Dwarf Heritage

It's been a little while since I last wrote about one of the heritage quest chains... mainly because I kind of got caught up in the expansion and its endgame content. Fortunately the heritage quest lines are evergreen content that you can go back to at any time, and the other week while I found myself wanting to pass some time late at night, I decided to do the dwarf heritage quest chain.

Dwarves are one of those races I feel kind of "eh" about - which is to say I neither love nor dislike them - and there would've been others whose heritage I would've been more interested in from a lore point of view, but I don't have all of those races levelled up right now, while I do happen to have two dwarves at 80 so it was easy enough to just grab one of them and get going. I ended up choosing my paladin over my shaman.

The quest has you meeting up with Brann Bronzebeard early on and I've got to admit I winced a little. I don't know when this quest chain was added, but based on the fact that a trogg I killed early on dropped a piece of Tidespray Linen, I can only guess it was Battle for Azeroth. I think at the time going adventuring with Brann must've felt somewhat cooler than it does now, what with him having become everyone's delve companion and a big meme.

The quest also sends you down into Old Ironforge, which was opened up with Cataclysm from what I remember, but I'm pretty sure I can't have gone down there more than once or twice. There isn't actually very much of it, but I still managed to confuse myself during every step of the quest by basically going up when I needed to go down, and down when I needed to go up.

I was also pleasantly surprised to find two (presumably new) Earthen NPCs studying in one of the rooms I visited. If you talk to them they gush about all the exciting things they've learned about things like Ulduar and all the other races created by the Titans. I just thought that was a nice touch to find in a location that is unlikely to even be visited by many people.

The quest chain itself was... solid, though not hugely exciting in my opinion (though part of that might be my not-particularly-dwarf-loving bias coming in). Without spoiling too much, you reforge an old suit of armour from a Bronzebeard ancestor, which seems like a thematically appropriate thing for a dwarf to do, and travel to Thelsamar and Ulduar.

It just feels like there could've been more to it somehow? Even I know that dwarf lore has a lot more going on, what with the different clans and their family dramas. Though I guess we got a bit more insight into that in the War Within levelling campaign at this point.

I would expect players who've done multiple heritage quest chains to rate this one as kind of mid - not bad, but not amazing either. Which you could see as damning with faint praise, but I did enjoy it.