What’s the first thing you’re doing when Player Housing goes live?

After over a year of waiting, we’re finally just days away from World of Warcraft Player Housing Early Access — have you planned your first move yet? When the servers come up on December 2, we’ll be able to claim a plot, build our house, flex our interior design muscles, collect and craft decor, and organize our Neighborhoods. Which of these new features are you going to prioritize?

My suspicion is that many players will be participating in a virtual real estate rush that will play out millions of times over. If you’ve picked out the perfect plot in Razorwind Shores or have your dream spot in mind in Founder’s Point, you’ll likely prioritize finding a Neighborhood that has your chosen location unclaimed. If your guild hasn’t quite agreed on who gets the prime coastal plots, then you might be in for a hostile launch day.

Perhaps the thing you’re most excited about is setting up your yard. You’ll want to make a good first impression on your new neighbors, and a well-groomed garden or an interactive hedge maze is sure to catch the eye of anyone flying over your plot. You might even be planning to get a head start on setting up your Winter Veil decorations before you even set foot in your house.

Of course, customizing the interior of your living space is probably towards the top of just about every player’s priority list. You may have already drafted the perfect game room right down to the utensils on the table. Even for players that haven’t done any testing or research, wandering around the inside of your new home and experimenting with decor placement will probably take up at least a few of your initial hours spent on Azeroth next week.

If you’re like me, you’re a collector, so your first move might be running old dungeons and raids, visiting obscure quartermasters, and setting up your new housing decor spreadsheet in order to max out your furnishing catalog before you even shop for a plot. Sure, we’ll log in with a boatload of decorations already available to us, but nothing beats the feeling of placing an item you earned yourself atop the mantle.

Maybe you’ve been hoarding Dark Iron Bars and Arcane Crystals for twenty years and you’re finally revving up to craft ten billion gold worth of decor. Whether you’re actually making forty sconces for your own hallways or you’re playing the Auction House, there will be plenty of players jumping right into the decor crafting game or hoarding all the lumber they can carry.

If you’re a social player, you might first be interested in setting up your Neighborhood. We’ll have to wait until the Midnight pre-expansion patch to get started on Endeavors, but you may want to spend your first few moments simply exploring all of the nooks and hidden spots of your new neck of the woods and saying hello to your neighbors.

Ultimately, I think my strategy will be much the same as it always is with a new feature or expansion: just take my time and go with the flow. When something grabs my interest, I stay with it for an hour or two. When the mood strikes to try something new, I’ll move from setting up my trophy room to figuring out what I’m going to do in my yard (still no clue) to running decades-old content in order to add multiple glowing skulls to my decor catalog.

So when Player Housing goes live on December 2, what’s your first move? Will you go where the decor winds take you, or will you be hyper-focused on one specific aspect of Azerothian home ownership?