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Catching up On 20+ Years of Content

I have a plan (of course I do) to try to catch up on all of the content that is currently missing from my brand new EU World of Warcraft account. Now, it’s absolutely NOT necessary to play catch up this way, you can play through the current content and be perfectly happy with that – but me, well. I want to try to get this account close to my old account.

Week1 (July 7-13): The War Within (Campaign, Undermine, etc)
Week2 (July 14-20): Vanilla (factions, pets, dungeons, raids)
Week3 (July 21-27): The Burning Crusade
Week4 (July 28-Aug3): Wrath of the Lich King
Week5 (Aug 4-10): Cataclysm & TWW
Week6 (Aug 11-17): Mists of Pandaria
Week7 (Aug 18-24): Warlords of Draenor
Week8 (Aug 25-31): Legion
Week9 (September 1-7): Battle for Azeroth
Week10 (Sept 8-14): Shadowlands
Week11 (Sep 15- 21): Dragonflight

While I do realize that there is a LOT more than 1 week of content in each of these expansions, and there are multiple quests and achievements that take weeks to do – I am hoping I can at least manage the main storylines + dungeons + raids of each expansion within that week, while continuing to complete TWW content. It will depend on how much time I have to play (it is summer, so I do have more time than usual) and how much ‘stuff’ I am doing in TWW, I think. I’m also going to try to complete it all on ONE character, and finally achieve my goal of having one character who has ‘done it all’ as opposed to 60 characters who have done little bits here and there.

There’s no hard and fast rules about any of this, I just wanted a small guideline to get myself focused so that I wasn’t (once again) all over the place. We’ll see how it works out. Some parts I’ve already completed ahead of time, too. Like I went and opened up the Garrison and with timewalking taking place I’ve started doing Draenor dungeons. My gold is also in short supply over here on the EU servers, so while leveling up professions IS on the list, it’s not going to be as carefree and easy as it was over on NA where I have … everything.

In any case, I like this challenge. I like having direction. I really like trying to get everything completed on a single character (I do have 4 characters total, that may expand in the future, we’ll see). Now I’m trying to level up some pets so I can get situated with pet battles.

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

Origin of Lurevia the Unyielding

“I was not born in peace. I was forged in flight.”

Lurevia was born aboard the Genedar, the Draenei’s great dimensional vessel, decades before it crash-landed in Outland. Her parents, devout archivists, perished during a Legion ambush while the Draenei were fleeing yet another shattered refuge. Too young to remember their faces, she was raised among the Anchorites, the priesthood of the Light—more by duty than affection.

She grew not in comfort, but in discipline. The Light was not a cradle to her—it was law, structure, and the only constant in a universe consumed by betrayal.

During the Army of the Light’s crusade, she volunteered for the Lightforging process without hesitation. She passed the trials with fury in her heart and left behind any illusions of mercy.

Now, Lurevia resides in Stormwind’s Cathedral District, but rarely sleeps there. She is often abroad—riding west to Westfall, or north to the Plaguelands—wherever the Light’s judgment is needed and leniency has failed.

To most, she is a glowing shield.
To others, a blade too sharp to hold.

Settling In

I’ve been working on completing the story campaigns for The War Within on my 80 paladin, and then I decided to create 1 of each class for future adventures, especially since timewalking is going on and I’m pretty sure I’ll want to take advantage of that. The thing is, this new account doesn’t have allied races unlocked, so that is something I will absolutely want to do – eventually. Timewalking this week is Draenor, which I am not a huge fan of. I completed 5 on the paladin and I’ve been leveling up the hunter through them since she was already level 73. That will leave me with 2 level 80 characters, which I’m pretty excited about. I haven’t picked professions yet, but I’d like to ideally have 4 level 80 characters, and that covers all professions.

Right now at the time of this post I’m at 31k gold, which is a respectable amount considering I’ve only been playing for two days. I’m hoping to eventually earn enough gold to cover my professions / recipes / repairs and maybe even a monthly token, though at the moment I am using my NA account to cover that.

I am delighted that I have finally made the change. Not because I don’t enjoy NA, I do, but I tend to play EU hours and when it comes to looking for groups, that shows. Now as I queue in the middle of the day (for NA) there are tons of people around, because it’s usually late afternoon / evening for EU. That was the main deciding factor in making the switch, and while it IS difficult to start over from scratch, I also see a lot of lovely benefits. Plus I get to group up with all my EU friends. Ideally there would be no separation between NA / EU servers, but that’s where we’re at, so I’m making due.

In any case, it’s nice to be back in WoW, it’s comfortable, and I have so much to do before player housing goes live.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

If You Could Start Over – Would You?

In most cases, and even in this specific case that I want to talk about, I would not start over. In video games like World of Warcraft, accounts have a history. The game is old, and if you’ve been playing since the start, that’s a LOT of history.

For the past year or so I’ve been contemplating starting over on the EU servers. I am NA, but the time that I play is much better suited to EU, and I thought perhaps I’d have an easier time looking for groups, or guilds. Plus I have a lot of EU friends who play, and wouldn’t it be great to do some delves or some timewalking together.

So I started up a EU account, on a brand new bnet (this part doesn’t matter, because nothing is shared across regions anyway). With timewalking going on leveling is VERY fast, and before I knew it I had an 80 paladin. The problem is that I have not done The War Within story which means I don’t have the weekly quests available (yet).

Working through those quests when I’ve already done them over on NA (plus all the other goodies I have on NA) is difficult but I know if I just stick it out and get these chores done, I’ll feel much better about things.

Plus, doesn’t it make for good stories? While I’m at it, let’s talk gold. I have zero, or at least I started with zero. How much can I earn when I’m starting over from scratch, only using a single character, and on a new region with no materials at all?

I suppose we’ll see!

Gold at the time of this post: 9,270g

Mount #487 – Forsaken’s Grotesque Charger

The trading post rewards this month included a lot of transmog that I just absolutely adore, AND this mount, the Forsaken’s Grotesque Charger. There’s also a version of it for sale in purple from the trading post, which I picked up (of course). I think it’s really pretty, and while I do tend to stick to my usual mounts, I’m sure I’ll be using it here and there.