28/04 Realms & Free Character Moves

Previous thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13200542349&sid=1

New Player Realms
Normal/PvE: Mazrigos
PvP: Laughing Skull

Free Character Moves (FCM)
The free Character Moves below are available until the end of May 4th. To use a free Character Move, please login to your Account Management and select Character Move, or click on the following link:
https://www.wow-europe.com/character/character-move.html

Please note: FCMs are opened based on realm population tracking and analysis and not by request. If you're looking for a specific Character Move (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.

For more information on FCMs, please check our Support FAQ:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=30558

PvE Realms

Horde only:
From: Draenor, Chamber of Aspects
To: Vek'nilash

PvP Realms

From: Burning Blade, Crushridge, Darksorrow, Frostmane, Outland, Sylvanas
To: Ahn'Qiraj, Boulderfist, Dentarg, Emeriss, Genjuros, Laughing Skull

Alliance only:
From: Frostmane, Ravencrest, Sylvanas
To: Agamaggan, Al'Akir, Balnazzar, Drak'thul, Daggerspine, Dragonmaw, Karazhan, Lightning's Blade, Shattered Halls, Twisting Nether

From: Ravencrest
To: Burning Steppes

Horde only:
From: Stormscale, Kazzak
To: Auchindoun, Neptulon

PvP to PvE Realm Conversion FCM
The free Character Moves below are available until the end of May 18th:

From: Mazrigos
To: Ahn'Qiraj, Deathwing, Vashj
For more information on this Realm Conversion, please check this link:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13179988162

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

Reserved.

Q u o t e:
Hoping for Balnazzar to be next :(

Apologies, but Balnazzar is actually a destination realm for Alliance this week. The original post has been corrected to reflect this.

Q u o t e:
PvE Realms

Horde only:
From: Draenor, Chamber of Aspects
To: Vek'nilash


Yeah so basicly from CoA horde is alot better then ally.. will we ever see any hope of being able 2 leave for free Wryxian?

Alliance is poor on chamber of aspects and tbh free transfer to here has not improved it much...

Would love some response <3

We do not typically set up faction-specific FCM away from a realm for a faction that is not dominant. It is very possible that we will have further Alliance only FCMs to Chamber of Aspects in the future, however.

Q u o t e:
No more Stormrage? Too bad.

You had weeks to move if you wanted to! :-( Anyhow, don't fret, it's quite possible we will have FCMs from Stormrage again in the future -- especially now that Mazrigos has now become a PVE realm. But no promises, since it all depends on what the future brings and my time machine isn't working fully at the moment. ;-)

Q u o t e:
i hope that i soon can transfer my alliance from kazzak to karazhan....

The post is only reserved in case we need to post any urgent information about the FCMs for instance. We won't be adding any further FCMs until next Wednesday. Kazzak to Karazhan will not be one of them -- both realms are Horde dominated.

Q u o t e:
I wish there would be a Horde move from Ravencrest to.. somewhere else :)

Then wish into the wind, because we have no plans for this, I'm afraid.

Q u o t e:
I hope dommerhammer is next because some of my friends are there and hope to transfer there with out paying.

Well then, you've come to the wrong place. FCM is set up based on population tracking and analysis -- mostly faction imbalance and population related. So, like the original post says, if you're looking for a FCM that is not here then you're likely to be waiting for a very long time, if not forever.

Q u o t e:
Hey, I was wondering if there were any possibilities that in next wedenstay FCM would be from
Darksorrow to Balnazzar, Darksorrow is a highly populated realm and Balnazzar's population is low. I think there are more ppl in the horde site too in Darksorrow.

It's not impossible but I wouldn't place bets on it and we're certainly not going to be promising it. OK, I just looked at your character. If we were to do such an FCM, it would be Alliance only. So I'm afraid you'll need to look elsewhere.

Q u o t e:
Wrxyian, did your F5 button already burnt out of your keyboard? :P

Haha. It's quite durable actually.

