Burning Crusade Free Trial

A boring account of my recent WoW experiances. Probably boring to most but veteran WoW players might get a laugh out of a guy fooling himself into thinking he can play again just to try the expansion without becomming addicted. I did learn one thing about deleted characters that I never knew.

Got a 14 day trial in the mail. Was nearly 1 year WoW-free. They don't leave you alone do they? As far as gaming releases go this summer should be a little better than most. The Darkness should provide a solid experiance among others and Bioshock late August. So I put the trial disk deep into my PC collection. (Why didn't I throw it out? hmm) I am questioning how good Overlord and 2 Worlds will be. Overlord will be fun but it doesn't look all that refined. 2 Worlds I lost faith in when I saw they were delibrately copying Oblivion visually. Until Bioshock at the end of August, I don't see myself being totally occupied. To be honest, I dont see that happening until Mass Effect comes out. So I have a few months were dabbling in CSS and RE4 for PC isn't going to be enough gaming.

So, I did the obvious. I loaded the Burning Crusade trial. It loaded the old game as you need that but there is no trial code. So I thought I'd get wise and use a trial account for the old game hoping to overlap BC onto it...but that doesn't allow you to play the BC. You need a full account on the old game to do the BC free trial. The old game was ok for the time being.

Problem here is, when I quit WoW I did so kinda bitterly. Left my main pvp guild, left the 2o2p horde guild and unloaded everything I had, items, gold, everything. Not really bitter leaving the guilds but, bitterly deleted all characters so I would not be tempted again. So almost a year later, I'm kinda sorry I took such an extreme approach to quiting by erasing characters I logged almost 2000 hours on. I did need the break though and am glad I took it. I thought I'd have zero options though.

Just playing the old game is not even an option really. The expansion changed the entire face of the game in terms of instancing and gear. So grinding through was refreshing as I really like the dwarf/gnome starting area. I did start to dread some of the later grinds - especially with not many people grinding through the older instances. I could imagine LFG for Maraudon or Scarlet Monestary in a vain attempt to level back to 60 while being ignored for days on end. Truth be told, I dont want to regrind some of those places. I truthfully don't want to regrind some questing areas like Silithus. Maybe Dranei would be fun. So now I need 2 things, a full normal WoW account, and my 60's back (maybe the 3 30-40 characters I had) to make the grind easier or avoid it altogether.

In little time on the help website I found there is a way to get all those deleted characters back. You need to be on that old account and it needs to be a full paid account. They keep these guys on file in case accounts are comprimised. They would not do this for me as I was on a trial account but the possibility is there. One problem is these characters are now spread out on 3 servers. Thats $25 a transfer per character if I wanted. So I wont get them all where I want eventually, too much money.

The next step to think about is - how do I get 2 naked level 60's back in fighting shape for PvP and eventually through the portal? Thats going to be...I don't know. If I kept my honor and rep I can grind through some lower instances with a trash knife and auction off the stuff. Then buy some superior PvP gear to start out so I can grind some higher levels before I go through the portal. Won't be toooo hard.

When I created a new character friday I decided to try an RP-PVP server. One thing I was not ready for was the garbage chat in WoW especially when going in guildless and friendless. Not really looking to RP but to avoid the constant chatter. I figured the RP'ers wouldn't tolerate that crap. That turned out to be somewhat true. People keep themselves in check although not many people RP in public. This is on Lightninghoof anyway. There are guilds that RP among themselves I gather. So basically its a normal server with less annoying public chat. People dont seem to cross the line to often in fear of being reported for not role-playing. People chat in normal talk but are much more reserved which suites me just fine.

My target right now is probably 2 months. If I continue beyond that I would probably apply to one of the guilds here if they are still recruiting. Who knows, I still have not paid for a normal account yet or updated to BC. Still, after a long break, I could see why I spent so much time on this game.