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first! i love dragonblight as well but it is so hard to find a group for the group quests

I love sithilus :) I think all the quests are fun, and it has AQ! :)

Yeah Dragonblight turned out to be filled with lots of pretty lore! I especially liked the Dragonshrines, with the Chromie quest line on top (past and future self)!

The Defending Wyrmrest daily is what got me through the slog of leveling for quite some time. I enjoyed not only the lore surrounding the dragons but also the Titans. I really hope Blizz does something with Dragonblight to up the lore there and maybe give us a closer look into the past of the area. Other than Storm Peaks I think Dragon blight may be my favourite area in Northrend.

The cutscene after completing the long line of quests in Dragonblight, and the quests that follow made up the most fun I've ever had playing WoW.

@ pixiestixy
Obviously interesting and astonishing Dragonblight can very well compete with Netherstorm (floating giant pieces of PURPLE land, joined together by bridges and blood elven mana factories...together with those strange environmental bubbles with plants, lakes and springs...) or Storm Peaks/Zangramarsh/Hellfire Peninsula... and so on! There were so many cool areas I can't really pick my favourite one, because I'm so focused on the look and never completed fully all the areas and their posibilities. The truth is, they all have some beauty and inner awesomeness connected with WoW's story...I mean they all in some points of the game (quest or instance, special boss etc) fill the missing information about what we have already got to know. That's what's so exciting when finding those little puzzles. While You're leveling in order to get 80 as fast as possible it's hard to stay for a moment. take a deep breath and look around though so good luck with that if You're not aiming for ultra gear at the first point.

I like SB please it reminds me of STV and I loved STV.

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ya DB is really cool i ran 3 characters trough it and every time i thought i would be set for a while but what do you know i end up doing the same quest i never get tired of watching taht cut scene or destoying UC in the chain allso it is so cool to see what i read right infront of me in the orb quest lne whear you watch athas betray his crue and taht dwarf its allmost as cool as COS the one turn away is is taht daily its allways so annoying t oget ambushed by 5 dragons

Don't worry about Zul Drak. Its tonnes of fun too, with the Guru Of Drakuru questline winding up and all the cool Knights of the Ebon Blade/Argent Crusade lore fleshing out a bit, and dont forget riding around on a vengeance hungry storm giant just for good measure! Lots of fun to be had :)

Dragonblight and icecrown were by far my favorite northrend zones, but part of that is for some reason i love the snow covered zones such as those 2.

The main thing that dragged my into the dragonblight was the quest line involving the Wrathgate. Its awsome, its got a pretty nice cinematic video, a awsome battle in UC and lots of xp and gold. Also the lore behind the dragons i have loved, im a big lore fan.

I've been bringing up this point all along, with everyone rushing to the level cap, most people never take the time to do all the questlines in the game. there is so much lore in the game if people would just go through each area and quest. each area also has dungeons or questlines that take you to dungeons which help with the lore behind the instances. These are my favorite things in the game is all the lore behind it that's probably why it took me over 2 years to hit the level cap is because i'll quest and quest and quest and do it without much rested xp bonuswhich makes doing the quests alot more fun because you're doing them at or near the level they're intended for. All this "POWER"leveling going on just so you can have an 80 in a day or 2 is a bunch of crap i mean what's the point of it you miss 90% of the content in the game by rushing the leveling process.

instances are another point specially since BLIZZ has removed most of the attunments required for most instances like karazan. people don't bother with doing the long questlines filled with the lore behind the instances thus promoting "POWER"levling. how many people are out there that are attuned to karazan or heck even The Molten Core in Blackrock Mountains I bet if we polled the WoW community you'd probably find less the 1% are attuned to The Molten Core and less then 5% are attuned to karazan. and ask them if they've heard of The Eye or Blackwing Lair and less then 5% will even know what you're talking about because most have never seen those raids

I cant believe you didnt mention the Wrathgate questline when talking about Dragonblight. That whole chain was very cool, capped off by a battle movie! Whats better than that?

