Are you waiting for the expansion to use new accounts you bought on sales??

[crowdx]

Hi ,
so I picked up anther wow with the BC included for free yesterday at Best Buy, I already have 4 vanilla wows from their sale a couple of months back. So now I have 6 accounts which I can RaF to and I am thinking of possibly just hanging onto them until the expansion hits.
Anyone else considering this? My only worry would be that something will change with RaF, maybe they will put some restrictions on leveling due to the reworking of the old areas. I also really think they will prevent RaF from working with the new races.

[Stealthy]

Why would you hold off? The sooner you start boxing, the sooner you get your toons to 80, and then to 85.

Even if you're not planning on doing any end-game content before the expansion hits, wouldn't you want one or more teams at 80 so you can hit the ground running as soon as Cataclysm goes live?

Cheers,
S.

[zenga]

Myself i will level a team from scratch when cataclysm starts to see the new kalimdor & eastern kingdoms. Besides kicking my main teams to 85 of course.

[MiRai]

Quoted from the #BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter:

Q. Are heirloom items and the recruit a friend system going to work at the start of Cataclysm, in particular for Worgens?
A. Most likely heirlooms. For recruit a friend, we'll have to see. We understand some players want to get to the end game as fast as possible. Maybe the realm first achievements should state "without XP bonuses."

Sounds like we might not even have RaF at the beginning of Cataclysm to help keep people from having an advantage of being realm first Worgen/Goblin or any other new class combos. I would assume they'd bring it back, since it's probably a nice chunk of income for them, after everything has calmed down. But...if you don't create your accounts before Cataclysm hits you may be kicking yourself at a later date.

[Shabu42]

Nah, started RAF a week ago. Im at 65, enjoyed all the old content!

[crowdx]

The above is a valid point and I am now wondering if they will just suspend RaF altogether for the first couple of months of the expansion. I know they definitely will not want people leveling the new races with RaF, kinda like taking away flying in Northrend making people experience stuff slowly lol.
I think my main issue with my decision is that I already have quite a few toons at 60 and above (8 x 80) and some of the main reasons I am going to do some RaF is to change where some of the 60s are on different accounts for their race (draeni) and class, so as to make dropping toons in and out of the main teams easier.

[Kicksome]

I think they'll do RAF for expansion, it means a LOT of new sales/accounts for them. Think how many people want to level up new races, but want the RAF speed, and they'll shell out the money for Classic + BC + WOTLK + Cat + a new account just to get the RAF bonus vs just buying Cat.

I think they said they might make the "realm first" goblin etc... to be leveled without RAF and Heirloom items though.