Character Transfer

A Character Transfer, previously Paid Character Transfer Service (PCT), is a paid service that allows the user to move characters to other realms, between two World of Warcraft accounts or from one Blizzard account to another. The cost of each paid character transfer is $25 / 20€ / £15 / ₩24,000. This service is also available for Classic Era and Classic branch characters.

Initially, there was a 6-month cooldown between character transfers. The cooldown was reduced to 1 month in late February 2008 and later reduced to 3 days in July 2009. This service can take up to 72 hours to complete. If you log in before the transfer is complete, it may fail and the character will be locked.

• Characters can only transfer between realms and accounts in the same region.
• Certain realms are not eligible transfer destinations.
• You can't transfer to a realm where your character list is full.
• If your character's name is taken on the destination server, you can change its name after the transfer.
• The character must be at least level 10. Death Knights must be at least level 60.
• Starter Edition accounts can't transfer characters.
• Active auctions or mail will prevent a transfer.
• Characters holding WoW Tokens cannot transfer.
• Characters with caged pets in their inventory cannot transfer.
• Characters are ineligible for realm-first achievements for the first 60 days after transferring.
• Raid lockouts transfer with your character.
• You cannot continue mythic raids started prior to the transfer.
• Item Restoration cannot restore items deleted, vendored, or disenchanted prior to the transfer.
• The following gold limits apply to all characters.

In addition to the above realm limitations:

• Your character's name is locked for 30 days.
• You will need to select a new name if your name is taken on the destination realm, or if you transfer to the same realm you are currently on.
• Both accounts must be registered under the same name.
• Items in the Collections tab are account-bound, and will not transfer to a different Blizzard account. Pets or mounts associated with a character-specific achievement will transfer, but only for the character that unlocked the achievement.
• Character-specific achievements will transfer to the new account, but most other achievements won't.
• PvP Arena ratings may change after transferring to a new realm. This can affect end-of-season rewards if you transfer before they are sent.
• Your user interface settings will not transfer to the new account.
• Characters are not able transfer to another realm for 30 days after an account transfer.
• In-game friend and ignore lists are reset after transferring to a different Blizzard account.

In addition to the above realm limitations: Note: These apply even if you stay on the same Blizzard account.

• Your character's name is locked for 30 days, and you will need to select a new name after the transfer completes.
• Characters cannot be transferred to or from a suspended, disabled, or closed account. Otherwise clean accounts without an active subscription are able to use the Character Transfer service normally.
• Characters cannot transfer to a lower expansion level game account.
• Characters are not able transfer to another realm for 30 days after an account transfer.
• In-game friend and ignore lists are reset after transferring to a different Blizzard account.

Due to a variety of reasons, from setting up a fresh realm, a highly populated one, to congregate a community, a Free Character Transfer is set up. Mostly, it only works in one direction, a character can be transferred to a specific destination realm for free, but not back to the original one (at least not for free). It works on a fixed duration, and may be limited to a faction or a number of characters.

No characters may be transferred that have items on Void Storage, mail or current auctions. Gear, bag content, bank content and character specifications (class, race, achievements,...) are transferred. If the destination realm has a character with a name equal to the character name to be transferred, the owner will be prompted to change the name.

On 14 February 2023, players were able to transfer their characters for free to any or realm until the Season of Mastery realms were completely removed on 28 July 2023.

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