Dragonblight sure was the highlight of all levling!

Dragonblight actually spurred me on to levelling all the way to 80..

I mean, all the lore ( or dialogue, I like to call it ;) ) just inspired me to carry on, and find out what actually turned Arthas against us..

Then there was The Wrath Gate cutscene, which was probably the only reason I carried on levelling my DK, i had given up on my 72 hunter, Borean was so monotonous, but my DK was just enough fun to get me through to DB, and that made my levelling all the more sweet!

SB is absolutely amazing with such detail. Not to mention all the different altitudes, water, forest, etc. Grown up STV imo and "I'm lovin it." Secondly comes Howling Fjorde! not an amazing questing place but still visually appealing to me :)

I didn't much like the zone itself, all white wasteland with dragon bones, but I did like the overall climax of the questline. (Yay Wrathgate) the zone I find visually beautiful and while the lore isn't great, I enjoy my time there was Grizzly Hills. I grew up in the shadows of a redwood national forest and GH just takes me back.

Dragonblight has some cool lore, but it's just a big tease. There's so much in the game that deals with the Dragonflights, that only having a quest or two dealing with some of them is kind of disappointing!

Sholazar Basin is definitely my favorite zone. I've always enjoyed zones such as these, nagrand, un'goro, stranglethorn vale, etc. Sholazar was the only zone I was determined to finish every quest.

Be honest: who was in a progressive raiding guild and didn't rush to get 80 as fast as possible to get heroics going, and so after gearing up - 10 man Naxx? Loads of people did! And all we can do now is feeling pitty about lost lore. Now, we can experience it it only on alts or by trying to get back to the quest lines we didn't finish/ passed. Personally, I will surely!

I loved Dragonblight but my all time favorite place in Northrend for questing would have to be Grizzly Hills Thats where i dingd 80 because i solo'd those Pit fighting group quest with my DK btw i have lvl 80 Druid aswell but i like my DK the most. Grizzly Hills is my favorite place because the Quest were great and it realy made wow seem big again like u were in this vast forest.

@ Quo
I know we didn't know we was going to have an achievment system to spur most of us to do things that most people playing the game would normally do. #1 is actually falling off a 50 foot cliff or ledge or platform just to get the "going Down" achievment. and most people that are trying to get as much of the achievments they can and as many titles they can are actually going back and doing the quests in the "OLD" world as well as running though "SOLO" through "OLD" world instances just to get credit for them so they can get their dungeon master title. granted most people didn't get credit for them when the new achievment system first went live and they had to go do them, but actually how many people ever did any of them while they were leveling up or did any of the quests that went along with them i'll estimate less then 5% of the whole WoW player base did all the instances at the level they were meant to be done at in a group and less then 20% of those that did do the instances at the proper level did the questlines that went with them. I know i'm rambling on but it's a good point. personally I loved the lore behind the wrathgate in dragonblight, but I also liked the nestingway lore started off in STV then later on in Nagrand, and then off to SB. there's also the whole pirate theme based lore in Howling Fjord and the start of the dragon lore in Boreon Tundra. as well as the D.E.T.R.A. or whatever the 5 letter acronym is for the druids in the tundra. there's alot more of the "OLD" world lore I also like but enough rambling on you all get the point

"the dreaded Zul'Drak Zone" ? I don't understand these words. Personally, i enjoyed Zul'Drak far more than i enjoyed Dragonblight. I fully enjoyed all the quests in all the zones but i don't think i read a single one while completeing them thanks to the miracle of Questhelper. Got me my 'Loremaster of Northrend' achievement without having to read a single one of the quests. :)

But in Zul'Drak i know i read those. Those were some epic quest lines. Especially Guru of Drakuru. LOVED that :) Dunno why, but it was alot of fun.

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@Alex
It's D.E.H.T.A.
It's Blizzards way of making fun of P.E.H.T.A. which is a group that's against killing animals such as Deer. That's why when you kill something around BT and then go over to them, they all attack you. Pretty hilarious if you know the story of it.