Character Boost Information (on PTR)

[Quiv]

Didn't see a general PTR thread anywhere nor a thread about this, and since this feature is for WoD, figure I would report it here.

I finally got the character boost to work on PTR, but I had to use the Korean server. It sticks in processing on US servers for me.

I boosted several toons, including level 1, level 10, and level 60.

As of Patch 5.4.7 PTR - Build 17859...

1- You zone into the shrine of your faction, standing right outside the main entrance on upper platform.
2- Your gear is all 483 and looks like the Stormscale Recolor set. You actually use the Trailseeker set (http://ptr.wowhead.com/search?q=trailseeker).
3- You get 150 gold pieces and only a Hearthstone (set to Shrine) and a stack of 20 Lemon Flower Pudding (300k HP and Mana over 20 sec)
4- A hunter boosted immediately has no pets, not even the default one hunters start with. I levelled a hunter to 10, tamed 3 pets total (1 in Call Pet and 2 in Stable) and the boosted hunter retained all 3 pets (even their position in stable).
5- You have 4 Embersilk bags (22 slot) on your character.
6- Only basic bank is open, no extra slots purchased.
7- You pick your Spec during the boosting process. No glyphs or talents are chosen, though the characters knows every available glyph.
8- Only basic Faction reputations are discovered, and you are a mix of Neutral to Friendly.
9- Dual Spec has NOT been learned. You gotta go manually learn it.
10- 280% flying has been learned, including Azeroth, Northrend, and Pandaria flying. 310% and Cloud Serpent flying is not learned.
11- When it works, boosting happens instantaneously. I am sure this is subject to many variables.
12- PTR is in test currency, no idea how much it'll actually cost.
13- Tome of Dinomancy is not learned.
14- Only Pandaria flightpaths known are Shrine and Dawns Blossom.
15- None of the Pandaria map had been discovered, outside of Shrine when you zoned in.
16- No professions for a character boosted under 60. Will be moving a 60 over and testing to check veteran bonus.

Veteran bonus to professions: If you boost a character level 60 or above, they get their primary and first aid boosted to 600 even if they are 1/75 skill. You only know the recipes that you had previously. If you boost a 60 with no primary professions, it gives you two primary 600 professions. I boosted a rogue with no professions, and it gave me 600 LW (with a few basic recipes and the self-buff recipes learned) and 600 Skinning. I then got a DK to 60, had no primary professions, around 300 in First Aid (since DK have that anyway) and 1/75 skill in Cooking, Fishing, and Arch. I boosted the DK to 90, it gave me 600 Blacksmithing and 600 Mining and 600 First Aid. Fishing, Cooking, and Arch was all still 1/75 skill. I have a hunch the profession is armor type based, so I imagine Warrior and Paladin also get BS/Mining. I don't have a 60+ mail wearer or cloth wearer to boost to check professions, but I imagine cloth get herb/tailoring and mail probably gets same as leather since LW makes mail as well. I can't confirm if the professions given are based on armor types or class though.

17- On my veteran level 60 rogue, all my currently equipped gear and all my player bags and items were replaced with the 22 slot bags and the items mentioned above. Gold and bank bags/items stayed perfectly intact.
18 - All quests except Account quests (and the "A Flash of Bronze" quest you auto-accept when zoning into Vale) were wiped.

[Myrrmi]

That's interesting

They've said they'll be cleaning character's bags with the boost, but I'd really want to know exactly what has happened to your boosted 60+ bags, items and gold.

Also the "no pet on hunter" thing worries me a bit. I can only hope lvl60+ boost doesn't wipe pets...
/hugs Sootsnout the starter boar

[Quiv]

They've said they'll be cleaning character's bags with the boost...

Do you by chance have a link to this? It isn't that I don't believe, I really do, I just can't manage to find anything official about the Boosting or Vet bonuses lol

[Quiv]

OK on my veteran level 60 rogue, all my currently equipped gear and all my player bags and items were replaced with the 22 slot bags and the items mentioned above. Gold and bank bags/items stayed perfectly intact.

Will be testing the hunter with tamed pets tonight. I will level one to 10, tame some stuff and boost.

Any more suggestions, please let me know and I will try them. I have no character copies left FYI

[Myrrmi]

Do you by chance have a link to this? It isn't that I don't believe, I really do, I just can't manage to find anything official about the Boosting or Vet bonuses lol

I'm afraid I only remember hearing this on Blizzcon, when they talked about the boost for the 1st time. I'm at work right now, and can't shuffle through the podcast, though...
They said that it's for the returning characters, so they don't return to find a dishearthening mess of trash/quest items/whatever in their bags. I think they've mentioned cleaning up the quest log, too, so the returning players don't have to start their play from tidying that one up as well and can just jump straigh into WoD questing -> another thing you could check on your hunter

Also on the hunter - please try performing the test with some tamed pets with you and in your stable. If the inventory and bank items behave differently, the party and stabled pets should as well.

Thank you for all your findings So it looks like we will have to bank everything we want to keep (including equiped looms) and don't bother investing in bags while lvling.

[Quiv]

OK did some more tests for science.

The quest log was wiped except for Account quests and the "A Flash of Bronze" quest that you get because you start out zoned into the Vale.

Also leveled a hunter to 10. I tamed 3 pets. 1 was in Call Pet, the other in Stable. I boosted the hunter and it retained all 3 pets. It appears only freshly boosted hunters lose their pet. Shouldn't be a problem unless one of the starter pets is a truly unique skin unobtainable anywhere else.

Updated list as well.