Iron Forge

Finally bothered to make my on over to Iron Forge tonight. Fucking long ass walk that one was. I took some screenshots of the trip because I thought it was cool (for the uninitiated, Iron Forge is the hub of the Alliance. sure, the dwarves start out right next to it, but for a Night Elf coming from not just across the ocean, but across the ocean and across the next continent, it's a pretty big deal to see it).

The journey begins when you take the boat from Auberdine in Darkshore to Menethil Harbor. Once there, it's about a 15 minute hike through the Wetlands (it took me a bit longer because I stopped to pick up some young croc skins for a quest, but the aspect of cheatah maybe balanced that out a bit). Once through the wetlands, it's about a 5 minute hike up Dun Algaz (and god damn if there wasn't an orc encampment sitting in the middle of that). Coming out of that in Loch Modan, it's another 5 minutes or so to get to the North Gate Outpost in Dun Morogh. On the way through there are some cool Dwarven guard towers and a long windy road. It's probably a good 10 minute hike over that road to finally get to the Iron Forge Gates. I decided to stop and check out the scenery below the gates. Once inside Iron Forge, I absolutely had to stop at the Auction House to see what I could bid on. I was out of money though, so I couldn't partake in the antics. Since I was really just there for a quest, I made my way to the forge where the gryphon master was so I could get a ride out of there. As usual, I was a few bucks short and had to sell off some of the low end food I'd picked up for Frylock so I could bum a ride.

I gotta say though, for as cool s Iron Forge is, that place is one laggy motherfucker. There had to have been a good thousand people running around in it, so it's somewhat understandable. It's just kind of akward trying to find your way around when things are skipping and jumping all over the place. I really feel for the dwarves who have major quests to complete in there.

I also found a cool waterfall in Ashenvale that I decided to jump off of:

Thinking about it
Free falling
Rough landing

It took all of my health when I hit the bottom, but didn't send me to the graveyard. Woot.