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by Matthew Rossi 
Nov 11th 2010 at 6:00PM
Lylirra - Will RAF work with worgen/goblins?New goblin and worgen characters will indeed be eligible for Recruit-A-Friend benefits including increased experience gain and grantable levels. As we've no current plans to modify the Recruit-A-Friend program at this time or increase the level range for which the benefits apply, goblin and worgen characters (as with all other characters) will only be able to receive the in-game bonuses up to level 60.
This excites me because I'm trying to lure back a few old friends for Cataclysm, and I'm pretty sure some RAF action could smooth that process along. Lylirra points out that this is all contingent on said goblins or worgen qualifying for the process, that there's no plan to advance the benefits past level 60, and that there will be no realm-first goblin or worgen (or indeed any race) to 85 achievements any longer. So level your worgen friends with alacrity, as fast as Running Wild after a sugar rush.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it; nothing will be the same! In WoW Insider's Guide to Cataclysm, you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion (available Dec. 7, 2010), from brand new races to revamped quests and zones. Visit our Cataclysm news category for the most recent posts having to do with the Cataclysm expansion.Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Cataclysm, Worgen, Goblin
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
klingers48 Nov 11th 2010 6:28PM
Of course come Cataclysm, the levels we're going to want to blow past are 60-80.
I wouldn't want to miss out on all the new low-level content storylines and questing!
KvanCetre Nov 11th 2010 6:37PM
Something is... very off with the girl in the picture...
jealouspirate Nov 11th 2010 6:37PM
It must be frustrating for the devs at times.
They've spent years re-making the Old World, turning it into a fantastic new questing experience, and they're just bombarded with questions about how best to skip it.
Darky Nov 12th 2010 4:18AM
I'm NOT one of these people but I know people who find any sort of solo play tedious and boring, they like the fast paced team work play and as a result find most of questing extremely boring, and blizzard would not be anywhere close to what it is today if it didn't try to cater for both those types and the solo'ers so I'm sure they understand. :)
(Plus reading the forums for even 2 minutes would be hard on >anyone< )
Darky Nov 12th 2010 4:19AM
should read both the team workers AND the soloers >_< WTB edit button 225k gold.
Wulf Nov 11th 2010 6:38PM
A frabjous day, perhaps, for those of us who hadn't spent the last SEVEN FRICKEN MONTHS planning and preparing for the 1-85 run for the worgen acheivement...
I always knew it was a possibility that they might scrap them, but I persisted anyway.
Now I have 25k socked away in a guild bank, with three tabs of potions, glyphs, bags, toys (i.e.: Orb of Deception), heirlooms (including caster ones for the first 8 levels of worgen druid before you get kitty) and just a mindnumbing number of other preparations in place... Including two RAF characters levelled to 60 and 38 for 49 grantable levels (just in case... They've been waffling on whether or not RAF would work).
No one to blame but myself. Doesn't mean I can't be a little disappointed about it, though.
/sigh
Hivetyrant Nov 11th 2010 7:32PM
Cool story bro
Sorcha Nov 12th 2010 7:04AM
With the deepest respect, you can still *be* the realm's first 1-85 worgen, you just won't get a shiny popup on your screen when you get there.
Wulf Nov 11th 2010 6:47PM
...oh, and the obsessive striving for that *^(*^%)&@$#()#@! Dread Pirate Ring... 7 months... Every.single.Saturday (save BlizzCon). I've seen two sharks, neither before the derby was over.
Kragragh Nov 11th 2010 6:52PM
How do I use RAF on myself the cheapest way possible? Is it possible? I'd assume I have to have another account/subscription. Buy a trial/warchest, or?
Starsmore Nov 11th 2010 7:03PM
Find the battlechest and WotLK on sale, since you'll be stuck paying full price for CT.
Before they made bnet accounts mandatory, you used to be able to just generate the RAF trial code to another email address and create an account that way to get whatever the free trial was (10 days, I think), but I don't know about now with bnet being required...
Wulf Nov 11th 2010 7:07PM
Buy the digital copy from Blizzard. $19.99 for vanilla only.. Instant access, free month for you and the new account, and you really don't need past vanilla if you're just RAFing for levels.
Wulf Nov 11th 2010 7:13PM
...and if you do want a legitimate, full-use second account, Blizzard's offering the whole kit & kaboodle (Van, BC, WotLK & Cat) for $99.99.
Lipstick Nov 11th 2010 7:03PM
I just don't get it personally. The dev's spent how many months updating all of the various zones 1-60 to make the new zones more interesting and dynamic -- complete with lore changes to reflect the changes we're going to be seeing in the world and people want to skip right past it?
We've been bored for the last 6 months waiting impatiently for new content, and again people want to skip right past the new content? What pray-tell is honestly really the point of that? You're still going to have to wait for the other 24, or 9 people in your guild to reach level 85 to begin enjoying level 85 raiding anyway.
Why not, sit back -- enjoy the new clever jokes and game mechanics? I for one can't wait to roll my goblin with my friend, and experience not only the shaman class for the first time, but a whole different leveling experience. There will be plenty of time for raiding later .. you know, when we're running it for 9 months straight, gearing up the number 5th alt for everyone in our guild.
Hivetyrant Nov 11th 2010 7:50PM
Are you saying there is no new content from 80-85? because that's what it looks like.
Maybe some people want to see what the new high level stuff is like and then come back to the 1-60 which they may want to take their time with.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to see the new 1-60, but there is no doubt in my mind that I want to level some of the new races up to the new content as quick as possible and then come back later for the background lore.
Lipstick Nov 11th 2010 10:45PM
I'm not saying there isn't 80-85 content. There is. But it doesn't make sense to power level through 60 levels, slow level through another 20 -- just to experience 5 new levels of content and completely miss the first 1-60 levels of new content.
We only really get to experience this game, one time as a complete and utter noob. And while it sucks at times not knowing everything, and feeling like people are laughing at you. There is an experience of wonder, that you really only get to experience -- that one time. My first vision of Darnassus on my very first charchter is forever etched in my mind. It was the most magical and beautiful thing I had ever experienced before (being completely new to MMO's at the time.)
It's not a process which should be rushed. Typically each new expansion gives us a chance at least in part to have a tiny bit of that wonder back through a few new levels of content. Cataclysm is different in that instead of just 5 new levels, the experience 1-60 is completely and utterly changed in some major and minor ways.
If we're ever to feel that feeling of "new-ness" wonder again, it will be when cata hits.
If this is your first toon -- this will be your first taste of it. If this is your 6th 80 -- this will be a second helping of gooey-wonderfulness.
I really honestly encourage everyone to really stop, think and enjoy it.
The rat-race will always be there. It will be there for the next 1-2 years before the next xpac after cata comes out.
/end psa.
Amaxe Nov 11th 2010 7:05PM
Doesn't especially bother me. If I ever return to WoW (left because it was easily consuming 6-8 hrs a day of my life), I'd want to just experience the new content. Its not like the people rushing through would be actually robbing me of anything.
splodesondeath Nov 11th 2010 8:16PM
This.
There really is nothing to complain about. If you want to level faster, you can level faster. If you want to level slower, you can level slower.
Fradinn Nov 11th 2010 8:38PM
Quit the game, but still reading the WoW Insider.
You are so coming back.
Amaxe Nov 11th 2010 9:57PM
/shrug
I always liked the community for the most part... who else can I inflict my inane comments on?
Some day I may come back to the game, but I would have to start from scratch, as I nuked everything. Right now I am waiting to hear how SWTOR sounds closer to release