Chromie Time Levelling at 50 - An Informal Guide.
Much like everyone else, when I figured out exactly how Chromie Time had been implemented in 9.0 I was (to say the least) disappointed. A system that can scale any expansion to your level sounded great, and while it *is* great at any level before 50, once you do hit 50 you completely lose access to this excellent feature (and rather abruptly too).
Well I don't like that, and while levelling my most recent character in prepatch, I had an idea for a way to extend Chromie Time into level 50, *and it worked.* Keep in mind that I fully expect this post to eventually be outdated, and that at some point in the (hopefully not too distant) future, Blizzard is going to allow Chromie Time at any and every level. But, until they do that, this jerry-rig approach works!
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**What You Need**
* **Battle.net -** At least one level 50 character, so you can access Chromie Time (hint: the character you're doing this for is probably level 50, so you've got this one already) * **Battle.net** \- A World of Warcraft Starter Edition sub-account (don't worry, these are free) * **Starter Account -** A character that is *at least* level 10, and of the same faction as your level 50 character that you'd like to continue using in Chromie Time.
**What To Do (In Order)**
1. Log in on your primary account, and your level 50 character that you'd like to use with Chromie Time. 2. Log in on your starter account, and your level 10+ character. 3. Party invite your starter account character from your main account character. **This is important**, you cannot invite other players to party from a WoW Starter Edition account, the primary account must invite the starter! 4. From either character, open the quest log (default key is 'L') and enable Party Sync. Both characters will have to agree to this, so tab over to the other client and accept the request. 5. Take your starter account character to Chromie, and enter a Chromie Timewalking Campaign. It doesn't matter what campaign you pick, all of them are actually the same on the backend. You should also leave this character here forever, since it's only purpose will be Chromie Time workarounds. Do not log out! 6. You're done. Now the entire world scales to level 50 for your level 50 character! Pat yourself on the back!
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That's the whole process! If you only read above this line, you've got all the information you need to get this working! However, I've also compiled a few tips I've picked up from doing this below. They might be of use to you, or they might not.
**Notes**
* Both clients **MUST** be open at the same time for this to work, as party sync gets automatically disabled when one of the two synced characters goes offline. Fortunately, WoW is a marginally taxing game, so you can drop the graphics settings and window size of the second client all the way down, and it will have little to no performance impact for low end machines. If you put the second client in windowed mode (you should!), make sure to also minimize that window so it doesn't render anything, lowering the performance impact even more. * **Keep the AFK timer in mind!** Since your starter character *should* be standing right in front of Chromie doing nothing forever, they'll eventually (after 15 minutes) get logged out automatically. All you need to do is pop in every now and then to jiggle them around so they stay in the game. For this reason, try not to put them on a full server, that's just mean. The lower the population the better. * Inviting yourself to a party can be a bit annoying if your characters can't see each other, so use the /invite command instead! If your characters are on different servers, the command you need is "/invite CharacterName-RealmName". Just write that into your chat box (replacing the two parts of course) and you should be a-okay. Keep in mind though that realms with spaces in their names (like Aerie Peak) are written without spaces in this command (Aerie Peak becomes AeriePeak), and if your name has special characters in it, you'll need those too. Don't put special characters in the name though, all you'll do is give yourself a headache!