New Transfer Restrictions & Free Character Transfers Now Available – WotLK Classic
Pride • Updated September 1, 2022
- Author: Pride
- Date: September 1, 2022
- Updated: September 1, 2022
- Expansion: WotLK Classic
Players are abuzz with activity now that the Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch has officially come! People are scuttling about, trying out their new talents, getting gems for their gear, glyphs for their new specs, playing new Death Knight characters, and absolutely flooding the auction house with items — on several larger realms, the auction house was reduced to a snail’s pace due to the incredible amount of activity thanks to people coming back to the game to try out the new patch. That is along a myriad of other issues on those popular servers, like login queues.
Blizzard has decided to be proactive with these servers and has immediately restricted transfers, blocking people from transferring their characters to the following realms:
| NA Servers | EU Servers |
|---|---|
| Benediction | Gehennas |
| Grobbulus | Golemagg |
| Faerlina | Firemaw |
| Mankrik | Pyrewood Village |
| Pagle | Venoxis |
| Whitemane |
Furthermore, they have gone 1 step further and enabled their free character migration service. Specifically, you can transfer from the following servers, to the following servers:
| From Server | To Servers |
|---|---|
| NA Servers | |
| Benediction | Old Blanchy (PvE), Sulfuras (PvP) |
| Grobbulus | Old Blanchy (PvE), Sulfuras (PvP) |
| Faerlina | Old Blanchy (PvE), Sulfuras (PvP) |
| EU Servers | |
| Firemaw | Mograine (PvP), Hydraxian Waterlords (RP) |
| Gehennas | Mograine (PvP), Hydraxian Waterlords (RP) |
| Golemagg | Mograine (PvP), Hydraxian Waterlords (RP) |
Kaivax warns that these Free Character Transfers may be closed at any time without prior warning, so players who are interested in moving out of their server if they’re happy with the server’s current situation to do so ASAP.
Will you be using a free character transfer? Or did you hope to transfer your characters to one of the now-blocked server and now find yourself unable to do so? Let us know in the comments below!
Adjustments have been made to some high-population realms in this region.
To prevent further overcrowding, we are now restricting transfers to:
Benediction
Grobbulus
Faerlina
Mankrik
Pagle
Whitemane
We expect to lift this restriction when these realms are no longer experiencing extended queues.
We’ve also enabled Free Character Transfers from the most overpopulated realms in this region:
| FROM | TO | DESTINATION TYPE |
|---|---|---|
| Benediction | Old Blanchy | Normal |
| Benediction | Sulfuras | PvP |
| Grobbulus | Old Blanchy | Normal |
| Grobbulus | Sulfuras | PvP |
| Faerlina | Old Blanchy | Normal |
| Faerlina | Sulfuras | PvP |
We strongly encourage players who wish to use a Free Character Transfer to do so as soon as possible. Free Character Transfers may be closed without warning.
Adjustments have been made to some high-population realms in this region.
To prevent further overcrowding, we are now restricting transfers to:
Gehennas
Golemagg
Firemaw
Pyrewood Village
Venoxis
We expect to lift this restriction when these realms are no longer experiencing extended queues.
We’ve also enabled Free Character Transfers from the most overpopulated realms in this region:
| FROM | TO | DESTINATION TYPE |
|---|---|---|
| Firemaw | Mograine | PvP |
| Firemaw | Hydraxian Waterlords | RP |
| Gehennas | Mograine | PvP |
| Gehennas | Hydraxian Waterlords | RP |
| Golemagg | Mograine | PvP |
| Golemagg | Hydraxian Waterlords | RP |
We strongly encourage players who wish to use a Free Character Transfer to do so as soon as possible. Free Character Transfers may be closed at any time without warning.
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What about a low population transfer, I am in Westfall as Horde and there are barely any Horde to run raids or consistent dungeons?
Exactly. I’m on Pyrewood Village as Horde and it’s become exclusively Alliance now. There should be either an option to transfer or some kind of restriction made to balance the population.
Or tell new people that it is alliance server or a horde server before they join.
Should allow free transfer’s from any of the server’s unable to be transfer into, Like Mankrik US
Planned on playing with people i know. Tried to open a ticket to get a move, pretty much got ignored for 3 weeks. Terrible response after that long wait and no way to respond back to them. I cant transfer to the realm thats closed pretty disappointing. more reasons to just quit playing again.