Tuesday, October 17, 2006
From the WoW forums:
Greeted by a New Pretty loading screen, I finally zoned into the Outlands, and man, the first impressions you get are utterly amazing. The zone you walk into is HUGE, rediculously huge. The portal you just walked into, if you turn around, is MUCH MUCH larger than the one in the outlands, and the details on the portal are amazing. You walk down the stairs to find your first quest giver, and the alliance section of the warfront on your left. The horde section is to the right. This zone is considered a "Sanctuary" where the horde/alliance are working together, so everyone here is flagged non-pvp in this zone. You cant talk to the NPCs for the horde, but you cant attack them or their players in this zone either. Right in the distance, you can see the bottom of the stairs where a massive fight is going on between a Pitlord and his minions against the armies of the alliance and the horde. There are Archers/Spear throwers up on the ramparts attacking down, groups of mages/warlocks on the sides bombarding the incoming forces with AoE spells, and legions of foot troops holding this pitlord and his summoned minions at bay as you walk around. I wouldnt recommend heading out there, as these are all level 70 elites and would most likely 1 shot you. So I went off into the alliance section of the portal base.. theres a gryphon master with a quest for you, and if you look around, you will see the alliance army gearing themselves and taking care of one another. You also see two gnomish mages channelling a portal... a constant portal to Stormwind. There are troops flooding in from this portal and then running to join the battle that is waging on at the bottom of the stairs. Theres some ration vendors and misc stuff around here, but nothing else too exciting. So I talked to the gryphon master, who gave me a quest to deliver a message to Honor Hold, and offered to fly me there! Accepting the mission he threw me on a gryphon and flew me to honor hold, which is like the alliance main base on Hellfire Pennisula. Upon landing, you see a army of troops being briefed and a lot of other random NPCs that are gearing for war, and running out to join the fight in misc places.
-Jesta
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Lightning's Blade
Greeted by a New Pretty loading screen, I finally zoned into the Outlands, and man, the first impressions you get are utterly amazing. The zone you walk into is HUGE, rediculously huge. The portal you just walked into, if you turn around, is MUCH MUCH larger than the one in the outlands, and the details on the portal are amazing. You walk down the stairs to find your first quest giver, and the alliance section of the warfront on your left. The horde section is to the right. This zone is considered a "Sanctuary" where the horde/alliance are working together, so everyone here is flagged non-pvp in this zone. You cant talk to the NPCs for the horde, but you cant attack them or their players in this zone either. Right in the distance, you can see the bottom of the stairs where a massive fight is going on between a Pitlord and his minions against the armies of the alliance and the horde. There are Archers/Spear throwers up on the ramparts attacking down, groups of mages/warlocks on the sides bombarding the incoming forces with AoE spells, and legions of foot troops holding this pitlord and his summoned minions at bay as you walk around. I wouldnt recommend heading out there, as these are all level 70 elites and would most likely 1 shot you. So I went off into the alliance section of the portal base.. theres a gryphon master with a quest for you, and if you look around, you will see the alliance army gearing themselves and taking care of one another. You also see two gnomish mages channelling a portal... a constant portal to Stormwind. There are troops flooding in from this portal and then running to join the battle that is waging on at the bottom of the stairs. Theres some ration vendors and misc stuff around here, but nothing else too exciting. So I talked to the gryphon master, who gave me a quest to deliver a message to Honor Hold, and offered to fly me there! Accepting the mission he threw me on a gryphon and flew me to honor hold, which is like the alliance main base on Hellfire Pennisula. Upon landing, you see a army of troops being briefed and a lot of other random NPCs that are gearing for war, and running out to join the fight in misc places.
-Jesta
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Lightning's Blade
