23/10 Finalising Russian Migration

Following our previous announcements about free character migration from Molten Core, Shadowmoon, Stonemaul and Warsong we wish to advise that we will be closing these realms on Wednesday October 29. When these realms close, all characters will be unavailable in every way except for free character migration, which will be continuing on till Tuesday November 11.

If you have not migrated your characters by this date, we will be automatically transferring them to one of their destination realms (see below) with the lowest population. The automatic character move will dissolve all existing guilds and will remove guild banks including everything contained inside. All auctions will be cleared and mailboxes will be wiped clean. Because of this we advise that you take action now to prevent any loss of gold or items.

Please note that the automatic move of characters on Wednesday November 12 will not take into account regular restrictions such as faction conflicts or character limitations, so we strongly recommend that you choose your new realm and use the free migration to move your characters as soon as possible. Remember you can also move your characters to the Russian language realms for free until Tuesday October 28, or to other realms through the Paid Character Transfer service.

The destination realms for free character migration remain as:

Molten Core --> Burning Steppes, Deathwing, Dentarg
Shadowmoon --> Boulderfist, Spinebreaker, Xavius
Stonemaul --> Ahn'Qiraj, Burning Blade, Jaedenar
Warsong --> Auchindoun, Bladefist, Haomarush
Note: Each source realm has a destination realm in the same Battlegroup, underlined above.

Questions
If you have any questions concerning the closing of these realms, or the related migrations, please feel free to post them below and we'll do our very best to answer them. To make sure questions and answers are easier to find, any unrelated posts will be deleted from the thread.


Original announcement: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=5640394530&sid=1
Migration announcement: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=5640177118&sid=1

Q u o t e:
I guess more people want to know. What will happen with these 4 realms, will they (or some of them) be back up as a new realm with the release of WotLK?

The hardware will be prepared for WotLK launch, so that we can bring it up as new realms should it be required. We might not open these first, however, so new realms may pop up in other Battlegroups than the ones the above realms leave an opening in.

Edit: other off-topic posts removed. Please keep this to the actual migration and realm closing. :)

Q u o t e:
Can anyone confirm what is happening to the Spinebreaker realm?

On the WOW login screen, there is a note which appears to say that Spinebreaker is closing on 11 November, however this forum seems to say that Spinebreaker is a destination realm for players moving from Shadowmoon.

As a player on Spinebreaker, do I need to be looking at migrating my characters, or can I stay on Spinebreaker?

Spinebreaker is not closing. Shadowmoon is closing, and players there have the option of moving to Spinebreaker.

Q u o t e:
How can i use migration for my 7-10 of my character at onece to the same server ?

You can't move them all at the exact same time, but as long as you move them within a few minutes you shouldn't run the risk of the migration being closed in between moving two characters. :)

Molten Core, Shadowmoon, Stonemaul and Warsong are now closed. The free migration remains open until Tuesday November 11.

The migration is now also closed. The few lingering characters should be transferred to the destination realm in the source realm's Battlegroup if possible, or another destination realm if not.

Closing and moving thread to the archive.