I’ve been doing a bunch of AFKing on World of Warcraft lately, while I work in another window typing something out or editting some video or still frame I had recently taken…

While I’ve been doing my thing in the other window, occasionally interesting things happen in WoW and I come back to it on my screen in time to take a screenshot.

Entertaining Photo #1: What Does AFK Mean To You?

Don’t even ask me about the character name I chose here… I just needed to log in and watch the Video Compressing window do its thing before I closed out of WoW to do editting on yet another video.

So, I logged in a brand new character and moved it away from the starting spot and then proceeded to AFK. I guess to this guy, AFK just means “don’t just duel, send an invite, too”.

Entertaining Photo #2: Quick Shutdown After Restart

I do find it entertaining that even though there isn’t a patch/code update that we players have to download, there are times when extra shutdowns/restarts are needed after the Maintenance day, in order for everything to get back to running smoothly again.

Is it the sudden onslaught of pressure on the various servers as everyone re-logs in and stresses a lot of the same systems what’s causing it? (authentication is the first to mind, but once I’m already logged in, those problems cannot be seen by me anymore)

At any rate, sometimes Admins starting shutdowns can’t give you the full 15 minutes warning they’d like to before it goes down, and this past Tuesday was one of those days on Zul’jin.

Entertaining Photo #3: Ursius The Evasive

Ursius sought me out while I sat, AFK, on my Frostwolf Howler mount after I had taken some winter-scene pictures that I ended up not even using in my wee video about the Frostwolf Howler and where to find its vendor in the Alterac Mountains.

Ursius, the named bear in Winterspring, just HAPPENED to stumble across me when I AFK’d on a hill still within sight of the town of Everlook.

Ursius, who I hunted and hunted and hunted for, using Beast tracking even, to help my friend take him down for that stupid Winterspring quest.

Ursius, who we NEVER FOUND when we were actively tracking and exploring for him.

I find such ironicisms highly entertaining.

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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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