WoW: Battle Reports

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

I found my first real problem with WoW: Directions = Suck.

I'm so frustrated when someone giving me a quest says to go "southwest of Brill"...

There's a whole lot of stuff southwest of Brill.

I agree, I found myself having that same problem early on in the game...

However, most of the time it's telling you to go to a specific named place (the kind that, when you first go there, say "Discovered *name of place*")... And most of the time it doesn't discover that named place until you find a key point in the unexplored area (a camp, some ruins, whatever)... So just be thorough with your search of unexplored territory...

And most of the time when it says south of somewhere or north of somewhere, it means like as far north or south of the place as you can possibly go without leaving that territory...

Like Gnomeregan is "West of Ironforge", meaning it's shoved all the way in the westernmost part of the map...

Sometimes they don't even tell you where the thing is... But that's because the NPC doesn't actually know where it is, he's just heard the name... Or he knows the territory it's in, just not WHERE in the territory it's in...

I think they sorta set it up in that generalized-ish way for quests that are sending you into an area for the first time... To kinda make you have to explore more...

Or maybe they just suck with directions...