can you level to 20 on a starter account on anniversary hardcore?

nah you can't play classic on starter accounts sadly. I have a vet account (no sub) for 20 twinks and I tried leveling on hc anniversary right when it went up and had to play it on my main.

hc anniversary was the most fun I've had on wow in about 10 years though so def worth the sub.

I've been able to make a character on anniversary hc, just wasn't able to trade, but was logged in and ran to stormwind

how do you know you can't level?

This post was edited by SlamFkingDunk on Oct 23 2025 02:30pm

are you sure you weren't on retail? If you try to log into any of the classic servers with a starter account you will get an error popup saying you need an active subscription to play classic wow.

Unless what you are saying is you have a subscription and still can't trade, that isn't a starter account that is just a barrier they added to combat rmt on classic and sod. You can level as high as you want but can't trade for a month or so.

yes im 100% certain since I was trying to trade someone who was for sure on hardcore server

it was a fresh starter account with no sub ever. I was able to log into the hardcore server and make a character, run to SW

so I assume its possible

This post was edited by SlamFkingDunk on Oct 23 2025 05:16pm

Yeah.. idk what to tell you bud. I just tried again and it still says you need an active subscription to play wow classic. I can't even get to character select it shows this at the login screen.

A quick google search says its been this way since 2020 so maybe you got lucky with a bug or you have game time on your account somehow.

hmm idk

was an old battlenet that I just downloaded wow on

classic wow is lame in the sense you cant log on for free, dont think since the start (2019? version) you've been able to get to the character select screen without a sub (VERY LAME)

maybe you bypassed it on accident or logged into retail/diff wow or something?

send a SS of the char page, cause it 100% is impossible to even get to char select on a trial.

I would know because i frequently let my sub run out, and CBA to download retail, so i have to contact blizz for gametime to get a token.
Unless it changed in the last 2 weeks, but I read nothing about that.

This post was edited by ISellLeagueBoosts on Oct 29 2025 07:32am

it's possible that the sub just didn't go through yet, so I was on a starter account that could not trade but was able to go into the town