[Feedback] Ashenvale

by Zaroua | 08/05/2010 15:24:33

Zaroua

The overall feel the zone isn't changed much from what I was used to in vanilla. The old quests have all been polished (thankfully) and the new quests are all good if not great (killing the fire elemental is well done).

The zone does have a few issues. First I assume a player will enter the zone at lvl 20+ from Darkshore (I was 23 with Heirloom Chest/Shoulders). The quests in the northwest part of the zone (Zoram, Maestra, etc) all reflect this and the mobs are at the appropriate level. When you get to Astranaar, you're sent to Forestsong to kill lvl 19-21 mobs (Warsong Lumber Camp, Satyrnaar, Felfire Hill) which is at the very least, confusing. A new player entering Astranaar has the choice between doing the normal Astranaar quests (lvl20+, killing Furbolgs, Firescar, curing the sick kid) or doing the the far eastern quests. The problem is that both of those options are given at the same time resulting in either a player finishing the quests surrounding Astranaar and having the eastern quests being gray, or doing the eastern quests from the start and then running back to Astranaar to do the quests there.
The "breadcrumbing" should be handled better at that point, to say the least.

The breadcrumb at Stardust Spire leading to Stonetalin Mountains (the one that sends you to snipe down wyvern riders) needs to mention where the path is more plainly.


A few quests were bugged and unable to be completed (most of this is probably going to be redundant with what I've reported in-game):

- Trip to Moonwell quests to cure the child: activating Elune's Tear at the moonwell consumes the quest item, doesn't give the completed item and doesn't give quest completion, rendering the quest chain uncompletable.
- True Power of the Rod: Ota Wen is bugged, I can talk to him while using Dartol's Rod, but there is nothing to do with him and he won't start the uprising.
- Three Friends of the Forest: the destination camp is empty, no NPCs anywhere near the camp.
- The Forest Heart: the "Untainted Spirit" only takes 1 from the stack to make the Force of Nature, the Force of Nature item is placed in the keyring which is strange and I was unable to find the Forest Heart inside the barrow den - I looked everywhere and moused over every inch of the place but was unable to find anything.
- Shredder quest at Warsong Lumber Camp: I forgot to write down the name of the quest, but it's the one where you control a shredder to blow up explosive barrels around the Lumber Camp. One of the far south-east barrels is too far away from the Lumber Camp and when you try to drive a shredder near it, the shredder despawns.




Other minor things:

-For the quest where you control Shadumbra's spirit to kill the Horde at Raynewood, the quest description mentions it's possible to heal at a moonwell right next to the tower - I wasn't able to find it.
-The Horde NPC Senani Thunderheart is flagged as Neutral towards Alliance players, it's even possible to pick up her quest.

by Valnoth | 09/05/2010 02:25:07

Valnoth


Q u o t e:
Whole Ashenvale now completed, so to say. The following quests could not be completed due to quest mobs being neutral for me, in some cases they were happy enough to attack me though.

Ashenvale Outrunners
Mor'shan Defense
Breathing Room

The following quests could not be completed due to nothing at all happening after selecting gossip with NPC:

To the Rescue
Blastranaar!

Also found a quest Damp Note, which is saying that my race is not eligible for it even though it is Horde quest.


We'll take a look. Thanks for the feedback, guys.

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