Character Transfer Information and Restrictions

The Character Transfer service allows you to move characters to other realms, or different World of Warcraft accounts.

It is not possible to transfer a character between World of Warcraft, WoW Classic Era, and WoW Classic Progression.

It is not possible to transfer a character between Battle.net accounts. For more information, please refer to the blog post.

Additional Restrictions

Customer Support cannot bypass any of the below restrictions.

Character Restrictions

If you are also changing your character's faction, please also check our Faction Change Effects support article.

• You cannot transfer a character if you have a pending Great Vault reward
• You can transfer a character from a realm to another once every 72 hours. However, if you transfer a character from one account to another, you can perform subsequent transfers (whether to another account or to a new realm) only after 30 days
• You cannot transfer a character boosted in the past 72 hours
• You cannot transfer a character that isn't at least level 10. In addition:
  • Demon Hunter and Dracthyr characters must have completed their starting zone quest lines.
  • Worgen characters must have left Gilneas and Goblin characters must have left Kezan
  • Any character that starts at Exile's Reach must have left Exile's Reach
• You cannot transfer a character with active auctions on the Auction House
• You cannot transfer a character with heirlooms in your inventory or equipped.
• You cannot transfer a character with mail in the mailbox
• You cannot transfer a character that has a WoW Token
• You cannot transfer a character with caged battle pets
• You cannot transfer a Class Trial character
• You cannot transfer a character that has a pending character service
• You cannot transfer a character to a realm in another region

Account Restrictions

• You cannot transfer a character to or from a Starter Edition account
• You cannot transfer a character to or from a suspended, banned, or closed account
• You cannot transfer a character from an account with the latest expansion to an account without the expansion
• If you have WoW accounts in two regions, you cannot transfer a characters between them

Consequences of a transfer

• Raid lockouts transfer with your character. You cannot continue mythic raids started prior to a transfer
• If your character's name is taken on the destination realm, you will be asked to rename your character at no extra cost. This is applicable when you transfer a character to another WoW account while remaining in the same realm
• Your character's old name will be reserved for you on the source realm for 30 days
• You cannot restore items that you destroyed, vendored, or disenchanted before the transfer
• Your World of Warcraft friend list and ignore list will be cleared 
• Characters that have transferred in the last 60 days cannot receive a Realm First achievement
• Your guild affiliation and tabard design will transfer. If you want to join another guild, you will need to manually leave your current guild

In addition, when transferring to another WoW account

• You must select a new name for your character
• Your old character name can only be used on the source account for the next 30 days
• If staying on the same realm, when you are given the option to select a Realm Destination, leave the option blank