11/01 Free migration now open (until Monday)

Update 17:00 Monday January 15thh
The free migration is now closed. In case of further free migrations it will be announced here on the forums.

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Update 21:00 Saturday January 13th
Due to the number of migrations so far the free migration from Drak'thul will close at noon CET Sunday January 14th.

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Update 13:00 Saturday January 13th
To also ensure a good population level on Bronze Dragonflight we have added the following migrations:

Aggramar to Bronze Dragonflight
Draenor to Bronze Dragonflight

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Update 12:30 Friday January 12th
We've added the following migrations to ensure Anachronos receives a healthy population by Monday:

Arathor to Anachronos
Hellscream to Anachronos

We're also working on activating additional migrations to Bronze Dragonflight.

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Update 10:45 Friday January 12th
The migration window has been extended to Monday January 15th at noon (12:00).

Please note that migration between any realms may still be closed or redirected should the population level on the involved realms reach certain limitations.

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The free migration is now opened.

To migrate, go to the free migration page: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/support/charactermoverealms.html
The link through the account management page is currently incorrect.

The transfers will run until at least noon Friday, January 12th.

We are doing this to allow players on highly populated realms to transfer to lower populated realms as well as to try and prevent queues on some of our highly populated realms when we open the Dark Portal next week.

It must be noted that certain source and destination realms can change at any time during this period. This means that we may add or remove eligible source realms as well as change destination realms if/when the need should arise.

We will not be offering guild migration assistance with these transfers.

Character Move FAQ: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html
(Please disregard the time restrictions under "When can I move my characters?" and as shown below you can in some cases select between two destination realms.)


The English realm transfers (note that some realms have a choice of destination realm):

Burning Legion to Boulderfist
Burning Legion to Haomarush

Crushridge to Burning Blade
Crushridge to Jaedenar

Drak'thul to Twisting Nether
Drak'thul to Xavius

Frostmane to Dentarg
Frostmane to Mazrigos

Grim Batol to Agamaggan
Grim Batol to Dragonmaw

Warsong to Daggerspine
Warsong to Vek'nilash

Kilrogg to Anachronos (brand new realm)
Runetotem to Anachronos (brand new realm)
Realm forum for Anachronos: http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?forumId=118791&sid=1
Battlegroup: Nightfall

Silvermoon to Bronze Dragonflight (brand new realm)
Stormrage to Bronze Dragonflight (brand new realm)
Realm forum for Bronze Dragonflight: http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.html?forumId=118792&sid=1
Battlegroup: Nightfall

Note: due to being new realms opened for migration, character creation will be disabled on Anachronos and Bronze Dragonflight until further notice.
Note 2: as Anachronos and Bronze Dragonflight are opened for migration purposes we will allow Paid Character Transfers to the realms without waiting for them to be 6 months old.

Q u o t e:
Is it possible to open Hakkar up to a free migration as it is now an un official Italian realm, and there are very few of us English speaking people left?

Free migration from other realms will be evaluated with time based on the population. Hakkar is not among the most populated realms at this time.

Q u o t e:
Excuse me and are you thinking, that 80+ people can decide to transfer for less than 1 day?

The migration was not opened specifically for those 80 people, but to give those who wish a chance to migrate. If you choose not to migrate because you can't get all 80 over in this time, that's entirely understandable.

Q u o t e:
Trying to move from Warsong to Vek'nilash results in:

source and target must both be pve or pvp, not a mix

We'll look into that.

Q u o t e:
What battlegroup is Bronze Dragonflight in?

Both new realms are in the Nightfall group.

Q u o t e:
Thundgot, will blizzard use some kind of restrictions to prevent massive A:H imbalance on the destination servers?

There are no faction restrictions on the migration.

Q u o t e:
Will realms like Bloodfeather be up for transfer?

Other realms will be considered for free migration over time, but we won't discuss or speculate in which realms.

Q u o t e:
Is there any plan to give the Italians there own servers like you did the Spanish or maybe offer people the chance to escape to an actual English realm?

If we decide to localise the game to additional languages and/or open realms in other languages we will surely let everyone know. Free migration, however, is based on population level, not the composition of the realm community.

Q u o t e:
how are you supposed to rename a character if you disable character creation.?

Migration is offered to balance the population across the realms, not to offer renaming of characters.

Q u o t e:
Since my PCT is on cooldown, does this mean I wont be able to transfer?

The PCT cooldown should not prevent the use of free migration.

Q u o t e:
Will Grim Batol be able to transfer to other servers in the upcoming weeks, or is it just Dragonmaw/Agamaggan?

It's unlikely that any of the current source realms will be able to migrate to other destination realms.

Q u o t e:
Will ANY of the Current high populated servers be able to transfer again in the next Free Migrating wave?

That is impossible to say now, as it depends on continual evaluation of the realm population. It's unlikely that the realms currently being offered migration will be first in line should there be another round soon.

Q u o t e:
The migration from Warsong to Vek'Nilash cant be done during all day..
The message
"source and target must both be pve or pvp, not a mix "
appears..
Dont u find any stranght in it?

This should now be corrected. If anybody still get this error, please let us know.

Q u o t e:
Thundgot, when will Vek'nilash show up in the list of destination realms for PCT again? I would really like to transfer there now, and I am not on any of the "free migration" source realms.

That's an error not related to the free migration (at least it shouldn't be, considering e.g. Daggerspine is still showing), and has been reported.

Q u o t e:
Give everyone on Burning Blade a free migration because our server is always down and on every patch it goes down for ages, it's like you've /ignored us.

Free migration is done to spread the realm population across the realms, not to address technical issues. Such issues will be dealt with by our technical team, not through moving entire realms' population around.

Q u o t e:
Could u pls tell some sort of information about azjol'nerubs free migration

There is no free migration from Azjol-Nerub at this time. If such become available we will announce it.

Q u o t e:
Im unable to migrate my character because I keep getting the error:
"Please clear any mail and auctions on your character and re-try. " I've cleared all my mail and auctions left it for 20 minutes and still no luck. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Please contact a Game Master to have them look at it. It might be a quest mail about to arrive, which can be triggered days in advance.

Q u o t e:
Two questions,

1. When will PCT open to/from the newly created realms?
2. Will Free Migration trigger the PCT cooldown on the transferred chars?

Thanks for any replies

1. It should be available already (but see below).
2. It definitely shouldn't.

Q u o t e:
Just noticed that Anachronos is on the PCT Destination list but Bronze Dragonflight isn't, intended?

Not intended. There have been some issues with assigning migration to Bronze Dragonflight. I'll follow up on that on Monday when I'm back at the office.