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Draenei Starting Area Guide
Draenei Starting Area Guide
Azuremyst Isle
by Amber "Aurael" Weldon
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The Draenei are refugees from the shattered world of Outland.
The Burning Crusade has wreaked devestation on the world and the
Draenei took to flight through the Twisting Nether in search of
Azeroth, the world in which the Alliance stood up against and
subdued the efforts of the orcs under the influence of the
Burning Legion.
Draenei Female
The starting area of the draenei is the mystic Azuremyst Isle,
located in the Veiled Sea to the Southwest of Teldrassil.
Shipwrecked, the Draenei are busy studying the region they have
found themselves in and tending to the survivors of the crash.
As an able-bodied survivor, you are expected to help in the
relief efforts. The crash has had a devestating effect on the
islands and their inhabitants. Wreckage, crystals, mutated
animals are present in every direction. Your first quests
involve healing survivors (using the racial ability Gift of the
Naaru which is a healing spell that gains strength as you gain
levels), killing giant mutated flowers and moths and gathering
materials to heal survivors. All the quests are geared toward
recovering from the crash.
Draenei Mourner
All of the beginning quests are centered around the Crash Site.
This is where you're beginning trainers are located. Draenei can
be warriors, paladins, hunters, priests, shamans, and mages.
The last quest in Ammen Vale (the area surrounding the crash
site) repairs a hologram machine which allows contact with the
survivors situated at Azure Watch. Naturally, you're to go meet
up with them, and the next (and bigger) quest hub is revealed.
On the way to Azure Watch is a fun little quest which involves
catching red snapper with a fishing net. However, the familiar
mrghlmrghlmrghl will be present as sometimes a murloc will
appear to prevent your catch.
Azure Watch is in the center of the draenei starting area. It is
complete with an inn and innkeeper, mailbox, and many trainers.
All of the skill trainers for the draenei classes are there
along with the alchemist, miner, herbalist and first aid
trainers.
There's also a lot of work to be done here in the way of
stocking food supplies and such. The hunter trainer sends you on
quests to get meat and hides from the beautiful white-blue
Moongraze stags and buck that wander the forest around Azure
Watch. They die as elegantly and gracefully as they live though.
Mutated plant...or animal
The inhabitants of Azure Watch have come across an injured night
elf, but do not know who or what she is. Even the draenei
youngling that wander the forest wonder about her and mutter "I
wonder what that little purple creature at the village is...It's
certainly beautiful." The draenei are trying to nurse her back
to health, and a few of the first quests there involve gathering
materials for medicine for her. When she does wake, she is
frightened by the "eredar" and falls back into a coma.
Eventually you are sent to find her people to south and you come
across Odesyus' Landing (one of a few Iliad/Odyssey references
in this area). True to WoW's nature, the landing is another
quest hub. Here you can find the blacksmith, cooking, tailor,
and engineer trainers. They send you on quests to find the
traitor among them (by becoming one with the forest) as well as
exploring an ancient night elf ruin.
Some maps for your viewing pleasure
The Exodar must be mentioned, as it is the capital "city" of the
Draenei. The city is composed entirely of crystal and light.
It's a bit difficult to navigate through at first, because every
part of the city looks the same. There's a beautiful Vault of
Lights full of holograms and a crystal (or perhaps glass?)
walkway that leads to the back exit of the city (and to the dock
for the boat to Auberdine).
There's quite a lot to do when it comes to exploring the many
quests of Azuremyst Isle. A few things that you are able to do
in the draenei starting quests that have not been mentioned is
to learn a furbolg language, fufill a prophecy, grow wings,
become a stealthed panther without being a druid), die over and
over and over from murlocs, and ride an epic-speed elekk
(draenei mount) for a short period of time. Overall, the Draenei
starting area is one of the more exciting places to start your
journey in Azeroth.
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