Questing in Sunstrider Isle

[snowieken]

I took my newly created druid up to Sunstrider Isle, just because I was a bit tired of Mulgore, and definately the Barrens. When I finally got there (it was quite a long run, I was surprised), I was level 2 and didn't find any quests. It took me around 30 seconds to alt tab out and google for the answer, which said that the level 1-5 quests are only doable for BE's. I didn't know that. I had to grind up to level 4 to be able to take some quests in the next area.

Has Blizzard stated something about this? I know there is a quest which requires the Mana Tap ability and I already expected that this one wouldn't display for me. But the rest of the quests are perfectly doable for other races, so I don't see any reason other than a bug why they wouldn't display.

[Renata]

Yeah, that never made any sense to me. You can do almost all of the level 1-5 quests in other race's starting zones just fine. My BE priest has decided to become exalted with Orgrimmar (don't want to ride the chicken) and she went back at level 22 and did all the 1-5 Valley of Trials quests for the rep.

I have no idea why they locked out the BE start. Did they do that for the Draenei as well?

...Ren

[Leviathonlx]

I took my newly created druid up to Sunstrider Isle, just because I was a bit tired of Mulgore, and definately the Barrens. When I finally got there (it was quite a long run, I was surprised), I was level 2 and didn't find any quests. It took me around 30 seconds to alt tab out and google for the answer, which said that the level 1-5 quests are only doable for BE's. I didn't know that. I had to grind up to level 4 to be able to take some quests in the next area.

Has Blizzard stated something about this? I know there is a quest which requires the Mana Tap ability and I already expected that this one wouldn't display for me. But the rest of the quests are perfectly doable for other races, so I don't see any reason other than a bug why they wouldn't display.


It's like that for both Draenei and Blood Elves. It was likely done originally to keep both areas from being too crowded when the game came out and since then Blizzard probably has forgot.

[Lothaer]

not entirely correct i took my 70 priest to the draenei starting quests and i was able to pick up some of the starting quests including the quest where you have to use gift of the naruu on the dying draenei... couldnt complete that one though :)

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

To my knowledge, they are aware of the problem, but it is a low priority to fix. My roommate and myself both had talked with GM's about it online.

[snowieken]

not entirely correct i took my 70 priest to the draenei starting quests and i was able to pick up some of the starting quests including the quest where you have to use gift of the naruu on the dying draenei... couldnt complete that one though :)Yeah, I've read about that when I was looking for info the other day after I noticed the problem. In Draenei starting area, that quest is doable if you take a Draenei in your party.

Too bad then, but hey, I can continue questing in the next area, I guess. I was just curious whether it was something Blizzard is aware of.

[Marlous]

In the Draenei starting are the race-restricted quests can be counted with the fingers of one hand, the rest are all perfectly accessible by other races. I really hated that I couldn't do the final quest with my Dwarf Rogue, because of my wish to get an Elekk mount, but c'est la vie.

By the by, is it just me or if the Draenei starting area insanely large compared to that of the other races?

[Valas Azuviir]

Well, the first set of quests do show that everything isn't exactly going well for the BE. And they do wish to hide this little tidbit. So it makes some sense anyway. First one you can do is the find my courier quest, who lies dead only a couple of feet -> that way from where you meet the quest giver.

From there, everything works normally.

Side note, one of the quests in that area, and I'm not talking Mana tap, Arcane Torrent related is BE racial only as well. It's the glowing shard from the corrupted mana elementals thingy. Rest could be made doable for other races, like kill X amount of kitties etc.

[Leviathonlx]

Could also have something to do with the reputation that the majority of the horde start with the blood elves.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Could also have something to do with the reputation that the majority of the horde start with the blood elves.

Nope. Undead can't do them either. It's a bug in the system, the Draenei have a number of quests with the same problem. It is just low on the list of things to get done and fixed, as it isn't seen as "game breaking"

[Polaba]

Side note, one of the quests in that area, and I'm not talking Mana tap, Arcane Torrent related is BE racial only as well.

yeah there's a Gift of the Naaru one too.

[Tort]

Speaking as a blood elf, I can imagine that we don't want all you massive cows and rotting zombies running around and spoiling our beautiful surroundings (notwithstanding the giant scar of death going through the two blood elf zones).