to run through. (not as bad as Desolace though…) and as many other people have pointed out. Rather boring.
We at the management of XR are doing our best at dealing with the Boringness of XR in our own special way. Alliance ganking, I’m sorry say, does not always add excitement to our lives. (though sometimes, it might…)
Enjoy.