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Recruit A Friend Returns - Blizzard Preview
Recruit a friend will be returning soon with a bunch of new features!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Ready to make memories with your friends and share fantastic adventures with them across Azeroth and beyond? The new Recruit A Friend program is the perfect way to show them the ropes.

What’s New?
The new-and-improved Recruit A Friend (RAF) program retains fan-favorite features, and it introduces a bounty of new rewards—because Azeroth is best experienced with friends at your side. Just like the previous program, you can teleport to each other with Friend-to-Friend Summoning (which works on a 30 minute cooldown) and receive 50% bonus experience when partied together.

More Recruits, More Rewards
The new Recruit A Friend program allows you to be linked with up to 10 friends, and earns game time and other unique rewards—like mounts, pets, and more—the longer they play. Players new to WoW and veteran players who have not purchased game time on their account in the past two years can be enlisted in this program. Each time one of your recruits adds game time to their account, you’ll earn progress toward a new reward. The more friends you invite, the faster you’ll earn the rewards, as one friend adding multiple months of game time earns the same rewards as multiple friends adding one month of game time each. See all the rewards you can get below!*

  • Rikki - 1 Month
  • Game Time – 2 Months
  • Explorer’s Dunetrekker – 3 Months
  • Title: Renowned Explorer – 4 Months
  • Game Time – 5 Months
  • Enchant: Stinging Sands – 6 Months
  • Renowned Explorer’s Tabard – 7 Months
  • Game Time – 8 Months
  • Explorer’s Jungle Hopper – 9 Months
  • Renowned Explorer’s Rucksack – 10 Months
  • Game Time – 11 Months
  • Renowned Explorer’s Attire – 12 Months


Rewards shown from left to right: Renowned Explorer’s full set as shown (Attire, Tabard, and Rucksack), Rikki, Renowned Explorer’s Jungle Hopper, and Explorer’s Dunetrekker. Not pictured – Enchant: Stinging Sands.

  • Rikki—This curious monkey is ready to see the world at your side.
  • Explorer’s Dunetrekker—Traverse deserts, jungles, tundra, and beyond on this two-seater mount.
  • Renowned Explorer Title—Distinguish yourself with a unique title.
  • Enchant: Stinging Sands—Enhance the appearance of your weapons with swirling sands.
  • Renowned Explorer’s Tabard—Don this rugged tabard to show off your adventurous streak.
  • Explorer’s Jungle Hopper—Soar through Azeroth’s skies on this mount for two.
  • Renowned Explorer’s Rucksack—Always be prepared for adventure with this bustling backpack.
  • Renowned Explorer’s Attire—Look the part of a grizzled outdoorsperson with this rugged appearance.

Game Time
Every 3 months after your 12-month reward, you’ll get a game time reward.

Recruiters must have active game time to earn and claim rewards.


Go it Together
Time flies when you’re having fun, and it goes even faster when you and your recruits play together. Conquer Azeroth alongside your friends and you’ll both receive a 50% bonus to experience for faster leveling when partied together. You can also summon each other once every 30 minutes. Furthermore, our new Party Sync feature makes it easier than ever to level with friends. When activated, everyone in the party becomes aligned to the same quest state and phase. You’ll also have access to a “replay quest” feature that allows players who’ve already completed certain quests to replay them with their friends for rewards that are appropriate to their current level, regardless of the quest’s original level. Quests can be replayed for rewards once per day.

If you’d prefer to play with your friend using a current character rather than starting a new one, you now can. By using Party Sync, you can choose to have your level adjusted so you can quest and experience outdoor content with your friends as they level up. And, If you want to queue for instanced content (such as Battlegrounds and dungeons) in their level range, you can choose to join them by having your level scaled down.

Please note that unlike Timewalking, when your level is scaled, you will temporarily lose access to abilities and powers (such as Azerite Traits and over-level spells, abilities, talents, and trinket effects) with requirements that exceed your reduced level.

Lead with Confidence
To help you help your friends, we’ve created a brand-new RAF panel in-game to help you know when to expect your next reward and given your access to Party Sync. The RAF panel also lists special activities available to players who participate in the program. Complete these in-game challenges with your recruits to earn even more rewards.

Start Your Journey
The new Recruit A Friend lets you generate a custom link in-game that you can send to your friends. This link will help you and your recruit connect in-game, and you’ll be able to see if they’ve purchased game time, which will lead to rewards for you! For each month your recruits have active game time, you’ll earn a new reward, such as unique pets, mounts, game time, and more. These rewards unlock each month and scale with the amount of time your recruits have subscribed for. And, of course, with Party Sync, you’ll be able to journey with your friends on any of your characters.


