Pre-WOTLK Thoughts
The Running of da Bulls for Ezra is going to stay on Argent Dawn US, that’s final. We’ve talked with the leadership of Bloodmoon Chosen, the friendly horde guild who has helped us in the past, and they report that a 6pm weekend starting time should not encounter a heavy server-queue. Thank you to everybody who offered to assist us, we really do appreciate it. Really, we do.
BRK’s Running of da Bulls for Ezra: The Sacking of Stormwind. Saturday, November 8th, 6:00pm EST, 11:00pm GMT.
Tauren starting area, Ratchet, STV, have a light snack of Goldshire, then burn Stormwind to the ground. If you’re on Argent Dawn already, level your toon and spread the word about our plans. If you’ve got a 70 on Argent Dawn, we need you and your guild! Heck, if Stormwind proves to be a cakewalk, we could go after Ironforge, Darnassus, and Exodar and get everybody Black War Bears!
Just remember to visit the Make a Wish foundation and give a little something in memory of Erza.
We will be offering more Gorilladin shirts. We will be offering Europe and Canada shipping options. Please, we need more time to get this done. Mrs. BRK, who has done loads of t-shirt sales in her previous jobs, has volunteered to take over this part of the operation.
BRK’s Top Ten Reasons for Starting Out in Borean Tundra (Alliance-biased)
10. Baby Rhino! He’s right there, waiting for you. You want a Rhino, this is where you’ve got to go.
9. Flat landscape means you can run in any direction and find stuff to do. You’re not channeled or funneled in a specific direction, so you can do what you want and not feel like you’re skipping stuff.
8. Stupid humans and their farms. “The tunnel is cursed!” Yeah, the tunnel is always cursed, isn’t it. Lots of quick quests just outside the Alliance keep.
7. Speaking of the Alliance keep, it’s pretty sweet. It’s big, there’s upstairs and downstairs, it’s basically a mini Stormwind.
6. The existence of the Gnome airstrip means plenty of Horde trying to wipe that place out. It’s not an official world PvP event, but the Destruction of the Airport will be high on every hordie’s list of fun things to do. While we were there, the place was under attack almost constantly.
5. Speaking of the Horde, they get a massive, just huge town. It dominates the landscape, looking down on the Alliance keep.
4. The “There’s broken pieces of stuff out there, go pick it up!” quests. Aren’t those always a blast with 20,000 people all trying to pick up the same gear and piece of wood?
3. Murlocs. Say no more.
2. Mammoths! Not the mounts, but roving herds of mammoths are a skinner’s dream come true.
1. Those animal-loving druids accomplish the exact opposite of what their charter says. You’ll want to slaughter the mammoths just to p!ss these guys off.
BRK’s Top Ten Reasons for Starting Out in Howling Fjord (Alliance-biased)
10. The longest d@mn boatride ever.
9. A to B to C progression. If you like a bit of order to your questing, this is your starting area. Follow the roads, everything is clearly marked, it’s obvious when you’re going in the wrong direction, or headed somewhere you shouldn’t be.
8. The buring boat. That’s a “Welcome to Northrend” sign from the locals.
7. The Alliance starting town is basically a disaster in-progress. If you like chaos, start here.
6. The first instance is right, frickin’ there. No flying, no searching, no uppity talking dragons, just walk up and do it.
5. Dwarf explorers. The carpet. The costume. Best Alliance quest line in Northrend. You’ll love it.
4. Horde starting area is like the landing on Normandy. Get on the beach and kill everything!
3. Frickin’ vertical as all get-out. Mountains and cliffs and huge trees! And the Trams and elevators rock.
2. Blue Chimaeras. You don’t have to hunt for Nuramoc anymore if you love this pet but hate them in green.
1. The elite orca and the penguins. That’d be a great band-name, too.
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TJ where do we send the diet soda and cheetos?
We do we here on the allaince get our turn?
Diet Soda and Cheetos?
The man has got priorities!
Now, how about reasons why NOT to start in either zone? Honestly, the big flat area sounds good to me, easier to find mobs you need, etc.
At the same time though, I don’t want to miss out on Dwarves, nor the ‘best alliance quest in Northrend’.
Sigh…decisions, decisions.
Adios,
Mestos
Subliminal TJ…. weird.
