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In order to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King you need

World of Warcraft

and

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Or you can get the World of Warcraft Battle Chest, which has both of those combined in one package for slightly less money.




Edited, Jul 25th 2009 12:35pm by Ambrya

If I'm understanding your correctly, you're saying that you have been playing on a trial account, and you wish to upgrade to a regular player account now.

If so, you'll need the product that you linked to (what we usually call "Vanilla WoW" here) as a bare minimum. By itself, it'll let you play as high as level 60. However, you will not be able to enter the new areas added in the two later expansions, such as the Draenei and Blood Elf homelands, Outland or Northrend. You also won't be able to play the new races or class introduced in them, including the Draenei and Blood Elf races and the Death Knight class. If you are satisfied with those limitations for now, you'll just need that one product.

If you later wish to level beyond level 60, and/or you wish to play a Blood Elf or Draenei race character, then you will also need to buy the Burning Crusade expansion. That will let you play the new races and level up to 70, and it'll give you access to Outland.

Then, if you later wish to level beyond level 70, access the Northrend area, or play a Death Knight, you'll also need the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

In other words, each expansion requires you to have bought the original game and all of the previous expansions before it'll work.

I think there may also be products which box together the plain game with one or both expansions at a reduced price, but I bought them all individually at different times so I'm not positive.

Does that answer your questions?

How much? and do you ship out?

No, you need TBC to play WOTLK, and I believe it says so right on the WOTLK box. You can't get to lvl 80 unless you can first get to lvl 70, and you can't do that without TBC.



That I don't know, I have physical copies of all my games and xpacs. When you figure out how, though, you should probably burn the files onto a disc and save them, as it will save you time next time you have to rebuild your computer.



I would assume at the time you bought it you were given an authentication code, much like the ID code that comes with the discs, and you should have saved that.



Edited, Jul 26th 2009 3:39pm by Ambrya

thx. the one question was obvious I guess lol, I wasn't thinking. Yeah you can't get up to 70 without BC. Although... I wonder if you could grind enough mobs in Winterspring to get up to 68. I think at 68 they'd go gray.

I didn't take my DK to Outlands until 67 because I was doing the Cenarion Circle grind in Silithus, so I suppose it's certainly possible, but the WOTLK box does say "Requires The Burning Crusade expansion" on the front.

No. I'm not sure why people keep questioning this, you can only upgrade to WotLK if you already have a Burning Crusade account, if you don't have a BC account it simply won't allow you to enter a Wrath key.