Gentleman Jack
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WoW: Scroll of Resurrection Revamp - Free lvl 80 Character
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Wait, you can do this?
Zapperkhan
Member
Anyone else see this as desperation to keep stockholders from freaking the fuck out? First the subscribe for a year because we have zero content coming with a side of diablo 3. Now this.
mysocksarepink
Banned
dear god.. free level 80? Blizzard is DESPERATE!
Zapperkhan
Member
You may as well, there's not going to be any new content coming sans slight remixes of holidays.
RPGCrazied
Member
I wonder if that 600 job cuts was really from the WoW team, or at least a good chunk.
well thats the crux of the problem isn't it, with a badly designed game that invalidates raid content with each new patch/raid addition there simply is not longstanding content and you need to be boosted to maintain viability.
Blizzard has changed what it meant to be a MMO and made single player game with that amount of content.
SWTOR has the same problem they horribly got wrong the exp curve.
Darkerkamikaze
Member
Ouch, I should of quit for a bit, would of enjoyed the free 80.
Just received my scroll, and am going through the free reward claim process now, in case anyone has questions that I can offer to answer.
I freaked out at first, because I hit Accept and got the "this account isn't eligible for Resurrection" message. I was 99% positive I'd never been Res'd in the past, and the History of Res's is clear. I hit back, and hit Accept again, and it worked. So...yeah, if that happens to you, try again. Seems to be buggy.
The interface is clean and straightforward. All my characters on all my accounts are displayed, and the game's offering me the chance to boost any of them to 80. Right now, it seems like I can move any character (not just the boosted one) to my friend's server/faction. I'm 99% sure it has to be their server, less sure than it has to be their faction, and unsure altogether if you can do just one but not the other.
The interface makes it explicit that I can log in right now to create a brand new character and then come back to this page to boost that one to 80, so that's nice.
What do you think guys, for me. Rogue, Warrior or Warlock?
Those are all the classes I have at 10-30 and have the least experience with. Heavily leaning toward Warrior.
I freaked out at first, because I hit Accept and got the "this account isn't eligible for Resurrection" message. I was 99% positive I'd never been Res'd in the past, and the History of Res's is clear. I hit back, and hit Accept again, and it worked. So...yeah, if that happens to you, try again. Seems to be buggy.
The interface is clean and straightforward. All my characters on all my accounts are displayed, and the game's offering me the chance to boost any of them to 80. Right now, it seems like I can move any character (not just the boosted one) to my friend's server/faction. I'm 99% sure it has to be their server, less sure than it has to be their faction, and unsure altogether if you can do just one but not the other.
The interface makes it explicit that I can log in right now to create a brand new character and then come back to this page to boost that one to 80, so that's nice.
What do you think guys, for me. Rogue, Warrior or Warlock?
Those are all the classes I have at 10-30 and have the least experience with. Heavily leaning toward Warrior.
Alex
Member
In my opinion, it won't. It'll see an occasional bump, like you say with the expansion but it'll plummet down faster after it and it'll bleed a bit especially as the market saturates with more and more big online games this year.
This is a lot different than the lulls during BC and Cataclysm and the only reason it slowed down is they aligned the planets during the Holiday with 4.3 and a huge promotion among other things and ate a giant revenue loss to do so. Blizzard has been very conservative with these sweeteners in the past now they're lobbing them out at a rate that makes legitimately dying MMOs look tame. They're doing some very smart stuff here, but it's all happening for a reason.
I mean I don't think it's keeling over, not even close, but it's clear it's winding down on it's way out to pasture while the effort is all going into their new titles. It's just an old game and it doesn't have any fangs to sink into a lot of people anymore.
Ok, clarification. You definitely can only transfer the character you're boosting. You can click on just one, and both options will be listed on the one page.
You can opt instead to forgo the boost and simply transfer an 80+ character.
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Oh shit, I didn't realize you get all of this too:
You can opt instead to forgo the boost and simply transfer an 80+ character.
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Oh shit, I didn't realize you get all of this too:
You can if you call up Blizzard directly. However it flags your account/card and you won't ever be able to do stuff like this again. Basically, they treat it the same as if you had a chargeback/payment dispute and cleared it up.
