Nine Muses

If there was an achievement for being frustrated and road blocked by game bugs, I think I’d have earned it.  Outlands seems particularly finicky in the number of quests needed for completing Loremaster.  With only Netherstorm left to go, I have four zones for which I have still not completed the Loremaster related achievements.

The first of these I ran into was Nagrand, where I still need five more quests.  After reading a bit on various forums and sites, it looked like I could probably wrap it up by doing the quests for Altruis the Sufferer, which require that you first complete the Netherwing intro series of quests.  I did that (with some wonderful help from Tizy on the last tough quest) and happily ran off to Nagrand.  Sadly, this is where I got stuck again.

There is a quest called “Against the Legion” that requires you to kill a demon at Forge Base: Gehenna, and then use its blood right there to summon something else.  Apparently if I’d have been in a little more of a hurry, I’d have been able to finish this.  Patch 3.3 introduced a dungeon called the Forge of Souls.  Since this patch, when you try to use the blood, it says that the Forge of Souls is required.  Obviously, Forge Base: Gehenna is what should be required.

After discovering this, reporting it, and getting told it would be fixed eventually but there was no ETA, I decided to continue.  After all, this would be only one zone I couldn’t complete.  I’d just leave it and come back to it later.

And then, while doing my regular questing in Netherstorm, I ran into another quest, “Teleport This!,” with the same problem.  Again, the quest required using an item (a provided Mental Interference Rod) in Forge Base: Gehenna, and again, using the item resulted in an error that it required the Forge of Souls.

Between this and most of the other quests I had left requiring some help from friends, my frustration level tipped over the top and I decided I’d had enough of Outlands.

And so, I am happily questing in Northrend now, thinking about just pushing for 80 so I can both make money more quickly and get my epic flight skill and so that I can spend some time on dailies.

I managed to complete these achievements in the last month:

• Explore Howling Fjord
• The Northrend Gourmet
• Friend or Fowl?
• 200 Daily Quests Completed
• Explore Crystalsong Forest (Druid reached 80, bought the flight book.)
• Higher Learning (Yay for another pet!)
• 2000 Quests Completed (Only another 1000 until I earn my title!)
• Critter Gitter
• Cooking With Style (Chef’s Hat!)
• 100 Dalaran Cooking Awards
• About half of the Winter Veil achievements.