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WoW’s Recruit a Friend Program
By Cameron Sorden | August 25, 2008
Ever since Myrix suggested that I use a trial account to power-level myself a new character on my World of Warcraft PvP server, I’ve been thinking about doing just that (for all the reasons I talk about here). Originally I hadn’t wanted to do it since it seemed like an exploit (and a hassle), but today I read an interview where a Blizzard rep said that they didn’t really have a problem with the program being used that way.
I’d kind of like a second class option for when Wrath of the Lich King hits, so I decided to suck it up and try out two boxing with my laptop and desktop. I decided that my new character would be a blood-elf frost mage, since they seem to have a lot of control tricks and ways to escape death. I’ve also never played a mage to any substantial level (I usually play healers or tanks). I started up a trial account and made myself a little troll priest to run around behind him and triple his XP.
I didn’t want it to be a hassle, so I kept things really simple. I made a macro on the priest to follow my mage, to heal my mage, and to shield my mage. Then I left my laptop running on my desk and reached over once in a while as necessary. Not fancy, but it worked for 20 levels. In just two days, my mage managed to reach 25 (with my trial account capped at 20).
I figured that I could ditch the priest and just go back to leveling like normal (with the accelerated quest XP from patch 2.3), but as I ventured out solo last night, things got slow really quickly. I realized that after powering through 20 levels at triple speed, doing another 40 of the same old content will still be frustrating as all heck — especially on a PvP server. So, now Blizzard has me in their clever trap:
Do I pay to activate the trial account (when I already have two other inactive accounts lying around) and try to dual-box up to 60 on a PvP server, or do I just suck it up, grit my teeth, and level to 60 the old-school way?
Can we just get this over with and buy “triple XP” potions from Blizzard now? Sigh. If this is how it’s gonna be, this is how it’s gonna be.
Topics: Massively Multiplayer |
August 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“triple XP†potions from Blizzard now”
That’s crazy, that would be like putting Harley Davidson motorcycles in game as mounts….
oh wait…..
August 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Shut off your WoW account(s) until Wrath releases. Play the Warhammer closed beta with the rest of us.
August 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Eh. I don’t like playing beta because my progress gets erased, and I just wasn’t having enough fun with WAR.