Pretty certain that canceling the annual pass would make you ineligble for the Scroll of Resurrection rewards.
This is truly hilarious! I'm suddenly rolling an 80 Tauren Warrior I didn't have yesterday, full Prot-specced and in a full tank-oriented set of 232 greens (which look hideous btw, but w/e).
Also, another small panic moment; when you first log into your server character select screen, your upgraded character will still appear to be in old gear and at its original level. Log in, and you'll be 80 with the new gear on.
Another warning: Make sure that if you want to claim the transfer, you do so all at once while you're level-boosting. I opted not to (wanted to keep the character on Mal'ganis), and for curiosity's sake, I tried to go transfer him now and the option isn't there. Only a paid one.
I'm sure that if you bitch at Blizzard and claim you intended to claim the transfer but misclicked, they'd do it for you, but just avoid the hassle.
Also, another small panic moment; when you first log into your server character select screen, your upgraded character will still appear to be in old gear and at its original level. Log in, and you'll be 80 with the new gear on.
Another warning: Make sure that if you want to claim the transfer, you do so all at once while you're level-boosting. I opted not to (wanted to keep the character on Mal'ganis), and for curiosity's sake, I tried to go transfer him now and the option isn't there. Only a paid one.
I'm sure that if you bitch at Blizzard and claim you intended to claim the transfer but misclicked, they'd do it for you, but just avoid the hassle.
What the fuck? Epic flying too?
I know, right? lol
I'm going to log back in to actually confirm that's there. I forgot to check.
My character was plopped right into Orgrimmar in a full green 232 set with 4 Frostweave bags, and my mailbox crammed with all the shit my character was once carrying in his old bags.
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Confirmed:
280 Flying, and all relevant flying skills (Artisan, Flight Master's License, Cold Weather Flying, etc.), except Master Riding, which still costs 4k+ at the trainer.
Oh, and bonus: they've given me maxed (450/450) First Aid. lol
I've played a lot of MMORPGs so I get a lot of e-mails from a number of them about signing back up, but his is probably the most extensive set of bonuses I've seen any MMORPG offer for resubbing. Seems like a rather boring and lazy means of trying to get people back into the game though, so at least for me it's not particularly enticing. The free upgrade to Cataclysm is pretty crazy though if you didn't have that before.
Best e-mail I ever got trying to get me to come back to an MMORPG was this one though:
Best e-mail I ever got trying to get me to come back to an MMORPG was this one though:
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
Holy shit...I just might come back to to WoW....No i wont...
Confirmed that all the class skills have been learned up to and including level 80.
For talents, in my case (I chose a Prot Warrior), they dumped enough points into Prot to get the talent at the end of the tree (ignoring a few along the way -- I don't know Prot well enough to know if this is random, or if the talents were the ideal prot cookie cutter build), and they put the 4 remaining points into the other trees, 2 in each to max out one talent each.
For talents, in my case (I chose a Prot Warrior), they dumped enough points into Prot to get the talent at the end of the tree (ignoring a few along the way -- I don't know Prot well enough to know if this is random, or if the talents were the ideal prot cookie cutter build), and they put the 4 remaining points into the other trees, 2 in each to max out one talent each.
Nothin else. My 1/75 Mining that was there before is still there, haha.
Reputations look to be completely untouched.
In addition to the flying skill, they also gave me an actual flying mount too.
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
You know I wonder how many people would go back for a sub that is half price.
$9.99/month - Normal
$8.99/month - 3 month sub
$7.99/month - 6 month sub
Current subscribers convert to whatever...
I know minimum 15-20 people that would re-sub in a heartbeat ;P
Personally I have played since launch, and will keep playing till a game makes me stop playing WoW. Or until I stop having fun in it. I only play 2-3 times a week for a few hours and it is the perfect amount.
$9.99/month - Normal
$8.99/month - 3 month sub
$7.99/month - 6 month sub
Current subscribers convert to whatever...
I know minimum 15-20 people that would re-sub in a heartbeat ;P
Personally I have played since launch, and will keep playing till a game makes me stop playing WoW. Or until I stop having fun in it. I only play 2-3 times a week for a few hours and it is the perfect amount.
Oh snap, which one did you get? Plain Griffon/Windrider?
