Transfer Restrictions and Free Character Transfers Now Available-- Updated 22 November

Updated November 22

Free Character Transfers are now available from Jin’do to Thekal.

Fresh start players may now resume creating new characters on the Thekal realm.

To prevent further overcrowding, the following additional realms have been locked for transfers:

• Earthshaker
• Everlook
• Flamegor
• Mograine

New character creation is still available on these realms.

At about 04:00 CEST today, we intend to disable the Thekal to Jin’do Free Character Transfer path. It will not be possible to initiate a transfer from Thekal to Jin’do after that time.

In order to help players prepare for overcrowding coming with the launch of Northrend content on Tuesday, we’ve enabled the following Free Character Transfers.

While we intend to keep these Free Character Transfers open through the next two days and until the launch of Northrend content, 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 as we continue to evaluate the populations of realms.

Free Transfers to Mograine and Ashbringer are temporarily closed while we address a bug with those specific routes.

In response to overwhelming feedback from players, Free Character Transfers are now available from Thekal to Jin’do. We will monitor this transfer connection very closely, and it may be closed without notice.

Free Character Transfers are no longer available from Mograine to Transcendence, Patchwerk, Amnennar, or Flamegor.

Free Character Transfers to Mograine are now available for Alliance characters only, and Free Transfers to Ashbringer are available for Horde characters only. The table below has been updated to reflect all currently-available Free Character Transfers.

Original post updated.

We will close all transfers from Firemaw at 21:00 CEST today (8 September). Firemaw has been approaching our target for maximum population.

As you may have seen, we’ve taken additional steps to address queues on North American realms.

We will be implementing a similar arrangement for EU players soon.

We’ll update you again as soon as we have that in place.

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:

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.