World of Warcraft

Azeroth Safari: Eastern Kingdoms

Questing in the Broken Isles without flying reminded me of those old times, when flying in the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor wasn’t even possible. I remember that both zones were so huge that having to travel without Flightmaster, Zeppelin or Ship required a lot of time. A few weeks ago, I took my hunter out for a little test: let’s cross the entire Eastern Kingdoms with a ground mount (no flying!), passing through each zone and capital city.

Something I’ve learned out of this experience is that I completely forgot that not every zone has a path that leads to the next one. Sometimes you have to return to the previous zone to be able to travel to another.

Anyways, my adventure started North, in Silvermoon City, traveling all the way down to Stranglethorn Vale… I barely go to Silvermoon City, there is no special reason for that. Maybe is it its misfortunate location or the fact that I always get lost overthere, but I don’t really feel attracted to the Blood Elven Capital.

Upon my arrival, I noticed the red carpet and couldn’t stop but think: oh guys, you shouldn’t have…

From Silvermoon City, I traveled instantly to the gloomy Ghostlands. A beautiful and eerie forest that I remember keenly from when I leveled my hunter. Next on my path was Eastern Plaguelands… I passed through the entire zone before reaching Light’s Hope Chapel. A bit too Alliance for my taste so, I quickly moved on to the Western Plaguelands.

Once I arrived in Andorhal, I visited the local Inn. I cannot recommend this place cause that crazy Undead Innkeeper likes to do weird rituals that, in his opinion, are completely harmless. Don’t believe him, he’s a madman! After my successful escape I ended up in Tirisfal Glades

I quickly payed my respects to our new Warchief in Brill. I don’t know if she likes flowers though… maybe she would have prefered a human sacrifice but hey, we’re in Tirisfall Glades, all I could find were scruffy looking dead things… After that I headed for Silverpine Forest, passing through Undercity.

I love Silverpine Forest and it’s magnificent trees, not to mention the pumpkin patches! It makes me dream about my favourite season of the year: Autumn and Halloween… I’m already counting down to the most wonderful time of the year. While wandering around like a tourist, I spotted the beautiful Ruins of Gilneas in the distance…

Well, all I can say is this: not so friendly these Worgen. Wolves make excellent pets and when I tried to tame one of them, he started poking me with something that resembled a toothpick. What a waste… So, on I went, passing back for a bit through Gilneas and Silverpine to get to Hillsbrad Foothills, followed by the Hinterlands. Here is where I made my first mistake. I had completely forgotten about the fact that you can’t pass from each zone to another. This is exactly what happened here: I couldn’t find a path that lead from Hinterlands to Arathi Highlands so, I had to run the entire way back to Hillsbrad to be able to go to Ararthi.

While getting lost, I stumbled upon this cranky Dwarf with red glowing eyes. We shared a few jokes (mainly about exploding the wrong things) and ended up exchanging Engineering recipes for dynamite and fireworks. I asked him to join me on my trip, but he declined politely so, off I went to the Wetlands.

It was easy to go from the Wetlands to the Twighlight Highlands. Since I’ve never done any Archeology in Cataclysm, I thought it was about time to do something about that. So, I started digging up some fossils before my departure to Loch Modan. Once again I had to first go back to the Wetlands to be able to travel to Loch Modan. From there I passed through the South Gate Pass to go to Dun Morogh.

I had looked forward to the moment to sample some of those famous Dwarven Ales. Unfortunately, the Guards at the main gate of Ironforge seemed to be pretty on the defense when it came to sharing their brews. They sapped me and started poking me before I could unmount. Well, I guess I could see that one coming. After all, they’re Alliance… After I one-shotted them, I left this unwelcoming place.

Next on the map was Vashj’ir… it quickly proved impossible to get there with my Waterstrider as I died due to “fatigue” on every attempt.

So, I went back to Loch Modan to go to the Searing Gorge. From there I passed through Blackrock Spire to go to the Burning Steppes, followed by the Redridge Mountains, Elwynn Forest (Goldshire and Stormwind) and Westfall.

When I wanted to go and admire the pumpkin patches in Westfall, I noticed these huge walking scarecrows that haunt their grounds. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that there were no pumpkins… these abominations probably trampled them all. I wonder what kind of idiot came up with the creation of these stuffed machines. I could probably teach him a lesson or two about Engineering.

From Westfall, I could easily travel through Duskwood and the Deadwind Pass, to arrive shortly after in the Swamp of Sorrows.

