I’m still going for Loremaster, and this place is brutal even at max level and with flying. How does anyone do this at level? Getting the flightpaths without flying feels like it would take a few hours. There’s half a billion quests, and the terrain makes simple travel take far longer.
Do you guys skip it? Loremasters, how did you feel about this zone?
Ashenvale isn’t hard at all
I say this as I had loremaster achievement done like years ago
Icecrown however…
It’s one of my favorite zones for Horde leveling… I get to attack Night Elf Villages.
I think because I was raiding consistently during LK that it was done at the time. I’m also not looking forward to anything in Legion.
I liked questing in Ashenvale, in fact I did it before Cata and afterward. Swamp of Sorrow on the other hand…
It was fine.
Ashenvale actually improved greatly with the convenient-wise Cata revamp. Couple more flight paths, you get a ride to the farthest Alliance eastern point and don’t have to hoof it on foot.
Though after defeating the big fire elemental, its still -Blizzard style-, not really defeated.
Yea I remember I hated that place in vanilla and hate it now. Last toon I leveled as alliance the zones I recall hitting were:
Drustvar
Plaguelands (both of them)
Tanaris
Bloodmyst isles (can turn WM on and horde won’t touch you there FYI)
Westfall
Not saying those are the best but just the ones I pick.
As for Horde I go with:
Ashara (place beside orgrimmar)
hillsbrad
both plaguelands
tanaris
I personally liked leveling in Ashenvale.
Just a matter of preference and also mentally approaching it.
Either you dread it or you play it off as some immersion thing and it doesn’t end up feeling as bad when you WANT to do said zone.
I did on my Void Elf Warlock.
I rather liked Ashenvale. Doing it on Alliance side indicate the words of Tyrande is right, Night Elves are pretty screwed.