scroll of ressurection revampFollow

The boost to 80 is too far... Great. Now we'll have people playing at 85 in a couple of weeks who, potentially, haven't played since Vanilla. The last thing we need is more people at 85 utterly clueless as to what they are doing. I remember when I first started playing. We were relieved when we get got to Blood Furnace because the players had been challenged enough that the basics of their class *should* have sunk in, and, content had been increasing in difficulty since the 40s that players who had failed to grasp the basics were unable to get past those levels (minus those with help). Now it's possible for players to go 1 to 85 without learning key components of their character, let alone more challenging game play.

Now, Blizzard is telling us that the first 80 levels are completely unimportant. Why are they there? Just start us all off at 80 and be done with this pathetic joke they've made of 90% of the game. I understand there is end game and many of us are there. But when I play 85 levels I want those 85 levels to have been engaging from the start. If, seriously is the right word, I take a level 40 dungeon as seriously as a level 85 dungeon. By that, I mean, I am in that dungeon because I'm playing a game, not a slot machine that throws out pretty colored text on my screen (i.e., gear).

I'm not going to be canceling my account over this, but I am very disappointed. This game is turning into so much of a bloated whale.

Edited, Mar 7th 2012 6:08pm by ekaterinodar

Yeah, I'm not believing it. Seems TOO awesome. I mean, I can understand possibly doing something like this closer to when MoP comes out so those people can experience it right away, but it seems fishy.

I still think it seems fishy... but considering it IS on battle.net as well, it's could be true.



Edited, Mar 7th 2012 8:10am by xNocturnalSunx

I think the M.O is to get some of the more recent cancellations back. I highly doubt someone who hasn't played since 1.x or 2.x will come back because of this. The free 80 seems a bit over the top, but then again, I'm going to assume that the more recent cancellations have an 80 or above already.

I don't understand why they put in all the effort into redoing the vanilla quests and zones only to offer a way to skip it all.

My conspiracy theory is this. Blizzard needs to show investors that it can still keep a player base. Since the release of cataclysm, the Activision stock has lost 15% of it's value. If the new scroll brings back players, Blizzard can show that it's not losing subscriptions. I would assume that there are no costs to Blizzard for character/faction changes and the upgrade to Cataclysm would be digital so no packaging costs, however, every one that comes back is an extra $15 a month. Once Q2 comes to a close, Blizz can say put out a statement that says something along the lines of "..we increased subscriptions by X percent in Q2"

Basically there are no external costs for the perks Blizzard is offering, while at the same time showing investors that it's not losing more subscriptions.

I had a monster sized Monster energy drink, thinking way outside the box.

So basically 88.8%, with the .8 repeating of course, of the leveling process is moot now.

Spoiler alert: next month everyone that comes back gets a free legendary weapon, 25k gold, and any 10 exhaled reputations!

Well, I guess I can ... Breath easy now.

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

The free bump up to level 80 did surprise me but, then again, I guess the player gets to choose which character receives it. It's not like all your characters become level 80. The 1-60 Cata revamp was a breath of fresh air for me. I'd leveled a few Alliance characters through Azeroth and beyond, and even more characters pushed up to just level 40 or 50 that were kind of early "experimentations" when getting to know the game. I'd also done the Horde side to at least level 30 a few times. A clean sweep with tighter story/questing focus was a Titan sent blessing. I, honestly, haven't touched the high Cata dungeons much on any of my characters. It's the world itself I've enjoyed most of all this expansion. Which is possibly a bad thing, if it's because "end game" content didn't feel tempting enough this time. It largely is because it's just so fun being an orc or worgen, etc, though. Not playing an orc. Being one, in the middle of multiple wars. It also helps that quest rewards (more often) looks less like Helen Keller took on a fashion design career now.

But I don't feel like I'm being an orc (or worgen, or whatever) if I'm planted down at level 80 all of a sudden when I didn't travel there. It feels more like someone else said, "here, you can play with my level 80 for a bit". This isn't mine. This isn't me. It's an orc, sure but ... Who the zug-zug is he?? I'm not even a big role player. There's something about the way I think of my characters, though, that makes me enjoy the game less if I - for lack of better words - haven't traveled with my character. If I don't know them. I'd find it hard to be handed a level 80 and be told, "here you go. This is your character now". No, it's not. It's a character. I remember earning my very first grey axe in the starting area when I was a young villager and, yeah, it was great stepping through the Dark Portal with them to experience a new world with them as we grew and wandered together. But something's lost. It'd be like a friend you stopped talking to and suddenly met up with again five years later. Their features are the same, the name is the same. You can't say you've grown together though. Somewhere along the line, they've done their adventures that you never saw. And now they're back, ready to play. It's just that there's an element of them that you'll never understand. Whole chunks of experience (or XP) that have nothing to do with you. The character's not you anymore. It's a friend that went away and tried to come back later.

Goodbye, Xlolwarriorx. Who knew that an orc with a name like that would grow up to be such a douche?

I actually thought about doing this. MY wife has an inactive account as do I. Thought about reactivating mine (or maybe letting someone here use my as there scroll) and then referring my wifes account (its still under her maiden name, address, etc)

I'd be up to sending you one =P

I had three accounts before RAF came out so I missed out on those mounts. I just couldn't justify getting a fourth account to get a single mount on one of my characters. Plus I knew if I did get a fourth account just for the mount, I would end up using that fourth account and not deleting it.

When the annual pass thing came out, my boyfriend reinstated his three accounts because he's actually interested in MoP though still not really playing WoW right now. So, of course I miss out on being able to SoR his accounts for my own benefit.

I have paid for and played on my three accounts continuously since then so of course even though I have given Blizz much more money than a lot of players, I don't have any easy way to get the new Spectral mount unlike those who got an extra account to milk for the RAF benefits and then dropped it once the obligation was over with.

Honestly, I don't really care about the bump to level 80 part. I happen to enjoy leveling and tend to do it at my own slow pace. The free upgrade to Cataclysm and the free server/faction transfers seem like great offers though not of much use to me even if I did have an expired account available. It's the mount that I am really interested in. I just wish it was an account wide mount instead of being tied to a single character.

Will I try to find someone to use a SoR on? I have a friend with an extra inactive account that he just can't afford to pay for right now even though he'd like to have the mount too. He said that I could SoR his account for the mount if I pay for the month's subscription. Even if I do that though, I would have to decide which of my many characters would get the cool mount. I don't have a problem spending $25 for an account-wide mount but buying a mount (or a pet) for just one character like that just doesn't appeal to me.

It's a good deal but it just seems like they made it too easy for people to game it for the benefits and then drop the account like they did with it after milking the RAF out of it.

I got scrolled. I guess I'm missed. . . lol.

So what to bang boom pow to 80? My lv7 Rogue or ?

I've not really played in a good year or so. Blizz feels kind and sends me a free week every 3months (almost) on the dot. I just used a free week last week, and now another one. But what to PL to 80?
I have (off the top of my head): 80 warrior, hunter 85 DK, 50 Druid, 40-50 Lock.
Hmm...

Have you previously used a scroll of resurrection? I tried previously with my bro's account and after stumbling around I finally discovered it was because I had sent it to him a year or so before.

pm me an Email and ill see if it will let me send you one.

it works, just fine, friend resurected his own account, got the mount, leveled a character he never played to 80 got the flying including old world flying free... 200 something ilevel green gear... if I had more time I'd consider bringing back my own second account for it, been meaning to get it back online anyway for the guild XP of leveling more characters in my private guild