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I vaguely remember hearing that soulbinding an item to you through enchantments should count as tying it to you and thus unlocking the appearance. I don't know if that still works, but if you have enchanting or even just the garrison building it might be worth looking into.

As a rule of thumb, developers are lazy. They'll only bother taking away housing access if someone finds a way to do something troublesome with it, which I can't think how that would happen.

We've been able to unlock our XP by paying for a while now. The expansion by itself is unlikely to do anything other than maybe reset XP if character changes are extensive enough, but since there's a fair chance of a free weekend it wouldn't hurt to lock XP just so you don't have any surprises...

I don't know if unsubbed folks can restore things, but since restored items go into the mail it's a moot point. I have a hunch that all the voucher mounts will be put on the vendor next time we get SL TW. All the other similar mounts wound up the same way. The free mount is probably off the...

There have historically been free weekends around the release of new expansions, so there's a good chance you can get stuff out when Midnight launches. But yeah. In general, only put stuff in your warbank if you don't expect to need it until the next time you have game time.

Isn't Pilgrim's Grace not far from where the port lets you off? I haven't looked this year, but I know for a fact I bound a toon's hearth there last year. No idea what all you can do out in ZM as a 20, but at least setting your hearth and wandering around should be fully possible.

Yup. During the push to simplify the game and not expect new players to have to face all the old content in order to catch up. Even if that hadn't been the case, the level requirement for the unlock quest would've also stopped F2Ps from having allied races.

You can lock XP on your druid and that should protect them. You should keep XP locked on your druid after that, though, because as mentioned above you can be surprised by free weekends after that. Also as mentioned, you should have a plan what you want to do with that month before subbing. If...

One of the nice side effects of low level twinking is that you can come on for a little bit every now and then without having to care about being heavily invested. I've been logging less than an hour a month lately, but it's still nice to occasionally wander around and look at my stuff...

Flavor of the month is level 11 fury warrior. That said, patches upset the meta quite often and we're looking at a big one soon for Midnight. If you want something likely to last well, someone with a tank spec and self-heals tends to do well, as does someone with a pet that can tank for them...

I haven't been on for a while myself. But have you tried using the portal during lorewalking mode and/or using the orb that teleports you out of MT during a week when it's in the timewalking rotation?

The booty bags aren't a good storage mechanic so much as a way for F2Ps to transfer gold between toons. Similar for the noblegarden eggs.

I'm curious if they'll keep the portal to the old belf zones and how they'll square that with the new zones being part of the world map. Taking that area out of Outland and making it a proper part of the old world map would be nice, but also lots of extra work.

Doesn't the mount/pet come from a WQ instead of dropping directly? I'm impressed that the orb steps work for us instead of their hidden quest having a level requirement, but that last step probably locks us out.

Looks like yes. It's one of the official things F2Ps can't do, and this just looks like the devs solidifying that. If you had something in there from the time we had access and didn't expect to have your stuff locked away, you might be able to get it dumped into a personal bank if you luck...