Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when it isn't received with flowers and candy. This goes double for people coming in to attack guildies over other diaries or comments - STAY OUT! Link to your recruitment diary is OK though.
Standard advertisement: Wreck List is the Daily Kos World of Warcraft guild. We are Horde-side on the Garrosh server. To join, read this diary ,visit the Guild web site, roll up a character on Garrosh and when you log in type
/who wreck list
and contact (via in-game mail or /whisper) any of our members - who can direct you to someone with /ginvite privileges and get you a guild invite. Yes, you have to be Horde. No, you don't have to be hardcore - casuals, PvPers, and people that just want to hang out on guild chat are all welcome.
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Because I have nothing else to talk about, and because it probably deserves a little more than a throwaway line in the last diary, I'm going to talk about World of Warcraft's new free to play option.
What is it? Well, essentially Blizzard has taken the time limits off the 10 and 14 day free trials. Now you can noodle around WoW all you like, for free, as long as you don't mind staying under level 20.
Here's some other restrictions, which I will helpfully fair-use off their FAQ:
The following restrictions are placed on all Starter Edition Accounts:
- A level cap of 20.
- A maximum of 10 gold.
- Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
- Unable to trade via the Auction House, mailbox, or player-to-player.
- In-game access to public chat channels unavailable. Players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper.
- Characters will be unable to create or join guilds.
- Characters are not able to send whispers to other characters unless they have been added to the characters' friends lists or have received a whisper from a character first.
- Characters will not be able to invite other players into a party.
- Characters will not be able to join parties with other characters above level 20.
- Voice chat disabled on Starter Edition accounts.
- Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts.
- Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
- RealID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts.
I'm not sure how helpful a starter account would be for someone who isn't able to afford an account but wants to hang out with us. That said, if it weren't for the guild membership restriction it would be perfect for Little, who doesn't intend to level if she can help it.
I also heard something about the Refer-a-Friend rewards being updated, but I can find nothing about that.
Well, here's Mahuae with the Tab Eight Report. Hope you recovered from your crazy week!
Tab 8 Report:
Blazewing's Furious Kilt, lvl 85 leather
Blackwolf Ring of the Whale (two), lvl 84
Bloodied Wyrmhide Helm, lvl 85 leather
Bloodthirsty Embersilk Gloves, lvl 85 cloth
Bloodthirsty Fireweave Belt, lvl 85 cloth
Bloodthirsty Fireweave Boots, lvl 85 cloth
Bloodthirsty Fur Cloak, lvl 85
Bloodthirsty Wyrmhide Gloves, lvl 85 leather
Bulwark of the Scorned Man, lvl 84 shield
Chestguard of the Caring Ursine, lvl 84 leather
Cloak of Beasts, lvl 83 (two of these)
Cloak of War, lvl 83 (two of these)
Dandred Britches of the Monkey, lvl 82 leather
Darkbrand Helm of the Undertow, lvl 83 leather
Darkbrand Leggings of the Wavecrest
Dragonflayer Seer's Bindings, lvl 78 mail
Endwyn's Flickering Gauntlets, lvl 84 plate
Fireweave Bracers, lvl 85 cloth
Hardened Scale Cloak, lvl 81
Heavy Geode Mace, lvl 81 (three of these)
Helm of Holy Visions, lvl 83 plate (two of these)
Hessonite Band of the Beast, lvl 82 (ilvl 300)
Lord Rottington's Pressed Wisp Book, lvl 81 off-hand
Mereldar Ring of the Beast, of the Mercenary lvl 82
Mereldar Wand of the Flameblaze, lvl 82
Ornate Pyrium Belt, lvl 85 plate (two of these)
Rainsong, lvl 81 trinket
Shroud of Dark Memories, lvl 83 cloak
Skin of Stone, lvl 81 cloak
Spiritguard Drape, lvl 85
Stonewrought Shield of the Bear, lvl 83
Stormforged Helm, lvl 83 plate (two of these)
Stormforged Legguards, lvl 82 plate (three of these)
Stormforged Shoulders, lvl 82 plate
The Perforator, lvl 83 fist
Thondroril Crystal of the Eagle, lvl 83 off-hand
Thondroril Ring of the Champion, of the Earthfall, lvl 83
Triple-Loop Belt, lvl 85 cloth (two of these)
Tsunami Chestguard of the Windflurry, lvl 83 mail
Arthas, I wish DKs could use shields - Bulwark of the Scorned Man sounds perfect for one.
Well, that's what I have this week. For the Horde!