30 to 32, Retribution Ganking, New Quests, Wetlands and Refuge Point

After the debacle in Arathi Basin I was more than ready to start leveling again and it took me back to Ashenvale to finish up the Rayne’s Cleansing quests and to a new quest hub I’ve never explored before: Forest Song.

Long story short, I finished up the Rayne’s Cleansing quest line up to where it rewards me with Dartol’s Rod of Transformation so now I can become a Furbolg at will. As I stated before, this is probably one of the coolest items in the game and a must have for any Alliance player. It still surprises me that a lot of people have never seen this item before and are shocked when you turn into a Furbolg. Now if only the Furbolg had some animations, no dancing, nothing cool.

Forest Song is a quest hub I have never explored before, I think it may have been beefed up before the Burning Crusade was introduced. The majority of the quests here had me dealing with demons near Felfire Hill and satyrs in the north, some of which I have quested through when leveling Horde toons on other servers. I also decimated the populace of the Warsong Lumber Camp across the way. My Ravager really enjoyed shredding through the mobs there.

I also had a chance to get a little retribution ganking in. While questing I was hassled by a couple Horde and one level 28 Orc Hunter in particular. He never got a chance to kill me, but to return the favor, when he was fighting the elite Hyppogryph for a Horde quest, I ganked the hell out of him. As I’ve said before, just leave me alone when I’m questing.

I finished up here and made my way back across the sea to Menethil Harbor and the Wetlands to finish up a few more quick quests including killing the Dark Iron Dwarves near the Thandol Span before I made my way to the Arathi Highlands and Refuge Point. Somehow I’ve gotten ahead of the guide in levels again and dinged 32 just getting to Refuge Point. The last thing I did was to sneak into Stromgarde and get the First Aid books needed to level my skill.

Next up is Southshore and the Alterac Mountains.