Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Getting Past The Felwood Timbermaw In The Tunnels
One of the challenges a level 50 player will face is the journey they are encouraged to take from Felwood into Winterspring and Moonglade. I recently made the journey with both my Priest and my Rogue, and discovered something helpful!
About The Timbermaw And The Tunnels
Progressing through the tunnels that connect the zones of Felwood, Winterspring and Moonglade, players who haven't done the "right quests" in Felwood will find themselves attacked and killed over and over by Timbermaw Warders and the likes.
If you make a wrong turn and go to Moonglade when you meant to hit Winterspring, that usually means more deaths and more running back to retrieve your corpse and continue the run a little further. And if you decide to kill those Timbermaw in the tunnel, you're making life more difficult for yourself because these are no standard mob - they're Timbermaw and they have reputation associated with them.
Rep Rewards For Timbermaw
There are reputation rewards if you do enough of the right quests, but that's not what this entry is about. Check out WoWWiki for rep reward information.
Running From Felwood To Winterspring Or Moonglade
I remember this "death relay" being almost a ritualistic rite of passage in my levelling guild before the expansion hit. That memory combined with my not wanting to put any efforts into ANY quests in Felwood on my way through to Moonglade to turn in a Maraudon quest, my Priest died three times on the way through recently, fearing and bubbling the whole way.
When I went to bring my Rogue to Winterspring, I discovered that there's a simple solution to the problem with the Timbermaws - complete one quest and your reputation will move to "Unfriendly", at which point they'll ignore you completely when you run past them in the tunnels!
The Quest: Deadwood Of The North
Nafien is where this quest begins. I'm too lazy to go out and find the coordinates of this guy, so instead I've added a map from Thottbot.com that marks where he is.
The quest itself is a standard "mob grinding" quest that requires you to kill a certain number of X mob, Y mob and Z mob before returning to the quest-giver to receive your reward or the quest for the next stage of the chain. The mobs can be found immediately to the west of where Nafien is found - I generally jump off the cliff beside Nafien and start into the Deadwoods from there.
Once you turn in the completed quest, you'll be elevated to "Unfriendly with Timbermaw Hold" and can run freely through the tunnels, dancing and mocking any Timbermaw you see!
(If you're a miner, there are a couple of spawn points around this quest area... and of course, Felwood is excellent for Herbalism practitioners.)
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You can also "corpse run," ie go thru as a ghost, find the nearest graveyard to your destination, log out, log in, and rez. Costs some repair bill, but meh, you're thru ;)
There's another guy near the south that gives you an easier mob quest, who then tells you to go to Nafien. I always did that quest, so I assumed that the timbermaw were always 'unfriendly' to me! ;-)
I remember when I was first at level 50 some years ago and saw the rewards, and wanted to grind the faction... wow, that sucked... not to mention everyone else on the OTHER faction that wanted to do the same, and those asshats on my side that didn't want to group because they wanted all the loot as well and not share the faction.... /sigh... those were the days! LOL. Now looking back, I can't think of anyone who would want to bother with that grind, let alone Argent Dawn, Cenarion, etc... Blizz should have incorporated factions to the expansion, like if you were exalted with the Cenarion in the old world, you would get a bonus head start to the Cenarion rep in the expansion. If they did something like that for Argent Dawn (which I imagine will have an impact in the next expansion) that would be awesome! I still have a bunch of faction items for AD that I'm like 5-10 items short of handing in for faction and can't be bothered going back! :D
The quest that comes from killing the Princess in Maraudon gave me my first glimpse into Moonglade at least, having to deliver a seed to the Cenarion guy. Obviously I was too low level, and too impatient, to even consider the rep-grinding, so the method I used was to travel north up the coast of Darkshore, swimming around the mountains and when the zone changed to "Moonglade", drowning before a rez at the Moonglade graveyard.
I got there some time after my friend, but she's a druid, all showing off with her access-all-areas teleport. Them druids think they're so clever... :P