A swift pink or purple windrider, yeah. Ugly as shit compared to a gryphon, but I've always been for the Alliance.
Thats actually pretty neat of them to put you in a set of 232 gear so that you will be functional. Ditto for training your skills and everything and giving you a flying mount and the skill to use it. That will pretty much ensure you can just... start playing immediately.
They dont put that much thought into 90% of the other crap they do or change in game.
Datdeclininguserbase. :biteslip:
They dont put that much thought into 90% of the other crap they do or change in game.
Datdeclininguserbase. :biteslip:
They're looking at almost a full year without a content patch in 2012. Mists of Pandaria was supposed to be a Spring release in their original estimates. By now they've learned their lesson not to schedule for a 18 month production cycle.
At this point I'm just tired of Azeroth in general. Even if it were F2P, a lot of people wouldn't play it. The enthusiasm going into Mists of Pandaria is the lowest ever for one of their expansions.
They better start showing some Titan stuff at this point, and do a linked WoW / Titan account system.
At this point I'm just tired of Azeroth in general. Even if it were F2P, a lot of people wouldn't play it. The enthusiasm going into Mists of Pandaria is the lowest ever for one of their expansions.
They better start showing some Titan stuff at this point, and do a linked WoW / Titan account system.
06nbarnhill
Member
Good try WoW. Never again.....never again....
Seriously though, for the people that played in Vanilla WoW and are still playing, how has the raiding scene not gotten incredibly boring for you yet? Is it because of your guild?
Every expansion I bought I joined a guild, made buddies, raided for a bit, then everyone loses interest and quits. I don't see how people raid for months and months on end with the same grind and play mechanics unless it's more of a friendship thing then an entertainment thing. I was literally making up any excuse possible to not raid the last time I was actively subbed.
Seriously though, for the people that played in Vanilla WoW and are still playing, how has the raiding scene not gotten incredibly boring for you yet? Is it because of your guild?
Every expansion I bought I joined a guild, made buddies, raided for a bit, then everyone loses interest and quits. I don't see how people raid for months and months on end with the same grind and play mechanics unless it's more of a friendship thing then an entertainment thing. I was literally making up any excuse possible to not raid the last time I was actively subbed.
BigJonsson
Member
So tempting lol.........
But I wouldn't even know what class to be, my main was a rogue but I did play a mage and a hunter to level 30ish
But I wouldn't even know what class to be, my main was a rogue but I did play a mage and a hunter to level 30ish
My guild is what keeps me going. That, and a desire to see harder content. Sadly, the content is a bit lacking at the moment.
I get the most enjoyment out of the game now by helping my guildmates, and fellow players.
That, and trolling the ones who are arrogant little shits.
Now that is some serious bullshit if I ever saw any.
Meh, Im moving to Diablo 3 but Ill play some WoW till then. Ive got mild interest in their next MMO. Super time consuming MMO's were easy for me to manage in the past, but that was years and years ago. Something I can play in short bursts like D3 is much better.
Same, if you want a scroll, hit me up, Id send you one.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Do the friend you give the scroll to get to keep their account updated to Cata if they haven't bought it or do they have to buy after their initial free time?
I have a friend who quit after BC, and he might be interested in this actually if he doesn't have to buy WOTLK and Cata if I send him a scroll.
I have a friend who quit after BC, and he might be interested in this actually if he doesn't have to buy WOTLK and Cata if I send him a scroll.
AzureNightmare
Banned
Ladies and gentlemen: Panic Mode Blizzard.
Anyone playing the game knows they've been in panic mode for most of Cataclysm. Content was rushed, one hell of a switcharoo in design philosophy, raids not finished, outright lying in articles (See: Cataclysm Dungeon Post Mortem for a fantastic example), and all around general sloppiness with how they handled it.
Could i get a scroll please
You sure could. PM me an email and I'll get on it as soon as battle.net comes back up.
You get upgraded all the way to Cata free. No need to buy Wrath. As it's promotional deal and a limited time, you probably have to buy within the promotional period. =P
06nbarnhill
Member
Not sure what I am going to do with this information lol. I suppose at minimum I will re-upp one of my alt accounts for free Cata and the mount.
Yes, they do.