My question is - she has created a starter account - at what level am I able to send her the gold to be able to buy tokens to buy the game and subscription. Also trying to add her to my guild so she can access gold i have when she needs it.
I don’t think f2p accounts can actually trade at all, you might have to buy the xpac for them first
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I think you’ll need to gift it via bnet instead. Don’t think you can trade gold to starter accounts. But idk maybe it’s less restrictive than it used to be.
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It’s been a while since I’ve interfaced with a situation like this, but my understanding is that the start account has a ton of restrictions placed on it, and she’ll need to actually upgrade and pay for 1 month before she do things like that. It might have changed since I last tried it, but I would brace yourself for the possibility.
good expansion for her to come back. The content is good. the transmogs are great. The zones are all easy on the eyes. Only stuff for haters to hate, but I just ignore them mostly.
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You can’t, unfortunately. Here’s the rules for starter accounts:
What about mailing gold? One time a friend of mine didn’t have a sub and found out blizzard stopped giving a day or two to get gold together to buy a sub instead they said mail gold to said person and they could pay for the sub from gold within the mail.
World of Warcraft Starter Edition Limitations - Blizzard Support
On the Starter Edition you will not have access to:
- Trade, mail, or the Auction House
Figured it out - need to wait a few days to gift her the game then we should be good to go.
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Starter accounts are a waste of time. Either pay the sub or play something else.
This is the answer. With a sub you get access to everything except TWW…so pay the sub or dont. But there is no reason to waste time with a starter account.
I think it would be better for her to just do a month of sub time.
There are a lot of restrictions on trials. If you want to do guild and mail stuff, my suggestion is to just 1 month sub and go from there.
Heck. Buy the expac. If she has an og account. Do a recruit a friend.
I bet you’re excited!
Yeah you can gift most anything, including game time.
Good luck to you both.
She’ll never reach a point where you can send her gold in-game with a starter account and not buying the base game afaik. However, I think once you’re battletag friends for 30 days you can then send her gifts (the base game) and then you can give her all the stuff you want in-game.
The OP missed an opportunity to do Recruit-a-Friend, you can earn some cool stuff doing that. Send the RaF link to daughter, and then gift her the bnet and then both of you get rewards when you level up.
EDIT: Assuming WoW still does that…
Free accounts CANNOT trade and are heavily restricted. You won’t be able to do any of that until she pays for her first month (and the restrictions will likely still be in place for the first 24-72 hours afterwards. THANKS CHINA/BOTS!)
Honestly, the best course of action is just have her play until level 20 and then decide if she wants to pay for a month and/or purchase TWW. That honestly shouldn’t take even the most green and uncoordinated player that’s completely new to PC gaming more than a handful of hours. There is no purchase of the actual game anymore. The moment you pay for a month, it’s a standard account with access to all that entails. Now, if the account has payments lapse, it goes back to a starter account and locks off your level 21+ characters, but if the characters on the account have enough gold to cover the current token price, then you DO get an option to buy a token from the character select screen.
The only actual purchase that ever needs to be made is whatever the current expansion is. TWW is on sale through the 15th and the base version can be purchased for $29.99 plus tax. As part of the sale, all versions come with an extra month (or two months if you shell out for the Epic Edition and all the digital goodies)
I’d personally say have her use Sunday-Tuesday to decide if she wants to play for at least a month. If so, buy the base version of TWW. She’d essentially get the expansion for $15 as she’d have to pay for a month anyway, and with the leveling boost active through the 20th (not to mention there IS a level 70 boost included, although I personally NEVER recommend a completely new player do that out of the gate), I don’t see any reason why she couldn’t hit 70 and start on TWW by the following Tuesday.
If by this time next month she’s still enjoying herself, then by all means set up a sub or ship her the gold for a token 
^ Also this. Do that. So long as her account is still within seven days of creation, you can still do this.
most starter accounts aren’t a very useful tool and measurement for the success of enjoyment. The best bet is to actually purchase the full suite and pay for a one month subscription. If she can get all the way to level cap and still enjoy herself in that 30 days, all you have to do is create a character on her realm and then trade the gold to her.
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