- This trial version has been replaced by World of Warcraft Starter Edition.
You can download a demo version of World of Warcraft and play for free for 10 days. If you upgrade your account from a trial to a full version during the trial, you still keep your free trial days.
You can also try World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade for 10 days, if you have an existing World of Warcraft account, and you can try World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, if you have a full Burning Crusade account. A World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trial is also availabe for those who have a full Wrath of the Lich King account.
Allowed[]
While the classic trial has many limitations (see below), there are still quite a few things you can do with a trial version.
Classic World of Warcraft trial[]
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A sampling of what you can do:[1]
- Explore, talk to NPCs, fight monsters, do quests, and acquire items.
- Train class abilities and exercise profession skills.
- Use emotes like /cry, /sleep, /dance, etc.
- Buy the level 20 mount (+60% of run speed, but requires purchase of upgraded Riding skill as well).
- Join a party when invited by other characters up to level 20.
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade trial[]
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Additional things in the Burning Crusade trial:[2]
- You can start a new draenei or blood elf character and explore their all-new starting areas.
- You can also take a high level (58+) pre-existing character through the Dark Portal and get your first glimpse of Outland!
- You can complete expansion quests and even pick up some powerful new items.
- Try out the new expansion profession, Jewelcrafting.
- Keep any pets from expansion zones, if you activate a full retail account.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King trial[]
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Additional things in the Wrath of the Lich King trial:[3]
- Allowed creation of the new death knight Hero class (if you have a level 55 character on that realm already).
- Access to the new continent of Northrend (recommended for characters who have reached level 68 or higher).
- You can complete expansion quests and pick up some powerful new items.
- Keep any pets from expansion zones, if you activate a full retail account.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trial[]
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Additional things in the Cataclysm trial:[4]
- Allowed creation of the new Goblin and Worgen races and explore their new starting areas.
- Access to Cataclysm-exclusive areas such as Hyjal, Vashj'ir, and more. (recommended for characters who have reached level 78 or higher).
- You can complete Cataclysm quests and pick up some powerful new items.
Limitations[]
Classic World of Warcraft trial[]
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When you sign up to a trial account, you are limited to the following:[1]
- Maximum level of 20.
- Maximum of 10
. - Capped at 100 in your two main professions,[1] or 150 in secondary professions.[citation needed]
- You can't create or join a guild.
- You can't whisper someone who has not added you to their friends list.
- You can't trade, either via the auction house, mailbox or player-to-player trading.
- You can't use in-game chat channels other than say, whisper, party, etc.
- You can't receive mail other than from Game Masters.
- You can't use voice chat.
- You can't use the paid character transfer service.
- You can't invite other players to a party.
- You can't use /yell.
- You can't use Real ID features.
Realms with login queues will also give priority to customers with retail accounts.[1]
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade trial[]
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Since you're required to have classic Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found. World of Warcraft activated and installed to use this trial, it has very few limitations.[2]
- Maximum level of 60.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King trial[]
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Since you're required to have World of Warcraft up through Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found. Burning Crusade activated and installed to use this trial, it has very few limitations.[3]
- Maximum level of 70.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trial[]
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Since you're required to have World of Warcraft up through Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found. Wrath of the Lich King activated and installed to use this trial, it has very few limitations.[4]
- Maximum level of 80.
- More than 10.
References[]
See also[]
External links[]
With the release of World of Warcraft Starter Edition many of the links below will redirect to the new starter edition or act differently.
US Trials[]
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade 10-day Trial Edition at the official site to log-in, enable trial, download demo expansion and play.
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 10-day Trial Edition at the official site to log-in, enable trial, download demo expansion and play.
- WoW Official Game Site (US) Cataclysm 10-Day Trial Edition Now Available by Blizzard Entertainment, Dec 17, 2010 12:11:34 AM UTC
European Trials[]
- WoW Official Game Site (EU) Cataclysm 10-Day Trial Edition Now Available by Blizzard Entertainment, 17-Dec-2010 01:40:31 UTC
