Redridge Mountains

Truly Epic Indeed!

I just finished all of the Redridge quest lines last night on my Human Priest and all I can say is "Damn, that was so awesome!" My main is a Human Warrior that I leveled through these same zones years ago and all of these early zones were so god awful boring and horrible to grind quests through. They had no flow, no story, no reason for doing what you're doing and felt completely void of anything fun... You know the typical MMO grind quests. Now years later, Blizzard goes back and claims to have revamped these early zones to make them more "streamlined and fun". So I make a Human Priest and start leveling back through these same early zones and wow, they aren't kidding. Westfall was massively improved from back in the day and Redridge may very well be the koolest quest line I have ever done in a MMO.

It was fun, engaging, interactive, fluid, it told a story, it was funny, it made me feel involved. The stuff I was doing had an actual storyline, it had purpose, it had impact on the surrounding environment, it made me actually want to keep going just to see what would happen next! It's the closest I have ever felt to a single player RPG while playing a MMO. I seriously can't urge you enough to check out the Redridge Mountains quest line. It's well worth making an alt to experience it. If this is an indicator of how Blizzard intends to do their quest lines from now on then I'd say it's a very good sign of things to come in the future.

I just only hope that the rest of the "revamped old zones" that I'm about to level through are done with the same quality that Westfall and Redridge were. What had been 2 of my least favorite WoW zones are now hands down 2 of my favorite zones. It makes me dread reaching TBC and WotLK content on this character because at this point I think the "older" zones revamped content is way more exciting than anything I ever saw in TBC or LK. Kudos to Blizzard on making questing in a MMO feel like a fun, personal experience. We need more of this! :)

Questing here in the mid to high Twenties is very annoying as most of the quests are on the opposite side of the zone from lakeshire, and guess where the only graveyard in the zone is? That's right, if you die you have to walk ALL the way back from just south of lakeshire. Bottom line, get a group if you quest in the eastern section- if you die, you'll regret it.

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• Lake Everstill - the large body of water on the map - is murloc infested towards the northern and southern ends. In the middle are Lake Threshers, about level 20 elites that you should steer clear of.
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• The Flight Path is located at the southern end of the bridge.
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• The area just north of Lakeshire is full of Gnolls, and further north is orc territory (not horde mind you).
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• Ather's Mill is infested with Spiders, Boars, some whelps and Condors.
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• The area to the East contains more Gnolls and orcs, a place safer to venture with a partner or group.
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