When life is stressing me out (as it so often does these days) my default mode is ‘go clean and organize something’. That’s how I ground myself, feel productive, and move on from whatever it is in life that I can’t control right then. This morning I decided the cleaning that needed to be done was my Warcraft account.
I’ve multiboxed in Warcraft to some degree since BFA era, through Blizzard’s decision to no longer allow broadcasting, and then no longer allowing any ‘streamlining’ at all. At the end of 2024, I decided that maybe I didn’t want to continue with so many accounts, and so I moved all of my gold making over to my main account. That’s 20 level 10 characters who were not in use besides doing auction house stuff once a day.
Then I took a break from the game for a while, returning just over a month ago. I decided this reduction of accounts was a silly idea, and I wanted my auction house characters over on my 2nd account so that I could continue to do AH stuff while I used my main account. I also wanted them separated again just to give a bit of distance (even just visual distance) between my ‘fun’ characters and the ‘work’ ones. Plus, that would free up 20 character slots – since I was at 60/65, this would be a big deal. Paying for the 2nd account is no trouble at all, though I imagine I’ll only keep a few months of game time up, my main account I tend to do a few years at a time.
At 5am when I got up (the family gets up at 7am and you better believe I enjoy those two hours alone) I decided to shuffle everything over to the second account, after creating 20 new characters over there. Along the way I discovered I have 10 guilds that I’m the owner of. I thought I had about 5. Whoops.
I cleaned out banks, took stock of inventory, and while I didn’t actually set up the items on the AH, they’re at least in the mailboxes of the characters who will post them – tomorrow. I like to do my postings first thing in the morning, and I’d rather just skip a day and do it the next day than post it late.
It was refreshing to do such a deep clean and organization of my characters. I plan on purchasing some bag upgrades for all of them (just the main inventory bags) along with their bank slots (in preparation for the next update where all of that will change) and the reagent bank. I’m hoping this is enough to secure the cost for the level 10 characters but we’ll have to see. I don’t want to have to pay thousands to unlock their banks, and they also won’t be leveling up to 80 any time soon (that’s when you get those slots for free, supposedly). I also went through and deleted any characters who were not level 70, freeing up a few more slots. Why? Well, I wanted to make some earthen and experiment with leveling up through exploration discovery. I figured for any characters who were between 10-70 it would be easier / faster to just start over rather than leveling. Anyone who is 70+ can do pet battles or timewalking to earn their last 10. We’ll see how it goes, for now I haven’t created anyone new on my main account.
The rest of the day I meandered around and found it a bit difficult to focus. The world is in a state, and I’m trying to keep my head down and my family safe. The heat is slowly creeping back (gross) and honestly, gaming is a nice relaxing distraction.
I hope everyone out there is doing OK (well, ‘everyone’ the 3 people who maybe read this blog from time to time) and if you’re not, let’s have a chat. Maybe we can vent to one another. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
A Pixel Nomad 