Thunder-Axe Fortress

Ok, so this is the second optional questing area, it's a bit shorter than the Ethel Rethor area, but This area is so big that splitting off these little hubs makes sense to keep the post length down, aswell as consolidating feedback for specific hubs.

So we get 1 quest here, which is to go kill a named npc in front of Thunder-axe, he's pretty easy to pull alone and well easy enough to kill, however the great thing is the interactivity with this quest hub, firstly you get an auto-quest upon killing him BASED on his yell, that's pretty damn awesome immersion, your char is like HUH HE MENTIONED SOMETHING BETTER CHECK IT OUT, instead of being a dumb ass who can only do what quest givers tell them, which is just sweet immersion factor.

You also get an additional quest for just looting any of the burning blade in the area when you kill them, to basically just COLLECT EARS, not exactly sure why they want ears particularly, usually its heads.. but oh well collecting ears it is! 25 is sort of a daunting number, perhaps reducing this to 20 would be about right, since I had to kill 20 to kill the quests in the area, but had to go searching for the last 5.

Since this is a burning blade area, you also get the AWESOME AWESOME debuff like in durotar when you kill any mob and around 3-5 stacks you transform into the demonology warlock metamorphosis form, I really love how this is an astigma attached to like Burning Blade zones in cataclysm, It's just so cool :D, especially the animations for feral charge in Metamorphosis OMFG! Druids need metamorphosis form ok, replacement for boomkin or something!

Onto the actual quests, going into the room you kill a whole bunch of mobs, the middle mob is sort of weird, he will aggro you but not engage in combat, I suppose it makes sense otherwise he would aggro the entire room, but I would just suggest lowering his aggro range dramatically instead of having him keep you in combat throughout the room. The box which the summoning ritual is a little small for my liking but hey, it's obvious and easy to loot.

Now.. I got an auto-quest failure, or at the very least I presume it is an auto-quest failure as going back and forth made no sense, you get the auto-quest hand-in but no follow-up was triggered, obviously I went back and got it, but the idea is you head straight to the main chamber and trigger this summon early, with the auto-quest inplace this is some awesome immersion, a race against time so to speak to summon this demon TO AWAKEN HIM TOO SOON etc :D. There are plenty of skulls around the place, I feel like they should on average drop 20 instead of 10-15, since that way there would definitly be more than enough patches, instead of just like ONLY ENOUGH PATCHES, which is a big difference.

You face off against this demon after performing the ritual, it's a little weaker than I thought it would be, although I did have metamorphosis form thing, so that made it easier :D, after this it's a simple hand-in for the quest completion.

It's a bit of a mini-quest hub but I mean it's fast paced and great action/story. For a short quest it utilises the auto-quest feature magnificently (OO A NEW ADJECTIVE!!?!?!?!) to really grip the player and immerse them in the action.

I included the travelling to Cenarion Wildlands in the screenshots.. the effects on that Tornado are just awesome! You get flung about whenever you walk into it and take falling damage, good fun stuff.. I love it :D.

Anyway onto Cenarion Wildlands and sort of the start of the MAJOR questline, if you could call it that, in the zone.