Hi! so I have a character that was lvl 110 before the pre patch, whom I made last year around patch 8.2 when blizzard offered some free trial of bfa during a weekend and was subsequently locked afterwards.
I subscribed after years to play wow classic and never bothered buying bfa, but I did level some characters in retail and played on legion content with no problem. when said offer came, I made a new character for the trial (which was basically the first introductory quests to kul tiras) and then the character was locked and the game said I needed to buy bfa to unlock them.
I left the character there, waiting for when the new expansion came out, believing that when bfa got added to the basic game subscription they would be unlocked. but now since the pre patch when bfa was added to the base game, the character is still locked and the game tells me to buy the expansion and a character boost to unlock them.
Is this correct or is this character (kevirah-us:proudmoore) somewhat bugged?
Typically, people who purchased BfA and boosted a character and then subsequently either got a refund or contested the purchase with their bank, ended up with the boosted character locked until a purchase of BFA was made again.
Now that BfA has been rolled into the base game, I would imagine that those characters would need a purchased boost to be unlocked.
If you don’t fall into the category of a refunded or contested purchase, I would suggest filing a support ticket for a problem with purchase.
uhm thats not my case at all. like I said I never brought bfa, I only purchased a sub last year during a sale and have since kept it to play wow classic/base retail (legion).
this character in question was made during a 3 day trial of bfa offered last year and was locked afterwards. according to the game at that time, I needed to buy bfa to unlock it but since I had no plan of buying bfa I left them there thinking they would auto-unlock when bfa was added to the game subscription (since then I would have bfa and wont need to buy it) but now the character is still locked.
I’m not sure if the character is bugged when they should be unlocked of if it will be forever locked until I buy an expansion (be it shadowlands or the next one)
From what I can see, Daeluin, that is a Class Trial character.
I believe the Battle for Azeroth free trial allowed you access to BFA content for 3 days with a Class Trial character.
I believe if you were to have purchased Battle for Azeroth the level boost that was included with that purchase would allow you to continue playing on that character, or create a new one.
In order to unlock it you’d need to use a level boost on it. There is one that comes with the Heroic and Epic versions of the Shadowlands expansion. That will boost the character to 50, which was previously 120.
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so either I buy a level boost or the shadowlands version with the level boost???
ok good to know. I’ll see which works better for me. Thank you so much for the help!
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