Comments on: Howling Fjord: Sins of the Fathers

By: A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year! Best of 2009. « Welcome to Spinksville!

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:06:57 +0000

[...] Howling Fjord: Sins of the Fathers (Why I like my favourite zone in WoW. I was so pleased with this post that it made me wonder what other bloggers had to say about their favourite zones – I suggested that as a shared topic on Blog Azeroth and a few people rose to the challenge.) [...]

By: Helver

Helver — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:40:46 +0000

As I’ve mentioned in my own blog, I found some of the plague testing on Vyrkul distasteful. It’s obviously a fine line to walk, but I’ve never had any problems “butchering” my in-game enemies, but the wholesale mass infection is just something that goes against my own personal moral compass. Perhaps I’ve got too much of the old style “honor” built into me.

HF isn’t the only place that the Horde ethic has come into conflict with my own, though. In Icecrown with the “slaughter the wounded alliance soldiers” quests and the whole “attack the alliance forces from behind while they’re engaged with the scourge is a good thing” was troubling. I try not to get too wrapped up in the quests, but for some of them, I simply find the objectives of the quests to be beyond what I’ll do. That, in and of itself, is surprising. Apparently I’ve invested more of myself into my characters than I knew.

By: Scattered Shots « Tish Tosh Tesh

Scattered Shots « Tish Tosh Tesh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:27:10 +0000

[...] Bethryn has her own writeup, as well as a roundup of others who have commented on it lately. Spinks’ commentary on the Howling Fjord is especially interesting. Maybe I should just sit back and wait to see what Bioware does… [...]

By: Shared Topic: A few of my favourite things « Welcome to Spinksville!

Shared Topic: A few of my favourite things « Welcome to Spinksville! — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:20:26 +0000

[...] Topic: A few of my favourite things I was all fired up to write about my love of Howling Fjord last week, and I wondered if other bloggers might also find it fun to write about their favourite [...]

By: Twisted Nether Blogcast » Blog Archive » Shared Topic: Deconstructing Your Favourite Quest

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:55:56 +0000

[...] wrote two posts addressing this (for extra credit!), and was originally inspired by this post from [...]

By: Ramoshetep

Ramoshetep — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:08:03 +0000

Totally agree. Us Forsaken have NEVER forgotten. Either how we were treated by the Lich King OR by the skin-bag humans. (Sorry a little RPing there, lol). If you are going to play Forsaken you have to enjoy Howling Fjord and all the other events leading up to the Wrathgate.

By: The best zone of "Wrath" | The Frozen Gnome

The best zone of "Wrath" | The Frozen Gnome — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:20:43 +0000

[...] a great lore moment in Vengeance Landing, concludes that as a Horde player, Howling Fjord has emerged as the single best overall zone in Wrath. The more I consider it, the more I’m inclined to agree with her. The Fjord has a mostly [...]

By: unwize

unwize — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:58:26 +0000

HF was my favourite zone in WotLK by a country mile.

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:53:55 +0000

Thanks!

I think one of my goals for this expansion is going to be to level an alliance death knight so that I can see the alliance northrend quests. I know how much I’ve loved the horde ones, plus I want to see what happens to Thassarian (Koltira is a jerk, plus he’s an elf.)

By: Zachary Pruckowski

Zachary Pruckowski — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:58:57 +0000

I think you actually see the Lich King multiple times in HF as Alliance. It’s also sort of awesome when you land there as Alliance to have the freaking giant Utgarde Keep towering over your base.