On Warcraft Episode “Ramparts Overview” Mark: Hello and welcome to On Warcraft, on the On Networks network. I am Mark Major. Arwin: And I am Arwin Wheat’s. Mark: And we are going to take you through the ramparts. This is an early instance you can get to. Arwin: It is the first instance you can get into in the outlands. So that will bring you in there, get you some experience, get you some loot. Mark: Got a couple of bosses to go through, got some walking around killing stuff. Taking there junk, and I think we will be good. Arwin: There we go. Mark: Anything in particular you want to say about the ramparts? Arwin: Well there are a few thins to keep in mind. And we are going to talk about them. We will talk about each of the three bosses. And we will talk about the trash leading up to the bosses. Because the way the ramparts are laid out, there is a whole lot of trash to get through before you even see the first boss. Mark: Right, the first two thirds is walking through it. Arwin: That’s right, so we will walk you through that. We will also talk about some of the fat loot, fat experience, fat reputation that you can get from level 56 going forward. Mark: Nice. Arwin: Pretty nice. Mark: Well let’s stop talking about it, and start talking about it. Arwin: Alright so let’s first talk out how to get to this place, because it is the first instance you can get to in the outlands. So let’s talk about getting to the outlands. It is through the dark portal, which is in the blasted lands, which is in the swamp of sorrows. Turn left at Cucamonga, head down into the portal. You can enter the portal at 58, but you can get to the ramparts at 56. So do the math and it doesn’t work out. So the trick is you have to get a warlock to summon that. Mark: A warlock to get yourself summoned in there. Arwin: That’s right, with all the summoning stones a wizard puts into world of Warcraft, it kind of made warlocks feel a little… Mark: No love for the warlocks. Arwin: Well, Blizzard over loves the warlocks if you ask me, but whatever. With the summoning stones warlocks are feeling a little underappreciated, so they are pretty important here. Because it is 2 level differences, you get a lot more XP. Mark: Right you get a jump start. Arwin: That’s right. So if you do get a warlock to summon you to the ramparts, and once your there you will want to set your heart stone in one of the local towns there. When you are at the town it is going to be hard to get back to the ramparts. Because it is basically, I don’t know if you have ever seen spaghetti. Mark: I have seen spaghetti, it is the twisty… Arwin: It’s twisty exactly. And it is kin of like navigating through a plate of spaghetti. So we will get you there, hopefully well fed as well. So you want to come from Thrallmar for instance, you will come south and go over towards the chasm. Head across the little bridge and you are going to head downwards. Don’t go directly straight, because that will take you to the big daddy instance here. Mark: Yeah, you don’t want to do that. Arwin: No, there are three instances in hellfire citadel. You want the baby. Mark: Yeah, because you are the baby. Arwin: You’re the baby. If you are in alliance you want to come a little bit north and it will head you west, crossing a bridge. A different bridge than Moor will have. And the summoning stone should be right in front of you. The important thing to remember is that the ramparts is right by the summoning stone. So once you are there go into the portal at 56, there is a quest in ramparts that you can pick up, but not until you are 58. So the trick here, run it over, and over, and over, and over. Just for the experience, the honor you get reputation. Mark: Right reputation. Arwin: Which is going to give you some fat loot in itself, you get reputation up through honor. That is beyond friendly with your faction. Mark: Super friendly. Arwin: Super friends. Mark: And you get all sorts of go crap too. Arwin: Oh let me tell you about the good crap. We shouldn’t even call it good crap, because that demeans crap. Mark: It is no even crap, its just good stuff. Arwin: No it is just good, good. It will replace blues and purples that you have had forever that you have worked for all your molten courtyard, your tier 2 stuff. Anything you have found in the auction house. See ya. Mark: Yea, it’s gone. Arwin: So now you are going to be a patchwork of greens like you were when you were a level 30, looking like a vagabond. Mark: That’s right. Arwin: That is what you are going to get here only; it is going to be good stuff. Mark: But that red tuff, that red because it is heat resistant. Arwin: Fire resists gear. Mark: Yeah fire resist, still good. Arwin: Good call it is still very good because as you obviously already know, little clairvoyance there good job. Here is a lot of fire damage in this instance. Mark: A lot of fire damage. Arwin: The last boss is a fire breather, he is a dragon. So do bring your fire resist gear. You are also going to want to have fire resist for some other ring of fire, hellfire guys who try to blast you through the instance. There is a lot of trash going up through the first boss, a ton of trash. So that is going to be a long time to get there. Don’t worry about it, overall it is a forty five minute instance. Mark: Like that. Arwin: From start to finish, totally fast, which is why you can run it over and over, warrior loot, warrior experience, warrior reputation. There we go. Mark: I don’t even give a damn about my bad reputation but that’s just me. Arwin: You got to think about your reputation. Mark: You do. Arwin: You know word gets around. Mark: Yeah got to rely on that word. Arwin: So to sum up the ramparts as a whole. You want to make sure you go into the ramparts near the summoning stone. Mark: You want to go in? Arwin: You want to go in. Don’t go up, go in. Number two you want to do it over and over and over from 56 to 62 even. You are still getting really good experience and reputation. And don’t forget the loots, never forgetting the loots. Do bring our fire resist gear; don’t get rid of all your crap first. Make sure you get the greens to replace them. But do bring fire resistance it will be helpful in this instance, and beyond that just rack up the goods. Over and over, forty five minutes and you’re done. Mark: Sweet so lets hit it. Cool, so we will take you up to the trash and the first boss, watch keeper Gargolmar. Arwin: Gargolmar! Gargolmar. Mark: Gargolmar, arrgh, coming up next.