25/11 Realms and Migration

Previous thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11586620719&sid=1

New Player realms
Normal/PvE: Nordrassil
PvP: Karazhan
RP: Moonglade
RP PvP: Scarshield Legion


Free Character Migration (FCM)
The below FCM is available until December the 1st. All migrations are faction restricted to improve ratios on involved realms, thus your faction is currently the less populated one on the destination realm.

Alliance only:
From: Ravencrest
To: Karazhan, Shattered Halls

From: Silvermoon
To: Chamber of Aspects, Draenor

Horde only:
From: Draenor
To: Bronzebeard, Silvermoon


Please note: FCM is opened based on realm population tracking and analysis, not by request. If you're looking for a specific migration (from realm A to realm B), you are in most cases better off using Paid Character Transfer, or you could end up waiting for a very long time.


Paid Character Transfers (PCT)
All English realms follow the regular PCT rules, found here:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/paidcharactertransfer.html

Q u o t e:
Being the nice and helpful person i am im just here to tell the blues that theres a typo on the login screen, Silvermoon is spelt "Silvermoo" :P

It's quite funny due to the lack of Moo there! Maybe it's a scheme to attract more Tauren.

hehe, for some odd reason the last character wasn't displaying. Adding a space seemed to sort it out. :)

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Ok I'd like to ask a few quiestions and I'd be glad If I would get some explanation :).

Suddenly almost all the faction imbalance helping migrations stopped from the Full realms. I play on Al'Akir and I can tell the situation hardly got any better because just as many if not more people came here with paid character transfer as the amount that left. I'm trying to guess why were these realm migrations shot down.

A) They simply didn't help at all?
B) There is some problem with the transfer system so free migrations are low prio this week and they are back up next week?
C) They simply didn't help at all and Blizzard is preparing to introduce a new way (free faction change,population cap on realms, faction restriced PCT etc.) of trying to balance these realms before the situation gets as helpless as Magtheridon or Silvermoon.

Just asking because if Blizzard simply stopped them and they leave situation like this, I'm off to greener plains before Al'Akir becomes horde only server, I'm one of those who do enjoy a balance at outdoor PvP enviroment.

We have some changes in the works which have affected which FCMs we set up this week, especially in regards to our PvP realms. More information will be incoming relatively soon.

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Thanks for the fast reply, and regarding the changes I'm all ears tbh, hope its some changes that actually do affect us players or the way you are trying to balance these realms and not just simply technical background resulting in no actual change.

Though I'd love to provide more information, I don't want to preempt the announcements we are working on.

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Last reply i promise! Just wondering Wryxian when can we expect the announcement? Soonâ„¢, today, tommorow, next week etc etc or can't you reveal when? Thanks again!

All being well, within the next couple of weeks. Plans can change though, so no promises sorry.

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Heh, a year ago Nordrassil was so full that there was a FCM away from it. Has the population really declined that much since? :o

Not really, no. It has a pretty active and healthy population.

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Then why does it have to be recommended?

Because of all our healthily populated PvE realms, it is currently the one with the most space for new players. ;-)

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FCM doesnt seem to be working?

Can you please provide some details for us. What FCM are you trying to do? What is the error message you are encountering?

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for me it's
Draenor -> Bronzebeard
tried all my horde characters on draenor but it didn't work, they have empty mail and AH and i haven't logged in them for atleast 1 hour before trying the FCM.

error that comes up after typing confirm and pressing submit:
Error Encountered!
Sorry, but there has been an error with your request.

I've tried all yesterday and tried it today too but it won't work D:

Thanks for the details. We have reported this internally and will endeavour to update you when we have more information.