Leveling an alt that is supported by your main character(s) already had its advantage before since it could get gold, mats and other things easier than if you had no support at all. Bind on account items or Heirlooms as they are often called made this support even better.
If you’ve taken the time to consider it, you’ll realize that the term Heirloom is more accurate right now because it’s something your main or any of your other high level characters can get and pass on to lower level characters. Bind on account is a misnomer since it currently is more …read more

You could tell the game has really come a long way when you’re getting revisions to a service that allows you to do something that couldn’t be done back in the day. Back in the day there was no such thing as a paid character transfer or a name change or character customization. Now we have all those and we’ll even have the faction switching service sometime in the future.
I remember when Blizzard first allowed the paid character transfer service, the cooldown was something like 6 months. To go from that to 30 days was already something. but then Blizzard …read more

As I’m writing this a lot of the World of Warcraft servers are undergoing a very extended maintenance that’s going to last for 12 hours. We’ve had a lot of scheduled maintenance before that would be longer than usual but as far as I know, this is the first time we’re having a scheduled one for this long. Since it really is maintenance day today, the other servers are going offline eventually but for the unfortunate, this is a major bummer.
Some guilds probably had to call off or at least cut short their raids today, especially those that run at …read more