Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade)

Eversong Woods Guide

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The Eversong Woods is the Blood Elf starting zone. All of the quests are soloable and most of them are fairly easy to accomplish. The quests are fairly linear and offer clear choices of where to head to next. A lot of the mobs are particularly easy for casters since they have low hit points and have some drops that boost your mana. In this regard they can fun to grind since you can accumulate a fair amount of mana boosting drops.

Sunstrider Island is an excellent starting area with fast respawning mobs that are easy to best. You should be in no danger of dying and the only tricky part may be finding the Shrine of Dath'Remar, which is in the Northwest of the island. The Ruins of Silvermoon is another enclosed area for your starting quests that provide more of a challenge. After the first few quests here you will leave the ruins and return to train so it is best to set your Hearthstone here for a little while. When you begin to wander outside of the ruins you will in general head west and do those quests before going east towards Farstrider Retreat; traveling further south as you progress.

Some notable quests:

23 [6] Wanted: Thaelis the Hungerer - This is the quest from the wanted poster. He will spawn randomly in several of the buildings in the ruins. I have primarily seen him in the Northeast building in the ruins.

32 [6] Roadside Ambush - This small chain of quests is easy and nets you a 4-slot container. Simply talk to the NPC and follow his directions.

40 [7] Fish heads, Fish heads - At the time of the beta the low drop rate can make this not really worth the time. I eventually killed about 30+ Murlocs to get all of the heads.

48 [9] The Ring of Mmmrrggll - It is best to clear out one of the Murloc villages and then tag him as he paths through it. Otherwise it is very easy to get several adds since he runs fairly fast when low on health.

58 [8] The Party Never Ends - This quest will incidentally get finished as you travel around doing your other quests. Don't be in a rush with it or you will be doing a lot of pointless traveling.

79 [8] Zul'Marash - The quest giver is a Troll in the cage in the Tor'watha village. Zul'Marash himself is quite easy since you can simply jump off the building if you get in trouble and tag him as he paths down to get you.

81 [10] Powering Our Defenses - Probably the most difficult quest in the zone. Expect three waves of mobs, between two or three mobs per wave. Remember that you don't have to kill all of the mobs, just keep them off of the rune. If you can kite them around a bit, it will make the encounter trivial.

84 [10] The Fallen Courier - Be sure not to miss this one on your way to Ghostlands, it nets you a 6-slot bad and green bracers.

You are unable to do any of the quests on Sunstrider Isle as a Tauren, I'm assuming you're not going to be able to do them as anything but a Blood Elf.

You can do the quests in Eversong Woods, and Ghostlands though.

If you plan on coming to the Blood Elf area, get to level 6 or 8 before doing so.

This is the best Horde starting zone in the game.

Probably my blood elf bias, but just an opinion.