03-14-2005, 07:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-14-2005, 07:22 PM by MongoJerry.)
DarkCrown,Mar 14 2005, 10:03 AM Wrote:Silithius (am I spelling this correctly?) has horde and alliance flight paths near the entrance from Un'Goro. The alliance path goes to Gadgetzan. The mobs are itemized, though I mostly saw silver drops. There is a barrier stretching across the entire map from east to west about halfway down the zone. I don't know if this was there before, I'd never spent much time in this region. There is a large gong near the barrier which I assume provides access through some quest.
The barrier's been there all along. Blizzard has said that there will be some zones that will open up only on the completion of a big epic quest. That is, one character or group might complete the quest, an announcement somehow goes over the system (mechanism to be determined), and all players of that faction can then go into the zone for some time (one Blizzard post mentioned a few days). It was my impression that the southern half of Silithus was reserved to be one of those zones. I haven't heard of thise mechanism being implemented in this patch (I'm sure there would have been some announcement or patch note about it), so it wouldn't surprise me to find that the southern half of Silithus is still not-yet-implemented.
Quote:The meeting stone for Dire Maul is west of the entrance. Only the party leader can click the stone to look for more members. The stones appear to function. What I saw of the instance had ogres, treants and the flower and plant mobs from Un'Goro and Maraudon. There were also satyrs. Lots of herb drops here, in particular wildvine seemed to drop fairly often. This should make leatherworkers happy. The mobs were level 56 and 57. None of what I saw was much challenge for a party of level 60 players. We found at least 3 seperate entrances into the instance, which allow you to bypass the earlier mobs. One entrance requires the Crescent key, which we didn't get far enough to locate.
I'd be interested to find out how the meeting stones work. So, the party leader actually picks characters out of those who register at the zone? That sounds better than the automated system that had been described before. I wish there was an easy way to register at several meeting stones without flying all over the world. Most high level players aren't picky about whether they go into UBRS, Stratholme, Scholomance, or now Dire Maul.
Thanks for the information. Keep it coming!