This weekend I finally had some time to really take a run (literally) with Forever. So I settled in with the Frosty Mage and we made the first push of Tirisfal in years.

I didn’t really know how to approach playing Forever just yet. I figured I would just let things play out as they come along. I started the weekend in the quint but dreary town of Brill. The busy hub just outside of Undercity, where the Undead do their initial questing. 

And quests are a plenty. But I think the main goal in these first what, 50 quests? Is to get you prepared to run around. I think before completing the zone my poor limping Mage put on 900 miles of drudging back and forth across the map. 

Run 10 minutes that way for one thing, 10 minutes back, just to be sent directly back for one more thing? 

But, doing that certainly made me money. I have no need for leather so I can sell all of it. And with every guide I have seen telling everyone to turn on auto loot, there are piles and piles of skinables along the entire route. I would fill my bags with leather every time I went out and cash in.

So far though, things seem pretty normal. Everything is familiar, but new at the same time. It wasnt until I finished up in Tirisfal and moved into Silverpine Forest that things seem very new. It looks the same as always, but it feels like a whole other questing direction is going on with all kinds of new stuff.

This is where I really started having fun. I am starting to get real Mage skills and the need to actually use them. Mobs are getting dangerous and us squishy guys need to plan things out before running in there. And thats where the difference in Retail and Forever is. Every pull, every mob group, is dangerous. And I am wielding a stick and wearing a blanket.

Plus, the weather is now playing a part in how you look at doing things. At one point is was raining so hard I could not see as far as I could cast. So as you are rolling through the woods, things are on you before you see them. Pretty intense. 

The questline there ran me to Orgrimmar. What a trip that was. Everyone is now used to just portaling everywhere. Using the Zeppelin was a dance party blast from the past! 

But Orgimmar was just a short visit as I took off for the miles long trek to the Crossroads and finally over to the big city of Thunderbluff. Ah.. boy do I miss these areas. I’m just gonna hang out with the cows for a bit here before back to the grueling Barrons…