Part two of the Azeroth and Outland Journey of 2007 Recap is here! This is a continuation of the events in the first chapter. In part two, I will recap my journey from the day I stepped foot into Outland, getting level 70, and the hardships of being in a popular guild.

Now then…On to Part Two!

Room for Improvement

During my new journey through Outland, I came across many things that’s worth mentioning to my Sin’dorei, who would become excellent Warlocks in my after I leave the World [of Warcraft]. [/roleplaying]

My Warlock build is nearly perfected! At level 61, I can get the skill I have been waiting for: Unstable Affliction. I found the build from this page on WoWWiki when I started playing Warlock. It is my favorite build so far. The build, 43/7/11: 43 Points in Affliction, 7 in Demonology, 11 in Destruction. It took me a while to get UA, since I used 11 points in earlier levels to get Shadowburn (in Destruction).

I love Shadowburn, especially in PvP situations when the enemy is near death. At level 60, My Shadowburn deals up to 600 points in damage. I have even seen it crit for 1030+ points. Awesome! Once I get UA, I will own in PvP. Death Coil + Fear + Curse of Agony + Siphon Life + Corruption + Unstable Affliction + Shadowburn = Death.

I thought this would be an excellent start to root Azeroth of evil for my Sin’doreian ancestors, but I realized I needed more studying, which I will explain in part three.

All bad things must come to an end

After finishing Hellfire Penisula, I explored Zangarmarsh for the first time, which is one of my least favorite places in Outland. It was just a walk in the park with this place, except when an Alli gets in the way. One night during an adventure, a friend was being camped by a typical Gnome Mage. (Remember what I said in part one about Gnomes?) A couple of guildmates, including myself, came over there to help him out. All three of us gathered up on the Gnome and camped him back for messing with our friend (and for being a Gnome. *hint* *hint*). While the Gnome got away, we decided to duel each other to pass the time. We were sure the Gnome was gone, until a duel between a Paladin and I went awry: The Gnome was back…With three other guildies! We were on the other end of the corpse camping.

We decided to “play” with them for 15 minutes. Our Mage revived himself and flew onto the tall mushrooms of Zangarmarsh, so he could get his health back. After he was full, he flew back down and used AoE spells to split up the Alliance mob. During the scuffle, we revived ourselves to gank one the campers until everyone was slain. We sat down to eat and drink…until moments later, we were attacked by the same group. We kept repeating this effort until they gave up. The Horde won!

I wondered what my friend did wrong to make the Mage camp us so soon? I guess it’s typical Gnome behavior. If my friend pwned him before the Mage did, then I understand why he camped them. But why camp us when he was pwned a couple of times? Usually, if this happens he/she would keep playing regardless of getting ganked, or just log off until later. Just because he can’t take a beating, doesn’t mean he has the right to bring a higher level player, or his/her own toon to scare off the offender. I guess it was just the Alliance on the realm.

An Unholy Alliance… (Part One)

During my expedition in Zangarmarsh, a Mage buddy, who was the leader of our little private guild, was asked to join a guild, which was the fourth biggest guild on the server. Me, including four others who were online at the time, agreed to join their guild. The next night, we joined the new guild. It took them a long time to invite me as they were raiding SSC, since I came on late that night. I was expecting warm welcomes from the higher ups, but only a few greeted me–who were lower levels.

Days went by during my journey with the new guild. Whenever me and another friend, who was also a Warlock, asked for help from the guild, they would never respond. When they did respond, they usually say something “smart” and won’t help. Not in a bad way, but is was enough to make me doubt their helpfulness.

The City of Light

Zangarmarsh came and went fast. Next: Terokkar Forest, the Home of Shattrath City. There’s no Auction House in this city, but there are portals to each major city; four sets of portals for the Horde, four sets for the Alliance. While I was there (at level 60), I choose my alligence with two of the mighty factions of Outland:

Alright! I got to level 60 last night. Meaning I’m getting close to the “1337″ level. I did the “A’Dal” series of quests and allied with the Scryers. Master Enchanter FTW. Maybe the Aldor have one too…but who cares: to me, Draenai -> Galka. Plus, I <3 Blood Elves. Plus, I have been getting some neat gear from quests to replace my under 60 gear.

About the comment on the Aldor and Scryers; The Scryers are automatically aligned for Blood Elf players. Same for the Aldor and Draenei players. Either factions are good for other players who are in a certain profession and class.

If the sellers don’t succeed, they try again

I spend most of the time leveling in Terokkar than in the other zones in Outland. I had a choice between Nagrand or Blade’s Edge Mountains – though it was more of a place for flying mounts. Terrokkar is like a maze – I had to go around to get here, and back around to get there. Though, it’s one of my favorite places in Outland. I was around level 65 when most of the quests in Terokkar lead me to Auchindoun. While doing the quests around the tomb areas, I received a strange invite:

It seems gold sellers are finding a way around the new patch feature preventing mass whispering to advertise players of their gold and power leveling service. Sometime ago, I spotted a level 1 player in Orgrimmar advertising their services in /say. I decided to test out the new “Report Spam” option, logged off and back on. 45 seconds later, the player disappeared. Maybe it’s because his/her work was done, or other players also reported the ad bot.

