Recruit-A-Friend Not So Friendly For Pets?
A friend of mine pinged me earlier to day to let me know that some hunters have hit a small snag with Blizzard’s new Recruit-A-Friend program, announced yesterday.
Apparently the triple experience that you and your recruited friend can get when you play together doesn’t apply to hunter pets. So it is all too easy to leave your poor pet behind as you and your friend go merrily skipping off together through the levels.
Not a huge problem, perhaps, but definitely non-optimal if your newbie friend decided to play a hunter. I’m hoping that Blizzard will decide to fix up this behavior — not least of all because they might easily extend such a fix into allowing our pets to benefit from our rested XP, and I would dearly love to see that.
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Amen, as well as giving them a portion of our quest experience, which is also tripled by the recruit a friend program.
Good pick-up. It makes sense that the pet should be able to at least keep within range of the toon. Hopefully it’ll be tweaked to this affect.
i wish i could do this, id love to level my shaman up, but just too lazy… triple experience may change my mind though. problem is, all my friends either play already, dont have a computer or play FFXI, or couldnt really care to play even if i paid them to play.
ive thought of using the 2nd account for myself (use my parents or friends address or something for billing if it cant be billed to same credit card). easy way to 2box my alt up to like 30 really quick.
It does seem a little bizarre that the existing system actually penalises those who level by questing, since most people seem to think that this is the “right” way to play the game - I’ve even read people who go so far as to consider grinding to be cheating, in some way.
It doesn’t really affect me, since I often prefer grinding to questing (How else does a solo player get epics, except by farming gold?). I usually go out after levelling and just kill mobs until pet levels. My Alliance hunter is currently levelling from 57-58 in Outland, for example, where there aren’t any quests below 58. One player informed me indignantly that I “shouldn’t be there” yesterday. Thank goodness for the /ignore feature.
I think that blizzard… MEANS for you to create a new toon to lvl up WITH the guy you refered, so both of you can lvl up faster and the game feel more fun for that 90 day stretch. I don’t think the implication is for your higher lvl toon to just run the guy though everything because your experience would be piddly even with the triple. You wouldn’t be getting exp till he got close to your lvl.
As for the pets not lvling…. eh. It’d be cooler if they did but the fact they’re giving you so much already, I wouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
I’m concidering singing up my cat for an account and a few months of pay time to get the mount. >:)
“or couldn’t really care to play even if i paid them to play.”
You could pay me to play. ;) Heck, I’d drop my current art and game design projects and power level (or whatever) with you in whatever support class you want me in. Seriously.
Still, in light of that, I have to wonder if this program will be used more by existing players to dual account grind some characters to 70 than it’s used to actually introduce new players.
If they really want more people playing, lower the sub price, and/or make family discount plans.
I would love to do this to get that Zhevra mount, but unfortunately I don’t have any friends who don’t play. Darn Blizzard, I want a zhevra!
I’m idly wondering if there’s a black market for people willing to start the game to enable existing players to get their pointy zebra. What would the going rate for one of those beasties be, anywho? Split the two month fee? The existing player pays all of it? Loot kickbacks?
…this all is likely intended to bring in new players, but this aspect, as well as dual-boxing it, just doesn’t seem like the program is going to go as intended. Really and truly, I’d be the noob for someone wanting to do this for a shiny new mount, but since I’m allergic to subscribing, I’d expect some sort of payment for my gaming services. Is there really a market for that, or am I just crazy?
I have played with the exp bonus, and this is not true. The pet does indeed benefit from the increased experience.
Joshumalio: That’s wonderful news if they got it fixed that quickly! I’d love to hear more about your experience with this.
Confirming Joshumalio’s post, my Nightstalker from outside Exodar is keeping up levelwise no problems on my new hunter.
There’s not much to say other than my pet has no problem keeping up. One thing is that if my friend and I have 4-5 quests to turn in, that could easily get us one level then the pet falls behind a little, though it has no problem catching up once we start killing things. And the lower level doesn’t make much of a difference anyway since my friend and I are always grouped for the triple exp, so we’re never really in any danger.
It’s amazing how fast leveling is when quests at level 14 give you 3000 experience.
this is not a problem for me, at level 18 my pet is level 17 soo its not that bad to be perfectly honest. i made a trial account and parked it in my quest hub so that i get 3x exp for quests.
I haven’t experienced any problem with pet not keeping up _yet_, but as we all know, the pet not being able to keep up isn’t too noticeable until the late 50s. I’m getting ~10K for some quests in the mid 20s, so I guess that doing quests like this might make it hard for the pet.
As for creating an account, me and my girlfriend decided to do this together, she’s already got an account, but we signed her up on the account anyhow (with me paying and thus getting the mount ;)), because that will make sure she can transfer characters to it if she wants to dualbox. She’s got 5-6 70s and a few 60+ and she loves leveling up alts, so I figured it’d be best if her name’s on the account. Seeing that I’ve pretty much only got hunters at level 70, there’s not many characters for me to move to the new account anyways. ^^
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