Last week I decided to start playing on the EU servers because it better fit my time zone, I’m 4h behind the UK time zones, and 4h ahead of the West Coast, being here in Atlantic Canada. I typically game day-time hours, and go to bed pretty early (9-10pm) which was right when things would typically get started over on NA. Waiting for queues was difficult, and raid times were always so late for me, it was not an optimal experience.
I should have made this change years ago, because so far it has been fantastic. I’m currently playing alliance on the Argent Dawn server, and I have two level 80 characters (a paladin and a hunter) and a handful of 70 characters (evoker, and druid), with some babies (monk, and priest) that I’m hoping to lowly level. Eventually I’d like 1 of each class, and perhaps 1 of each class on the horde side (on a different horde heavy server, when that time comes).
Groups and activity happen when I’m available, which is REALLY different for me, and I’ve just been having an amazing time. I joined up with the community of twitch streamer “Bears Adventures”, who is just a lot of fun. My only ‘complaint’ if it can be called that, is that I took so long to make the change, and also I have so much content to catch up on.
The only thing I truly ‘miss’ from my NA account (aside from the gold) is my pet collection, which I am slowly working on. I’ve unlocked the Legion daily quests so that I can get those pet trainers when they come up, and I do have a handful of level 25 pets now. It helps that you can jump into pet battles for both Dragonflight and The War Within with level 1 pets. You don’t get a lot of experience for them but what you want to do is the dailies that reward charms, and then use those charms to buy pet boosts from the NPC.
We’re in the middle of a horrible heat wave, so I’ve been doing a lot of gaming lately and hiding from the sun (we’re talking 35-40C outside). There should be a break in the heat on Monday, and honestly, I’m looking forward to that.
Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
A Pixel Nomad 