I dunno if we did it right. But at least it was an adventure. My BF and I have Night Elves and we’re level 10/11 and wanted to go to Stormwind last night. My BF lead the way (I didn’t argue, lol) and we were off!
We got on a boat from Darnassus to the Darkshore. Then a level 3 Night Elf said that he was following us. We invited him to our group and told him that we were on our way to Stormwind. So then the three of us got on a boat to the Wetlands. BTW, I was shocked at seeing Wetlands. I started in Cata so I’ve always seen the Wetlands covered in water. I was so shocked there was no water! So we get on a boat to Theramore. Then my BF said we have to go to the Barrens. I wasn’t really questioning anything, so I just followed. But… he wanted to go through Dustwallow Marsh. Again, not questioning, just enjoying the ride. So there’s high level beasts everywhere. We die over and over and over and over again. I’m a priest, so I rez where I can. Then when there’s a new GY we rez at the GY when we can. And we’re inching our way up through Dustwallow Marsh and finally make it out, and we run out and keep running.
Now we’re kinda at the entrance to Mulgore. I ask him again where we have to go and he says Ratchet.It completely dawns on me that we have to go east to the water. We see Horde everywhere, tagged for PvP, but they graciously leave us alone. We die a few times to beasts, but finally make it to the boat!
We’re off to Booty Bay now. So again it happens. We’re running through Stranglethorn Vale. And we die. And we die. And we die. Continuously, inching our way. We finally get a new GY and rez there and we’re now in kind of by Duskwood. My BF and I both had a long day, so we were both starting to be so done, but we decide that we can’t leave this level 3 by himself!! We have to get him to Stormwind!
So, we venture a bit through Duskwood, and decide to go to Westfall to avoid high levels. We’re so close to Stormwind now and just run run run run. We make it to the gates. And I’m in AWE as I see old Stormwind. I GASP. I had no idea the entrance to the AH was on the side. There’s no water in the fountain. There’s a hallway in the bank! The map looks completely odd. I start running around and gasping at things that have been changed. My BF is laughing at my shock because he played Vanilla and saw it before. And I was so glad to have got our level 3 friend to Stormwind. He had a blast dying over and over and kept laughing. And the RAIN. My god. The RAIN. That was really cool to see along the way.
I’m sure there might have been a better way to get to Stormwind, but it was an adventure nonetheless.
Hahaha that’s a hell of an adventure and sounds like you really enjoyed yourselves so that’s awesome! I hope you have more fun adventures like that in the future hehe
If you want good short route for next toons. Once you get to menethil, swim south west until you get to the coast line and stick to it until you discover dun morogh. Drown yourself and Rez at the graveyard, you’ll be a short distance from iron forge and can take the tram to storm wind.
Yeah your boyfriend’s an idiot, literally the most ineffective way to get to Stormwind as a night elf. But I guess you had a fun time and thats all that matters
You could have saved a lot of time, by swimming around to Dun Morough, drown yourself to hit the gy in the gnome start area, then take the tunnel and road to IF, hit the tram. You only die once (on purpose) and only take 15 minutes or so…
Yes you took some wrong turns, and it easily took you twice as long to get to SW as it should’ve… BUT this is totally authentic to Vanilla, when no one knew where they were going or what they would find when they got there. Just headed in a direction that seemed good and had adventures. I’m kind of jelly right now.
