My Not-So-Secret Spot

The other day, when I mentioned that I'd found another fishing spot in Retail and posted this pic...

Shintar of Priest with a Cause (among other blogs) asked me where it was. Well, it was here:

See that circle in the bottom of the map of Westfall, slightly left of center? That's where.

That's the location where, if you come out of The Deadmines, you'll see a dock off to the left, and a vendor there who also sells some cooking recipes. That vendor has remained in place through the Cataclysm reworking of the zone, and he's a handy person to have around if you want to keep questing out here (or running DM again). I suppose you could consider him a vestige of the original Westfall, but since I knew you could stand on the dock and fish without being interrupted by any mobs, I figured it was a good place to try out.

When I went into the Lion's Pride Inn to park for the other night, I was greeted by a disco ball. 

Yes, really:

Told you so.

That's when I decided right then and there to go try my spot in Westfall.

The run there was pleasant enough, and I learned something about the leveling environment in Retail: while the mobs scale up to match you while you're out questing, they also scale DOWN.

Or at least I think they do.

You see, I expected the mobs out there to be in the mid-teens, like they are in Classic, but every mob I encountered on the run out there was L12, just like me. Especially the ones over by the Lighthouse, which in Vanilla Classic are L17-L18. But since they were L12, it was a piece of cake to run over and not be jumped by mobs coming from over the hills after me. 

The thing is, I'm not sure with the level squish if what the actual level is out here, but you know, it didn't matter in the end. I was able to get to my watering hole without incident. So I settled down to fish with nary a soul in sight, and Gen Chat was blessedly silent.

When I logged in yesterday to take a screenshot of the map, I was really surprised when I was logging out that I noted some telltale signs of Paladin activity. Sure enough, there was someone out on the edge of my vision, killing mobs:

Unlike some other servers, on Moon Guard it seems I can't have the entire zone to myself, but at the same time, at least they're not in my business or anything.