Thursday (17 Mar) - Bean's New Beau

Thursday (17 Mar) - Bean's New Beau

After the Warsong Gulch match on Tuesday night (in which Bean picked up level 15) she started looking at gear improvements. She had already set aside a +2 agi ring to add to her growing accoutrements, as well as the snazzy heirloom cap she got from Wild (ok, so it's not as snazzy as Lao's goggles). She was pretty happy with her shotgun, but compared to the heirloom gun/bow that the other three hunters had strapped on - well, it fell pretty far short. Wild did some research for Bean and came up with the ideal ranged weapon for her level: [Farstrider's Bow]. This bow is located in the Ghostlands and is made for level 19s, but level 15s can use it, too. It's the reward for completing the final quest of a six quest chain. This bow is good enough to last Bean into her mid-twenties.

Bean wanted that bow. And she knew how to get it. Bean tapped JB on the shoulder and said - come with me.

JB and Bean took the zep from Orgrimmar to the Undercity. From there they used the teleporter to travel instantly to Silvermoon City, and then took the flight path from there to Tranquillen, an outpost in the Ghostlands. Leaving Tranquillen on foot, the two adventurers picked up their first quest at the Farstrider Enclave east of the outpost. JB led the way, one shotting whatever passed in front of the two. Occasionally a mob would aggro on Bean directly. What was impressive was how strong Bean's pet, Sammy, was against mobs several levels higher than him. Sammy kept the mobs off Bean, giving JB plenty of time to come back and swat the pest that was bothering them.

The two then traveled north to Dawnstar Spire for another quest. JB enjoyed this one because the mobs were numerous and respawned very quickly. There were many mobs both outside and inside the building we needed to go into. Bean stayed out of the way at first but soon got impatient and joined in the fun. Again, Sammy did a fine job of protecting her master as JB ran around clearing a path.

On our return to Farstrider Enclave to turn in the quest we picked up a shadow. A level 19 warrior saw what we were doing and decided to tag along. Without a word being spoken we soon learned that he was on the same quest chain. JB had enough to do keeping Bean safe and moving along with her, but it was no trouble to include the warrior in JB's "safe zone" and helping kill whatever he engaged. The warrior knew a good thing when he saw it, and even helped by pointing out where to go for the next several legs of the chain.

The three of us completed three more quests and we were looking at making that final trek to tackle the final quest when the computer decided to dump both JB and Bean out of the game. It didn't take all that long to get both re-situated and back in action, but our shadow was gone. Too bad, that last quest suggested a group of 5 to safely handle a very nasty boss with a room full of extra mob protectors.

JB waded into the middle of all that, Bean right behind her and Sammy snapping and flapping, and in a few seconds there was nothing left but corpses - and the Boss's head, which we returned to complete the quest.

Bean has her shiny new "beau." Bean also leveled to 16.