This week's blogs cover the who-why-what-where-when-how of "Rolling a New Toon" in World of Warcraft (from my point of view). Today we look at "when?"
"Absurd question!" I hear my imaginary readers scoffing. "The time to roll a new toon in World of Warcraft is 2005. Hop into your Tardis and get a good toon name while you can. If you hurry you might get your 4th choice!"
You're right in many ways. The first decade of this millenium was when everybody played. It was phenomenal. Those of us who got in early are still talking about it, which must really bore the newer players.
In truth, I wouldn't want to go back. You couldn't buy a mount until level 40, you had to run everyplace. My boots got worn out running up and down Stranglethorn Vale, uphill both ways. When I bought new ones at the auction house, I had to wait an hour for them to arrive in the mail. (They hadn't invented "Blizzard Prime instant delivery" yet.) By then my guildies had outleveled me.
Of course I caught up again. The guildies were too broke to afford their mounts, so they decided to create female toons and dance nekked for coins. Don't be too shocked. In WoW, a bikini is as nekkid as you can get, and it's pixels anyhow. Being older and wiser, I had saved enough to avoid the nekkid dancing, so we all got our mounts about the same time.
I've sinced moved on to other guilds and other servers, so I never found out what happened to those rascals. I expect they went on to become world leaders.
Other reasons not to go back to 2005? Too many to count but they include wait times to login, 1-hour hearthstone cooldowns, not enough quests, no flying mounts, and mismatched armor that always looked like a clown suit.
While writing, I've been listening for the Tardis but the good Doctor must be busy elsewhere. I guess my best advice for "when to roll" is "hurry!" When the expansion shows up this Fall you'll be too busy with new content to level your lowbies.
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