Q u o t e:
i don't understand why i can't transfer then.... :(

Please ask your question clearly and with more words -- those you have used already are not enough to explain what you're actually asking. ;-)

Q u o t e:
is silvermoon lined up to go to the new player pvp realm anytime soon?

Silvermoon is a PVE realm and we have no current plans to set up FCM from a PVE realm to a PVP realm. It has happened before and may again in the future, just we have no current plans for it to happen again.

Q u o t e:
Thanks Blizzard for putting more efforts into characther transfers to balance realms.
Many of those realms have needed it for quite a while. However, i don't understand how
Darksorrow could appear on the PvP list. From my views through the major alliance cities
it seems to be just as crowded as a medium population realm.

None of our PVP realms are marked as full currently, as no doubt people are out enjoying the warmer sunnier weather here in Europe and taking a healthy break away from Azeroth. ;-) So sure, Darksorrow might not be crowded, but it has a bit of spare population that might prefer to move to one of the destination realms.

Q u o t e:
Out of curiousity, did you stop offering transfers from Argent Dawn because you realised it was futile or did you actually manage to get enough people off the realm? That transfer was open for an awfully long time and all.

People did actually move quite a few characters to the other RP realms, but it seems a lot of people prefer just staying on Argent Dawn. It's possible we'll revisit FCMs for RP realms in the future, but not this week.

Q u o t e:
Hope will have From Haomarush to Deathwing
Or from Deathwing to Stromreaver (:

I'm not at work right now so can't check the data, but my instinct tells me that neither of these FCMs is going to be likely for the future.

Q u o t e:
will there ever be BRAND NEW servers like the US got?

since some mod just locked it without a response ill ask here n there n everywhere till it isnt locked and i get a reply even if it aint a mod :D

If we open a new realm, we'll announce it here in the forums.

Q u o t e:
Read the Sticky for Cataclysm.

They are upgrading all their servers for Cataclysm.
There will never be more servers if the current ones are not filled.

It's true that our current priority is ensuring our existing realms have decent populations and faction balances.

Q u o t e:
From chamber of failspecs to Vek'Nilash, are you kidding me? Youre letting people move from the worst server ever, to an even worse one but with less people o_O, id rather go on a RP server, please let the horde from COA go somewhere decent atleast, im sick of this server, full of spam and all sorts of crap. :)

Vek'nilash is in a pretty good state actually and growing better all the time. We don't mind at all if you're not interested in going there, others have been and will continue to be.

Q u o t e:
well can only hope more people play n fill up n balance the servers.........

i miss every1 bein under 60 makin it feel like vanilla for a couple of weeks :)

Check out Mazrigos. It just converted from PVP to PVE and has a very healthy low level population at the moment. It's the closest thing we have to that new realm feeling right now. It's really quite alive and buzzing in the lower levels, and will continue to be for quite a few weeks.

Q u o t e:
I just moved from Runetotem to CoA and now CoA gets FCM already?


*pitchy Dekin voice*

" Doom DOOM DOOM doom doom DOOOOOOM "

It's Horde-only though.

Q u o t e:
hello!plz help my server vashj need more allies.i know we got fcm from mazrigos but this server was dead before.so the situation is same now!plz make something or make this server normal in hope that more ppl will come in the future.thanks in advance

We've had FCM to Vashj in the recent past, and I mean more than just the ones from Mazrigos. It's definitely possible we'll have FCM to the realm again in the future.

Q u o t e:
Aww, no Ragnaros this time either :(
I really wanted to move to Mazrigos.

Ragnaros is a PVP realm, Mazrigos is PVE. So no, there are no plans for FCMs from Ragnaros to Mazrigos. Sorry to disappoint.

Q u o t e:
i hope Silvermoon to Outland would be the next.

A PVE realm to a PVP realm? Not likely at all.

Q u o t e:
y you got but only horde came to this server so the situation getting worst and worst.the only think that you can do is to merge this server with other or better fcm for allies only.if you want your players enjoy to play this game.

