WQ: Grizzly Hills Stink

I recently wrote some gush­ing praise on Wrath quest­ing–about how Bliz­zard finally has it fig­ured out, how it’s great fun, blah blah blah. All that was before my wife and I moved into the Griz­zly Hills.

Now, I’m eat­ing my words.

What a mas­sive come­down this zone is after Dragonblight!

Let’s run down really quickly the change in tone and con­tent from the pre­vi­ous zone to this one:

Drag­onblight

• ride siege machines
• res­cue vil­lagers from an undead-ridden city on a snow gryphon
• fight drag­ons from dragonback
• sub­vert the lieu­tenants of Naxxramas
• pal around with the leader of the Emer­ald Dream
• invade a horde city along­side your fac­tion leaders

Griz­zly Hills

• grind elk meats with a hor­ri­ble drop rate
• grind bear flanks with a hor­ri­ble drop rate
• grind wolves
• grind troll mojo with a hor­ri­ble drop rate, do it five times in a row, with only the loca­tion of the troll camp chang­ing each time
• grind some herbs because some ran­dom npc stubbed his foot and needs foot balm
• grind the same wolves again for some­one else
• travel all over the zone by horse­back because there are only two flight points (poorly located)
• dou­ble back con­stantly because dif­fer­ent quest hubs tar­get the same areas

Basi­cally, every­thing I said in my pre­vi­ous post on quest qual­ity was undone in this zone.

Admit­tedly, I’m not inter­ested at all in the pvp quests, so maybe I’m miss­ing the point. Are those quests any good? More impor­tantly, are they so good that they redeem the rest of the zone?

I’m so glad to be mov­ing on to Zul’Drak. I’m going to skip the Griz­zly Hills entirely on my alts.

More Words!

• WQ: Bet­ter Questing!
• MMO Expan­sions and Sequels
• One week with patch 2.4
• Expan­sions are the Great Reset
• WQ: Alliance Skin­ning Tip