Quest Items In Northrend Make Questing More Fun!

For a lot of us, it’s still early for me to start talking about working an alt to 80 since a lot of us aren’t 80 yet. In fact, since I got the game a bit later than most of you did I’m still about half way to 72 and I haven’t touched my other two 70’s yet. But something tells me that when we eventually do get our mains to a point when we feel comfortable in leveling our alts, it’s not going to be boring. First of all, there are two starting areas so you can totally choose one for your main and then choose the other for an alt. but when it comes to a point when you’ll be leveling your third character to 80 or your fourth and so on, this won’t be much of a factor in giving some novelty since you’ve probably done both zones extensively. Even in that situation, I think it’s not going to be as boring as going through Azeroth and the Outlands.

Granted that I’ve only seen the Howling Fjord so far (not counting that quest that flew me to Dragonblight against my will and since I didn’t want to go there yet, I had to fly back), a huge amount of the quests I’ve seen already tell me that if a lot more of the quests in the other zones in Northrend are like them, questing finally has an added spice to it than it ever really had before. I’m talking about the creative use of quest items that you use to accomplish your task. With the use of these items, questing is rarely just a boring kill X number of Y or things like that. Using signal flares to mark targets for your allies’ cannons, using an item to summon an npc that gives you quests and fights with you, using an item that gives you control of an abomination that blows stuff up, killing people and using an axe to cut them open to take their brains – such quests are more fun because of the quest items that are provided for you and there are heck lot of quests like that I encountered already just in the Howling Fjord.

This is why I think that even if I decide to level another character through the Howling Fjord again, it’s probably not going to be as boring. While I might get that feeling of “been there, done that” at least going through the whole process again is going to be more fun because of the added spice the quest items give to questing. The only downside to this is that the items take up a lot of space in the inventory haha.