Adventure Awaits
Recruit A Friend returns to World of Warcraft in the next few months. When you’re ready to bring your friends to Azeroth, simply log in to WoW and generate an invite link through the Recruit A Friend interface, then send that link to your friends. Up to four friends can use it to link their accounts to yours. To recruit more friends, you’ll need to generate a new link, which you can do once every 30 days.

*In-game rewards are available to use in World of Warcraft, but not in World of Warcraft® Classic. Free game time earned through Recruit A Friend provides access to both World of Warcraft and WoW Classic.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Recruit A Friend Returns! started by Stoy View original post
Comments 248 Comments
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    So why couldn't any of this crap be available through in-game?
  1. Hablion's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ThatsOurEric View Post
    So why couldn't any of this crap be available through in-game?
    Because there is no money to be made in doing that
  1. qwerty123456's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Laqweeta View Post
    Lol.

    I mean you can stay under that desk and swallow what Activision gives you, but I sure won't.

    This isn't a "142$" value. The set ALONE is what everyone will want, so they can xmog it on any armor type. They put the set at the 12 month mark FOR A REASON.
    If everyone wants it and will easily pay the 12 months for it doesn't that mean its worth it?
  1. Stormykitten's Avatar
    Been wanting a proper hat since forever. Still waiting I suppose. :P I guess our hope is that they use some of these models again, as the store assets always has much better QA-testing if they clip, fit on models, animate properly etc. You can always tell a store re-use ingame in how high-quality that is, such as the Ashenvale Chimaera.
  1. Sixnalia's Avatar
    If someone buys 2 batches of 180 days of game time. Paying the 150 upfront.
    They have to wait all 12 months to receive the rewards as they are given out monthly, if those 360 days are on one account.

    From how I read it, it is faster to accrue rewards by recruiting 12 people for 1 month each. Than a single person for a year.

    Blizzard really F'ing up their reward system.
  1. Cyi's Avatar
    OK, so like I stated many moons ago when this first was discussed, Blizzard has tied the RAF rewards to game time. I have two questions for someone that may have actually done this.

    1. Can it be another account that is already tied to your current Battle.net
    2. Do you get the rewards all at once, or do you still have to wait out the time regardless of how much is purchased up front? For example, they have the six month package on sale. If that was chosen do you get all of the rewards up to the six month bracket or do you have to actually wait out the time?

    Not looking to get into the ethics of this entire thing, just looking for some answers.

    Thank You
  1. Dziubla's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cyi View Post
    OK, so like I stated many moons ago when this first was discussed, Blizzard has tied the RAF rewards to game time. I have two questions for someone that may have actually done this.

    1. Can it be another account that is already tied to your current Battle.net
    2. Do you get the rewards all at once, or do you still have to wait out the time regardless of how much is purchased up front? For example, they have the six month package on sale. If that was chosen do you get all of the rewards up to the six month bracket or do you have to actually wait out the time?

    Not looking to get into the ethics of this entire thing, just looking for some answers.

    Thank You
    1. Already tied? No, but you can create another WoW account on the same Battle.net account, and RAF it.
    2. One month reward per person. As in, if you RAF one person, you need 12 months for everything, if you RAF 2, 6 months, etc.
  1. Sixnalia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cyi View Post
    2. Do you get the rewards all at once, or do you still have to wait out the time regardless of how much is purchased up front? For example, they have the six month package on sale. If that was chosen do you get all of the rewards up to the six month bracket or do you have to actually wait out the time?



    Thank You
    You have to wait it out.

    If you buy $150 in game time upfront for this second RAF account. You have to wait 12 months, getting 1 reward each month. Even if you paid the $150 in the first month.

    If you want rewards as fast as possible, assuming Blizz doesn't change this dumb policy, you need to make and recruit 4 accounts and buy 3 month game time for each one.
    Then you will get all your rewards in 3 months.

    Actually.
    Recruit 4 people to sub for 2 months each.
    Then on the next month when you get 4 more invites. Recruit 4 more for 1 month each.

    Pretty dumb
  1. Addiena's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sixnalia View Post
    You have to wait it out.

    If you buy $150 in game time upfront for this second RAF account. You have to wait 12 months, getting 1 reward each month. Even if you paid the $150 in the first month.

    If you want rewards as fast as possible, assuming Blizz doesn't change this dumb policy, you need to make and recruit 4 accounts and buy 3 month game time for each one.
    Then you will get all your rewards in 3 months.

    Actually.
    Recruit 4 people to sub for 2 months each.
    Then on the next month when you get 4 more invites. Recruit 4 more for 1 month each.

    Pretty dumb
    We all know why they did it this way, but this seems like the best way around their Asinine rules.

