Welcome Back Weekend, Jan 29th - Feb 1st.

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    • I don't see an official announcement right now, but high level characters are showing as usable for vets right now. So we have a free weekend to do things we want to.

    The trading post is giving 650 points for logging in right now. Finish the last 350 points for 500 tendies and this month's reward.

    If you can spare the time to play Sunday, try to complete 1000 traveler's log points for February's reward and 500 more tendies. Time should run out 10AM PST US Feb 2nd.

    Watch your XP on your 20s.

    Get stuff out your warbank now cause this is your last chance without paying for at least a year and a half until the next prepatch.

    Try to get a character to Dornogol because there will be a trader's outpost character spawning only there next month that will have old items on discount. Plus you will want to have a char there to explore once the free time is over.

    Edit: Buy TWW gems off the AH cause they work for 20s. I do not know the best optimization for these so you will need to find that yourself.

    Clear mailbox on your remix chars cause there is probably some junk sitting in there.
     
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    It has been mentioned in the State of Azeroth just now, I guess an official news article will come out soon.

    edit: I just checked, it's at minute 13:30 of the video. It is called welcome back weekend and they say you need to have had a sub in the past. idk if this is how they usually do it just thought it's worth mentioning
     
    Woohoo access to my warbank and mail again!

    I hope no one accidentally levels up their twinks!
     
    on the same bnet account, my WOW1 and WOW2 has free game time but my WOW3 and above does not. how can this be?

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    WOW1 here has no problem

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    i subscribed WOW3 a long time ago when they gave out free game time for the warcraft movie. i could access higher level characters during previous free weekends.

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    i noticed this in remix that i had banked xp. i didnt think much of it at that time. it means they demoted me to starter account status, no longer a vet account
     
    Found 75k gold in warbank left since last sub. Just in time to buy all bank slots, fix tmogs and dump the rest to gems and enchants. What a time to be alive, huh.
    Any word of advice about the gems? I'm betting (and judging by the history of both the forum and class) that for Hunter Mastery is still bis, but maybe something changed?
     
    Yeah well, my account didn't capture the free game time either. Last I subbed was in 2017 Legion, so I don't know what's the issue. It's the only account I have ever played on.
    Quite a shame as I was looking forward to this for months now.
     
    If you've never subbed, it's possible your char has stored xp and will level up to ~23 when entering with playtime, if no xp lock (bandana) is active. That's how I lost a lv20 some time ago.
    So check with some lumpy toon, if you are legit to level beyond 20 and decide for yourself, if it's worth it to take the risk :)
     
    Syrayeda said:
    it means they demoted me to starter account status, no longer a vet account
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    This is the way. I've described similar issue happened to me after mop remix, and it was never fixed. I had a bunch of tickets with very few human interaction, mostly they were ai or gtfo. The wording from one of the answers gave us a basic idea: there's a cd after "real money" spent to the gametime. If it was really long ago - your acc may be demoted to starter. Game tokens aren't considered as a cd refresh.
     
    Wisely said:
    This is the way. I've described similar issue happened to me after mop remix, and it was never fixed. I had a bunch of tickets with very few human interaction, mostly they were ai or gtfo. The wording from one of the answers gave us a basic idea: there's a cd after "real money" spent to the gametime. If it was really long ago - your acc may be demoted to starter. Game tokens aren't considered as a cd refresh.
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    I remember the other thread from a few months back now, when we were discussing this.

    'May' is the really operative word for demotion, that accounts for the randomness of it being enforced. I just learned of an old guidie who quit paid sub wayyyy before than I did, like an expansion or two before me, but could still log in for free time today.
     
    Ummm... I was able to log in to my over level 20 characters yesterday but this morning, I can't - anyone else having this problem?
     
    Yeah the higher level characters on retail appear to be "inactive" this morning. Luckily I used a lower <= level 20 to check the trading post.

    Key thing to try is to unlock the Earthen (I believe only if you have TWW on the retail account), as this race can use the Dornogol portal <= level 20, regardless of having game time and on a Linked Vet with the pre-release patch were able to be created on the linked Starter and use the portal without TWW officially unlocked on the starter.
     
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    sector3600 said:
    ...Key thing to try is to unlock the Earthen (I believe only if you have TWW on the retail account)...
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    I wouldn't be surprised if someone without TWW can unlock this race now. I didn't purchase TWW and my lvl 70's are able to start the catch up questline for TWW story. Have a couple Characters up to lvl 73 already.
     
    I think things are working now, maybe.

    For a while I was in a weird limbo mode where one of my twinks had access to the mail and AH, but my other ones didn't (and had no access to any of my higher level characters).
     
    FormerUsername said:
    Ummm... I was able to log in to my over level 20 characters yesterday but this morning, I can't - anyone else having this problem?
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    Same thing happened to me this morning. One of my vet accounts was showing high levels as '(Inactive)'. Then I relogged and the issue went away.
     
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