Due to restrictions to combat botting, new players are unable to use the AH system, send mail, trade anything for 26 days (from 1-60) meaning if you invite a new player to your group, and they play mage, they will be unable to give you water/food. It also means these players cannot get enchants, buy upgrades, have a bank alt or anything else.
Im glad we’re living in a time where a billion dollar company would rather severely punish anyone new to the game than hire a team of 5 people to find a remove bots/gold sellers.
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Tip of the month: Dont invite any new players regardless of class! So they can know that Blizzard SCAMMED them and doesnt want them here. How dare they want to play a Classic experience. Official WoW servers are the best choice, right?
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Thats weird because i had a mage trade me food Yesterday…
“don’t invite NEW players…”
Oh new Accounts cant trade, true mb
yeah i find it insane they didnt write that when i made the account
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That happened to me when I returned back in September and was so frustrating…
Imagine paying money to play classic and you can’t access half the game. Thanks, Blizzard! Very cool!
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This ain’t it. If you want food and drink, go buy it before your dungeons like you would if you never had a mage in your group at all. Stop telling people to keep new players out just because you don’t get what you want
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I am the mage in the group im talking about … i got kicked yesterday from a wc group because i couldnt give them food and water… this will only be more common as we level to 40+ where food and water costs a lot of golds for the average leveler
but thank you for your well thought out reply
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That’s terrible. I’m sorry 
Damn I’m sorry. I didnt read correctly, didn’t mean for the ignorance.
But the 26 days have passed long time when you get to level 40 though.
No, I am not defending Blizzard’s “solution”, which I agree should be disabled on Fresh realms.
Sounds like I certainly shouldn’t invite warlocks.
They don’t provide drinks either, but demand extra heals, meaning I have to drink twice.
Right? Right.
I can also just not heal them, they’re actually very good at self-sustain while questing, tap spec is grief spec.
I agree that this problem is to be exposed, and might be a cheeky way to get some designer attention, but to actually do this would be pretty low.
I always expect a paladin with blessing of wisdom in my party.
In any event, a good frost mage brings way more than some water: fantastic damage and CC.
ps.: If you get kicked, report for griefing. It is a bit off, but again, it would put spotlight on this rather silly issue.