Bought a WoW account

So it is the Korean holiday of Chuseok here, or the equivalent of Thanksgiving, but more like the break between Christmas and New Years. So we have a lot of time off to be home...

So I bought a WoW account with my wife this week. It is of course on a Korean server... it is a pretty darn cool account with 3 level 70 horde characters on our same server. A mage, druid and paladin!

Yesterday I was playing with my old 60 rogue and Kyle my soon-to-be-6 year old was playing with Gustaf's old 60 mage. We made a level doing quests and then got bored and we switched over to my 70 warlock and he took over the 70 druid for the first time.

We decided to play Battlegrounds right away and I was shocked how quickly Kyle had a handle for this new druid. Of course it came in half purple arena gear and a bunch of other goodies, but still it takes a good amount of time to learn how to play any character. While he was not at the top of the rankings in Eye of the Storm he would be anywhere from 9th to 13th place and I never saw him on the bottom.

He and I both had way more fun with PvP than doing quests. My wife on the other hand just started a hunter and she is back in the leveling up craze and is somewhere around 22 with it.

Late last night, my wife and started two Taurens - a druid and a shaman and again I was struck how clean the design is. 1 Quest to start, then 3 quests. Quest giver right in front of you. Levels 1-5 are a super sexy snap to dig into...

Why did we buy that account? Welp it cost us $450, but it had both a druid and a paladin and we were looking for either as an off-tank or healer to help flesh out our teams. Since we are so warlock heavy it is hard to get a solid dungeon group together. My plan is to get my son trained on the druid or the paladin and then finally get some primal nether to make my destro-goggles for my warlock. So essentially I am paying $450 to get a single piece of primal nether. And what is nether anyway? Isn't that another word for virtual? So $450 for a virtual, virtual mat. Haha... but seriously the account acts like a great guest account for when people visit me here in Seoul they can come check out some PVP action.

So, now I have paid for accounts to be power-leveled, bought gold, and bought an account. The power-leveled accounts I bought were for my programming team 2 years ago, when I asked them to crunch hard, I figured I would trade their WoW time for work and hand them some characters in return.

The gold is just an off and on purchase... right now I really don't care much about gold, I just want to PvP...

All the armor sets made me realize how cool it will be to have coordinated sets of clothing for GoDance that is to be made with Tailoring - both of which are set to go for Oct 3... So far everything is going great with Crafting and we are all very pleased with the results. <div

Originally posted on LiveJournal