WoW Journal - Day 13

Playing a MMORPG is not always about achieving experience points or phat loot. Day 13 I had fun, but made practically no xp at all, and gained only some minor loot.

I started the evening with an expedition into Desolace. I mined some iron there, but in general the place was too hard for me. As warrior I don't have stealth, so the stealth harvesting techniques of my druid don't work. And at level 27 the Desolace monsters of level 32+ already have a rather large aggro radius on you. Then my ISP disconnected me for a minute, and when I logged back on I was dead. I also saw my first mithril vein, but didn't have the mining skill to mine it yet.

Then a guild mate which whom I had explored Shadowfang Keep earlier this week sent me a tell to ask me if we could do another dungeon. Sure, but I had already done all the Horde dungeons I could enter several times. So I proposed a crazy expedition: Visit the Deadmines, an Alliance dungeon. We ended up going there in a group of three, me as warrior, a priest, and a mage. I had looked on the map, and it seemed that Westfall wasn't all that far away from the Horde zeppelin station in the Stranglethorn jungle. I was a bit afraid that we might get attacked by high level murlocs on the way, but the voyage was short and uneventful.

The Deamines are interesting enough as scenery, although not so consistent as other dungeons. I mean, why is there a huge pirate ship in an underground lake at the bottom of a mine, with absolutely no connection to the ocean? We fought our way through the mines easy enough. In the goblin foundry we got swarmed by too many engineer with their robot pets and died, but managed to do it on the second try. We then reached the pirate ship, and cleared it. Finally we faced Van Cleef, and killed him, although the thieves he summons then wiped us out.

Interesting enough as a sightseeing tour. But Van Cleef was the only mob in that dungeon that still gave me xp at level 27, so I didn't level this day. I gated back to Ogrimmar, and smithed my first iron armor piece, then logged off.
- posted by Tobold @ 11:59 PM Permanent Link