So... it's happening: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/free-character-moves-coming-soon/284225
EDIT: Server list has been made available @ https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-classic-free-character-moves-realms/284713
We are working to open our Free Character Move service for select WoW Classic realms in the coming days.
When free character moves become available from one of the most highly-populated realms, players will see the option to initialize a free character move on either the character select screen or the queue screen of the realm.
To best prepare, please note that a character cannot move if the character:
We will post full details about the realms available and character restrictions when we open the service.
Thank you!
Kind of saw this coming. Hope enough people bail on the full servers to bring the queues down...
I'm not moving though. I'm going to assume this is going to mostly apply to people who haven't set down roots on their server. I will continue to bypass queues with TeamViewer by logging in hours in advance.
Kind of saw this coming. Hope enough people bail on the full servers to bring the queues down...
I'm not moving though. I'm going to assume this is going to mostly apply to people who haven't set down roots on their server. I will continue to bypass queues with TeamViewer by logging in hours in advance.
Yeah Sulfuras queues are usually around half hour which are manageable at this point and I expect they'll go down in the coming weeks and months. I'm more curious about which realms are transferring to which. I thought all NA East PvP realms were High or Full already.
I just hope they open new realms for people to transfer to.I don't want Bloodfang (usually low , prime time medium pop) all of a sudden have a 4 hour queue cos everyone sees that its low pop so they flock to it like they did to the full ones( gotta play on the most layers ;) .
I just hope they open new realms for people to transfer to.I don't want Bloodfang (usually low , prime time medium pop) all of a sudden have a 4 hour queue cos everyone sees that its low pop so they flock to it like they did to the full ones( gotta play on the most layers ;) .
Blizzard's philosophy is to fill up low/medium pop realms before opening new ones. Read a post by one of the game directors explaining that a few days ago.
Great news, but many people like me will hope that others switch so I can get in the realm I play on. (I bet Firemaw will be one of these realms which get free realm change option)
On the second thoughts - we (my friends) are not that many on Firemaw anyway because of the queues. Might as well just switch to Dreadmist or something.
That's terrific news. Don't have to spend much time selecting a realm now.
That's why I said that I hope. Cos it most likely won't happen.At this point I'm hoping that most ppl quit cos it's gonna remain world of layercrafy forever.
Seems kind of weird, but I guess they want to get the server populations balanced out as early on as possible, before people really get into their server's community.
My thought was that they wouldn't offer transfers until they got rid of Layering at or before Phase 2. IE, they would suddenly drop the server caps to a population that would fit comfortably on a single layer, and if you still want to play on your full-pop server, you get queues again, incentivizing people to move off their high pop servers.
But again, better to try to shake this out a bit now before people really put down roots in their server.
Hopeful Deviate delight will get some new players :)
Server list announced: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-classic-free-character-moves-realms/284713
As we previously announced, free character moves will become available in this region very soon. When these free character moves open, player-characters at any level will be able to move:
FROM TO
Arugal Felstriker
Faerlina Heartseeker (new realm)
Stalagg Heartseeker (new realm)
Herod Earthfury (new realm)
Skeram Earthfury (new realm)
Incendius Netherwind
Thalnos Netherwind
Fairbanks Arcanite Reaper (new realm)
Whitemane Arcanite Reaper (new realm)
Bigglesworth Anathema
Pagle Windseeker
Grobbulus Deviate Delight
For approximately one day, the new realms will be restricted to only those players using a free character move. After one day, any player may create new characters there. This is to allow players using the free character move service a better chance at retaining the name of the character they’re moving.
We will let you know when the new realms open and free character moves are enabled.
Thank you!
I just hope Ten Storms won't be on the receiving end. I know it says Medium most of the time, but it feels crowded more often than not.
called it!
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Incendius Netherwind
Thalnos Netherwind
So does this mean that Netherwind will have a large Spanish speaking community once the transfers take place? Because I don't think I'm going to transfer off Incendius if this is the case...
Props to Blizzard for coming with a fix, but I think they should allow transfers to *any* low pop server rather than limiting transfers to a specific one.
Why? I think many communities were split due to the few available servers at launch. People kept on hopping to different servers, and because of the high queue times, people who knew each other ended up in different places. The only way to properly fix that is to allow all of the high pop servers to transfer to the same server, as long as it is still low pop. That would solve the problem entirely.