Character Transfer Information and Restrictions
Common Problems
- How much does a Character Transfer cost?
- What happens to quest progress, items, achievements, collections?
- How can I move a character? Can I move it to a different account?
The Character Transfer is a paid service. If you are looking for information about free migrations, please check the Free Character Migration Eligibility and Limitations article.
You can purchase a Character Transfer in the World of Warcraft in-game shop. This service takes up to 24 hours to complete. If you log in before it completes, the transfer may fail and your character may be locked. To unlock your character, contact us.
Below are the list of restrictions for this service in World of Warcraft and WoW Classic.
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, you can transfer a character from an account to another only once every 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. Death Knight characters must be at least level 60. 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 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 10-30 300g 31-50 1,000g 51-70 5,000g 71-80 20,000g 81-99 50,000g 100 - 109 250,000g 110+ 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
- 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
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
The Character Transfer service allows you to move a character to another realm only. It is not possible to transfer a WoW Classic character to another WoW account or Blizzard account.
Restrictions
Customer Support cannot bypass any of the below restrictions.
Character and Account Restrictions
Note: Characters are ineligible to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj and obtain the Black Qiraji Battle Tank for 90 days after a transfer. The quest line may be completed, but the character will be ineligible for the rewards
- You can transfer a character only once every 90 days
- You cannot transfer a character that isn't at least level 10
- You cannot transfer a character with active auctions on the Auction House
- You cannot transfer a character with mail in the mailbox
- You cannot transfer a character to another World of Warcraft account
- You cannot transfer a character that exceeds the gold limit for its level
Character Level Maximum Gold 10-30 100g 31-50 500g 51-60 2000g
Realm Limitations
- You cannot transfer a character from a PVE realm to a PVP realm
- You cannot transfer a character to a PVP realm where you already have a character of the opposite faction
- You cannot transfer to a restricted realm, even if you already have a character on that realm. Realms can be restricted at any time without warning. Please check our official forums for updates on restricted realms in The Americas and Europe
- You cannot transfer a character to a realm in another region, but you can move between US East and US west
- You cannot transfer a character to a realm where you have the maximum number of characters allowed
Consequences of a transfer
- Your raid lockouts transfer with your character
- Your PvP rank will transfer with your character but any kills you earned on your source realm between the weekly reset and the time your transfer comes into effect, and any honor from those kills, will NOT transfer with you. If you want to keep all your PvP data from the previous week, we recommend you transfer 24 hours after the weekly reset
- If your character's name is taken on the destination realm, you will be asked to rename your character at no extra cost
- You cannot restore items that you destroyed, vendored, or disenchanted before the transfer
