Dessyre, Queen of Demons: Episode 3 - Free Fallin'

I thought I should update on my warlock today, since I spent my game time last night working with her again.  Earlier this week she hit level 78, which meant that she was able to pick up all of the quests needed in order to begin the lengthy chains to unlock the Sons of Hodir and the Shadow Vault.  I abandoned all of my other quests and immediately started working on the Sons of Hodir quest chain.  

Apparently I had forgotten just how LONG the quest chain is that you must do in order to unlock the Sons of Hodir.  Jeepers...I'll post the chain here.  It starts with Gretchen Fizzlespark in K3 in the Storm Peaks.

1.      They Took Our Men!

2.      Leave No Goblin Behind

3.      The Crone's Bargain

4.      Mildred the Cruel

5.      Discipline

6.      Examples to be Made

7.      A Certain Prisoner

8.      A Change of Scenery

9.      Is That Your Goblin?

10.  The Hyldsmeet

11.  Taking on All Challengers

12.  You'll Need a Bear

13.  Going Bearback

14.  Cold Hearted

15.  Deemed Worthy

16.  Making a Harness

17.  The Last of Her Kind / The Slithering Darkness

18.  The Warm-Up

19.  Into the Pit

20.  Prepare for Glory

21.  Lok'lira's Paring Gift

22.  The Drakkensryd

23.  Sibling Rivalry

24.  Mending Fences

25.  The Refiner's Fire (Drop)

26.  A Spark of Hope

27.  Forging an Alliance

28.  A New Beginning

29.  Veranus

30.  Territorial Trespass

31.  In Memoriam / Jormuttar is Soo Fat...

32.  Krolmir, Hammer of Storms

33.  The Terrace of the Makers

It's an incredibly long quest chain, but absolutely worth it and incredibly fun!  There are a couple other quests you can pick up in K3 that you can do while you're working on the Hodir chain, like Equipment Recovery, another quest you pick up from Gretchen.  The gear you have to pick up is in the exact same little area as the goblins you're supposed to set free, and you're going to have to kill the Hyldnir anyway...so may as well snag the extra experience while you're at it, eh?

At any rate...if you're fairly focused, this quest chain won't take too long and, like I said, it's fun!

For the portion of this chain where you are working with the Hyldnir "ladies", you get to ride blue proto drakes and polar bears for a few of the quests.  Great fun!  You even get to blow up giant Hodir guys and their wolves!  

My absolute favorite of all of these quests is The Drakkensryd.  This has got to be one of the coolest quests in the game, at least in my humble opinion.  You get a harpoon and Gretta tosses you on the back of a big blue proto drake.  You use the harpoon to swing from dragon to dragon and kill the Hyldnir rider on it's back.  Once you've killed 10 of them, you shoot the harpoon at one of the orbs on Thorim's tower and go talk to him.  It's a great quest and a LOT of fun!  Admittedly, it was a little difficult as a warlock, considering the fact that my minion couldn't be out while I was on the back of the drakes, but it was still so much fun!

Once I had finished with that, I moved on to Icecrown to start the journey to unlock the Shadow Vault.  This quest chain is not NEARLY as lengthy, but it's still quite a bit of fun. 

1. [80] It's All Fun and Games

2. [80] I Have an Idea, But First

3. [80] Free Your Mind

4. [80] If He Cannot Be Turned

5. [80] The Shadow Vault

6. [80] The Duke

7. [80] Honor Challenge

8. [80] Shadow Vault Decree

9. [80] Get the Key

10. [80] Let the Baron Know

For both factions, these quests start on the faction's airship that is flying high over Icecrown.  For me, I had to speak with Thassarian.  I'm not quite sure who Hordies have to speak to but I know he's a blood elf death knight on their airship - if that helps.


This quest chain wasn't quite as much fun for me as the Hodir chain, but it's still pretty interesting.  The first quest is the best of them all, imho.  You fly up to the tip-top of one of the spires in Icecrown and start blowing up this giant eyeball while you're on your flying mount.  I mean, come on...that's pretty freakin' fun!


If you're wanting to know more about the quests or what's involved, leave a comment and I can post a bit more with tips and whatnot for completing these quickly.  This is my third run at both chains, so I'm getting pretty efficient at it.


One rather annoying thing that happened though...as I was soaring high over Icecrown on my Celestial Steed to turn in one of the quests to Thassarian on the airship...Spontaneous DOOM happened!

There I am, flying along, excited about completing another step on my way to 80 and POOF!  My celestial steed disappeared from beneath me!  o.o   I was so high up that even slowfall wouldn't have helped...I fell for an eternity.  Literally 5-10 seconds of FREE FALLING...then splat!  Spontaneous doom!  


I wasn't even touching my keyboard at the time...so I'm not sure what did it.  It made me kind of sad really.  The worst part was that I had fallen down into a pit where there were patrolling elites and a ton of other random mobs all grouped up.  Resurrecting was fun...So, if you're wondering why my song choice of the day is "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty...now you know! LOL


Much love to everyone!

Des

Credit for the quest lists and links go to Wowhead.com.  Without them, WoW would be hard work!