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Ok, here's an interesting one. Since from here on out, everything is supposedly tied to your battle.net account and not your individual WoW account, answer me this:
Say I have 4 accounts tied to one b.net account. And I use one to RAF a 5th account, and create all level 1s with each account and level all 5 up together, will ALL characters now receive the 300% RAF XP Bonus?
Not to my experience, because each game account can have it's own referral, regardless from the bnet account it resides under. So only 1 of the 4 and the new one will have the xp bonus, unless they are chain linked.
I have A-B-C linked & E-F linked, under the same bnet account. I've made a new G account (linked to C) under another bnet account. When I group ABCEG, then ABCG get the bonus xp cause they are linked, but E doesn't get the bonus despite being on the same bnet account.
Yeah, I figured, that would have been TOO GOOD of a deal :)
Confirmed,
RAF works between wow accounts not between b.net accounts. Right now I have 2 accounts from the 5 linked... they're all merged to the same b.net account. Good thing is that I can boost myself with one of the 3 other accounts.
You still have sub accounts, within a B.Net account.
Nothing has changed in that regard.
:confused: I'm so confused by all this RAF stuff and have been reading several threads. Heres the deal for me, after 3 years away in EQ2 land I have come back to Mbox in WoW and heard about RAF stuff. I now have 1 b.net account with 5 wow accounts in it. Do I need to get 5 hotmail<- emails to RAF with or can you just RAF from one account to the other using the same exsisting email? can I just us the A referal to B and B referal to C and C referal to D and D referal to E and E referal to A. a round robbin of level giftting. ??
I set up my bnets last night and everything is fine. I have 6 emails (one per computer) and 5X7 accounts and 1X1 account for 36 total.
Although you use Bnet email as your log in you still see your old account name so everything is basically the same as before. You still can see your old account name from a drop down list and you use that to access your account and what not its not that you lose your old account name.
I set up all 36 of my raf's with one email, when I did it.
Just think of bnet as a "master account" with your current accounts as "sub accounts", you still use your current account names.
Heres what I just did
I had 2 accounts already
A & B
A is my main account a couple of 80s and such, Account B was an old RAF account I had lying around. I changed its E-mail address to the same as my normal account then merged it with Battle.net
Then Account A sent a RAF invite to my normal E-mail address (The same as my Battle.net login)
Account B Sent 2 invites to the same address.
All worked fine, now all the accounts are active under my battle.net you dont need to send them to other E-mail address' that you have.
A couple of things I would like confirmed in regards to RAF though if people know
1. Each level 60 toon now gets 30 levels to grant (Used to be 29 when I did it last time)
2. Can I grant 1 toon 59 levels using 2 toons worth of granted levels? So level 1 to level 60.
You can RAF (Refer A Friend) to your own email address.
However, you will need at least one retail account to refer from.
From this account's management page, send an RAF link to your email.
Create a new account using the email CD-key information.
Down the road, or immediately perhaps, you will want to upgrade the RAF account you have just made to a retail copy of the game.
Until you upgrade, I believe you're capped at 10th or 20th level.
And cannot make Blood Elves or Draenei until you upgrade to Burning Crusade.
If you already own 5 accounts which are set up, RAF is less useful.
The cheapest route will be to RAF from say A and B to two new accounts.
Then group A + B + two new Accounts + existing high level.
And boost the 4 new toons with the existing toon.
Repeat the process using C + D + two new accounts + existing high level.
This will get 4 toons (on existing upgraded accounts) to 60th, with each pair taking 1/3rd the normal time (total 2/3rds normal time because you're doing it twice).
This will cost you 4 new accounts (classic game), which will not need to be upgraded, and will get you RAF on 4 of your 5 existing accounts. These accounts will not be kept after the RAF period, so don't need to be BC enabled, even if you're making alliance shaman's or horde paladins on your existing (already upgraded) accounts.
If you don't mind blowing a bit more money...
You can link from A like this:
A >>> New 1 >>> New 2 >>> New 3 >>> New 4.
And when all the toons on New accounts reach 60th, transfer them to your keeper accounts.
Or alternatively, only keep one of your existing 5 accounts (to boost with).
And go with four new accounts which become your "keeper" accounts.
You can character transfer from existing accounts to these freely (30 day hold on transfers once an account joins a B.Net account), which might be fewer transfers if you're leveling several teams.
You don't really need RAF at all, but if you're doing more then 1 team 1st to 60th, I'd probably try to make RAF work.
Every 2 levels gained by a new toon, they can grant 1 level to the account that referred them.
Since we start at 1st, two levels gained means 3rd, 5th, ..... 57th, 59th...
RAF stops at 60th. So counting odd levels from 3 upwards to 59, we get 29 levels.
Each toon you level from 1st to 59th or above, can grant 29 levels to toons who are both 59th or lower and lower level then the granting toon.
So two toons at 60th, on the RAF account can grant 29 + 29 levels = 58 levels.
If you were to level a toon to level 2, but already be 19.5 bubbles into 2nd.
Then after 58 boosts, you will be a level 60 toon, and already 19.5 (of 20) bubbles into your level.
Further, if possible you want to daisy chain your RAF grantings.
If you have four new accounts and set them up like this:
Old A >>> New 1 >>> New 2 >>> New 3 >>> New 4
Let's say you level four teams from 1st to 60th.
That is four new toons on each new account, boosted by a main on the original account.
We might have 4x Druids, 4x Paladins, 4x Shamans and 4x Rogues.
Each New account can then grant 29 x 4 = 116 levels to the account which referred it.
New 1 -gives- 116 to Old A
New 2 -gives- 116 to New 1
New 3 -gives- 116 to New 2
New 4 -gives- 116 to New 3
So Old A and New 1 through New 3, can each create two toons, get them to 2nd and as close to 3rd as possible without leveling to 3rd. And then grant each of them 58 levels, which means 2 more level 60 toons on 4 accounts.
But New 3, New 2 and New 1 each receive 116 levels from RAF over and beyond what was earnt during leveling up. So they can grant levels based on these granted levels. 116 levels
New 1 -gives- 58 levels to Old A -because of the 116 levels it gained from New2-
New 2 -gives- 58 levels to New1 -because of the 116 levels it gained from New3-
New 3 -gives- 58 levels to New2 -because of the 116 levels it gained from New4-
So Old A and New 1-2 each get to boost a level 2 toon to level 60...
This cascade effect diminishes by 50% for each step.
But there are a couple more steps.
Even without illustrating further, we have several extra level 60's (very close to 61st even), probably with full rested experience if they were camped in inns, over and above the 4 combinations of 4 toons each which we boosted.
Cascading RAF's is a good deal.
in addition to the previous post:
.... except for a death knight, he can only grant 2 levels max