2008-01-09 Temptations

The Grunt Foundation has found a couple friends with deep pockets to help us out. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I had decided not to transfer a player with money because I felt we should be doing this only through the efforts of the new toons that we had created. But one of the players that was learning jewelcrafting revealed that a friend had loaned him 10 gold to get that going, but that he was running our of money again and doing tailoring too was not going to work. He basically wasted the 10 gold because we don't really need jewelcrafting at this low a level and with three cloth wearers tailoring was of more immediate use. We certainly were eager to get tailored bags for our empty bag slots.

We discussed whether we really wanted to accept outside help. A second friend wants to help out, and we did agree that we needed to get a guild started, and that outside funds could be used for that. But we went a little farther, too, and that may ultimately cause problems.

Case in point: The tailor/jewelcrafter was encouraged to stay with tailoring and drop JC for a gathering profession that would help him get some money. He crafted 6 slot bags for us, for which we were very happy. When Philly came in game last night two of the group were in game, and they told Wild to go check his mail. When I checked I had four new bags, from a 10 slotter all the way up to a 14 slot runecloth bag. I was delighted! Then I thought about our tailor, who did all that work to make us bags that are now mostly worthless before we even have our second get together. And if he's also dropped jewelcrafting, on our advice, well, I know I would feel like I just wasted an awful lot of time.

We do intend to have a guild charter signing party at the start of our get together thursday. We'll need to discuss just how much outside help we are willing to accept and for what things. For example, Philly wants a wand. I could get a very nice level 12 wand for about 15s on the AH, which is almost half of the money Philly has and which I'll need to buy spells as I level. Our enchanter should shortly be able to make me a level 5 wand as he levels enchanting. Do we allow outside gold so that I could buy that level 12 wand, making the enchanter's wand useless for anything but levelling the skill? Don't know what that answer should be.

Anyway, it looks like all of the group will be level 13 before we meet again. Should see some more challenging quests coming up.