Game plan for Realm 1st 85?

[Flex]

as long as I don't have to do a quest chain to unlock a tabard vendor I'll be happy.

[Sabindeus]

as long as I don't have to do a quest chain to unlock a tabard vendor I'll be happy.

Oh good point, I hadn't thought of that. I think you in fact do have to do like 50% of Vashj'ir before you can get the Earthen Ring Quartermaster.

Also I know you ahve to do tons of stuff to get anywhere with Therazane, much like the Sons of Hodir.

Guardians of Hyjal is right there off the bat but you need Friendly to purchase it and start at Neutral so that's a little while...

I haven't touched Wildhammer yet but from my vague excursions into Twilight Highlands I am pretty sure you have to do some stuff to get Friendly with them.

[halabar]

You do make an interesting point though, on the way to the wolves you pick 3 nodes and net 5,000 xp each. In doing so you have really added a lot of experience to the current model.

Yeah, if I do start a Worgen druid, I'm likely to go dual-gathering, to maximize what I get along the way.

[halabar]

as long as I don't have to do a quest chain to unlock a tabard vendor I'll be happy.

Oh good point, I hadn't thought of that. I think you in fact do have to do like 50% of Vashj'ir before you can get the Earthen Ring Quartermaster.

Also I know you ahve to do tons of stuff to get anywhere with Therazane, much like the Sons of Hodir.

Guardians of Hyjal is right there off the bat but you need Friendly to purchase it and start at Neutral so that's a little while...

I haven't touched Wildhammer yet but from my vague excursions into Twilight Highlands I am pretty sure you have to do some stuff to get Friendly with them.

And you have to do some quests to get your sea-pony.

So nothing critical is hidden by phasing?

[Flex]

as long as I don't have to do a quest chain to unlock a tabard vendor I'll be happy.

Oh good point, I hadn't thought of that. I think you in fact do have to do like 50% of Vashj'ir before you can get the Earthen Ring Quartermaster.

Also I know you ahve to do tons of stuff to get anywhere with Therazane, much like the Sons of Hodir.

Guardians of Hyjal is right there off the bat but you need Friendly to purchase it and start at Neutral so that's a little while...

I haven't touched Wildhammer yet but from my vague excursions into Twilight Highlands I am pretty sure you have to do some stuff to get Friendly with them.

I don't mind questing to reach friendly. I do mind being Friendly then having to quest to bring the tabard vendor into phase, like Knights of the Ebon Blade in Icecrown.

I saw that you reach Honored with Therazane by just doing the intro questing giving you access to the Honored shoulder enchants easily and they also have a tabard for championing.

And you have to do some quests to get your sea-pony.

So nothing critical is hidden by phasing?

Critical hidden by phasing would be KotEB quartermaster in Icecrown and Sons of Hodir quartermaster. It is not no access to the in plain sight dude because you didn't do the pre-req quest.

[Sabindeus]

as long as I don't have to do a quest chain to unlock a tabard vendor I'll be happy.

Oh good point, I hadn't thought of that. I think you in fact do have to do like 50% of Vashj'ir before you can get the Earthen Ring Quartermaster.

Also I know you ahve to do tons of stuff to get anywhere with Therazane, much like the Sons of Hodir.

Guardians of Hyjal is right there off the bat but you need Friendly to purchase it and start at Neutral so that's a little while...

I haven't touched Wildhammer yet but from my vague excursions into Twilight Highlands I am pretty sure you have to do some stuff to get Friendly with them.

And you have to do some quests to get your sea-pony.

So nothing critical is hidden by phasing?

Well clearly since Flex pointed out the faction quartermasters that I hadn't even thought of, it's entirely possible I'm missing something when you say "critical". What would you define as something "critical" that could be phased?

[halabar]

Are the shoulder and head enchants BOA to start with Cata, or are the BOP right now?

[Sabindeus]

Oh and you definitely have to do quests for the Ramakhen Quartermaster.

[Flex]

Oh and you definitely have to do quests for the Ramakhen Quartermaster.

I see what Halabar is saying.

Quest to get to friendly or Quest to actually be able to see him? Have they sorta become one and the same now through the use of phasing technology?

[Sabindeus]

Are the shoulder and head enchants BOA to start with Cata, or are the BOP right now?

Ah crap... I know one of them is BoP and the other is BoA because I tried to send one from a premade to my copy and it didn't work. And I seem to recall the one I was able to send having "Requires Exalted with so and so" on it... so that was probably the Therazane one

[Flex]

Are the shoulder and head enchants BOA to start with Cata, or are the BOP right now?

quick wowhead shows shoulders BoP, head BoA.

[Sabindeus]

Oh and you definitely have to do quests for the Ramakhen Quartermaster.

I see what Halabar is saying.

Quest to get to friendly or Quest to actually be able to see him? Have they sorta become one and the same now through the use of phasing technology?

I'm not sure you need to do any quests to SEE any of the quartermasters but I know that getting to the Earthen Ring place in Vashj'ir will be either impossible or incredibly hard without doing some quests there. Either that or that place actually is phased.

I'm also not sure about Ramakhen, I don't think you can talk to any of the dudes there without doing the intro quest.

I'll log on tonight and check this all out.

[Sabindeus]

Are the shoulder and head enchants BOA to start with Cata, or are the BOP right now?

quick wowhead shows shoulders BoP, head BoA.

ah yes

But the head enchants require the rep to use even though they're BoA. This may be a bug.

[Flex]

I'm not sure you need to do any quests to SEE any of the quartermasters but I know that getting to the Earthen Ring place in Vashj'ir will be either impossible or incredibly hard without doing some quests there. Either that or that place actually is phased.

I'm also not sure about Ramakhen, I don't think you can talk to any of the dudes there without doing the intro quest.

I'll log on tonight and check this all out.

My peeve stems from the revamped leveling and rep gains in WotLK. I can hit friendly KotEB in Zul'Drak and hit 80 without setting foot in Icecrown. However I'd need to do some quests to get the Tabard to get the instance rep while I continue questing for gold.

[halabar]

Listening to the Call To Auction podcast at the moment, and the quartermaster in Twilight Highlands that sells most of the high-end crafting patterns/recipes is hidden behind phasing. So there are some phasing-dependent limitations depending on what your character does. If your pally is a BS or JC, you'll need to do those quests (and rep?) to level your professions.