Hillsbrad Foothills was radically changed in Cataclysm. A former grassy zone with World PvP between the Alliance town of Southshore and the Horde town of Tarren Mill, the Forsaken have taken over the zone after the Shattering. Southshore has been destroyed due to plague experiments, and toxic waste covers a lot of the zone. The zone has also merged with Alterac Mountains, where you’ll find a lot of Syndicate and ogres. Around Winter Veil, you’ll be sure to find the Abominable Greench being a huge nuisance. Players can also queue for Alterac Valley and pick up associated quests.
If you’ve completed the quests since the Shattering, you’ll notice a lot of new storylines in the area, inc. the series of quests that turns your character into a quest giver ordering NPCs around like Johnny Awesome.
The spider infestation of the bears is so creepy but it’s balanced by the Johnny Awesome quests, can’t miss those!
Geez, the only rare I’ve seen is Benj, I didn’t know there were that many in Hillsbrad.
I agree, I hate that popping egg quest…if fact anything to do with spiders.
It’s amazing just how many rares there are in a lot of the areas :)