Comments on: I Need to Make a Sight-Seeing Alt

By: Foton

Foton — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:01:11 +0000

Some of my guild saw a sandstorm in Tanaris on the way to Silithus. I was envious. We tried to arrive in time to witness this phenom. Alas and alack.

Also, we didn’t get any Essence of Air. Double ouch.

By: Derelict (Silver Hand, Horde)

Derelict (Silver Hand, Horde) — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:27:05 +0000

I hear your pain 🙂

I saw some weather in Feralas, on the way to plinking around in Dire Maul last night.

Essentially … meh. I didn’t like weather effects in EQ, and the rain in Feralas wasn’t anything special.

By: uruloki

uruloki — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:33:09 +0000

Apparently, Tirisfal Glades is Seattle. Been doing the SM overpower run for silk lately, and the place is always raining. I am so glad that I always take my UD characters to Durotar to level.

By: Hyd

Hyd — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:12:27 +0000

I have yet to see any weather in Tanaris or STV, above and beyond the usual ‘Partly cloudy with, 50% chance of getting ganked.’

By: Pharkas

Pharkas — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:24:33 +0000

Is it that healers burn out or bore out?

By: Byron Ellacott

Byron Ellacott — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:16:11 +0000

It’s not just raiding guilds that are geographically isolated. A level 60 has no interest in Elwynn, Tirisfal, Dun Morogh, Darkshore, Alterac, STV, Tanaris or Feralas, save when a travel path takes them through those places. High level gatherskillers may have an interest in Un’goro and Winterspring, but for other 60s, there’s still not much reason to visit those zones.

Because one level in WoW represents such a large increase in power (well, it’s more sort of at the two-level mark, but let’s pretend otherwise) zones are tuned for a very small range of levels. If you’re outside of that range, that zone is not interesting to you. At level 60, all non-instance zones become uninteresting, because there’s not a great deal of content other than dungeon crawling.

Even if every outdoor zone got weather, you’d STILL never see it, because let’s face it, we only leave the major cities to get into an instance. And maybe to farm.