Hello, Mudsprocket!
One of the real gifts in WoW Patch 2.3 is the introduction of a whole slew of new content in Dustwallow Marsh. I spent about an hour and a half there last night with my level 34 shaman, and, thanks to the changes in experience gain in 2.3, managed to level him to level 35 in about an hour.
Mudsprocket is the supposed hub of new quests in the newly revamped Dustwallow Marsh, but it's really not. New quests and content have been spread all over Dustwallow, from Theramore to Tabetha's Farm to the towers along the main road, to Mudsprocket itself. It's very clear from some of these quests that Blizzard had planned to include them all along, but ran out of time before the introduction of WoW 1.0 over two years ago. The addition of the new content, new mobs, new NPCs and the landscape revamp have made turned the zone from one of the more annoying zone runs in to a place to work up your 30-something toon. There have always been a number of quests at Brackenwall Village for the Horde, but the quests there too are limited (though not as limited as the old setup for Alliance quests in pre-2.3 Theramore).
The quests themselves (at least those that I've done thus far) are OK, and include visits to Nat Pagle, more kill mobs until you get the requisite number of drops quests, and a fun quest in which you discredit deserters from the Stormwind army. There's also a nifty chain that ends up with you taking on Tethyr, a new boss that looks a whole lot like the Lurker Below, only much more colorful. I haven't tried to take him down yet, but I saw a group of mid-40s and a 60 managed to wipe a number of times while trying to take him down in the middle of Theramore harbor.
I look forward to this new content. After leveling so many alts past 20, it's refreshing to finally get to do something different with mid-level content. I know that Blizzard needs to focus on new content for the endgame (and for new expansions), but the joy of discovery and the challenge of something completely new is hard to come by in the game, so I'm thankful when it does.
