February 6th 2009 12:23 am
THE NO GOLD DIET CHALLENGE: GRIND FROM 1-80!
"Is he retarded?" Remus said between mouthfuls of what is actually chicken liver and foie gras mousse on bread but looks like pureed roadkill on toast. (at $14 or so, it was almost the price of a monthly subscription to WoW, to be enjoyed for a few minutes and excreted after 24 hours, depending on Remus’ digestion rate and gut passage time)
Remus, Cletus and I were at dinner this evening in Balthazar, a restaurant we can’t afford on our own dime. But Remus’ dad was taking care of the bill, so we were three happy freeloaders at the table, only I wished most of the stuff on the menu wasn’t so hoity-toity. So I’m uncouth, shoot me. Now back to the retard and my latest issue…
The retard being the GM of one of my new guilds. The imperious dork - a rabid anti-RMT subhuman who got wind of my gold-buying tendencies (but thankfully doesn’t know I’m the genius behind WoW Gold Facts) - left me this pompous lecture in the ingame mail (IN THE INGAME MAIL!!!) about the evils of RMT. With his usual crappy spelling, he wrote that he was not going to kick me out of the guild..and that I should see the benefits of a "no gold diet".
A No Gold Diet. If there was anything gayer on this planet….
Never mind.
Anyway, GM Dork wants me to grind my lowbie toon to 80 without ever buying gold.
"Does your GM have a job?" Cletus asked while trying to enjoy his $80+plus dish of Cote De Boeuf with haricots verts (green beans to the rabble) and onion rings, meant for sharing but reserved for him alone. The guy has two stomachs.
"Don’t know. Never met in real life. He was just some random person who invited me to his lowbie guild and I accepted. I have this new toon and I got careless when I told this other guildie about the gold I got for one of my Death Knights."
"And the sniveling toad snitched on you!" laughed Remus. I caught a brief glimpse of the roadkill in his mouth. I wanted to puke.
"Grind from 1-80? You’ll be a hundred and fifty years old by the time you get to 80 unless you quit your job AND quit school. And good luck in getting the good stuff at the auction house or a killer mount with a few measly gold in your pocket." Cletus burped.
"Take on the challenge and write about it," Remus suddenly said.
"You mean stop buying gold? Are you nuts? What about my site?" I was incredulous.
‘No, no, I didn’t mean you completely stop. Just don’t buy gold for one particular toon. Try grinding from 1 to 80. Keep a journal about it. Sounds gay, I know, but it might prove to all those anti-RMT bleeding hearts what a grind the, um, grinding is to people like us." Sometimes Remus can make sense of the ridiculous. He is also the only guy I know who can say "people like us" and make us sound like a very superior species that make the WASP seem like white trash.
"Let me think about it for two seconds. Yes."
Remus grinned. Cletus was too busy attacking his (free) food to react.
"Great! So roll a new character." He leaned forward, grinning devilishly. "And make it Alliance."
"F*** you!" Several diners turned to look at us.
"DWARF. ROGUE." He added.
Oh. My. F***ING…….
"ALLIANCE. DWARF. ROGUE. 1-80. NO BUYING GOLD."
And Remus toasted me with his St. Emilion and I’m wondering if his wine was laced with a drug that causes one to lose all common sense.
Maybe mine was too.
"DEAL!"
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7 Comments »
WoW Gold Pig on 06 Feb 2009 at 3:20 am #
EGF on a ‘no gold diet’? Now THIS we gotta see, dude.
Cathryn Wheel on 08 Feb 2009 at 9:09 pm #
This should be interesting. I bet my house you’ll give up in a month!
Jeongho Min on 08 Feb 2009 at 11:53 pm #
Whoa… does your GM have a job or something? I mean, grinding? Good luck to that…
Lestat de Lioncourt on 09 Feb 2009 at 12:13 am #
LOL. Good luck to that. Be sure to have enough stock of caffeine beside you. I tell you, it’s going to be a PITA (Pain in the arse)..
Of The Fin on 09 Feb 2009 at 2:40 am #
Hi! Kinda new to this site and I can say that this blog is really interesting (not to mention that it’s fun to read as well).
as for your latest post, temptation is devil, my friend. Don’t give in..
..but I know you will!
LOL! Ü
oli on 09 Feb 2009 at 8:40 am #
Think you’ll have time for that? LOL. Good luck.
WoWPlayer on 11 May 2010 at 5:30 pm #
Heh, I grinded from level one to level 80 in 30 days played… It seems like a while… hell, it IS a while. But I still kept my job, and school… played WoW as a side thing… It was the best thing ever! No questing… now worrying… and with the PvP exp and random dungeons, it just got that much easier.