The Explorer

During my alone time on WoW, I’ve been exploring the map, aiming for the ‘The Explorer’ title.
I now have a companion for this, so instead of just seeing the world, I can meet interesting new creatures.. and kill them!  Well, some of them.  Unless they get us first..

Last weekend, I went to see some dragons.. including Emeriss, who was just minding his own business, guarding a portal to the Emerald Dream when we came along.  My character is only the same size as one of his talons, so naturally I wanted to take him on!
However, he put us to sleep rather quickly with a nasty gas cloud, and killed us.

Following the Retaking the Echo Isles quest line, and Zalazane’s Fall (which I finally got round to posting about), three of us took a quick trip to a secret island.. and I got to ride in the sidecar 🙂

Getting to the island required water-walking and a speed buff.. watching the Fatigue appear and yet carrying on was a bit weird, but we were past the dark water before that ran out.  Yay, secret.. ok, not-so-secret island! 🙂

Last night’s exploration was back to normal running and flying around in Outland.  As I wandered through Terrokar Forest I saw something red moving around near the edge of the mountains, which turned out to be a massive spider!  After my recent encounters with spiders in Limbo, this one wasn’t going to be spared..

My oh-so-lovely friend told me he’d laugh if I died, but the spider was no trouble and I even ended up killing him too quickly.. I was still fiddling with screenshots!

Next up was a trip to Shadowmoon Valley.. as well as the exploration, there’s also a bunch of quests and some rep to earn here, so I can have a Netherwing Drake as a mount.

On the way there, we came across a lil doggy, who I was challenged to kill for 100 gold.  Ok, so the doggy isn’t small.. he also has two heads, and breathes fire.  I found the fire was hard to really escape from.. except for when he used an ability to send me running away then breathed fire!

He was fun to fight, but I also enjoyed taking a guildmate’s gold 😉

I wanted to take a nice screenshot of Uvuros after I took him out, but another spawned almost right on top of me before I was done.  My friend dealt with this one.. flames 😀

Retaking the Echo Isles

In preparation for Cataclysm, a nice new quest line opened up: help the Darkspear Trolls retake their homeland!

It started simple.. collecting frogs, which we then threw at markers on the islands.. all completed a bit too easily because of the low level and being in a group.  Trollin’ for Volunteers was more fun.. despite us quickly getting the required five Troll volunteers, we were able to carry on recruiting until we each had five followers!

This nice little army followed us all the way back to Sen’jin Village.. 🙂

After consulting with the spirits and receiving our rewards, I was amused by the Darkspear Pride item, which allows me to transform into a Darkspear Warrior..

We had to wait to do the last stage though, as there was already somebody doing it.  They took rather a long time, and due to this, my transformation wore off before we actually got to fight. 🙁

The fighting itself was rather hectic.. lots of enemies meant lots of Mind Sear 🙂

I now only wish I’d levelled something on the Alliance side, so I could play through the Gnomeregan quest line too.  Ah well.. can’t have it all..