2008-02-13 Looking For Business

GF is moving fast through the dungeons and we are considering tackling Razorfen Kraul (RFK) this coming sunday. This could be our first real challenge as a group. Since this thursday is Valentine's Day two of the five players (including yours truly) will not be in game that night. It looks like the other three will find something to do, though. This will be the first meeting Philly will miss.

Since we are moving so fast I'm not certain where we will be questing in between our dungeon runs. I took some time to check on the quests that we haven't done in the areas we've been working to see what quest rewards might still be worth going after.

I started with Hillsbrad Foothills, as we may not ever get back to questing there unless there is something we really want. The only challenge remaining for us looks to be [The Battle of Hillsbrad], which is a 7 quest chain that takes us again and again into Dun Garok, a dwarf packed underground fortress with horrible sight lines and terrific multi-mob fights. Philly would like to have the gloves that drop from the final quest. Many folks don't like this chain, though, and the gloves aren't blue or anything, but it's it's on Philly "wantahave" list.

In Ashenvale, which is our most likely questing area, there are two in particular that interests Philly. [The Lost Pages] is a pain, because you have to fill up your bags with pages and pages to build a set of books that also eventually yields a glove quest reward slightly better than the Hillsbrad one. Philly would take either.

But the best one for quest rewards appears to be [Warsong Supplies], which Philly could likely solo if the group doesn't do it. It offers a blue cloth belt and mail gloves as rewards that should help all five of us.

In the end Philly couldn't wait for the group to tackle the [Warsong Supplies] quest. Last night she went after the four items the quest called for. She already had one of the items, which dropped while she was killing furlbogs on the way to trying to get that cookbook. The second item was an easy pick up in Booty Bay, and the third required buying a deadly blunderbuss. Philly hated to part with an entire gold piece for that, but the weapon in made by engineers and we don't have an engineer in the guild. The final piece required fighting jaedenar satyrs in Ashenvale. That was more fun that I thought it would be. Wild never liked these mobs - they can Fear and Silence and generally make killing them very inconvenient. The Silence is actually a stink bomb kind of thing - you know you're going to get a cloud of stinky stuff whenever they raise their arms in the air. But they couldn't stop Philly from using Shield and Wanding them to death if I had to. Philly fought her way into the camp and took the item needed. On the way out of the camp one of her targets fled, aggroing another satyr, and while she was killing that one a third respawned right next to her. Three up, three down. Philly sure likes her new blue belt.

Out in the Barrens we could really challenge ourselves and take on the Alliance Outrunners that ride through the Barrens. The outrunners are four elites, and if I recall correctly, fighting them flags you for pvp. But killing them gets [The Runed Scroll], which leads to a quest to kill a level 29 elite. Nice caster gloves are the reward.