Caltrops - World of Warcraft - I swam around Kalimdor :(

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by laudablepuss 08/07/2006, 10:05am PDT

I'm a moron. Well, okay, it was only about halfway around Kalimdor, from Ratched to Auberdine around the north part of the continent. Why did I do this?

Well, I got on a boat at Booty Bay heading to Ratchet. I think that's the port's name. Anyway, as my brother, my friend, and I got on, a ?? level horde guy (at least 46th level then) paused to consider killing us, then let us go. I bet he was laughing to himself, anticipating us dying miserably in Ratchet. I knew we were heading to Horde territory, but I naively thought maybe it'd be contested and not Horde territory proper. Anyway, when we noticed our mistake, we dove into the water.

My two companions hearthed out LIKE PUSSIES. But I swam the distance. I just noticed that this doesn't explain why. Okay, it was an odyssey of crazy, and I'm sorry to say I'm not a better person for it. But I am now angry at Blizzard for TOTALLY giving up on the terrain for the entire northern coast of Kalimdor north of the Bay of Storms. The sea abuts ridiculous mountains that start at about a 75 degree angle before sharpening to nearly 90 degrees as they plummet to infinity below the water. If I swam one body length from shore, I got a fatigue bar. A few areas along that stretch you can walk ashore a little ways, and the developers drew the exact same valley three or four times. No way to get inland anywhere along that coast.

(I'd have gone inland at the bay of storms but the presence of horde and the numerous ?? level monsters dissuaded me.)

Oh well.

By the way, can someone explain why the sun rises in the northwest on Azeroth? Seems a little odd to me!