Steer Clear of any Power Leveling or Account Buying Services

If you are thinking about using a Power Leveling service to get a World of Warcraft character leveled then I hope you read this article before you submit your order.

Blizzard is targeting accounts that use a power leveling service and banning accounts left right and center. They have banned over 100,000 accounts in the previous year. So think about it twice before you go down this path.

I know the packages these power-leveling companies are offering these days are very lucrative to get anyone interested in getting a character power leveled. Here is a typical package the power leveling companies are offering for around $70.

Lv1-80 Fast Powerleveling Package (9-10 Days)
(1)First Aid and Two Related Professions to 450
(2)Epic Gears + Rare Gears
(3)225 Riding skill + Flying Mount + Epic Mount
(4)Cold Weather Flying skill
(5)3000 Gold
(6)Complete your class quest
(7)Open all flight paths(Azeroth + Outlands + Northrend)

If you think about it, this is just unbelievable but they can offer you these prices because they know that your account is going to get banned so they actually won’t have to deliver. All they need is for you to fall in the trap. This is a typical scenario:

You don’t have time to level your toon.
You look up the offers on a typical power leveling company’s website.
Once you see the above mentioned unbeleivable offer you are ready to order without thinking anything else.
The power leveling company start botting your character (24/7).
Blizzard bans the account.
The power leveling company doesn’t deliver or take any responsibility.
You lose everything (the account and the money)

How do Blizzard catch the Power Levelers?

I don’t know exactly what Blizzard do to catch the power levelers but it’s not really hard if you think about it. Say for example, if your account is registered in the US but someone from China (most power leveling companies are based in China) logs on and is online 24/7 then it is very easy to flag that account for further investigation. I am sure you get the idea now.

Don’t Buy World of Warcraft Accounts Either

Some World of Warcraft account selling companies are trying to take advantage of this situation by promoting the fact that you should buy a character rather than power levelling. I would steer clear of these character selling sites too. No matter what they say the account can be recalled by the original owner at any time. You don’t want to put all these time into the game only to find that the account has been recalled at a later date. This is what typically happens when you buy an account.

The company selling the character will tell you that you can change the account password and email address and bla bla bla but what they do not tell you is that Blizzard will not let you transfer a character from an account that is not owned by the same person (the last name on the account has to match). Blizzard also will not allow you to change the account name.

Few months later the original account owner will feel like coming back to the game and will tell Blizzard that his account got hacked. Once he can provide proof of ID (the account name is not changeable so you are screwed at this stage) the account can be reclaimed.

You will end up loosing the money you paid to buy the account and lost any work you did on characters on that account!

I hope this article will save some of your accounts from getting banned if you have been considering to use any of the services mentioned above.