I'm making a new post about this because this goes far above and beyond any changes to the leveling game since the inception of WoW.

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It doesn't even have to be a paid account. Just has to use your referrer key. Here's how it goes: you refer yourself an account. Create new chars on current account and new account and dual box. Get TRIPLE EXPERIENCE on BOTH chars starting from the first second, even if you haven't paid. If you DO register the new account, your main account gets a free month, which basically means it only cost you $5 extra for all this. ON TOP OF THAT, if you get to 60 on these new chars, you can basically insta-create ANOTHER character at level 30.

Does this qualify for "Jump the Shark"? This just throws more fuel on the fire in favor of getting rid of the PvE->PvP transfer restriction. 1->70 in 5 days played?

If you sign up for two months, the referring character also gets a unique Zhevra mount, apparently. I know of people who have paid more for less.

(This doesn't work with rest experience, but it DOES work with quests, which is interesting.)

It does cost you a bit more, since your "friend" (i.e., you) has to buy the game as well as game time beyond that first ten days.

From what I read, apparently it doesn't consume rested XP the entire time you're leveling. This means you get to level 60 and have 1.5 levels of rested waiting for you.

Even with a trial account, you could extremely quickly level characters up to 20, just by making new characters to play with each character you want to level. Could be kind of interesting. (Not to mention that leveling two characters to 20, if I'm reading this right, would let you insta-level a third to 20.)

Actually, it just occurred to me that it's a little interesting how you could use this to get a character to level 19 extremely quickly for free.

This is a little silly, and sort of invalidates all Azerothian content, and a bit of Outland as well. They may as well have given us premades, leveling seems to just be a formality at this point.

Now, let me continue by saying that I am in no way mad about them doing this. It's quite fantastic. I, and I am sure many other EJ frequenters, am very sick of doing Azeroth repeatedly. Outland is a little tedious too, but not nearly as bad. This is a business move more than anything, so people can actually get themselves to the levels they'll need to be to experience WLK.

Though, speaking of WLK, I wonder if this policy will be amended for 70-80 experience? It would seem that doing 70-80 at 3x speed would depreciate the value of all the new leveling zones in the expansion. Edit: it cuts off at 60, answered below

And yes, PvE->PvP transfers need to happen now if they're doing this. It's going to be retarded easy to get a 70 anywhere, regardless of the PvP ruleset.

From what I read, apparently it doesn't consume rested XP the entire time you're leveling. This means you get to level 60 and have 1.5 levels of rested waiting for you.

I admit to a bit of skimming, but I did not see any reference to the 3x experience stopping at a certain level? The giving-a-level-to-an-alt-for-each-2-levels-you-earn bit stops at 60, though. Edit: it cuts off at 60, answered below

There are blue posts clarifying, but the triple experience cuts off at 60.

MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Earn a Zhevra Mount- New Recruit-a- Friend!

Ignoring for a moment the rather large impact on gameplay, one has to marvel at what an extremely effective marketing strategy this is. Getting a free month of gameplay for recruiting a friend is a benefit that's fairly intangible and easy to ignore; my paycheck gets directly deposited, and Blizzard takes my monthly fee automatically - I never see or touch this $15 a month, so it's 'out of sight, out of mind'.

But get an exclusive mount? Suddenly I'm mentally thumbing through my rolodex, thinking "Dammit, who could I get to play?"

One question that rises is this - my wife has an account, and we've been leveling toons together, currently at 55. Could I start a new account, thereby getting the mount, and then transfer her level 55 character to the new account, and we could continue playing with the "linked" benefits? (Ignoring of course whether or not anyone else thinks it worth the financial cost to do so)

I like Trouble's plan. You don't even have to level to get the mount, just use a trial key, link then buy an extra month. $20 bucks isn't too bad for an extra mount.

Im curious how this will work with the higher lvl "veteran"

boosting the trial account, since it says:

But would u still get triple xp of boosting? :o

From this wording, I don't see a reason why what you've described wouldn't work. Apparently she would only get 5 levels of triple experience this way, though.

Looks like they are pushing for 2 roughly same-level characters here. I don't see why you couldn't twink them out, though.

Current recruit a friend system on EU realms excludes quite a lot of countries as I discovered when I bought second account. Anybody found some info that this would work otherwise?

Edit: Just to answer my own question, if you play on EU realm and your listed country is not Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Belgium or Spain then you are out of luck. I guess that covers the big ones but doesn't make it any more fair for others, European Union or not.

So... Blizzard is promoting multi-boxing even more?

I dunno, I'm not _that_ excited about this to be honest.

The mount is cool, but in order for me to take advantage of this, I'd have to buy another account, then level two basically entirely new characters all the way up to 70. I mean it'll be a lot shorter for sure, but 1/3 of forever is still forever....

I can see this being really exciting for altoholics though, and I think it's awesome for people with friends who want to start. This would certainly make leveling with a newb friend a lot more compelling.

Is there any news as to when we will be seeing this on European realms?

EDIT:
Actually, I'm fairly sure this will probably go in during tonights down time. If anybody knows different however, I would love to know.

Now to start investigating the best ways to one-box two characters..

I think some of you may be underestimating the impact of triple experience that impacts quests. Veterans with a clue can get to 60 in 5-6 days played easily now. Doing it in 2 days? That's insane.

Right, and not to be flippant, but who cares? So the veteran players who are really into it can spend some more money, dual-box 2 new characters, and hit 60 in 2 weekends instead of 6. For the rest of us, the added expense, the pain of leveling yet another two characters, and the annoyance of setting up dual-boxing make this rather meh, outside of the mount.

Basically I think Blizzard hit it perfectly here. The super hardcore that are altoholics, willing to spend the cash, and willing to deal with the dual-boxing get a bit of non-gameplay-breaking bonus. The vast majority of people just look for friends to sucker in so they can get the mount. And those people that do get friends in actually have a bit more fun playing through the annoying 20-50 levels at an accelerated rate.

I am definitely doing this. My plan is to start leveling a rogue to 30 tonight. Then make a new account with a Tauren female hunter and a Blood Elf male pally on my main account, have the pally and hunter level together from 1-60. Give my Rogue levels 30-60 for free, then transfer my hunter to my main account. I even get a Zhevra which is a nice bonus! Does the second account need to be upgraded to BC? It doesn't seem like it needs to be.

I was under the impression that you could only transfer characters between accounts with the same owner? And I'm assuming if the two accounts meet the criteria for having the same owner, they probably wont meet the criteria for this promotion.

I'll find out soon and report back if that is indeed the case.

So does this buff stack? That is, if you recruit more than one person, or if someone you recruited recruits someone else, do you get multiplied benefit?

No, you can't get more than triple experience.