    Edit - Im more than happy to make a bunch of empty accounts that will never be used or logged into game with.
  1. Tazr's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dziubla View Post
    1. Already tied? No, but you can create another WoW account on the same Battle.net account, and RAF it.
    2. One month reward per person. As in, if you RAF one person, you need 12 months for everything, if you RAF 2, 6 months, etc.
    They said if the account has been inactive long enough, yes, it can be an existing account. So, an old account from a previous RaF could qualify, just depends on how long it's been since it held a sub.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Does not. You get a perk per month if one person is recruited. If you want the rewards faster, you need to recruit multiple friends.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sinaa View Post
    Do you think anyone one this website would be interested? (nope)
    https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...here!/page1034

    Answer to you and him.
  1. Nnyco's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Laqweeta View Post
    There it is, there it fucking is.

    I'm 100% positive that this "Renowned Explorer's Attire" will be xmoggable over any armor type.

    There's your Cash Shop fully implemented now, except in the case of F2P MMOs, this is 100x more expensive. (15$x12 = $180). Whereas on the F2P the set would likely be $15 to $20.
    Youre not ment to buy 12months of gametime yourself.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Can't say I'm willing to take part in this whilst we're still in BFA. If Blizzcon reveals something good for 9.0, I'll start recruiting. Until then, back to RDR2/BOTW/Planet Zoo/Anno 1800 for me!

    Quote Originally Posted by Laqweeta View Post
    Lol.

    I mean you can stay under that desk and swallow what Activision gives you, but I sure won't.

    This isn't a "142$" value. The set ALONE is what everyone will want, so they can xmog it on any armor type. They put the set at the 12 month mark FOR A REASON.
    Right, you so full of character!
    You're just staying under that desk as a hobby, or general lack of better things to do I suppose.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Nnyco View Post
    Youre not ment to buy 12months of gametime yourself.
    Some people don't have friends so they see this as them being "forced" (as adults, mind you) to fork out the cash themselves.
    Certainly explains the level of saltiness some have advanced to.
  1. Weatherwax's Avatar
    I got a question.
    Can the friend recruited through RAF pay their sub with gold?

    If so, can I gift them gold for them to pay their sub?
  1. GreenJesus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sixnalia View Post
    You have to wait it out.

    If you buy $150 in game time upfront for this second RAF account. You have to wait 12 months, getting 1 reward each month. Even if you paid the $150 in the first month.

    If you want rewards as fast as possible, assuming Blizz doesn't change this dumb policy, you need to make and recruit 4 accounts and buy 3 month game time for each one.
    Then you will get all your rewards in 3 months.

    Actually.
    Recruit 4 people to sub for 2 months each.
    Then on the next month when you get 4 more invites. Recruit 4 more for 1 month each.

    Pretty dumb
    lol.. assuming people that play WoW have friends/are capable of convincing people to play a 15 year old game.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GreenJesus View Post
    lol.. assuming people that play WoW have friends/are capable of convincing people to play a 15 year old game.
    How quaint.
    However, both of those things = more than realistic. Just look at the amount of people that this game's literally 15-year old version pulled, at least for a time.

    And if all else fails, there's tons of forums out there where people are looking to RAF/Get RAF'd.
  1. Sixnalia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GreenJesus View Post
    lol.. assuming people that play WoW have friends/are capable of convincing people to play a 15 year old game.
    Recruited a friend today, actually. Hasn't played for years because he had a kid. He bought a 3 month sub on my recruitment.
    He's reliving Classic, now that his kid finally goes to elementary school and he has spare time in the day while he works from home.

    Got a coworker/friend who I can probably get tomorrow as well. Along with their husband.

    *shrug*

    Just gotta know folks.

    Mind you, these people have already played WoW. So they're returning.

    As for new folks. Don't have any atm, but two of our current raiders got into WoW for the first time in Legion. They exist, but I'd say they're a rarity.

    WoW is certainly old, but there's plenty of content veterans and former players take for granted, that new players have yet to experience or enjoy.


    Regardless, I'm not a fan of the current Recruit a Friend system.
    Most loyalty/sub reward systems give you all the rewards upfront if you pay upfront.
    And give better rewards for recruited players. Rather than just giving the recruiter inventive so heavily.
  1. Drusin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by qwerty123456 View Post
    If everyone wants it and will easily pay the 12 months for it doesn't that mean its worth it?
    Not once does the value of an item cross my mind lol

    https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/all-the-things
  1. GreenJesus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Drusin View Post
    Not once does the value of an item cross my mind lol

    https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/all-the-things
    Lol I'm pretty sure all the things can ignore cash shop and promotional items. I feel so sorry for you that you are forced to literally acquire every single thing in the game.
  1. ecospherez's Avatar
    Wish i had friends, would quite like that airplane.

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