Recruit a Friend - Going away / how to
Posted: May 23rd, 2019, 2:56 pm
For those confused about how the refer a friend works, I wanted to do a brief explanation. From Blizzard: "The current Recruit A Friend program will end on June 11, 2019—it will be replaced by a new program at a later date! We’ll have more details to share in the future." This still gives you time to complete it before the revamp (it takes a week total), and collect the 4 pets (and/or mounts): Golden Pig, Jade Tiger, Silver Pig, Zipao Tiger. This new program doesn't mean the old rewards will go away, but you never know.
How to:
1. In game go to the friends tab and click the Recruit a Friend icon in the top right (two hands shaking).
2. From here you will be taken to a screen that asks you to put in a friend's email address. Enter a secondary email that you have (although I believe you may be able to use your existing email tied to your WoW account). I used a secondary email personally.
3. You will be emailed a link to click to begin the process. It will ask you have you want to create a new account, or use an existing account. You can use your existing account. Simply login to your existing account. By choosing to use your existing account, the game will create a new account under your existing one on the WoW launcher. When you open the WoW launcher there will be a drop-down menu for accounts where you will see WoW 1, WoW2, etc.
4. Once the account appears under your WoW launcher, you will need to purchase 3 months of game time for that particular account. You can go to the Blizzard store and purchase the time, then apply it to the correct account.
5. Wait 8 days (edit-thanks Quintessence), and you will be able to select one of the rewards from in-game. This is on your main account that you clicked the RaF button (in step 1) from.
Notes:
-Each account (after you purchase the game time) will allow you to obtain 1 pet or mount, so in order to complete the process for the 4 pets you need to do this same exact process 4 times. Again, you can do this under your existing WoW account. Each account can only have a total of 8 "accounts" under them. Your existing account, WoW1 through WoW7. This means that you can only obtain 4 pets, and 3 (maybe 4?) mounts.
-You used to be required to purchase the game/battle chest itself then 2 months of game time, in order to get one of the rewards. However, in BFA they got rid of the battle chests and they have changed it to only requiring 3 months of game time purchased per account to get one of the rewards. Here is the Wowhead article that explains this change: https://www.wowhead.com/news=287211/rec ... age-revamp
-It takes 8 days (edit-thanks Quintessence) to receive the in-game prompt to receive the reward of your choice.
-I did RAF for the 4 pets back when you had to purchase the battle chest, and just recently did it for the mounts. I am still in my 7 day waiting period to select my reward(s).
How to:
1. In game go to the friends tab and click the Recruit a Friend icon in the top right (two hands shaking).
2. From here you will be taken to a screen that asks you to put in a friend's email address. Enter a secondary email that you have (although I believe you may be able to use your existing email tied to your WoW account). I used a secondary email personally.
3. You will be emailed a link to click to begin the process. It will ask you have you want to create a new account, or use an existing account. You can use your existing account. Simply login to your existing account. By choosing to use your existing account, the game will create a new account under your existing one on the WoW launcher. When you open the WoW launcher there will be a drop-down menu for accounts where you will see WoW 1, WoW2, etc.
4. Once the account appears under your WoW launcher, you will need to purchase 3 months of game time for that particular account. You can go to the Blizzard store and purchase the time, then apply it to the correct account.
5. Wait 8 days (edit-thanks Quintessence), and you will be able to select one of the rewards from in-game. This is on your main account that you clicked the RaF button (in step 1) from.
Notes:
-Each account (after you purchase the game time) will allow you to obtain 1 pet or mount, so in order to complete the process for the 4 pets you need to do this same exact process 4 times. Again, you can do this under your existing WoW account. Each account can only have a total of 8 "accounts" under them. Your existing account, WoW1 through WoW7. This means that you can only obtain 4 pets, and 3 (maybe 4?) mounts.
-You used to be required to purchase the game/battle chest itself then 2 months of game time, in order to get one of the rewards. However, in BFA they got rid of the battle chests and they have changed it to only requiring 3 months of game time purchased per account to get one of the rewards. Here is the Wowhead article that explains this change: https://www.wowhead.com/news=287211/rec ... age-revamp
-It takes 8 days (edit-thanks Quintessence) to receive the in-game prompt to receive the reward of your choice.
-I did RAF for the 4 pets back when you had to purchase the battle chest, and just recently did it for the mounts. I am still in my 7 day waiting period to select my reward(s).
