Moonglade for the Lunar Festival?

[Mollymog]

OK, the Druids are holding a Lunar Festival in Moonglade with rewards for your Coins of Ancestry and all sorts of attractions. How on earth, though, are you supposed to get a character under about level 50 to Moonglade? The only ways I know of are via the Druid teleport or from that tunnel between Felwood and Winterspring. And neither of those is going to work for a level 24 Paladin. Or is this another of the Blizzard things that disadvantages lower levels?

[Shellar]

There are NPCs in each capital city who will give you a quest to launch a few fireworks (available from vendors standing next to said NPCs). The reward is the Festival Invitation, which can be used to teleport to and from Moonglade by stepping into pillars of moonlight (usable only during the Festival).

[Marlous]

Be aware, though, that the invitation only has a 1-hour duration. So when you arrive in Moonglade, make sure you make your way south first to get the flightpath - then next time you won't have to try and obtain a new invitation, as you can simply fly there. :)

[Wiglet]

Also you can use your invite to teleport back to any other of your factions cities. Just go in to one of the rings of light in Moonglade and use your invite again.
(thanks to Ren on World of Warcast for the tip!)

[Mollymog]

Thanks for the information. I'd seen the NPCs and read the quest and accepted it, then abandoned it, thinking 'Oh, right, no point trying that with a low level'. It shows as a level 30 quest. I have to wonder, though, how one would get south in Moonglade to get the flight point - seems to me there's some pretty big nasties on the way. However, I may give it a try later.

Just came back from giving it a try and a small correction here...... The invitation lasts one day. It has a ten-minute cooldown.

[Gordok]

Thanks for the information. I'd seen the NPCs and read the quest and accepted it, then abandoned it, thinking 'Oh, right, no point trying that with a low level'. It shows as a level 30 quest. I have to wonder, though, how one would get south in Moonglade to get the flight point - seems to me there's some pretty big nasties on the way. However, I may give it a try later.

Just came back from giving it a try and a small correction here...... The invitation lasts one day. It has a ten-minute cooldown.

There are no hostile creatures between the town and the flightpaths in Moonglade. I have done this on my lvl 1 bank alt in order to get the Lunar Festival pantsuit for him.

(well he became lvl 3 from the XP received while getting 5 Coins from discovering the terrain...)

[det]

On a more general note: The title "Elder" is only available to lv 80 ppl, as it requires a visit in Heroic Gundrak....

In that way, there is a discrimination against low level characters...

[Twoflower]

you could also die your way trough that furbolg tunnel if you are desperate to get there.

Though Shellar's idea with the teleport is nicer ^^

[WatcherZero]

Its one of those scaling quests that match your levelling and will always grant you experience for completing, thats why it appeared level 30 to you.

[SithDrummer]

On a more general note: The title "Elder" is only available to lv 80 ppl, as it requires a visit in Heroic Gundrak....

In that way, there is a discrimination against low level characters...
That's the way it's been with every seasonal event so far. :(

[Mollymog]

That's the way it's been with every seasonal event so far. :(

I find the game generally disadvantages low level characters. You don't realise it as you start off with your low level whatever race and class, but as you level up and see what splendid things are available you begin to realise it. Helms, for instance. Why on earth can a character not have protective headwear before about level 28? Why are drops and quest rewards grey and chintzy? Why can there not be splendid ones for low levels? I know, people say it's not needed. But when you're a level 4 and facing the Defias in the Northshire vineyard, a little decent equipment would be very helpful (just as it is at higher levels).

[det]

I find the game generally disadvantages low level characters. You don't realise it as you start off with your low level whatever race and class, but as you level up and see what splendid things are available you begin to realise it. Helms, for instance. Why on earth can a character not have protective headwear before about level 28? Why are drops and quest rewards grey and chintzy? Why can there not be splendid ones for low levels? I know, people say it's not needed. But when you're a level 4 and facing the Defias in the Northshire vineyard, a little decent equipment would be very helpful (just as it is at higher levels).

One thing I guess...as with all RPGs is that you want something to look forward too...shoulders at 15, helm at 28, riding at 40(vanilla), fast riding at 60, flying at 70 etc. You are a peasant, an unexperienced citizen in a big world and you set up to become a hero.

Drops are grey so you can sell them...as they are junk - and some of that junk later goes at up to 15 gold.

The Northshire Vinyard is indeed a tad hard if you are new and easily pull 2 mobs, but as a rule, the game scales well imho.

The flipside of your argument would be to try and play on a private server. You can solo Ilidan, every mob drops 100 gold and you can ride at lv 1.

YAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN

But, yeah..nothing can be done about the fact that a person who levels now from 1 to 80 will be very alone a lot of the time and miss a lot of Instances, drops, rewards and whatnot....

[Twoflower]

it is still a RP. It is normal that a lvl 80 char can achieve something that a lvl 1 char can not.

[Mollymog]

it is still a RP. It is normal that a lvl 80 char can achieve something that a lvl 1 char can not.

I don't mean that low level characters should get things on a par with an 80. I simply want some really good stuff in keeping with low levels, whether it be drops, quest rewards, instances, whatever. Something to make people enjoy the journey to 80 more and perhaps have more fun on the way. I'd like to see some of these seasonal festivals offer things specifically for the little guys, things that would have an upper level limit so if you were under 30, say, or even 20, there'd be something really exciting just for you. I've always felt this game disadvantaged lower levels and it saddens me in a way when I talk to people who are in such a tearing hurry to level up. Too often they say that the reason for their haste is that nothing really exciting or rewarding comes until you're at least 40 or 50.

[Mollymog]

One thing I guess...as with all RPGs is that you want something to look forward too...shoulders at 15, helm at 28, riding at 40(vanilla), fast riding at 60, flying at 70 etc. You are a peasant, an unexperienced citizen in a big world and you set up to become a hero.

Drops are grey so you can sell them...as they are junk - and some of that junk later goes at up to 15 gold.

The Northshire Vinyard is indeed a tad hard if you are new and easily pull 2 mobs, but as a rule, the game scales well imho.

The flipside of your argument would be to try and play on a private server. You can solo Ilidan, every mob drops 100 gold and you can ride at lv 1.

YAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNN

But, yeah..nothing can be done about the fact that a person who levels now from 1 to 80 will be very alone a lot of the time and miss a lot of Instances, drops, rewards and whatnot....

Well, I think things could be done (if Blizzard were so inclined). And I'd never play on a private server. I consider that cheating like power levelling and gold buying.

[det]

First step are "Heirloom items". But you need a lv 80 (or high level to get stone keeper shards) first

[Shellar]

Be aware, though, that the invitation only has a 1-hour duration. So when you arrive in Moonglade, make sure you make your way south first to get the flightpath - then next time you won't have to try and obtain a new invitation, as you can simply fly there. :)
Obtaining a new invitation is as simple as clicking on the "I'd like to request a new invitation" gossip feature - you don't have to redo the firework quest. :smiley: