An Ode to Treants

To all my dedicated readers (which I think was one, Floralark) I have returned to WoW and the moonkin world!

My last post was February 15, 2008, which I think coincided with my breakup with the girlfriend and quitting of WoW.  Since then I have conveniently forgotten about the addiction WoW brings and decided to hop back into the driver seat and begin again with the new expansion!

My RL friends all play on Dalaran and some don’t like horde so I believe ‘Simoncowell’, my 70 horde druid, will continue grazing and abstaining from combat.  However, I have created a new alliance druid named ‘Owltoid’ to continue the moonkin quest for domination.

Through the recruit-a-friend promotion, a friend is helping me level Owltoid using the 3x experience bonus.  It has been amazingly quick so far with level 20 being reached after 4 hours of playing last night.  I have a feeling level 40 is only about 5 hours away and level 60 likely being 10-15 hours after that.

For those who haven’t heard of the recruit-a-friend promotion it’s a system that an existing account can send an email asking someone to play WoW with them.  The email contains a key that once entered in the WoW website activates a trial account.  The cool thing about this account is that any toon on the new account that is within 4 levels of any toon on the existing account will gain 3x experience while grouped and nearby each other.  That is 3x the experience on everything, including quests.  Also, toons below 60 on either account can summon a toon on the other account once per hour.

With the help of my friend, we take his high level toon on one account, his low level toon on another account, and my low level toon on the new account, and powerlevel the crap out of instances.  With the 3x experience one run of Deadmines was about 1-1.5 levels.  One run of Stockades is about one level.  These clears only take about 20 minutes which leads to some insanely fast leveling times.  I’m sure we’ll slow down after we get through Scarlet Monastery, but I believe this system will work all the way up to 60.  For the higher level instance we can both play on our high level accounts while dual-boxing to allow our low level accounts to soak up the exp.

I see level 60 being within two weeks, and possibly much more quick than that.  I may try to recreate my horde pally in the alliance side using the same technique, but I’ll have to see how smooth this goes.  One other perk is that for every two levels my toon gains, I can grant the other players toon one level of immediate gain as long as the other toon is lower level than my toon.  So, if I level my druid up to 60 and my pally up to 60, then I can level my friends brand new toon from 1-60 in less than 5 minutes.  Talk about a nice /played time!

I think my friend gets a unique mount through the recruit-a-friend program which is just added bonus!