Recruit a Friend Thoughts
When Blizzard announced the Recruit a Friend deal, I really wanted my own Zhevra mount. Sadly, all my friends who are interested in playing already have their own accounts. So I recruited myself!
I created a gnome Mage and Warlock pair to level together. I am lucky enough to have 2 computers on my desk, so I two-boxed them. I used Synergy to be able to control both PCs from one keyboard and mouse, and I set up my Logitech G15 keyboard so that both characters’ key spells were on easily accessible hotkeys. The G15Buttons UI mod made that really easy.
The triple xp is only available for the first three months, so my plan was to use that time to level the pair up to 60. I also had a level 22 rogue at the time of starting, and planned to use my “grant a level” levels to bring her up to 52.
Well, my three months ran out on Saturday. And whilst I knew Saturday was the day, I didn’t realise it would be quite early on Saturday. I had just managed to collect all the Green Hills of Stranglethorn pages to do all the hand ins for the Mage and Warlock, and suddenly realised that the “summon friend” option had disappeared from my right click menu. Boo!
So I didn’t quite hit my target, but I didn’t do too badly. The Mage and Warlock are now each level 44, and my Rogue is 43. With the Wrath release imminent I dount I’ll be doing much with my alts over the next months or so at least, but they’re there when I’m ready to come back to them. I realised whilst levelling that I really don’t like two-boxing. It’s fine when you’re just running around, but when you get that unexpected add, and have to react quickly, I just can’t do it. So I’m looking forward to soloing each class up to the higher levels. It’ll also help me to learn more about playing each class.
I’m sure this was a great marketing ploy to get people buying more accounts. As I don’t want to get suckered into paying for another account on an ongoing basis, I have transferred the Mage back onto my main account and cancelled the RAF one. And I still have a free character slot for my Death Knight.
i did the same, but used multiboxer for the control – main keyboard for one character, number pad for t’other. the multiboxer mod was good too, as it meant any quest link clicked with the main character was mirrored on the drone.
i got a paladin/priest to 70, warlock/mage to 60 and granted a rogue and a druid to 60 (well, 58 for the druid – i miscalculated .. but an hour of 3* quest xp fixed that quickly).
while too much unexpected was indeed a problem, i found that having a tame healer following meant i could easily survive levels of adds that’d have killed me solo – *and* do all those quests i otherwise had to skip due to them being group quests. i even managed some group-3 quests in outlands.