Lies! All lies! All professions are locked at level 100 for Starter Edition accounts. I was trying to opt into a 7 day trail to see what would happen with my Starter Edition account when my subscription account was active. I was really looking forward to having a goblin to play on when my subscription account is frozen. It would seem the email that was sent to me was a phishing attempt. My account was hacked and ban. Thankfully I received all my items back and thanks to a wonderful Blizzard customer care rep I have 1 day of game time to get all my items from the mailbox. I changed all my passwords and added an authenticator. Looking forward to never being hacked again.

I have now leveled my leatherworking and skinning to 100 and crafted the most useful items from the profession! Medium Armor Kit and Light Armor Kit. I switched to Enchanting so I can break down the worthless green gear that is filling my inventory and Hebraism so I can gather the flowers I will need for alchemy. I read that the secondary professions go past level 100 and from a different source that Started Edition accounts are basically vanilla and burning Crusade combined. So 350 cooking, first aid and fishing here I come!

This weekend happens to be a battleground holiday for Arathi Basin. This piqued my curiosity. I queue up for a match to find that I am grouped with nine other level 20s. Waiting for the match to start I’m inspecting gear and everyone is summoning their mount. Some had heirlooms so they wouldn’t be trial accounts. Unless they participated in hundreds of matches to get the thousands of honor required to buy each piece. Like every other tedious task I attempt I must know if this is possible. My current goal will be to buy at least one piece of heirloom gear for homogenizer

Yay! 20!

Levels just seem to fly by when you use the dungeon finder. Now level 20 I get to start the hunt for the best Azeroth has to offer. I was missing the achievement for exploring Durotar so I had to visit Echo Isles. I didn’t realize that had changed to the troll starting area. Learn to read patch notes, right? What a beautiful place Echo Isles is now full of fun quests and a story. After wrapping up this unexplored content I went to Trisfal Glades. So far I have jumped off the zeppelin and ran into the inn at Brill. I like how the buildings were remodeled. Kudos to Blizzard, what a wonderful job updating the look and feel of Horde areas

Character Level: 16

Equipment

-          Head: None

-          Neck: None

-          Shoulders: None

-          Back: [Tumultuous Cloak of the Bandit]

-          Chest: [Hide Vest of the Hungerer]

-          Shirt: None

-          Tabard: [Undercity Tabard]

-          Wrist: [Searing Bracers]

-          Main Hand: [Cruel Barb]

-          Off hand: None

-          Ranged: [Compact Shotgun]

-          Hands: Hewn Kodo Gloves (33 Armor +1 Stamina)

-          Waist: [Vigorous Belt of the Bandit]

-          Legs: Pioneer Trousers of the Monkey (52 armor +1 Stamina +1 Agility)

-          Feet: Primal Boots (32 Armor)

-          Finger: None

-          Finger: None

-          Trinket: None

-          Trinket: None

Character Stats

-          General

o       Health: 596

o       Focus: 100

o       Item Level: 9

o       Speed: 100%

-          Attributes

o       Strength: 32

o       Agility: 57

o       Stamina: 60

o       Intellect: 25

o       Spirit: 33

Reputation

-          Horde

o       Bilgewater Cartel: Friendly (4180/6000)

o       Darkspear Trolls: Honored (334/12000)

o       Orgrimmar: Honored (9219/12000)

o       Silvermoon City: Friendly (980/6000)

o       Thunder Bluff: Honored (6450/12000)

o       Undercity: Friendly (2130/6000)

Professions

-          Primary Profession Level: Leatherworking (8/75)

-          Secondary Profession Level: Skinning (75/75)

-          Cooking: 36/75

-          Fishing: 0/75

-          First Aid: 46/75

-          Archaeology: 075

New Achievements: 100 quests completed, Shave and a haircut, Represent

Deaths: 4

First Instance

I was a little worried at first about how instances would work. Seeing as trial accounts cannot join groups or guilds. My mind was eased when I hit level 15 and unlocked the dungeon finder. The experience was the same as subscription accounts. Pick a roll, then pick and instance, and queue. Homoginizer’s first instance was a full clear of Ragefire Chasm. Time to queue up again!

Status Update!

Character Level: 14

Equipment

-          Head: None

-          Neck: None

-          Shoulders: None

-          Back: Zen ‘Taji’s Cloak (15 Armor)

-          Chest: Earthmother’s Vest (39 Armor)

-          Shirt: None

-          Tabard: None

-          Wrist: Cougar Pelt Wristwraps (19 Armor)

-          Main Hand: Scalping Tomahawk of Stamina (Damage: 7-14 Speed: 1.80 DPS: 6.0 +1 Stamina)

-          Off hand: None

-          Ranged: Skorn’s Rifle Damage: 11-21 Speed: 1.90 DPS: 8.5

-          Hands: Hewn Kodo Gloves (33 Armor +1 Stamina)

-          Waist: Cord of Tragic Memory (29 Armor +1 Stamina)

-          Legs: Pioneer Trousers of the Monkey (52 armor +1 Stamina +1 Agility)

-          Feet: Primal Boots (32 Armor)

-          Finger: None

-          Finger: None

-          Trinket: None

-          Trinket: Noen

Character Stats

-          General

o       Health: 364

o       Focus: 100

o       Item Level: 5

o       Speed: 100%

-          Attributes

o       Strength: 31

o       Agility: 39

o       Stamina: 30

o       Intellect: 23

o       Spirit: 31

Reputation

-          Horde

o       Bilgewater Cartel: Friendly (2777/6000)

o       Darkspear trolls: Friendly (5902/6000)

o       Orgrimmar: Honored (3774/12000)

o       Silvermoon City: Neutral (2577/3000)

o       Thunder Bluff: Honored (5047/12000)

o       Undercity: Neutral (2677/3000)

Professions

-          Primary Profession Level: Leatherworking (8/75)

-          Secondary Profession Level: Skinning (75/75)

-          Cooking: 36/75

-          Fishing: 0/75

-          First aid: 46/75

-          Archaeology: 075

New Achievements: Cooking Award, Explore Mulgore, 50 quests completed

Deaths: 3