#0 - Sept. 12, 2010, 2:18 p.m.
I had not played WoW since last January/February. Nor did I log in the Forums, Websites or anything else related to WoW since. Nor did I reply to any email about WoW. In fact, the only WoW email I remember came in yesterday. It was a fishing attempt forwarding to a false WoW page. So I did not follow it. Then a second identical email came in a couple hours after. I did not follow it neither.
But I got the desire to play WoW again, and hearing about WoW that much from false emails and from the upcomnig expansion, I decided to check the armory and look at my old toons, half expecting the "this character has not logged in recently". But I was pleased to be able to check my main, a lvl 78 druid with skinning and leatherworking. However, he was now a miner. Fear started to grow.
So I logged on the Blizzard account management and was surprised to see that a game time card had been used 9/10/10 to re-activate my account! And it was still active! And in the Armory, recent logs showed that I got some travel achievements done in September!
So here I am trying to log in the game. I get up to the character choice for Bloodscalp, and discover that only two of all my characters are still existing, and there is a new lvl1 orc character called "Kkmna" or something that I never created before. I try to log on one character, but get kicked out of the game. After two more tries, my account is locked.
So while I wait for Blizzard "Locked Account" email to come in, I scan my PC with Avast and find 0 threats.
I eventually get the email, reset my password and log in game with the lvl 78 toon, to find out he is falling down to his death somewhere, armor totally broken down to 0, inventory emptied of what he had before, but still with some high value mining stuff in it, no gold. I respawn in Delaran, jump to Orgrimmar (too much lag in Delaran) and check my guild bank and toon bank. No gold left. The guild bank on ly had low level crafting stuff in it and it is still there. And the guild is only me and my wife's toon, who (as the guild panel tells me), hasn't logged in game since early 2010 neither.
Now my second toon, a lvl 24, was in Org AH, with a bunch of auction items waiting to be sold, and a full mailbox of recently received money from auction.
Unfortunately, I lost a lot of characters, and gear that I had on each, plus the content of the bags of the characters I didn't lose, plus some gold, but the gold from the auctions will replace that. The time involved in my other characters is not easy to replace though.
After a few emails to Blizzard support, I hope they will reset my account to what it was when I left. It is too early for them to reply yet, as it is the weekend, but I put my hopes in you, Blizzard staff.
If any of you have bought auctions from this character (Glorfinden) or Humpf on Bloodscalp, it wasn't me. I hope my remaining toons did not annoy or insulted or spammed anyone. If so, please accept my apologies.