The Howling Fjord is very pretty.
The Borean Tundra is not. My other problem with the BT is the time my newly arrived 70 got turned around, and ended up dying to Horde guards several times.
That said, questing in both areas is fun, plenty to skin, pick and mine. Good times for all.
Hahah, TJ.
I will be starting a lowly cow again, don’t want to risk my 70 not transferring in time.
Yay, I remembered to save!
I think the brain is getting a little uppity, better feed it more diet soda and cheetos.
“We will be offering more Gorilladin shirts. We will be offering Europe”.
¡YAY! /clap /dance /atlast!
Shrinka, one happy dwarven huntress.
/snort
Diet Soda and Cheetos incoming!
“I’m not paid enough, send….”
That’s as far as I got, from there it got all flappity. Sure I missed something, but apparently my resolution makes spotting certain letters hard.
“8. The buring boat. That’s a “Welcome to Northrend” sign from the locals.”
Pure win… had me chuckling. I saw crowds of people jeeing the new arrivals, throwing rotten fruit and less pleasant stuff at them. Ahhh… the smell of stinking peasants in the morning.
Yay for AD! Argent Dawn is my home server, although I’m Alliance. I’ll try and be around and roll up a baby tauren to come play.
TJ, stop trying to send BRK’s readers subliminal messages. Even if they did get the message, they’d just send BRK the diet soda and cheetos, seeing as how most people wouldn’t stop to check who wrote the post.
And no, get your own damn cheetos! These are mine. You can have the diet soda though. Soda, blech.
Dude. You can get chimeras like those in HF in Winterspring. Just sayin.
Drink more Ovaltine?
cannot wait to get me dwarf there, looking foward to baby bull run
Ugh. Diet. Someone’s sadistic.
Unless they start awarding XP for being killed by other players, I’m going wherever is quieter on my high-pop PvP server.
I am not paid enough send diet soda and cheetohs.
We’ll be bulling it up at a wedding, /doh. Have fun, take many pics!!!
Just a reminder about Argent Dawn and the Ezra Run….{Run for Ezra} has been founded. “/who Run for Ezra” and pst any member to join…everyone should have ginvite privileges. Make sure you’re promoted to the rank of “Runner” so you can invite too.
Dear BKR,
Your Sacking of Stormwind sounds great and all… but I hope you do realise that the server WILL crash if there’s a couple hundred people in one zone?
I myself am from Dunemaul EU. Now ours is not the newest server hardware-wise, but we do have some experience with large numbers of players in one zone, and the server crashes that come with it. The Tales of the Past movies were shot on our server. Every single large scale battle-scene in TotP2 and 3 crashed the server several times.
Anyway, I hope you manage to pull it off anyway. Sounds like great fun. It’s a shame I don’t have a US account or I would’ve joined you.
The reasons I would go to either zone:
Howling Fjord:
4. Horde starting area is like the landing on Normandy. Get on the beach and kill everything!
6. The first instance is right, frickin’ there. No flying, no searching, no uppity talking dragons, just walk up and do it.
Borean Tundra:
10. Baby Rhino! He’s right there, waiting for you. You want a Rhino, this is where you’ve got to go.
6. The existence of the Gnome airstrip means plenty of Horde trying to wipe that place out. It’s not an official world PvP event, but the Destruction of the Airport will be high on every hordie’s list of fun things to do. While we were there, the place was under attack almost constantly.
5. Speaking of the Horde, they get a massive, just huge town. It dominates the landscape, looking down on the Alliance keep.
2. Mammoths! Not the mounts, but roving herds of mammoths are a skinner’s dream come true.
So much content my brain might explody. There is so much research to do…. How about gear? Will we replace our T4-T5 gear in either zone?
Uniquorn, my moonkin is in full epics, T4 and badge gear, and at 73 I’ve picked up a couple trinkets, cause I’m like that, but haven’t replaced ANY of my gear yet. The trinkets are just situational nice-to-haves.
Hey if anyone decide to make a vid of this epicness,may I suggest they use the song Indestructible by Disturbed.It just seems a fitting song for the sacking of Stormwind by hundreds of Taurens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWRjZiXILDM
Just finished making my donation. Such a great organization. I rolled a cow. Cowodoom level 5 so those guards won’t have a chance! Hell, I’ll just solo SW.