World of Warcraft: Midnight

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

OK, first negative thing to say about Midnight: I completely tuned out during Harandar. Could not be less interested in all of their stuff and I find the zone design a pain in the ass. I spent as much time trying to figure out where an NPC was in a cave as I did questing.

I know some people love these folks, but I am not one of them. First new race where I don't find their story at all interesting.

Now, onto Voidstorm and my last 1.05 levels to level 90.

 

[TwoSix]

OK, first negative thing to say about Midnight: I completely tuned out during Harandar. Could not be less interested in all of their stuff and I find the zone design a pain in the ass. I spent as much time trying to figure out where an NPC was in a cave as I did questing.

I know some people love these folks, but I am not one of them. First new race where I don't find their story at all interesting.

Now, onto Voidstorm and my last 1.05 levels to level 90.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Harandar was the first zone I got Sojourner on. And I thought some of the NPCs (like the root tender mourning Teldrassil) were really affecting.

And I think the Haranir model is absolutely fantastic; I’m planning on doing Haranir Druid for Season 2.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Harandar was the first zone I got Sojourner on. And I thought some of the NPCs (like the root tender mourning Teldrassil) were really affecting.

And I think the Haranir model is absolutely fantastic; I’m planning on doing Haranir Druid for Season 2.

Yeah, I suspect I'm a minority voice on the Harandir, given the chatter online.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Reached the Voidstorm last night, which has the plot I think we assumed the rest of the zones would have front and center.

Amusingly, all the NPCs freak out in the zone -- "Look at the devastation! It's breaking my mind!" -- as though K'aresh (where we just were before this expansion) and even Netherstorm in Burning Crusade weren't more extreme versions of this same style of zone. Apparently, some of the major NPCs also feel the VOOOOOOOID pressing in on their minds.

We start to get Xalateth's goals, which are more mundane than I'd hoped (although everyone in Voidstorm is an unreliable source, so who really knows). More fun is that the Void, as opposed to the Burning Legion and especially the Light, is not a unified force with everyone on the same side. There are apparent traitors and even the "loyalists" on the Void side are sniping at each other and threatening one another, which is a nice change-up.

Reached 90 last night and my wife and I will finish off the campaign quest today, opening up the world quests and letting us tackle the weekly events for the first time.