We haven't given up on Vashj or indeed any realm. We are carefully working through the realms and helping to improve them as we can. Generally the more FCMs we have open at one time, the less effective each individual one is. So for now the best we can say is that we'll definitely be looking at Vashj and adding FCM to the realm as and when we are able to.

Q u o t e:
So, it can go from PvE to PvP server, but why not PvP to PvE?

The current PVE to PVE FCMs, for Mazrigos, are only open because Mazrigos was until recently a PVP realm itself. They are open to give the population of Mazrigos options to stay on a PVP realm if they want that more than staying on the realm they are familiar with already. There's a link in the original post to the main thread about the Mazrigos realm conversion, should you want to look for more information about this process.

Q u o t e:
what? horde to emeriss and we are underpopulated on ally side?:S

Actually, those FCMs are not Horde only. They aren't restricted, and the source realms are either Alliance dominated or pretty balanced in faction. Emeriss is low population in general, and could benefit from the chance of receiving more Alliance characters in particular.

Q u o t e:
Boubiskoz, please. The situation on Vashj could be far worse, don't exaggerate.

;-) I have a fairly hefty pinch of salt in hand while reading some of these posts. But thanks. ;-)

Q u o t e:
Why are you against this so much when its to be for free but not against it when its to be for money unless you intend people to pay for such a gameplay change.

We're not actually "against" PVP to PVE or vice versa FCMs. They have been done before, in fact. Just we don't currently plan any.

Q u o t e:
But the thing is that PvE and PvP realms differ so little from each other now that it hardly makes a significant difference. Also the key to fix realms is in this, because you pointed it out several times that PvE realms are alliance dominant and PvP realms are horde dominant.

We're not feeling lacking in "keys to fix" the issues in our realm populations, actually. For example, adding the realm conversion process to "the toolkit" has so far been a significant and effective help towards achieving our goals.

Q u o t e:
Thank you for putting alliance Balnazzar in the list.
WG (except wednesdays, then its only 4-6) is all from 13-20 tenacity and 2 of the "better" guilds already migrated leaving less than handfull guilds left on allianceside.
With 2-3 weeks on this list something may actually change.

-A very pleased Balna player-

Glad you appreciate it. We'll see how it goes, and extend it as necessary.

Q u o t e:
Wryxian I beg you please free migrate from crushridge to a English Speaking Realm, please... I can't speak italian and I just want play wow like I used to play it few month's ago. Please.....

Did you even check the original post?

Q u o t e:
any chance for chenge from kazzak to magtheridon ? :)

i went play with my freind :)

No current plans.

Q u o t e:
Seriously now ... HORDE only trasfer TO Dentarg.... what kind of analists u have there at blizzard ?

http://www.wowprogress.com/pve/eu/dentarg

That should be the the final blow for the alliance there, good job blizzard, well done.

Please read the original post carefully. There is no Horde-only FCM to Dentarg.

It's the same situation as my above reply about Emeriss. The current FCMs are not faction restricted, and the source realms are either Alliance dominated or pretty balanced in faction. Dentarg is low population in general, and could benefit from the chance of receiving more Alliance characters in particular.

Got a lot to do today so that's my lot for now -- will aim to answer a few more queries later on today or when I get home tonight.

Q u o t e:
I wish, there will be some FCMs to Drak'thul for alliance only.

At least to Reckoning / Abrechnung battlegroup. PVP battles on these realms are very bad.

You mean like the existing Alliance only FCMs to Drak'thul?

Q u o t e:
Alliance only:
From: Frostmane, Ravencrest, Sylvanas
To: Agamaggan, Al'Akir, Balnazzar, Drak'thul, Daggerspine, Dragonmaw, Karazhan, Lightning's Blade, Shattered Halls, Twisting Nether

Q u o t e:
I got weird question.Why the FCM is till 4th and today is 5th,and 2nd it's wednesday and no maintance?

Because FCM can close at midnight on the Tuesday.

A new FCM thread should be up later today.