Will buying the aniversary upgrade my current acct expansionFollow

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Yes. Inside the cover will be a registration number. Don't use the disks at all. Log into your existing account (you will need to pay to reactivate it of course), then select the "account" button. Somewhere in there will be an option for registering new expansions. Don't click anything that says something like *buy* new expansion. That'll actually purchase just that one (and you'll have to pay for it). There should be one where you just type in the registration keys from an expansion you've purchased from a store (which is what you did). Type that in and it should then report that you've gained access to all of those expansions you're missing.

Couple points:


1. I'm not 100% sure of how the /claim stuff works. I've heard differing stories on this. You get /claim items for every expansion you buy (but not if purchased online). When you buy the anniversary pack, you'll get *all* the /claim items from every expansion. I'm not sure what the correct thing to do if you already have some sitting around. For example, if you have a roboboar you may want to claim it on one of your characters *now*, then apply the anniversary pack and you'll get another one.

Don't quote me on that one though. Some people have said that it's one character per account no matter what. It's something to look at though. I didn't think about it and had one of several of the claim items still waiting to be claimed. After installing the anniversary pack I still have just one of every item to be claimed (so they did not "stack" with the ones I already had). I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd claimed them first. Maybe I'd have gotten a second version of each, maybe not. I didn't feel like experimenting at that point, but maybe someone else knows the answer from direct experience.

2. Repatch the game after adding the expansion(s). I had always assumed that the game patched fully even if you didn't own an expansion. You'd have the zonefiles, but just couldn't zone into them or use the features of that expansion if you didn't pay for it. But the first patch after I added the key (and nothing else) took like 30 minutes. So that's clearly not the case.

I'm not sure what would happen if you tried to zone into a zone in an expansion without patching first. Probably get stuck in a kitty room or something...

Re the claims. Claims 1 2 and 3 are individual. While 4 thru 8? are going to go to one character. So you can split the bonus items up a bit.