Free Realm Transfer

Shazbot1223 · Post by **Shazbot1223** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:10 pm

I am on wildhammer and i would like to trasnfer, where can i find out about the special free realm transfer offer? When does this occur, why and where?

Dremvek · Post by **Dremvek** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:33 pm

They announce it on the WoW.com main page and forums, but they are typically only available if the server starts getting insane queues and such. They haven't announced any new ones for a few weeks now though.

Shazbot1223 · Post by **Shazbot1223** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:40 pm

Oh.

Can anyone tell me the last time you could transfer out of Wildhammer for free? Is it possible it is going to happene again soon?

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:55 pm

We don't know if it will happen again soon. I would guess that it wont be for sometime. Before the burning crusade was released pretty much any realm that had a queue of several hundred were up for free transfers.

After the expansion was released the player cap on all realms were increased by about 1000 players from a previous 3000, about, some realms had up to 3500 before and now 4500 after, it just depends, but most realms have a 4000 player cap now. If your realm is still having queues then Blizzard may offer a free realm transfer, but this will only happen after many weeks and sometimes months.

There have been realms that have had multiple free transfers, Skullcrusher was one of them. I believe they had about 6 or 7 free realm transfers since the game was released, it last had one before the expansion came out to Alterac Mountains.

The search feature of the forums is currently down so I cannot check to see when the last time Wildhammer had a free realm transfer, or if it ever had one.

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:34 pm

It hasn't been up since about a month after they brought the new software online for the forums.

:/

You can still search for characters, but other than that...

WyriHaximus · Post by **WyriHaximus** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:54 am

Does it has ever been up anyway?

uigrad · Post by **uigrad** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:15 am

The list of realms eligible for free tranfers is always found here:

https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account ... ealms.html

You can always find it by going to the main page, and navigating on the left side to Account->Move Character

It's currently an empty list.

Why would you want to transfer? Are there queues regularly? Good luck!

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:27 pm

The downside to most free transfers are that not nearly as many people take them as needed, and they usually make you transfer to a certain realm. In a lot of cases, the new server ends up a ghost town. If that's what you were looking for then it's not a problem, but I'd rather be on an overcrowded server than a completely dead one

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:39 pm

xpolockx wrote:The downside to most free transfers are that not nearly as many people take them as needed, and they usually make you transfer to a certain realm. In a lot of cases, the new server ends up a ghost town. If that's what you were looking for then it's not a problem, but I'd rather be on an overcrowded server than a completely dead one

I agree with you that it is much better to be on a high or medium pop server than a low pop one. All though, I did leave Emerald Dream because I was fearing a forced server split.

Nothing worse than a low pop server where you can't find what you are looking for on the AH. Those low pop servers are usually low on guilds and it is extremely difficult to find groups for stuff. I would take a high pop server over a low pop one any day! lol