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 Battle.net account to another. To transfer a character to another Battle.net account, both accounts must be registered under the same account holder name. It is not possible to transfer a character to another person.

It is not possible to transfer a character between Modern WoW, WoW Classic, and Burning Crusade Classic.

Additional 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 cannot transfer a character if you have a pending Great Vault reward
• 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
  50-60	1,000,000g

• You cannot transfer a character that is a Guild Master. You can either give the leadership to another member of the guild, or buy a Guild Master Transfer service.
• You cannot transfer a Class Trial character
• You cannot transfer a character that has a pending character service

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
• If you have WoW accounts in two regions, you cannot transfer a characters between them

Consequences of a transfer

• Raid lockouts transfer with your character. You cannot continue mythic raids started prior to a transfer
• 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 Battle.net account

• You won't be able to change your character's name for 90 days
• Your user interface settings may reset
• Your in-game friends and ignore lists may reset
• Account-wide unlocks
  • Your account-wide achievements won't transfer. Only achievements that are character-specific may transfer
  • Your account-wide unlocks will not transfer over to the new account. For example, if you have unlocked Battle for Azeroth Essences, Torghast or Twisting Corridor progress or Shadowlands legendary power recipes on your main account, you will need to unlock them on your 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 Battle.net 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 Battle.net account
    • Pathfinder progress earned on other characters in the source Battle.net account will not transfer
  • If you have unlocked Threads of Fate on your main account, then world quests in the Shadowlands may not be available for any characters leveling through Threads of Fate transferred off of that account to one that has not made that progress. They may still be leveled using side quests and dungeons, or you may complete the Shadowlands leveling story on another character on the account to unlock Threads of Fate on the new account
  • Any item in the Collections tab will likely not transfer, and any item lost in this way will not be restored by Customer Service
• PvP progress
  • 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