Hello! I was wondering if BFA will still need to be purchased once the Shadowlands pre-patch begins, or if BFA will be rolled in with the pre-order of shadowlands.
Thank you for your time!
At some point BFA should roll into the base game. CS nor the players who converse here know not when this is suppose to take place.
Watch the main blog for future news.
Or other sites that show blue posts in their main page, like Icy-Veins, WoWHead or MMO-Champion.
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Alrighty, thank you very much for the quick response!
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I find it a little ridiculous that there hasn’t been any information released about this with pre-patch 8 days away. It’s not like they don’t know. They just don’t want to tell us.
Will people who do not have BfA be able to level their toons up to level 50? Or will they still be stuck at level 45?
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No likely 48, that is what a 110 boost will change to if I’m not mistaken. Or 45 if I’m mistaken.
You’d be able to level to the level cap for the highest level expansion you had. So assuming the Battle for Azeroth has not yet been rolled into the base game (which I do not have a date on), then you’d be limited by the level cap for Legion which should be 45. Though the 110 level boost does currently claim it goes to 48.
Edit: I’ll see if I can get clarification because the two levels seem to be conflicting.
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Really? Wowhead shows 45, but they’re wrong a lot. But whether it’s 45 or 48, will the level restriction remain at that new level?
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See edit. . and blue post
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Yes. The level squish does not align with the boost. So a BfA license could boost a toon to 48, but an existing toon could not level past 45. Weird. Anyway, the cap remains in place at the new squished level. That’s what I wanted to know, which wasn’t clear from that article. Thank you.
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While I appreciate the blue reply, the simple fact is that they do know if BfA will be rolled into the pre-patch or not. That decision was made long ago.
They mention all this great stuff for new players once the pre-patch and Shadowlands expansion launches, but they don’t tell you that you need BfA to actually experience that stuff.
SFAs, even if they do know, can not tell until it is made public. Bad-mouthing them is not helpful.
The information is available in a lot of locations. Both Blizzard’s site and fansites.
- You don’t need BfA to do the pre-launch stuff. Everyone’s WoW is updated to patch 9.0 on Oct 13. The pre-launch events are happening in zones that are part of the base game.
- Blizzard has confirmed that BfA will be rolled into the base game at some point. What is not known is when. The SFAs here would not be able to discuss it until it is made public.
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I wasn’t bad mouthing anyone. You are just interpreting my statement as hostile. I am just not a big fan of all the secrecy.
This is from the Shadowlands prepatch page, which you can’t actually do if you simply just subscribed to the game as a new player and did not purchase BfA.
Upon reaching level 10, new players will continue their journey through Battle for Azeroth and into Shadowlands.
Fighting about this in the CS forum won’t make that info popped up any faster, along with the fact that they can’t just up and tell folks what they want without it already being posted on the front page.
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You’re probably correct. But the blues that post here are simply support agents; they are neither developers nor decision makers. They may know the answer but they are only allowed to reveal what their bosses have authorized. In this case, those bosses are holding back that information for some reason. We’ll just have to be patient until they decide to allow an announcement. On the 13th pre-patch drop, there might be an announcement (or maybe BfA just gets rolled in quietly). If not, you’ll just have to check back periodically.
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Well I was hoping to talk some friends into trying the Pre-patch with the changes, but I doubt they will want to shell out money for an expansion that will largely be irrelevant. Perhaps once it’s combined, but by then it’ll probably be too late.
There’s no concrete information on pre-patch events just yet (that I’m aware of), and there’s a large likelihood that scourge invasions will happen across various zones, including the old world.
As they are included in expansions that are already rolled into the subscription fee, they are perfectly fine to test those out, just nothing that may happen in Kul Tiras or Zandalar until the roll in happens.
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