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I had a chance last night to head over to Dragonblight and finish up some quests there that were not able to be finished two patches ago due to vanished NPCs, and last patch cause all of Northrend hated my PC, and I got the quest Finality turned in. I helped kill Thel'zan, once again fighting alongside the suddenly arrived Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, late of Stormwind Keep and the now defunct Onyxia key chain. I should point out here that Bolvar actually makes mention of helping him in the Keep, a reference to the Ony fight, which at this point a new comer to WoW post 3.0.2 would never have done, but more on my thoughts on that later.

We defeat Thel'zan, Bolvar says to come see him at Angrathar, then vanishes into the wind. I ride my newly purchased Armored Brown Bear up to Wintergarde, turn the quest in, and take the follow up to(shock!) go to Fordragon Hold at the Wrath Gate. Hope a bird, and I am there, where my good friend Bolvar tells me to go see Alexstrasza, and off I go again, back to Wyrmcrest Temple. I ride to the top after doing the quicky daily, and chat up the Dragon Queen, and she send me off to finish up the mess at Galakrond's Rest, taking out the bad guy there. How a non elite could command an elite Storm Giant, I have no idea.

I have my dragon spew fire, eat scourge, and finish the boss, then head on back to Wyrmcrest. Alexstrasza thanks me for helping save us from this literal mother of all dragons turned Frost Wyrm, and sends us soaring back to Bolvar, quest completed. Then, well, not much happened for me. For what will happen in the release of the game, read on, if you domind some spoilerific good times!

WARNING! WARNING! The rest of this post WILL contain spoilers for MAJOR plots in the Wrath of the Lich King. If you value your element of surprise and joy of discovering new lore, TURN BACK NOW.

The rest of you, read after the jump.

So I mentioned here that I have begun in the Wrath of the Lich King beta test, and I have some thoughts and questions here. First, are there any mods for the beta? I am a mod fiend and I am feeling really lost without a single mod. I have my Statusbars mod which tells me in a HUD type display what my health and the mobs health is. I have died a number of times because of this. Second, Gatherer? Is there any way to mark gather nodes? I am finding Cobalt ore hard to find and would love to mark them.

As an aside, it is nice that WoW Head WotLK has comments with coordinates, but how exactly do I figure out those coordinates? How did they get the coordinates? I love the look of the zones in Northrend. I have seen both Borean Tundra and Sholazar Basin, though the later only when I pulled a noobish hop off the ledge without remembering that Divine Protection was changed, and thus dying on the rocks. No more suicide jumps from Aldor Rise. I wanted to thank a kind GM from the beta realms who unstuck me in the world so I could return to my journey on Aritas, who was stuck in a server issues last night. The final tip comes from Galanis on the Northrend beta realm, "Profession Trainer tracking is critical in the newbie towns", a good tip to put into practice when you are just hitting Northrend!

Lastly, below you will find the huge, massive gnome lore found in the Tundra. Spoilers may be found! Enjoy!



[Update: Thanks to Lassirra for the tip about WoW Interface for WotLK!]
[Update: Thanks to MrCynical in IRC for the reminder that Divine Shield still does what Divine Protection used to do, and for longer!]