Zul'Gurub

[Leshy]

(All screenshots have been resized to 800x600 to prevent my bandwidth from keeling over completely.)

This tale starts in Stranglethorn Vale. I was merrily killing of some Basilisks for a quest, when I suddenly found myself unable to charge into, or hit, one of the creatures. The game was telling me that I wasn't close enough, or whatever. I figured the mob was bugged, or I was out of sync - it happens occasionally.

I looked around, didn't see any other Basilisks and figured that I couldn't really be arsed killing them anyway, so hopped onto my mount, and went north to hunt some Geologists at the Venture Co. Base Camp. When I arrived there, there was not a single mob in sight. I was a bit bestranged by this, but for some reason no alarm bells went off - as the chat channel was still happily scrolling along with tales of wonder and joy of my fellow Goons. I figured that perhaps someone else had just cleared out this area, so I rode around somewhat, and suddenly found myself on a path upwards.

A path that had earlier contained two level ?? guards that made me decide that I should really be moving along now. It was empty now.



I curiously approached, and discerned an instance portal.



An instance? Here in Stranglethorn Vale? But there isn't... oh hay! This must be the big Troll City that I've heard rumours about and such. Oh well, let's check it out, it probably won't work anyway.



It does :cool:

On my trusty mount, I have just run into Zul'Gurub. I'll let the rest of the images speak for themselves, it's very pretty at any rate. And looks pretty big.







In the above screenshots, on the right pillar, you can see some texture oddity. They might still be working on that, I did experience some flickering textures as I was riding through, with discoloration as above.

In the second shot you can see how great and high the trees look. Also, this structure looks like some sort of throne - perhaps we can expect the first miniboss there. For now, however, my Troll heritage allows me to peruse it ;)