It's Zhevra time !

When I first read about the new "Invite a Friend" offer from Blizzard I was absolutely amazed and had to double check to make sure it wasn't April Fools Day in America before telling Razor about it.  I had planned to post a blog entry here but Razor stole my idea and then proceeded to abuse me for not posting often enough.  Triple xp, non use of rested xp, gift levels for a lower level alt and a free Zhevra!  It just seemed too good to be true.  But I must admit I have been surprised at how this idea has upset so many people (if the forums and blogs are anything to go by) and I really don't understand it.

Let's do it !

I saw this as a fantastic opportunity to get a new toon of one of the few classes that I haven't played, and this is why I think it is such a good idea.  I really would like to experience a Druid but despite my attempts (as per the Purrfection thread) I just can't make myself go through that long hard slog again.  Surely after having done all the quests and instances from 1 to 60 over ten times nobody really thinks I would learn anything by doing it again?  Lol, I have not seen any complaints about Death Knights entering the game at lvl 55 so I find it hard to understand the argument against EXPERIENCED players having a faster method to get a new toon there.

Having decided to take advantage of this I needed to find a friend that I could invite.  Unfortunately all my friends already play WoW so I was stuck with using Razor to help me.  Naturally he jumped at the chance to get another toon and of course to practice his second favourite passtime of Boosting and away we went.  He has decided to level a Pally and spec it for aoe tanking and I finally have that druid that I have been trying to do for quite a while.

Straight after doing the necessary steps on the website, I got the link to say a Zhevra was mine to allocate to the toon that I wanted (you only get one) so I chose my current main who is Beldanna the Mage on Nagrand.  I logged on to find the following "cute" mail ...

And of course not long afterwards I was travelling through Azeroth on my new mount.  (After a few laps of Ironforge of course and only 2 or 3 mistimed jumps to land in the lava pit).

And so our new journey begins.  Razor as a Pally, Beld as a Druid (how the tables turn) and a chance to get to the point where we can enjoy the game much quicker than we would otherwise.  And it forces us to hang out together, so if anybody really thinks it is unfair that I got a "rare" mount so easily, then I challenge you to spend a few hours stuck in deadmines with Razor and you would realise that NOTHING in life is free !!