Character Transfer Information and Restrictions

The Character Transfer service allows you to move characters to other realms, different World of Warcraft accounts, or from one Blizzard account to another. To transfer a character to another Blizzard account, both accounts must be registered under the same account holder name. It is not possible to transfer a character to another person.

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 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. Demon Hunter characters must have completed the Demon Hunter starting zone quest line
• 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 character that exceeds the gold limit for its level

  Character Level	Maximum Gold
  10-39	10,000g
  40-49	250,000g
  50	1,000,000g

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

Consequences of a transfer

• Your raid lockouts transfer with your character and can't be continued. You will need to wait until the reset
• 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
• You cannot restore items that you destroyed, vendored, or disenchanted before the transfer
• Characters that have transferred in the last 60 days cannot receive a Realm First achievement

In addition, when transferring to another WoW account

• You won't be able to change your character's name for 30 days

In addition, when transferring to another Blizzard account

• You won't be able to change your character's name for 90 days
• Your Honor level will not transfer
• Your Arena Rating may change and affect end-of-season PvP rewards. At the end of a PvP season, we recommend that you transfer only after receiving the rewards
• Your account-wide achievements won't transfer. Only achievements that are character-specific may transfer
• Your items in the Collections tab won't transfer. Only mounts and pets earned by this character as a reward for a character-specific achievement may transfer
• Your user interface settings may reset
• Your in-game friends and ignore lists may reset
• If your character unlocked rank 3 essences, transferring the character to another account will not unlock purchases from MOTHER for other characters on the new account
• Pathfinder achievement:
  • If the transferred character has completed the Pathfinder achievement, the character will retain Pathfinder abilities and flight skill, but will not unlock Pathfinder for other characters in the new Blizzard account
  • If the transferred character hasn't completed the Pathfinder achievement yet, but has progressed through the achievement, this partial progress will not transfer, and cannot be repeated on this character on the new Blizzard account
  • Pathfinder progress earned on other characters in the source Blizzard account will not transfer