
There is no doubt WOW's design team want you to level alts; and lots of them. In fact the new expansion is all about leveling alts. They are entirely re-doing the the old world so you can experience the game all over again; almost like WOW 2.0. To make your alt leveling experience as pleasurable as possible they have implemented a number of very important tweaks to the current engine.
- BoA heirloom items
Purchasable with emblems, WG mark of honor, and Seal of champions. Now you can buy shoulders, chests, trinkets, weapons to ease your leveling pain. These things levels with you and some provides 10% XP points to quest/mob kills. They are so cheap to get there is no reason why you should be leveling an alt with at least a few. - Cheaper/faster mounts
Mounts are cheaper and easier to get. Gone are the days epic land mount training is 600 GP. These days you can grab an epic land mount at level 40 (instead 60) for a mere cost of 20 gp. Other levels of mount training is also considerable cheaper (with exception of epic flying) and the none-epic flying mount also goes faster. - Some trainings are now BoA
The 1000 gp you are spending on cold weather flying is now bind to account via a book. Too bad I had already paid normal price for my first three 80s. - Shoulder/head enchants that require rep grinds will be BoA in 3.3
This just came hot off the press. They are trying to give us should/head enchants that require northrend rep grind BoA. This mean if you have a single toon exalted with son of hordir you can buy shoulder enchants for all of your toons. Woot. - Many special pets are now BoA
If you have the latest give away pets from Blizzard it is more likely than not it is BoA (i.e. Mr. Chilly, Blizzard polar bear). This mean every single character past and future will have access to that pet. The aspect I especially like is I get these pets even if I create a new toon from scratch 1 year from today.
- Achievements across account!
This is a big one for me. I have so many toons my achievements is spread all over them. I will raid with whichever of my toon my guild needs at that moment. I don't understand why I can't be champion of frozen waste just because I finished the last 2 wings of Naxx on my hunter instead of my priest. Also for a harder to get achievement such as explorer doing it once is really enough. Blizzard should give option to measure achievement via account rather than a toon. For the people who enjoy grinding achivement on every toon (are there any?) there should be an option to turn it off. - Flight points
Isn't it annoying when you start a new toon all your previous flight points are gone forever? One of the major headache is to have to run your new alt to all the flight points you have previously explored. Is there really a point to do this over and over again? The capability of having your toons have all the FP is already there, when you start a DK you get all the FP in Azeroth; I don't see why similar strategy can't be implemented for all our alts. - Mounts
I am sure it is a nice gold sink to ask each of your toon to buy a 10K Grand Ice Mammoth. However more likely than not most people will chose not to buy them for each of their alts. Since you spent that sort of extraordinary money to obtain it, they really should be BoA. - Rare/special Pets
I started my horde priest 2 years ago. I have collected a lot of interesting feast of strength along the way. One of my favor pet is the original 2007 Clockwork Rocket Bot. It annoys me to no end I can't take him out unless I am playing on my priest. Just because I started my hunter 2 months later doesn't mean she shouldn't be able to enjoy it. In my opinion all these special hard to get limited edition pets should be bind to account.











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If it makes you feel any better about having spent 1000g for each of your 80's, the BoA tome only contains one charge -- so you still have to pay 1000g per character to fly in Northrend. The tome just allows your alts to fly as early as level 60.
I wouldn't mind if achievement rewards like mounts and pets were BoA, but I wouldn't want the achievements or titles themselves to be shared across characters. I think I'd be pretty annoyed if that PuG tank sporting a Champion of the Frozen Wastes title turned out to be someone's brand new level 80 alt.
@Elleiras
Thank for your comments. I didn't know the book had only 1 charge :-(
What I am proposing is to have a toggle option to have your alts' achievement show on your main.
Personally I still don't see a problem to have my PUG green tank shown as Champion of the Frozen waste. It can probably inform others that I can handle myself regardless of my gear levels. ;-)
Really like this idea of BOA reps. I have so many toons that i haven't grinded the hodir rep on any of them (well i got honored w/ a few). Same thing with fishing/cooking, I am not about to level from scratch those skills on all of my toons.
I guess i'm lazy, but it's franky *boring*.
Gib. I agree. There is no sense grinding something over and over just so you can get an enchant option. I really would like to see Blizzard moving most things into the BoA instead Soul bound to toon.
I know what you mean about the pets. All of my horde have the cute baby polar bear and I miss it greatly when on the Alliance side.
Honestly I'm really glad they lowered the mount cost. Since they decreased the xp quantity to level it was a bit of a pinch to quest enough gold for mounts. This time around it was a lot easier to afford mounts, get from place to place, and pay for training.
@Creep,
My favorite: flying at level 68 in northrend. Just priceless.
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