WoW Patch 2.4 Fury of the Sunwell

I had been excited but also dreading the release of this new content! I've been trying to get away from my 12 hour WoW days, lol, but this patch has me hooked yet again!

The Fury of the Sunwell opened up a new zone, an island to the north of the Eastern Kingdoms called Quel'Thalas. This island is crawling with Bloodelves, Demons and Undead mostly around level 68-70. There were only a few new quests on this island when it first opened, but as you do more dailys, it opens up more of the island and more quests. You are basically battling everything else on the island for control.

The quests are pretty simple, taking control of rogue robots, collecting mana remnants to blast some crystal, killing demons, and a very fun bombing run (so far). There are a bunch of other dailys in Hellfire, Nagrand, Blades Edge and Netherstorm that also opened up because of Quel'Thalas. So overall there is a ton of dailys to do now. It takes me an hour or more to do them all on my holy paladin, but I have made 1000g since the patch came out doing only those quests! I started doing them on my shaman as well a few days ago to get rep.

The rep rewards are cool if you are an enchanter or jewelcrafter. You can now cut the BT gems with enough Shattered Sun rep, and as an enchanter you can get the Shatter Void ability that breaks a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards. This ability would be a lot more useful if it didn't have a day cool down. There are also a few other enchanting recipes you can purchase with enough rep, such as Enchant Chest - Defence. There is a new create Brilliant Glass ability for jewel crafters that uses three of each coloured green gem and turns them into a random blue gem. This is really useful, but has sky rocketed the price of the previously dirt cheap green gems and has a day cool down.





For doing most of the Outland dailys you get a Shatterd Sun Equipment bag thing that will have a random piece of armor or weapon in them. They will be at least a green, usually only good for DEing, but there are a few green weapons that sell for a few gold and if you're really lucky you will get a Badge of Justice! I'd defiantly recommend doing all of the Shattered Sun dailys, especially if you could use something from the rep vendor at the Sunwell Plateau. Even if you can't though, as I mentioned before, it is amazing money! If you had the patience to do it on a few characters every day, you would have enough for your epic flying mount in no time!







You can also find a new instance on Quel'Thalas called Magister's Terrace (MgT). This instance is a 5 man and is doable on normal or heroic. On normal it is Pugable, but you definitely need a decently geared group. A member in mostly greens will probably keep you from finishing it, unless the rest of you are in epics. On heroic, it is HARD, but if everyone knows what they should be doing it isn't as hard as it was advertised to be. You can also get a very cute Phoenix Hatchling on Normal or Heroic from Kael'Thas Sunstrider, which doesn't have a bad drop rate (5% from some of the sites I've checked out). There was also a 10 man added with the patch, but it is supposed to be for Black Temple geared groups, and so far only a few guilds on my server have attempted it.

The final thing I will talk about in the patch is the addition of FISHING DAILYS! I have always loved fishing in WoW and have won the Booty Bay Sunday fishing contest twice (so I could get both the pole and the trinket). There is an old man standing by the lake north-east of Shatt who gives you the dailys, and for completing them (so far they have all been very easy and self explanatory) you get a bag of fishing treasures. Inside there is usually 6-10g, some fishing hooks (+100 fishing for 10 mins) and some grey/white item that will sell for 10-15g. There are some really cool (but more rare) items you can get such as truesilver fishing line (+2 fishing to your fishing pole, I think), Chuck's Bucket which holds a baby crockolisk, and even The 2 Ring, which is a BoE epic and is +22 to all stats (it says "Vastly superior to the 1 ring" in the description, lol).

So far Quel'Thalas isn't completely opened up on my server. We are about 70% done the second phase. I believe in phase 3 the new badge gear will be opened up, which will be amazing because I have been hording my badges for months and should have enough for a piece right away! I am loving this patch so much, and if you have gotten bored of WoW and stopped playing, this new content is definitely enough to get you re-hooked!

If you want to read more about the Fury of the Sunwell the WoW page is here.