Giving Away a bit of Gold

This person was saying in trade chat that it was their birthday, so I decided to randomly donate some gold. I sent along a message to them to be on the lookout for it, and this was the resulting conversation. I’ve removed their name for privacy sake, but it was on the Moon Guard server, NA:

[08/24/2025]

12:26 [Winneveve]: I sent you 150k for your birthday – enjoy! It should take approx 1h to get there (it’s not a hoax, just a random person saying have a great day)

12:26: LMAO NO WAY

12:27 [Winneveve]: Seriously, I know it sounds strange. Enjoy though :)

12:28: noooo, you shouldn’t have! I was just messing with the lfg peeps! But that’s super sweet of you, thank you

12:29 [Winneveve]: You’ll have 2 mail because the 1st one I forgot to put G and it sent you 150,000 silver, lol. Have a great day!

12:30: 150k is like…. 3 times what i have LMAO

12:31 [Winneveve]: Aw then you absolutely deserve some! YAY for gold! :D

12:32: I’m gonna spend it in goldshire

12:32 [Winneveve]: Whatever floats your boat ^^

12:33: least judgmental person in the server

12:33: ok queen

12:33 [Winneveve]: Wouldn’t be much fun to give away gold and then tell you how to spend it ;)

Interesting times as always. I like giving away gold here and there, it surprises people, and I hope it let’s them have a bit of a better day. Since I don’t know any of these people it should come as a complete out of the blue surprise. Sometimes that’s a really nice feeling.

Plus, I’ve got lots of gold. If I can help a few people have a better / unique day, why not share some of that around.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

Mount #477

I managed to pick up 3 mounts this week, and am at 477/500, yay! I haven’t looked at any lists to see what I could potentially be working towards, so that’s my next goal. So far I’ve just been collecting them as I do regular content. Still, progress is progress!

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

Meet – Winneveve

When you pre-order Midnight, you get a level 80 boost. With it, all of the base factions in TWW get capped out at 25 (or whatever their caps are, maybe some are 20). Since I took a very long break from WoW from November 2024 to June 2025, I did not have these factions maxed out yet. Well. I suppose now I do.

I didn’t really NEED any more alts, but I did buy the epic edition of Midnight for my main account (using gold), and the base edition for my alt accounts. I decided to boost up a monk on my alt account and that’s where Winneveve came from. I created her on Moon Guard, the RP server. I spent the day doing delves, LFR, and various other activities. What started out as a 645ilevel character who couldn’t even queue for raids is now 680. Gearing up these days is INCREDIBLY fast, plus I had a good deal of luck. See now that all of those factions are maxed my characters can run around to the quartermasters picking up all of the crest goodies, too. They scale to season 3.

I quickly returned to my paladin main once I had the monk settled, but it was still fun. Monk has always been one of my preferred classes to play.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself!

Still crawling towards 500 mounts

I know there are people who have over 1,000 mounts that are available in game (I’m not sure of the exact number currently available, but it’s up there) but for me, mounts have always been a side quest that I wasn’t interested in picking up. I always choose pets over mounts, especially when it comes to the monthly tenders spending. About 2 years ago I thought why not start also collecting mounts, and I made a small goal for myself to reach 500 mounts usable on a single character. This feat is more difficult than you might think. On paper I’m sitting at 502 mounts total – but as you can see by the achievement above, I actually only have 474 mounts that can be used on a single character. This is the ‘true’ representation of mounts that I’ve collected.

My goal to collect 500 mounts was supposed to end when TWW released, but that absolutely did not happen. I’m HOPING maybe I can potentially reach it before the end of TWW? The thing is, I’m not sure if I WANT to actively hunt mounts like that. I’m still missing quite a few pets from TWW (and some from DF, even), and I’d rather work on collecting profession recipes which is another fun hobby of mine. I suppose we’ll just have to see what I have time for.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

Midnight Excitement

It’s Gamescom over in Germany, and this year Blizzard is participating and they decided to do their big reveal for the next expansion, Midnight.

Now, obviously the thing I am most excited about is housing but there is a lot of other stuff that has been revealed, as well.

A new allied race, a new demon hunter spec, and a new prey system make up some of the announcements that came out on top of the player housing. We know the level cap will be raising to 90 (we’re almost right back where we were before the level squish), and there’s lots of demos going on.

I decided to stock up on tokens from in game BEFORE the announcement because I knew the price would go up if I waited any longer. I spent around 2 million gold, and bought the epic edition of Midnight for my main account, along with the base version for my alt account. I’m not sure if I’ll bother buying it for my AH account, since I don’t level any characters on that account I’m not in any great rush. The expansion won’t be out for some time yet, but I am hoping we get to explore player housing before then – especially since the Legion remix has a housing vendor.

Did I mention I’m excited?

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!