Darkshore

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few platoon of horn players, who all claim that they're the captain now, forcing you to take the much more inefficient route by sailing to Darkshore.

Now you could get a free teleport to Tanaris once every six hours as an artisan engineer, but that would leave your endearing primal, aggressive, top-shelf, certified, five-star, banging WoW GF on her own with all these Horde players.

And speaking of Amiri, she remains an absolute animal at this game.

I remember the very fir- I mean, I, I knew she was, like, bef- and we'll get into it, but I knew she was, you know, um, a Highborne and all that before, um, you know, a naga.

But my first ever interaction with Queen Azshara was her as a naga in, I believe it was Darkshore during that after Cataclysm, uh, quest where she's on top of that, like, mountainous pillar thing.

Yes.

Oh my God, yes.

And at this point, as you mentioned, Nazjatar was created, and Azshara becomes the helm of this, of this area, this land, and she becomes known as the Empress of Nazjatar.

And then the surviving Highborne, they become the foundation of the naga civilization, and then eventually we get the growing civilization of the naga.

We have the s- you know, uh, that's where you get the naga from, uh, Darkshore, and you get the naga from all different areas of, you know, throughout Azeroth.

Yep.

You know, played around with talents and done some different things.

The one thing that I will say is, uh, I was doing a quest up in Darkshore on my hunter.

It's the Mathestra's Relics or whatever it is, so you have to get the little things on the ground, and they added in some extra quests for you to do while you're there.

Um, and I, I don't wanna spoil it for people, so if, you know, there's...

I wanted to go check stuff out, is really what it came down to.

I was like, "I really wanna quest through Darkshore because I wanna see what Ashenvale looks like." You know, Ashenvale-

Yeah

... is, like, one of my favorite zones, I think.

Um, and so, especially from, you know, from the original launch.

And so I really wanna see what that place looks like with the new lighting and everything.

So I spent more time than I really had budgeted for myself this weekend just basically solo, just playing at my own pace, just chunking my way through Darkshore quests and stuff.

And so just having, you know, just, just checking stuff out.

The Hunter itself feels really good.

Um, And I'm basically just running around doing the quests in Darkshore.

I don't need to go to Elven Forest.

There are so many new quests.

I was doing the Master's Glaive or whatever.

And there's another quest there, which I didn't need.

I got to level 20 and I still have a quest left to do in Darkshore.

And yeah, OK, so I did a few quests over in human areas because I had to go get my aquatic form.

So Destrehan and Thibodeau both sitting real strong so far in Division I non-select.

In that Division I non-select, would you want to face any one of the top ten? Barb, Mandeville, Walker, Destrahan, Ruston, Thibodeau, Darkshore, West Monroe, Denham Springs, Houghton, and guess who's 11th? East Ascension and Chalmette.

Well, the problem is that you could have kept reading all the way down to 30, and it wouldn't have gotten any easier.

That's the problem with that bracket.

As you as you level through and you get to the next zone on my druid, I was doing this.

You go to Darkshore and typically in classic, normally what I would do is I would go and all right, start making plans to do the run.

I got to run.

Take the boat, go to Manethal Harbor, run through Loch Modan, get to Dun Morrow, go into Ironforge, take the tram to Stormwind, and then go to Westfall.

I think that they're trying to avoid some of the emergent gameplay that's come out throughout the years of how people approach leveling and how people approach questing and that sort of thing.

I was level 16 on my druid.

I had a ton of stuff left to do in Darkshore.

I didn't feel like I was running out of quests at all.

It, it just makes it-

That tornado in Darkshore

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it makes it feel like, well, sure, we technically won, but it doesn't feel like we won because I can't even, like, walk amongst the things that we allegedly won.

Um, so it is WoW 2.0 in that sort of sense.

Um, you could go and run through Darkshore and run through Ashenvale in, in, um, like, in modern, so no triangular trees.

Like, I...

It makes me a little bit sad when I go back to Ashenvale these days-