/dev/games 11 Aug 2008 06:20 pm
Dear Warcraft Diary (Part Seven)
This Recruit-a-Friend system has been pretty incredible! Juls, Jess, and Jack (THREE-J) have all been playing a little, and we’ve got our characters ready to start running instances. The triple XP thing is impressive! Your average quest will bring you in about 80% of a level, and collection quests tend to yield a little over 150% of a level (since you end up killing more stuff). This means you can just do the fun or easy quests and ignore pretty much everything else! Along with our new group, I’ve been dualboxing some mages at hyper speed. Started them last Thursday and they both dinged 24 this afternoon. Kind of awesome, but kind of diminished when I noticed that Mike Wong had rolled a new character on our server and was already at 24 WITHOUT the triple XP.
The master plan is to play with our group at a casual pace, and powerlevel the mages when I’m bored and nobody’s around. As soon as they hit 31 I’ll start granting levels to other characters I have on the server, essentially levelling 3 characters at once (albeit, 2 of them are identical mages, but that’s not really a problem since I’ll eventually spec and gear one differently than the other). If nothing else making a trial account and dualboxing some characters to 20 can be really awesome! If you level 2 characters to 20 on both the recruiter’s and the recruit’s accounts, you end up with enough stored levels to autolevel a 3rd character on the recruiter’s account to 20, ending up with 5 20s for the price of 2 (well, for the price of 2/3s of a character without triple XP, at least). Sure, a 20’s not exactly STELLAR WOW POWER, but it’s good to have a few guys sitting around for when new people start up and want to run Deadmines or something. If you can do this in 10 days you don’t even end up spending money on the recruit’s account!
Granted, that’s not how I’m rolling. My recruits all have legit accounts now and are played by people other than me most of the time. But still, incredible. Unfortunately my Undead Mage (Ouchdown) is getting neglected while I’m powerlevelling all these Alliance characters, but the bonus XP lasts for 90 days so I might even have time to level some Horde grinders before all is said and done.
on 12 Aug 2008 at 11:18 am 1.Jess said …
I’m even having fun, too! Especially now that I have my pet polar bear named Pillow. Yesterday Pillow got spanked by a strange WOW character and that was rude. Bedrest, my dwarf, is ready to kick some serious butt now that I’m learning how to use all my little spell buttons. I don’t know if I could ever play the game at normal pace, though. I really can’t imagine leveling up so slowly.
on 13 Aug 2008 at 10:21 am 2.Julius said …
/nod
Jess, you should convince mel to play!
on 15 Aug 2008 at 6:09 pm 3.Jack Fields said …
Mel, mel, or mel?