Faction Transfer Now Live

[heyaz]

Here is something that just hit me...

$30 x 5 = $150 WoW Battle Chest
$30 x 5 = $150 WoW WotLK expansion

$300 for 5 new accounts with RAF so you can hit 60 in a weekend, then 70 the next weekend.

I have a feeling they'll be making a new Battle Chest when Cataclysm goes live, so it'll have to adjust at that point. But still - thats a bit strange the 2 methods are so close in price.

those aren't even remotely comparable.. $275 to xfer any amount of gear on five 80s or $300 + x amount of wasted time to start all over?

[Monkofdoom]

However if you have 5 geared characters with x achievements, x gold, x this and x that then I'd agree with Heyaz.

[Monkofdoom]

I have to remember that achievements are these silly things these days.

I was more meaning things like having grinded for various flying mounts / rewards kinda achievements... Not stupid "I've been to x, y and killed z" ones.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Its so easy to gear toons now if you have other geared toons that can drag them through heroics/naxx its a bit pathetic...

Fixed that for ya.

[daviddoran]

I dunno, even a fresh 80 team can get pretty well geared in dungeon blues, and start working on heroics. My team is geared out (I went heroic crazy yesterday and did like 6 heroics last night) so i do the heroics fast, but with the new badge gear, I can get up even faster than doing lower lvl raids.

I'm glad this service is finally available. I imagine a lot of people will come back, or will at least have more fun now. I guess this means that when the inter faction race change is available i can make my druids all worgen...

[Svpernova09]

Fixed that for ya.

lol and I agree, if you have people willing to run you through stuff, it's stupidly easy. Go farm reg ToC. My former GM's guild geared a fresh resto druid, he dinged 80, and equipped a fully epic set of gear. Between ToC and Crafted stuff, it's very easy.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I dunno, even a fresh 80 team can get pretty well geared in dungeon blues, and start working on heroics. My team is geared out (I went heroic crazy yesterday and did like 6 heroics last night) so i do the heroics fast, but with the new badge gear, I can get up even faster than doing lower lvl raids.

Exactly. I've done a few heroics bosses with brand-new teams in crafted epics and dungeon blues. Difficult, but doable.

You can say what you want about gear being "required" for content, but somebody else has already proved you wrong.

What I was making specific reference to is this:

And gear? We took a freshly dinged 80 priest to Ulduar ready in a day. (Heroics in the morning, raids in the evening).

Its so easy to gear toons now its a bit pathetic...

For a guild or a team with 4-24 other people already capable of carrying alts through heroics/raids, you're absolutely right that it's pathetic. For the rest of us mere mortals, it's far from easy. It's no different than animist PL. Sure, it's stupidly easy for the PL-ee, but you need the PL-ers first.

Though I will agree that most of my/our issues are less absolutely gear-related and more about having the gear and experience to mitigate the mistakes or limitations of multiboxing.

[heyaz]

I take it you've never used RaF. Getting a team to 80 with it is a joke. And its fun too.

And gear? We took a freshly dinged 80 priest to Ulduar ready in a day. (Heroics in the morning, raids in the evening).

Its so easy to gear toons now its a bit pathetic...

Used RAF three times actually. Fail to see your point though, instant team on another faction, or 100s of hours of my time, the exact same grind all over again, for $25 more....

[Ogloo]

well u can do a account/relm at the same time, so thats 25 bucks, then the faction for 30, so its 55 bucks. meh worth it kinda

[Saithe]

I saw somebody asked about the Argent Tournament. They said in the FAQ that they would be unable to transfer the Tournament Achievements, so I believe that means they probably reset everything relating to it.

Took a long time to transfer my Hunter if anybody else is waiting for theirs. I started it last night and this morning it still hadn't given me the "Switch Faction" button, but when I got my lunch break it had finally gone through. The one downfall I hadn't thought through about going Dwarf was having to ride on a freaking goat until I can get a real ground mount...