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Recruit a Friend not working

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Rigol
#0 - Sept. 21, 2010, 2:48 a.m.
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I recruited a friend to play WoW. We had some fun playing the trial version with him, but when he upgraded, he accidentally bought another account instead of upgrading the linked account. This was solved by calling the Billing(?) service and they manually linked it to my account.

Oddly, for some reason, we cant get any in-game bonuses; such as the summoning, level granting or 3x exp.
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Auryk
#2 - Sept. 21, 2010, 2:54 a.m.
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If you would be so kind as to provide me the name and realm of a character on both of the accounts in question, Rigol, I would gladly look into this for you.
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Auryk
#4 - Sept. 21, 2010, 3:42 a.m.
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Q u o t e:
We are both on Hyjal.
And as for names? i have Rigol and he is Xinshoa


I can assure you that the accounts are indeed linked, Rigol. Looking at these two characters, though, I noticed that Xinshoa is a level 11, whereas you are level 80, Rigol. This may account for some of the errors, as neither of you should be receiving the triple experience at that far of a level difference. Please note that the basic rules are as follows:
  • While in a party together, any experience gains are increased significantly.
  • If both players are present when the mob is killed both players should receive triple experience.
  • If the mob is trivial to either character, no experience bonus is earned.
      This means that if you have Player A (level 50 veteran character) grouped with Player B (level 30 RaF character) and they kill a mob that is level 32, since the mob is trivial to Player A, no bonus experience is awarded.

  • If one player is 4 or more levels higher than the other but the encounter is not trivial, only the lower player gains the experience bonus.
      This means that if you have Player A (level 15 veteran character) grouped with Player B (level 11 RaF character) and they kill a mob that is level 13, only Player B would receive the experience bonus.

  • If both players are present, experience gained from quests that are not trivial (gray difficulty or 5 levels below your level) will be tripled for both characters.
  • While in a party together, all reputation gains are increased by 10%
    Increased reputation gains apply to mob kills only, not for quest rewards or other reputation granting activities.
  • All bonus reputation and experience stops at level 60.

  • For every two levels a character on the new recruited account gains, they can "grant" a level to one of the veteran player's characters.
      The maximum number of grantable levels that can be gained by a single character is 30.
      The recruited player can decide to grant all 30 levels at once to a character on a linked account.
      The character who is being granted a level has the option to accept or decline the level grant.

      Levels can only be granted to the veteran player's account, not vice versa.
      Levels cannot be granted Cross Faction.
      A character on the recruited account cannot grant a level to a character equal or higher than their own level.

  • Levels are granted to the veteran player's character by right-clicking the target player's portrait. You will see a "Grant Level" option.

  • Characters on linked accounts may "summon" each other once per hour.
  • You may summon the linked character regardless of level up to level 60.
  • You may summon by right clicking the target player's portrait. You will see a "Summon Friend" option if your account is linked with that player.
  • This ability does not work past level 60.