If I had an account about a year ago and havent put time on it since... can someone RAF me or no?

nope has to be fresh account if you only got a few chars and u plan on going ham and lvling up a bunch id prob start fresh and just link it to your same bnet account that way all ur stuff is shared hielrooms , mounts etc

Lol then I gotta rebuy WoW which is 60 bones man!

true also the starters comes up to wod now so can be a cheap raf for your main account up to 100 they also go on sale for 10 sometimes 5 thats usually when i pick up a few to multibox my main account with raf

So how much does it cost total to start a new account?

atm

19.99 for the game up to wod add another 49.99 if you want legion

but it could go on sale once summer hits they usually have a summer sale an starter will prob be 10$ and legion prob be like 40$

side note

If you rather grind for gold re sub your old account and just farm all kinds of old content and make a few tokens trade them in for blizz bucks and buy it that way

or make fg buy tokens then trade them in

which ever is faster for you