Starting a Tauren Druid on the Horde side can be frustrating and boring. Why? The running! The starting area for Horde Druids, Camp Narache, is really quite nice actually. With a Native American style theme you begin your life on an open sweeping plain. It’s actually nicer looking than the Alliance Druid starting area and you don’t have to worry about falling off that big tree (Night Elves know what I’m talking about). But while the vast open plain is nice to look at it’s a pain in the butt to run across. You’ve got a stick, one or two horns, a mighty stomp thing and a couple of spells…you’re ready to go…
The secret to beating the boredom is getting out of this opening area as fast as possible and on onto your first “major” Horde city (more like a town) called Bloodhoof Village. The way to accomplish this is cluster your quests and do them each cluster at a time. By this I mean grab everyone of the first round of quests, go do them then turn them in, then get all the second round of quests and so on. I know, it sounds beyond simple, but a lot of time can be wasted in not doing this.
The reason some folks fail to do this is they get caught up on making a few copper. It’s a bit nuts really. I was in there watching a level 3 Tauren Druid run around for about 20 minutes without leveling. I finally asked him, “You having trouble hitting lvl 4?” and he responded “My bag keeps getting full….” 20 Minutes for what…50 copper? You’ve only got the one bag and it fills up fast. Do yourself a favor and don’t stop questing to “run back and sell” your extra tuff. It’s simply not worth the time or the effort.
The biggest and longest run you’ll have to make is the couple of quests you’ll need to do in a ravine to east-southeast of your starting point. You’ll head there to wack a bunch of pigs, to collect some belts and bring back some guys head. Make sure you’ve got all three of these quests in hand before heading over there. (little time saving hint here…the guy who’s head you need is located under the first “L” in the words Bramble Blade Ravine on the Map). If you do this first part right you can get done and out of there in under 40 minutes easily. You’ll be level 5 or 6, be able to have purchased all your spells up to that point, you’ll have a new stick, some new amour and be on the way to Bloodhoof before you know it. Once there you’ll find another Druid trainer, profession trainers, vendors and a butt load of quests.
My point? Don’t get frustrated because it’s really fast if you just plow through that first part. Stick out the first 30-40 minutes and you’ll be good to go. Thanks!
by 4-an, on February 27 2009 @ 3:19 pm
with the completion beginning area quests you will recieve XP and some silver for the effort. dont worry about the items that drop off of badguys. they will be worth relatively little to the merchants back at camp. Some of the drops should be going right onto your new character…check to see if they are upgrades or pehaps are “greenies”. The drops with green text will be worth 10 grays. the sacks available to purchase are very expensive to anyone under level 20. Check the trade channel…there will be tailors and such such dying to make sacks to level their skill…bring them some linen and wool and TADA …you get a sack…figuratively of course.
by Skipper, on February 27 2009 @ 7:34 pm
Good point on checking trade for guys skill leveling their tailoring skill!
by Overcast, on April 16 2009 @ 6:19 pm
“Do yourself a favor and don’t stop questing to “run back and sell” your extra tuff. It’s simply not worth the time or the effort.”
Yeah – if you can’t use it, or it doesn’t stack – toss it. Just keep the stackable stuff, that’s your best ‘net’ profit at that point in the game.