Pamena's Loremaster Quest: some thoughts for those trying it themselves
I thought I'd post a little update here on my effort to finally get Loremaster, which seemed like a good "end of expansion" project when I started it - now it's getting a bit grindy, but I'm hopeful of finishing before Warlords drops in the fall (please, Blizz, please!) As I have MANY alts, I did a survey of each of them to find out which ones have done the most of each zone - in some cases, it means I only have 15-20 quests left to do in a zone. Alas, since the Cata revamp of the 1-60 zones, I'm having to do any early zones I had not previously finished from scratch - and my decision to do both the Horde and Alliance versions is making this part of it even longer - ninety quests in Darkshore, good god. The later zones are going to be easier for me, as I've got good chunks of most of them already done. A few things I've noticed and found out, with the help of guild mates:
If you did a zone on a toon that you have since deleted, it looks like that completion may not count for Loremaster - I have Dun Morogh and Wetlands marked as completed in my Alliance toons' achievement tab, but on the Loremaster tab that shows which zones you have completed, that one doesn't show as complete. I think I must have done that zone on a toon I either deleted or perhaps faction transferred years ago, and maybe that's the explanation.
If you go back to a zone in which you have several quests to finish, unless you had something like Quest Completist running the whole time, you may not be able to tell immediately which quests are unfinished. But you can get that information either thru QC or at Icy Veins (and maybe other places too), as Mageartin and others pointed out to me last night. There's a function on QC and at Icy Veins that will query the server for a particular toon and particular zone, and tell you what you are missing - it's an ENORMOUS help.
If you did a lot of Vash before you couldn't stand it any more but now you want to complete it, a little tip - Parsifale only had 16 quests left there, and I had a bunch of ones to do in Abyssal Depths but couldn't find them. Turns out there's a little fisherman orc (this is Horde side, I imagine there's the equivalent on the Alliance side) that gives you some quests - I think the first one is Here Fishie Fishie - that you have to complete before the rest of the quests there will open up. Wowhead is an invaluable resource here in finding the quest givers for breadcrumb starters like this one.
I love Pandaria, but the way they arranged the quests here, as story lines, makes it a bit more difficult to tell which quests you must do to complete a zone, as I am not sure every quest in a zone is part of a story line. There must be a guide someplace to which quests belong to each storyline, but I haven't found it yet.
All in all, it's a fun project - good thing I enjoy levelling, though, or those early zones would be unbearable to do.
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