Rahn
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EDIT (Aug 9): It seems veteran accounts are properly flagged as such again (instead of as F2P), with level 20s no longer getting experience and having access to guild/community chats again.
This is on a Vet account: I have some throw away level 20s that I have from PvPing from level 10 to 20 and experience banking is currently active, so you'll gain experience as normal even if you don't level up. It seems disabling experience gain doesn't currently fully stop experience gain.
I did a test with experience on and off. With it enabled 5 experience was gained, otherwise a full 119 was gained.
This seems to only apply to level 20s. (Tested with two of my level 20s to be sure), and though the exp bar is hidden once you turn exp back on you'll see the new exp gained.
My level 11s don't gain exp, nor did a level 18 that I turned off exp gains on, so those appear to be fine.
Unknown what will happen to an exp off character that has banked experience past level 20 when free game time next rolls around. Hopefully it will prevent them from leveling up even if over. I have a throw away character I can test that on when the opportunity arises. In the event it doesn't then what will have to be done is to not log into the character during the free game time.
It still costs 10 gold even if it's not displaying correctly.
This is on a Vet account: I have some throw away level 20s that I have from PvPing from level 10 to 20 and experience banking is currently active, so you'll gain experience as normal even if you don't level up. It seems disabling experience gain doesn't currently fully stop experience gain.
I did a test with experience on and off. With it enabled 5 experience was gained, otherwise a full 119 was gained.
This seems to only apply to level 20s. (Tested with two of my level 20s to be sure), and though the exp bar is hidden once you turn exp back on you'll see the new exp gained.
My level 11s don't gain exp, nor did a level 18 that I turned off exp gains on, so those appear to be fine.
Unknown what will happen to an exp off character that has banked experience past level 20 when free game time next rolls around. Hopefully it will prevent them from leveling up even if over. I have a throw away character I can test that on when the opportunity arises. In the event it doesn't then what will have to be done is to not log into the character during the free game time.
It still costs 10 gold even if it's not displaying correctly.
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If it was every low level I'd think it was an easy mistake behind the scenes, (this is Blizzard after all) but for it to only impact 20s feels almost intentional. Even if it's not intentional, it feels like they have no reason to put a push on fixing this as it's benefitting their agenda of removing 20s from circulation. It's a good thing I didn't feel like combat today or my main might've fallen victim to this.
