Malanior
Legend
I just ended a 10 day WoD trial and spent it creating 10 BiS geared/enchanted chars (1 per class) and since I had a crap experience I want to share it with anybody that will do same thing. I only hope to avoid you a bit of frustrations, mistakes and mishaps I had. If anybody wants to contribute, feel free to help, I‘ll add your considerations too.
1) PLAN
Before activating your trial/paid subscription be sure to know exactly what you want, what class/spec you want to grow and what gear/enchant you want to farm/buy on every char. For 10 days seems a lot of time but since you have to level up to 20 every char during your trial period this time shortens for every char you want as veteran by a 5/6 hours, depending how BiS your want your gear to be.
2) PREPARE CHARS
In order to spare time of your trial you can create chars you want to grow before activating it. Level them and farm BoP BiS gear. Once done don‘t forget to log out them near to NPC that stops xp gain. With all heirlooms available (and often BiS) even killing a rare can be really unpleasant. If you forget to xp lock the worst thing ever can happen: liveling to 21 your fully BiS character!!!
eg my guardian druid:
Moonraine @ Sunstrider
(obviously I have also Blackened Defias Gloves enchanted with +11sta in backpack)
3) ACTIVATE YOUR TRIAL
Now it's time to activate your trial. You should do it on a monday so you get 3 realm restarts in 10 days to farm raids for high lvl stuff. 1st thing to do is gathering heirlooms available to p2p only, so log chars that hold heirlooms you already have and go to vendors to complete your collection. Then log your 20s, lock their xp and create heirlooms for them.
4) FIND A HOME WITH FRIEND
If you don't already have one, try to join a guild that can seriously help you with enchantments (Power Torrent/Landslide are hardly sold in AH these days). Guild perks are not truely useful (just mounted movement boost when outside and mass res in dungs) and you can't access Guild Vault nor Guild Repairs. If you really trust somebody of your guildmates (or simply friend) best thing to do is giving them all of your gold when your paid time runs out. As a level 20 gold is not a great use for you since you can't either trade/use AH but if you regularly check AH when your subscription runs out and something really really really rare shows in AH at a reasonable price (eg Blackened Defias Belt) you can ask your trusted friend to buy it for you and keep it till you are back to game with a full account.
5) THE BIG FARM
Buy/farm BoE you miss with your high lvl chars and then start gathering enchantments. Using AH for this is a real pain, consider spending 5/6k gold per char, depending on economy of ur server. Obviously having a tailor/leatherworker, enchanter, inscription main or friend helps a lot.
6) PROFESSION
While you don't have an active subscription, professions are locked to starter edition cap, meaning that you can't make anything that requires more that 100 skill to craft. In profession tab there is litterally a lock icon showing on things you can't craft and "create" button is disabled while selecting them. For a f2p the only profession really useful is alchemy (swiftness potion/elixir boosting primary stats) while for p2p there are a few more (engineering for its tricks, jewelcrafting for statues). Limitation cap makes engineering the only attractive profession (beside alchemy) for veterans but only if you are an intellect stacking class so you can use googles, otherwise alchemy keeps being your choice. This limitation applies to First Aid too: best bandage you can craft is Heavy Linen Bandage but having First Aid capped @ 225 means that you can use Heavy Runecloth Bandages that you have sent from other chars. Stacking tons of them for when you subscription runs out is a good idea if you are a class that can't self-heal (hunter, mage, rogue, warrior)
7) FINALIZE YOUR CHARACTERS
Put enchants on your BiS gear (you need a high level char to apply +sta on BoE gloves and any shoulder or leg). Don't thing you can do this once your sub ends. I had the unpleasant experience of getting message error "starter edition accounts cannot perform this action" while applying a WoD enchantment (that I paid 800g) on a ring for chars I had not finalize. Any non vanilla enchantment work this way.
8) GIVE A LAST CHECK
check gear on your lvl 20s one last time, empty mailboxes on all chars and
ENJOY!!!
1) PLAN
Before activating your trial/paid subscription be sure to know exactly what you want, what class/spec you want to grow and what gear/enchant you want to farm/buy on every char. For 10 days seems a lot of time but since you have to level up to 20 every char during your trial period this time shortens for every char you want as veteran by a 5/6 hours, depending how BiS your want your gear to be.
2) PREPARE CHARS
In order to spare time of your trial you can create chars you want to grow before activating it. Level them and farm BoP BiS gear. Once done don‘t forget to log out them near to NPC that stops xp gain. With all heirlooms available (and often BiS) even killing a rare can be really unpleasant. If you forget to xp lock the worst thing ever can happen: liveling to 21 your fully BiS character!!!
eg my guardian druid:
Moonraine @ Sunstrider
(obviously I have also Blackened Defias Gloves enchanted with +11sta in backpack)
3) ACTIVATE YOUR TRIAL
Now it's time to activate your trial. You should do it on a monday so you get 3 realm restarts in 10 days to farm raids for high lvl stuff. 1st thing to do is gathering heirlooms available to p2p only, so log chars that hold heirlooms you already have and go to vendors to complete your collection. Then log your 20s, lock their xp and create heirlooms for them.
4) FIND A HOME WITH FRIEND
If you don't already have one, try to join a guild that can seriously help you with enchantments (Power Torrent/Landslide are hardly sold in AH these days). Guild perks are not truely useful (just mounted movement boost when outside and mass res in dungs) and you can't access Guild Vault nor Guild Repairs. If you really trust somebody of your guildmates (or simply friend) best thing to do is giving them all of your gold when your paid time runs out. As a level 20 gold is not a great use for you since you can't either trade/use AH but if you regularly check AH when your subscription runs out and something really really really rare shows in AH at a reasonable price (eg Blackened Defias Belt) you can ask your trusted friend to buy it for you and keep it till you are back to game with a full account.
5) THE BIG FARM
Buy/farm BoE you miss with your high lvl chars and then start gathering enchantments. Using AH for this is a real pain, consider spending 5/6k gold per char, depending on economy of ur server. Obviously having a tailor/leatherworker, enchanter, inscription main or friend helps a lot.
6) PROFESSION
While you don't have an active subscription, professions are locked to starter edition cap, meaning that you can't make anything that requires more that 100 skill to craft. In profession tab there is litterally a lock icon showing on things you can't craft and "create" button is disabled while selecting them. For a f2p the only profession really useful is alchemy (swiftness potion/elixir boosting primary stats) while for p2p there are a few more (engineering for its tricks, jewelcrafting for statues). Limitation cap makes engineering the only attractive profession (beside alchemy) for veterans but only if you are an intellect stacking class so you can use googles, otherwise alchemy keeps being your choice. This limitation applies to First Aid too: best bandage you can craft is Heavy Linen Bandage but having First Aid capped @ 225 means that you can use Heavy Runecloth Bandages that you have sent from other chars. Stacking tons of them for when you subscription runs out is a good idea if you are a class that can't self-heal (hunter, mage, rogue, warrior)
7) FINALIZE YOUR CHARACTERS
Put enchants on your BiS gear (you need a high level char to apply +sta on BoE gloves and any shoulder or leg). Don't thing you can do this once your sub ends. I had the unpleasant experience of getting message error "starter edition accounts cannot perform this action" while applying a WoD enchantment (that I paid 800g) on a ring for chars I had not finalize. Any non vanilla enchantment work this way.
8) GIVE A LAST CHECK
check gear on your lvl 20s one last time, empty mailboxes on all chars and
ENJOY!!!
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