After an eventful couple of days, I have returned to wow you all with my World of Warcraft, TBC Rogue Adventures. I'll also need to hop back into DA: Inquisition, but for now, more WoW!
In my last WoW post, I was talking about how I need to get my rogue to level 35 so I could at last go to Dustwallow Marsh and complete a quest that allows me to learn the next level of Fishing. I also needed to go to Tanaris to complete another quest that will allow me the competence to Cook better. Worthy goals. One should always be able to cook, and to cook better. xD
Due to the nature of levelling in Classic, I couldn't just stay in the Thousand Needles until I was ready to leave. I had to keep leaving and coming back.
If I have one criticism for early WoW before it became as it is now, it's the very back-and-forth nature it has. I think I've spent more time running and travelling from place to place and back to the previous place then back to that other place than I have actually playing the game.
I ended up back in Hillsbrad where I had my first PVP encounter on my rogue. I was killing a yeti. It had just fallen. I was about to loot it. When, WHAM! I was ambushed and insta-killed by another rogue.
Eager to get my revenge, I rezzed and stealthed immediately and waited for an opportune moment. It was very quick. A Horde Warlock came to kill the yetis too and I knew that the Alliance Rogue wouldn't be able to let temptation slip. So I waited for him to attack the warlock, then ambushed him just as how ambushed me. Muahaha. It was a close fight, but I won. I don't think the warlock knew what was happening. He was kinda just standing there, confused, but it's all good.
After I reached about level 32, the remaining quests in Hillsbrad were once again too high for me, so I went back to the Thousand Needles and completed a few quests for various Goblins and Gnomes who were racing their vroom vroom go-karts, when they decided to send me to Stranglethorn Valley for car parts.
Thousand Needles is my favourite zone in the game. Stranglethorn Valley comes a close second.
It's a nice jungle, there's animals everywhere, the quests are straight-forward, plenty of fishing to be had and the Fishing Extravaganza event, and it's picturesque. It's a good zone.
I started a bunch of Nesingwary quests, which just so happen to be my favourite quests. Not for any particular reason, just that they're simple quests. Go and kill 10 things. Go and kill 10 more things. Another 10 things. OKAY! Now kill the king of these 10 things! Plus, being a skinner and leatherworker as well as fisherwoman and cook, I got quite a few materials from these quests.
But soon, once again, this zone outlevelled me very quickly and I had to find somewhere else to go. First I returned to the Thousand Needles and gave the Goblins what they needed for their go-karts. Then, it was off to the Desolace.
Yes, that zone I wandered into when I was a bit lower, in hunt for Cooking Expertise. Now I was there at the proper level, ready to quest and cause mayhem.
I finally hit level 35 whilst in the Desolace and with great joy I looked at my map. Nat Pagle's fishing quest was now available in Dustwallow Marsh! Hooray!
Unfortunately, while I could pick it up at level 35, the quest itself is for level 45. I'm assuming the cooking quest in Tanaris is the same. Ugggghhh. So it's going to be a while yet before I can continue my great adventure in becoming Azeroth's finest Fisherwoman and Cook.
So I continued doing my thing. Levelling. Slowly. Until the appropriate time would present itself. Resigned to having to wait a little bit longer, I remained in the Desolace, before hopping all over the place once more because of levels and zones having multiple-level quests.
I'm really glad that in retail WoW you don't have to do that so much. So. Much. Travelling.
I re-subscribed to WoW on the 29th of May. It's now the 17th of June and I'm level 36. I can only hope I'll be ready before Lich King Classic is released. Not that it has an actual release date yet, but it's going to be some time this year!
........I will hopefully be prepared and ready to dive into Northrend. 😅
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 
Posted from Kaelci Games with Exxp : https://kaelci.games/2022/06/17/world-of-warcraft-slowly-levelling-through-tbc-classic/