Exploring Harathi Hinterlands

Wiki - Harathi Hinterlands

Renown Hearts: 11      Waypoints: 15      Points of Interest: 15      Skill challenges: 6      Vistas: 8

Date: 30. Aug 2012

Character: Istarwyn

Race/Profession: Female Human Elementalist

Weapon/Spec: Staff

Zone Level: 35-45

Level at start: 44

Level at end: 48

High Moments:

• The Metaeventchain in this area is fun with an elementalist that uses a staff. All those aoes really come in handy. The centaurs always run in big groups and a Meteor Shower and Eruption help alot.
• Ran 3/4 of the map with the guild again. Its way more fun to play this game in a group than go about it alone. 
• Got a gold drop while in Harathi Hinterlands. I can't wear it myself but a friend assured me, it's good stats for a ranger. We will see if I can sell it.

Low Moments:

• I participated in an event but either it is bugged or I got trolled hard by the game. I had to defend 3 catapults from waves of centaurs. As I was alone, and it wasn't a group event, I thought: lets do this! I can kill a few of those horses on my own! The problem was, that the waves consisted of about 40 centaurs each. Of course I didn't make it. I will have to return to this one and see if it is normal.
• Well...Vistas...enough said.

Reward:

Items I got from left to right:

Strong Cabalist Hood of Hoelbrak (first item I could use from those rewards)
Penetrating Krytan Short Bow of Smoldering
3 Basic Transmutation Stones
40 Coarse Leather Sections

Exploring Bloodtide Coast

Wiki - Bloodtide Coast

Renown Hearts: 13      Waypoints: 15      Points of Interest: 18      Skill challenges: 6      Vistas: 7

Date: 30. Aug 2012 - 18.09.2012

Character: Istarwyn

Race/Profession: Female Human Elementalist

Weapon/Spec: Staff

Zone Level: 45 - 55

Level range: 52 to 61 and 65 to 66

Same as Caledon Forest. One of my travel maps.

Did lots of daily achievements on this map so the level range is not representative at all. I don't have alot to say about the map as well.

Of cause I chose a map with the most underwater hearts possible while I was traveling. Hmm...maybe that's why I didn't like this map and it felt more like a chore than fun.
I remember the heart in the south near Whisperwell Bogs though. At first it was fun, looking for all those different combinations of ingredients. But as you couldn't make the same potion more than once it got old really fast. I still don't know how to get the eagle feathers and most likely never will. I was just glad to kill a few spiders from other players to finish the heart and be gone from there.

Reward:

From left to right:

Strong Pirate Pants of Infiltration

Ravaging Shoulders of Vampirism

3 Basic Transmutation Stones

40 Cotton Scraps

Exploring Caledon Forest

Wiki - Caledon Forest

Renown Hearts: 18      Waypoints: 18      Points of Interest: 20  
Skill challenges: 7         Vistas: 8

Date: 30. Aug 2012 - 18.09.2012

Character: Istarwyn

Race/Profession: Female Human Elementalist

Weapon/Spec: Staff

Zone Level: 1-15

Level at start: 61

Level at end: 65

Can't really talk much about this map because I was doing this one over such a long period of time. I was travelling while finishing this map and because of that only played little bits and pieces.
Because of that I didn't discover any elaborate eventchains or went around with a group of people.
The lvls I received doing this map are not representative as well. I did my daily quests in this map over the timeperiod. I don't think you are able to lvl from 61 to 65 here, if you do the map in one sitting.

I look forward to doing this map on an alt to experience it more fully.

What I can tell everyone is,  that apparently I'm mad. My travelling companions thought I had gone off the deep end when I started shouting at my computer screen because I couldn't do a Vista. Another thing I don't like is underwater combat. I don't think my brain was made to think in 3 dimentions in mmos. I died more on this map doing underwater hearts, than the rest of my exploration adventures together.

Reward:

Rewards from left to right:

Mighty Magician coat of the Grove
Malign Glyphic Maul of Agony
2 Basic Transmutation Stones
40 Jute Scraps