Clarification about the upcoming "Any Race, Any Alliance" Bundle

darigaaz87

Hello everyone.

Some time ago I bought the "Adventurer Pack", which contained the "Any Race, Any Alliance" Upgrade. Now this pack will be retired from the Crown Store, along with the Alliance Costume, Hat, Mount, and Pet, and will be replaced by a new Bundle that will contain all this soon-to-be-retired items.
My question is: since I already have the "Any Race, Any Alliance" Upgrade, do I need to buy it again to have access to the Alliance-specific Cosmetics? Will I be able to buy it again, or will such bundle be precluded to me because my account already has the "Any Race, Any Alliance" Upgrade? Or will the specific Costume, Hat, Mount, and Pet be unlocked on my account for free, since I've already bought the "Adventurer Pack"?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

VaranisArano

You'd have to buy it again like buying a Collectors Edition of a DLC you already own, or but the Alliance rider set before its retired.

Living_Ded

This is upcoming?

bluebird

The way bundles work currently is that you can purchase them as long as you're missing some items from them. There will be a text if I recall correctly, stating that you already own some items from this bundle. (For example I bought the Rogues pack that contains 3 costumes, even though I already owned 2, and it simply unlocked the missing one.)

So you will continue to own the Any Race Any Alliance upgrade on your account, but you won't get the costumes/pets/mounts unless you buy them individually before they are retired, or buy the full bundle when they add it (even though you'll already own part of the bundle by having the A.R.A.A upgrade).

Michae

I wonder how much it will cost? The item's right now are not worth their price right now for me but if the pack was relatively decently priced I'd consider it. Shame they didn't tell us about that pack while the items were on sale.

Danikat

When I bought the game I happened to get a pre-order copy which came with the Explorer's Pack. Which was identical to the Adventurer's Pack except it had a scuttler pet instead of the bantam guar. When the Adventurer's Pack was added to the crown store I was able to buy it, even though I was only missing that one item.(I didn't buy it, because it wasn't worth it just for the guar, and later on when I bought the guar separately the pack became greyed out.)

Likewise if you buy a DLC you still have the option to buy the collectors edition of the same DLC for the extra items.

So in answer to your questions:

"Since I already have the "Any Race, Any Alliance" Upgrade, do I need to buy it again to have access to the Alliance-specific Cosmetics?"

If you want them then yes, you'll need to buy the pack to get them.

"Will I be able to buy it again, or will such bundle be precluded to me because my account already has the "Any Race, Any Alliance" Upgrade?"

Yes you'll be able to buy it again as long as you're missing at least 1 item.

"Or will the specific Costume, Hat, Mount, and Pet be unlocked on my account for free, since I've already bought the "Adventurer Pack"?

No, you will not get them for free just because you bought a different pack with 1 item from the new one in it.

And to add another one which the OP didn't ask but I'm sure a lot of people are thinking about or expecting: "Will the price be discounted automatically to allow for the items I already have?"

No, it will cost the same regardless of how many things in it you already own.

Danikat

Also if you want to buy any of the Alliance themed items individually they are still available in the crown store, for another 14 days. (That's going off the in-game timer, I don't know the exact time they'll be removed so if you want them I recommend not waiting until the last day.)

If you want all of them it will probably be cheaper to wait for the bundle (although we don't know what it will cost yet) but if you just want one or two it's probably better to get them now.