Adventure Journal
Adventure⌖ Loch Modan, Stormwind, Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Duskwood, Ironforge, and Dun Morogh
CharacterNuirLevels 15–16 · Warrior

I GOT A TORCH!

I found a torch in Duskwood and spent the rest of the night seeing what it could light up, from a crowded campfire in Thelsamar to a frozen lake in Dun Morogh.

The most peculiar cloud formation appeared over Loch Modan this evening. There was a perfect square gap in the clouds letting through a warm yellow glow. Somehow all of the surrounding shadows had turned a stark green. Around Thelsamar’s flight point, even the canopy and the gryphons were green.

Green shadows cover the ground and pine trees around Thelsamar’s gryphon master beneath a pink evening sky.

Green shadows at the flight point.

Looking down at the green-lit canopy, gryphons, and ground beside Thelsamar’s flight point.

Even the canopy.

On to Westfall

I kept questing in Loch Modan and reached level 16 when I turned in Thelsamar Blood Sausages. Later I went through Stormwind and Elwynn Forest, turned in the Hogger bounty, and carried on with quests in Westfall.

At Saldean’s Farm I completed “CLUCK!” and picked up the Chicken Egg that gave me my new Prairie Chicken companion. A few minutes later, near Furlbrow’s Pumpkin Farm, someone running with a torch caught my eye.

Torchlight

With the new lighting, he really stood out against the dark fields. His torch cast a bright orange glow over the grass as he ran, lighting up the area around him. It looked awesome. I took a couple of screenshots as he passed.

A torch-bearing player casts a bright orange pool of light across the dark grass near harvest golems in Westfall.

The torch lighting up the field.

The torch-bearing player runs closer, with orange light spilling onto the grass beside him.

A few seconds later.

A chicken of my own

I took a close-up of my new chicken just after midnight.

A small white Prairie Chicken facing the camera in the green grass.

My new companion.

My own torch

I got a torch in Duskwood, and it’s the best thing ever. I can carry a real light source around at night, and it lights up a decent area. Getting one as soon as possible is now a goal for my character at release.

Nuir carries his torch across a wooden bridge at night, with orange light on the planks and his chicken following behind.

Taking my light with me.

Nuir runs along a Westfall road holding his torch, casting a wide orange glow across the grass, stones, and roadside fence.

Lighting up the road.

I immediately decided to head back to Loch Modan to show off my torch. I hadn’t seen anything like it over there.

Moths to a flame

I landed in Thelsamar and pulled out my torch. It lit up the grass and path around me.

Nuir stands on the dark grassy hillside above Thelsamar with his torch put away.

Back in Thelsamar.

From the same viewpoint, Nuir holds up his torch and lights the surrounding grass and path orange.

Torch out.

I sat down at a nearby campfire. Maybe it was just the campfire, but it felt like other adventurers gathered around me like moths to a flame. I’m like a quest giver out here.

Nuir sits holding his torch beside a campfire above the Thelsamar road, with a few adventurers and a bear nearby.

A seat by the campfire.

A larger gathering of adventurers and pets surrounds Nuir beside the campfire in Thelsamar.

Company around the fire.

Two dwarves face Nuir as he holds his torch on the grassy hillside above Thelsamar’s road.

Like a quest giver.

Torch experiments

I kept experimenting with the torch. I can sit, lie down, wave, dance, kneel, and bow while holding it. It’s pretty dynamic.

Nuir lies on his back beside a path, still holding his burning torch, with his chicken nearby.

Lying down with the torch.

Nuir kneels with his torch held upright, its orange light falling across the path and hillside.

Kneeling, torch still in hand.

I found that if I lie down beside the campfire with the torch held just right, I can make it look like the campfire is lighting up the area.

Nuir lies beside a campfire with his torch close to its flames, casting orange light onto the ground and rock wall.

Helping the campfire out.

From another angle, Nuir lies holding his torch beside the campfire, with orange light across the rocky slopes and other adventurers nearby.

The glow from the other side.

Finally, another player with a torch sat beside me. The camp was full, with people talking and telling jokes.

Every time one player walked past me, he got the torch buff and automatically sent me a whisper thanking me for it: “Ayyy, appreciate the buffs! You rock.”

An in-game whisper reading, “Ayyy, appreciate the buffs! You rock.”

A thank-you on every pass.

Nuir and another torch-bearing player sit side by side in a circle of adventurers and pets around a campfire, with orange light across the ground and roadside wall.

Another torch beside mine.

A wide view of the crowded campfire above Thelsamar, with torch-bearing players seated among the gathering and a speech bubble overhead.

A full camp.

Flying with a torch

Holy shit. You can fly with the torch out. I hopped on a flight just to test it, and it worked! I think the torch went out in the last screenshot.

Nuir rides a gryphon above a dark forest, holding a burning torch that casts orange light across the gryphon.

It works in flight!

Nuir continues flying above the forest with the torch raised, but no flame or orange glow is visible.

Six seconds later.

Torchlight in the snow

Stepping out of Ironforge and pulling out my torch with the snow falling behind me was a great moment. I travelled around Dun Morogh looking for more places to try it out.

Nuir holds his burning torch outside Ironforge’s snow-covered gates, with guards on either side of the entrance.

Stepping out of Ironforge.

Nuir and his chicken stand among snow-covered pines, with torchlight spreading across the snow and a nearby tree trunk.

Trying the torch in the snow.

I noticed the moonlight reflecting off a frozen creek. It looked really neat with the torchlight added on, the warm glow mixing with the blue light on the ice.

Nuir carries his torch along a frozen creek between snowy banks, with blue reflections and warm torchlight across the ice.

Torchlight on the frozen creek.

Nuir holds his torch at a snowy bank beside bright blue reflections on the water, with his chicken nearby.

Moonlight and torchlight.

Back at the frozen lake

Inspired, I headed down to the frozen lake where I first learned to fish. The moon reflecting off the water had looked really nice last time, and I wanted to see it with the torch.

I was really satisfied with the contrast of the torchlight on the snow and my orange beard against the moonlight on the water. Very nice.

Nuir holds his torch on a snowy lakeshore, his orange beard and the snow lit warmly beside bright blue reflections on the water, with his chicken nearby.

Back where I learned to fish.

Nuir and his chicken stand on the frozen surface beside the fishing dock, with warm torchlight spreading across the blue ice.

Torchlight by the fishing dock.

Nuir sits holding his torch in a wooden boat on the frozen lake, lighting its interior orange beside bright blue reflections on the water.

A torch in the boat, too.

Two torches at the mill

Then I hearthed back to Westfall. Another torchbearer walked over and stood by the entrance to a mill. I saluted him and stood on the other side.

Nuir and another torchbearer stand on opposite sides of a mill entrance, casting orange light over the wooden beams, platform, and ground.

One torch on either side.

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