Upon my arrival in the Swamp of Sorrows, I met up with the local Wind Rider Master, Breyk. I tried to explain him that he shouldn’t wave around with his spear like that when he talks, after all, it’s not a toothpick. But, he wouldn’t listen so, I gave up and left for the Blasted Lands. From there, I couldn’t find a road leading to Stranglethorn Vale so, I had to head back to Duskwood to reach this Goblin infested place.

Like they say: where there are Goblins, there are treasures. I had stumbled upon a big one, but from the look of the skeletons, it seemed to be cursed. So, I’ve left it where I’ve found it. Knowing these Goblins, you never know where these trinkets and coins have been. And… that’s where my journey ends.

While writing this post and checking the map of the Eastern Kingdoms, I realized that I’ve completely forgotten the Badlands. I don’t know how I could have, but I did… too bad ;p The entire traject, with stops for screenshots and running back and forth for finding rideable paths included, took a bit over two hours in total. Two hours of pure nostalgia. I definitely should go back more often!

There are 7 comments.

  1. Alunaria July 24, 2017 @ 9:15 pm

    Shoot, bedtime preventing me from diving into this now. Bookmarked for cosy couch time tomorrow, can’t wait ๐Ÿ˜€ Thank you so!

  2. wrathsome July 25, 2017 @ 2:18 pm

    A very good adventure!

  3. Alunaria July 25, 2017 @ 2:44 pm

    What a great idea, and adventure, Soforah. Iโ€™m only sad because faction and server differences makes it impossible for us to do it together, shoot! I would have loved to join you.

    I would get lost in Silvermoon City, donโ€™t worryโ€ฆ

    Hah at your comment on the red carpet. It should be a great place to host the WoW Oscar show! ๐Ÿ˜›

    A bit too Allianceโ€ฆHm. Awesome facial expression you caught there ๐Ÿ™‚

    I have never seen that fantastic statue of Sylvanas before, wow. One day I shall quest through that zoneโ€ฆ#HordeNewb

    Oh, fond of Halloween, are we, how do you celebrate it? ๐Ÿ™‚

    Ruins of Gilneas is too awesome! So cool one can fly around in it without NPCs!

    Worgens aint pets, ya know. Look at what you have as pets. Aint you just being greedy now, hm?

    Oh, yeah, many zones aint connected like that (Good thing you โ€œforgotโ€ about Badlands :p )

    One-shotting our guardsโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ™

    Lol, those pirat flags โ€“ I really want to host a pirat themed RP thing in WoW sometime. Yarrr!

    Gorgeous screenie in the end there too ๐Ÿ™‚

    Thank you so much for sharing, I wish I could have joined. It is such joy to see how other people can take pleasure in things in WoW, that are so far away from end game, just like I do. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I look forward to your Kalimdor trip ๐Ÿ˜‰

    PS. Moar screenies of featherwolves, plx ๐Ÿ˜‰ :p

  4. Soforah July 26, 2017 @ 11:53 am

    @wrathsome: Thank you ๐Ÿ™‚ And… thanks a lot for the link to my post in your blog… I feel so honored *blushes* It’s true that WoW is HUGE! You can have a lifetime of fun in there ๐Ÿ™‚

    @Alunaria: Thanks so much, I’m glad you’ve like it ๐Ÿ™‚ It would have been fun doing this together indeed. What an adventure it would have been… an Orc and a Night Elf on an exploration trip together… Prepare to get lost big time though xD

    Yes, as big horror fans, we love Halloween. We usually celebrate it with pumpkin pasta and a ton of horror movies ๐Ÿ™‚ We’re probably a part of the few people here in Belgium that celebrate Halloween… hehehe… What about you? You like Halloween?

    No, no, not greedy. I just like wolves as pets so, the more, the merrier ;p Eventhough I love my wolfhawks to pieces <3

    How did you know that my next trip would be Kalimdor... I guess that it was quite obvious from the start, huh? I'll try to include my wolfhawks a lil' bit more in my screenies next time ๐Ÿ˜‰

  5. Alunaria July 27, 2017 @ 7:55 pm

    I really did ๐Ÿ™‚ Hah, I imagine that.

    Oh, I like Halloween too, these years, it has grown on me. We decorate everywhere weeks ahead of it. Im not into horror movies though – I used to love them however.

    Haha, Well, of course, you might be touring somewhere else next time :p Please do, Wolfhalwks makes it all better ๐Ÿ˜€

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