Last night, I got an invitation for a party out of nowhere. Without a tell. Maybe it was for a party somewhere in Outland or just a noob playing around with the GUI. I found something wrong with this. The player who invited me had a really odd name. It seemed that the name was made up as if someone was fed up with finding a good name for his/her character and just hit random keys on the keyboard. If he had a name like that, it would get his character deleted for sure.

I declined the invitation. I started to send a tell to this player, but I had some doubts. I did a /who search on him. My doubts were confirmed: it was a level 1 Tauren. If I had accepted the invite, I wonder what could have happened? Would he have harassed me with his gold/power leveling service, or harass me with sex/racist slurs? If he was a high level and in the same area as I was, it would probably end up like the incident at Thousand Needles a few months ago. I kept an eye on him for a few minutes until his presence disappeared from the search results. I wonder if there were others who received this mysterious invitation?

I was right. It was a new way for goldsellers to get their services out to desperate players. Not long ago, they made party invites for trial accounts unavailable until level 10.

Bad comedians

I was just about done with Terokkar Forest, so I needed to look for a new place soon. I still had a bit of quests left in Zangarmarsh, so I went there and finished them, except one, which was a couple of elite quests. I returned to Terokkar to clear up my quest log. I did this quest: The Vengeful Harbinger. I joined a group for it and we cleared the mobs, but we didn’t get to finish it, because the quest was bugged at the time. A little later, I decided to fight my way back in there to see if I could see the NPC to finish the quest.

I needed every single EXP I could get to reach 70. I found a Rogue and a Shaman there who were also doing the quest. I stood to the side so they could do their round before I could walk around and find the NPC. The Rogue greeted me with a “No Blood Elves allowed…Kidding”. I told him what I was doing to make him understand why I was in the way. The Rogue and Shaman finished killed the mobs, but I couldn’t tell if they finished it. I had no luck finding the NPC, which made my effort useless. As I walked out the room, the Rogue continued to harass me with his brass “jokes”; “YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!”

Hahaha…Very funny. I complemented him with a /ignore [Rogue]. As I mounted up and went back to the neutral camp in Auchindoun, I found him flying over me – in an annoying, erratic way.

The half-way point!

Photo Credit: mk30

At level 66, I arrived in Nagrand – one of the best places in Outland yet, with its exotic scenery, and the home of Nagrand Arena and Halaa. I had a lot of fun here, as I did not run into any disruptions like I did when after I entered the Portal. I did the “Ring of Blood” series of quests with a few others who wanted to do the quest line, along with a another Level 70 Shaman friend, who I met a along time ago playing Final Fantasy XI. When we got to the last boss, Mogor, we wiped a few time, as our Shaman wasn’t a pure healing spec. The both of us called upon a Priest in the guild who was willing to help out. Thanks to his assistance, we downed Mogor and got out rewards. I got a Battle Mage’s Baton as a reward.

At level 68, I went to Shadowmoon Valley to finish up my trek to level 70. It was tough getting these last two levels before there was nothing else left to do but get into Karazhan for Phat Lootz. Alongside questing in Shadowmoon, I did alot of LFG for instances to get final upgrades, as well as experience points before 70. Then came Level 69…

The moment of truth

This is the first time I’ve been so close to being “complete” on an online game.

Ragnarok Online – Level Cap of 99. Highest level achieved: Level 63 Priest.

Final Fantasy XI – Level Cap of 75. Highest levels achieved: Red Mage 45; Black Mage 30; White Mage 24; Summoner 19.

Now…I’m just 660,000 xp away from level 70 on World of Warcraft.

I’m going to jump on some Sethekk Hall runs tomorrow night. Wish me luck!

I had my share of Mana-Tombs and Shadow Labyrinth groups. Don’t get me started on Sethekk Halls…

At 3:59 AM, on Saturday, July 7th, 2007, I made it to level 70! (Lvl 70 @ 7-7-07…So Lucky!)

My hopes of getting to 70 were in jeopardy when the first group for the night in Sethekk Halls broke up after a Mage blamed me for accidentally pulling a room full of elite Humanoid birds. I understand what I did was an *mistake*. Now the Mage is now on my /ignore list for an indefinite amount of time. After leaving the group, I went to Blade’s Edge Mountains to do grinding quests, until I got another invite for another Sethekk Halls group. Yay!

From the Clock AddOn, I had 1hr and 30min until 70. That hour and half half went by very fast! By the time we got near the last boss, I received the level I’ve been waiting for for 7 months (and on the “luckiest” day of the year).

Everything went smoothly, until when we arrived at the last boss. The group leader changed the Loot setting to Master. OH NOES! This is the boss that drops Trousers of Oblivion!!! After some disagreement with a couple of other group members, he changed it back. My Trousers didn’t drop, but the paladin got what he wanted, and the leader left the party abruptly.

Wow…Seven full months of World of Warcraft. Truly, this is much better than a year at level 45-ish, looking for parties to get to level 75. After getting level 70, there wasn’t much left to post, but my progress on getting attuned for Karazhan…

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