Post by Dingbat CharlieRecently I made it through the Dark Portal, and thought about how
it is in a way a WoW Rite of Passage, something most everyone does
at some point. I was shourtly thereafter stomped by a Fel Reaver,
which to me is a definite Outlands Rite of Passage. After my short
encounter with said Fel Reaver, I kind of felt like I had accomplished
something, or at least now understood something that takes a while
to get to.
I have read about other accomplishments, like your first Hammerfall
to Barrens run on a PvP server or (for Alliance) the Legendary
Hogger.
What do feel are WoW Rites of Passage?
All warlocks go through several rites of passage, with their pets.
And all warlocks get at least their 4 basic pets, what warlocks do you
know that don't have one of them?
And the pet quests tend to be different for each race, making some of
them harder than others. For example, the undead imp quest involves
going out to kill a bunch of neutral undead level 1-2 mobs, easily
done at level 2, when you get the quest. The human imp quest however
is available at level 1, but requires you to fight your way through
hostile mobs, to a camp that contains 3 mobs, and all these mobs are
level 3-4. Not what you want to be facing at level 1.
I haven't taken a human warlock past level 6, and never had a gnome or
orc warlock, though I did help an orc warlock with his VW quest,
something he could have done himself imo. I've done the undead VW
quest, which wasn't too bad. The BE VW quest however is annoying. In
the early days of TBC, General in Eversong was flooded with warlock
after warlock asking where the quest item could be found. By the time
I started my BE warlock, I already knew where it was. After getting
the quest item, you have to take it to an old town now overrun with
level 11-13 ghosts, a challenge at level 10, and clear your way to the
top of one of the buildings, where there is a summoning circle.
I have done the orc version of the succubus quest on my undead
warlock, mostly just a bunch of running around. The undead and blood
elf share the same version of that quest, and its similar in the
running around part. But its where you have to go. You have to go to
the greymane wall and kill a mob there, easy at level 20. But then
you have to cross Hillsbrad (sucks to do on PvP), then cross Arathi
(mobs 10-20 levels higher than you, sucks no matter what), then south
into wetlands, all just to kill 1 guy standing right on the other side
of the bridge. Then of course, you have to make your way back (sucks
when hearth is on cooldown). Its a real epic run just to get a pet
that you're most likely not going to use right away anyway.
The level 30 horde felhunter quest is the same for all races. A trip
to 1K Needles to kill some centaur, easy at level 30. A trip to
Hillsbrad to find a book along a shoreline overrun with murlocs, that
isn't too fun. The book has a random spawn location along the beach,
and it always seems to be in the place with 3 or 4 murlocs grouped
together (VW tank mobs, warlock steals the book and runs FTW). Then
you have to make another run to Wetlands, easy if you already got the
FP when you made the epic corpse run at 20. Go there, kill some orcs
for some wands that have a low drop rate, take 3 of them back to
Ratchet, and you've got your felhunter. At this point you can either
continue the run to Badlands, getting it over with but difficult
considering your level, turn around and run back, or hope your hearth
is up.
All the other various warlock quests aren't quite rites of passage as
some warlocks choose to just skip those, but all warlocks at some
point do their initial 4 pet quests.