Along with my incessant passion for hating male night elfs, this really was quite pathetic to be quite honest to see a male night elf quest giver with a mohawk, Night elf males are meant to be majestic and wise with some brawn in my mind and Malfurion portrays that perfectly, but the mohawk... It really saddens me.
The actual questing here though is pretty cool you get given a few quests to do around this area and they all have some great synergy between them, firstly you need to find the source of corruption for more bears in this area and kill some of the unfortunately consumed bears, pretty menacing and yeh that's cool. Ideally after this you would be right at the furbolg camp you were sent to, but obviously I had a world server crash or my client crashed or something and I ended up back at the ancients camp, which btw I have to say is so pretty and aesthetically pleasing. I mean the fact that this zone is so dark and damp but it has such lovely havens as this is just such an awe inspiring contrast that I really love and appreciate.
Regardless I'll discuss the follow-ups of that after I've completed this area, which omg could have potentially ruined this zone for me.. these quests are just attrocious. The first quest though is pretty neat, you have to go collect some items that are situated on the outskirts of the furbolg encampment so that you don't have to engage anything, that's pretty cool because why would you want to bust into this camp full of furbolg. You then get a quest to kill a named mob in the woods by the pool, good synergy if you hadn't done that quest on the way and channel the quest item into a statue near the grove enabling you to hand-in the grizzly quest from earlier, again I'll discuss the follow-ups afterwards.
But then.. boy the follow-ups are attrocious, you have to "cleanse" the corrupted furbolg here by using an item on them, now this seems pretty cool and inovative right, you use the item on the furbolg and they spawn a "spirit of corruption".. hopefully the model is placeholder as a slime really makes no sense, and then killing this spirit cleanses the furbolg... what is bad about this quest is the fact that using this item makes the furbolg harder to kill, the spirit has as much health as the furbolg here and do comparable damage, so you are having to kill a mob whilst having twice the damage output upon you. Along with the fact that a lot of these furbolg patrol means you end up with 3-4 mobs on you at some times because you are trying to finish this quest, coupled with the mana problems of the priest at this level made these 2 quests attrocious.
Yes there is also another quest here, which involves you having to end up killing about 15-20 furbolg to complete because of how spread out the braziers are in this zone. This quest took way too long, about 10-15 minutes, which is just absurdly long and frustrating. I really think the furbolgs need to go green when you release their spirit of corruption or get somehow weaker so that using the item is beneficial, otherwise it's just.. why do I want to uncorrupt these furbolg if it makes it harder for me. Also, need more compact areas of brazier spawnings just so the numbers have better synergy.
Then... THEN you get a quest to remove the satyr causing this corruption, the furbolg here don't phase and respawn far too fast so you have to fight through them all again to get to the satyr, I would have loved if the furbolg phased to being friendly and uncorrupted and you could get a free pass through them to the satyr, make it elite and fending off furbolgs or something and kill it. It would just add a level of immersion and make this zone far less frustrating than it should be.
This zone was like the worst part of darkshore by about 20,000,000 miles. It reminded me of vanilla questing in it's structure and it was just urgh imo. Regardless though, heading to the Master's Glaive whilst we are here we get to use the cool quest item which turns you into a prowling cat, pretty damn awesome tbh. You also get to spy on the conversations here learn some cool lore and stuff. I have a few complaints though, the faceless patrolling mobs have a far too big aggro range imo, I was nowhere near one yet apparently it saw me and I ended up dying because I was really near 6 mobs that couldn't see me, highly frustrating, I really like the fact you have to avoid these patrols to get to the top of the tower, but their detection range is really too big.
Now I probably did these quests in the wrong order, I know I did really, heading back to the grove of the ancients you would get a quest to gather some seeds and a breadcrumb to head over to the explorer's league camp.. I'll cover that in my next post but Ideally you would probably head over there and do it now in an ideal questing cycle, I was just doing stuff in a random order and had to get the seeds quest early because of the world server crashing.
The seeds quest though is pretty unique though, you have to ask an npc to give you 1, you have to click a wisp in a tree, which is pretty tough but also I really enjoy the warcraft 3 parallels with wisps harvesting lumber, which I thought was a little lost in vanilla, I barely saw wisps doing anything but randomly running around and basically disregarding how they were presented in warcraft 3, which was nice. You also have to grab a seed from inside a shell where a crab ambushes you after looting, pretty cool stuff. I realise now after doing the quests in the zone that it would have made much more sense to have done the explorer's league hub whilst doing this quest but ye that is what happens when testing an area for the first time.
After grabbing these seeds though you have to go test it on some of the uncorrupted wildlife in the area to save them from the impeding corruption of the area, this is one of the reasons why I say it might be better to take the bear buff in the long run, simply because this is the only area where having one of the 3 mobs neutral/friendly is really good. Regardless though using the item gives a revelation of what is causing the corruption, a faceless one!
Following on from this quest we are told we have to spread this cure/inoculation, whatever you want to call it to the wildlife and we get a pretty nice bombing run type quest where we are saving wildlife, I like how the area is split into 3 distinct animal sections so you know what you should be targetting, the /say for the moonstalker area should be sooner than it is in the run because I easily got all 3 moonstalkers before it told me to try and target them so. The numbers for this quest are fairly easy to obtain, I would have perhaps liked one of those buttons that sends you home when you are done instead of a full wave regardless because I feel that is very punishing on a player who misses 1 mob and has to do an entire run again, but regardless this quest was pretty fun :D.
The last quest in this cycle ends up killing the corruption at the bottom of the watering hole.. which is a MASSIVE faceless one, he spawns once you use the item and just keeps growing and growing, he's pretty big and I think that's a pretty cool touch.. I also like the analogy of bigger=more powerful, and therefore get more satisfaction from killing the beast here.
Regardless though that's it for this post at that quest chain, overall it sets up the zone for a lovely conclusion that will be foretold in the next post. Just please fix that furbolg zone :(.
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