Sometimes you get your chars back… sometimes you don’t… if you don’t then they are just gone gone… Here is what blizz told me about missing chars and items.
So as many of you know, you can suddenly and without any kind of warning lose either all your items, your characters, or random stuff.
I myself lost all of my equipped items and thus set me off on this adventure.
We can’t get a refund of the game because we’ve already played it. (Though I won’t be playing it for now.)
Here is the reply I finally got after a few back/forths with them.
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Greeting Champion,
Thank you for contacting us, Game Master ***** at your service desu!
We’re sorry to h…