Sunstrider Isle to the Ghostlands

[MongoJerry]

The instance may not be implemented, yet, but the outdoor area is awful pretty.



After dealing with the trolls, Neriad and party headed back west and cleared out Windrunner Village and Windrunner Spire.



Lady Sylvanas used to live in Windrunner Spire, and Neriad found a necklace that appeared to have once belonged to her.



After killing a lot of stuff in the Dead Scar and clearing some gnolls out of some mines (I'm really skipping some stuff here), it was time to enter Deathholme -- Dar'Khan's citadel!



The citadel is massive and there are several things to do there. One of them is to rescue a set of blood elves and forsaken who had been captured by the Scourge.



The other one was to kill some key Scourge lieutenants. (Sometimes the lieutenants and the people needing to be rescued were in the same building -- sometimes not).



Like I said before. The place is massive. There are dozens of buildings scattered all around the citadel.



Finally, in the center of the citadel, we found Dar'Khan Drathir, the big cheese himself. The quest says we need five people to kill him, but we only had three -- two paladins and a priest. We potted and buffed up completely before starting the fight as you can see. In addition, the blood elves at the Sanctum of the Sun had provided each of us a special weapon to use when fighting Dar'Khan -- an item that would silence him for five seconds and damage him for 500 health over that five seconds. At level 18ish, 500 damage is a *lot* of damage. However, the items have a cooldown of 10 minutes, so they can only be used once each during the fight.



Periodically, Dar'Khan cast fear on us. I'm so glad that Blizzard is making fear less important in encounters so that Fear Ward won't be the unbalancing power that it has been in the past. (Said *very* sarcastically).

One time, my partymates were feared but I wasn't, so Dar'Khan started up spells to shoot at me. It was a perfect time to use my orb that silenced him. By the time he reached me to melee me, my partymates broke their fears and regained aggro. *Whew*



After an intense fight, Dar'Khan Drathir was taken down.