As some of you might of noticed, I've gone ahead with Blizzard's recruit a friend offer.

There's an FAQ here, but I keep explaining myself to people, so I though I might write up how it's going on the forum, to answer some common questions.

Basically, you recruit a friend, then get triple experience whenever two of your toons are standing next to each other in a group.
Your friend can be a real friend, just someone you met on the net, or (thanks to Blizzard's friendly policy on multi-boxing) an alt on another account, who you set to be on follow.
Personally I've got my Wacom hooked up as a second screen, I have two instances of WoW running, and every so often I alt tab over to the second one to cast Fireballs (or to get my alt unstuck off of a fence, which happens quite often).

Thankfully this will set you back less than you'd think.
To go from level 1 to level 20, it will cost you nothing, and you'll have 10 days to do it in. Use this to try it out.
If you and your friend want to continue to level 60, it's going to cost one of you about £10 (to buy the second account), and you'll then have 40 days.
If you want your friend to be one of the characters from the expansion, or if you want to to set your their hearthstone to Shattrath, then that's going to cost another £10 for another the expansion pack.
Finally, if you were your own friend (i.e. you were multi-boxing( and want to keep your new character, it'll cost you £15 for the transfer.
When you bare in mind the leveling guide linked to in the other thread will set you back £25 and take a lot longer to do, it's a good deal.


Obviously there are a few restrictions to stop it getting silly:

• You need to both be the same level, or no more than one level higher for you both to get the exp. (I.e. you can have a level 1 boosting the EXP of a level 50)
• The quests/mobs can't be grey to either player (I.e. you can have a level 50 boosting the EXP of a level 1)
• It stops at level 60.
• Doesn't stack with rest XP.

However, there are several huge advantages as well:

• When the new player gets to level 59, they'll be able to grant 29 level-ups to another char. For example, I hope to zap my rouge from level 30 to level 59 using this.
• And the huge kicker: It triples Quest XP as well

As you can see, playing WoW is a whole different ballgame with a friend alongside: You level much more quickly, and must prioritise fetch quests and kill quests over quests which ask you to hunt for item drops (which you would need to find two times over).
To get the most out of it, it works best if you have an alt already at around level 30. That way, you and your friend will able to level one toon each from 1 to 60, then you'll be able to boost the alt up by 29 levels.


Anyway, that's the score. Nothing more to say really, except that this video is funny.