so now my client just says “unavailable” when i launch. anyone reverted back and had classic tft working?
Do you have a screenshot of that? That’s one I haven’t heard of yet.
when i launch just says “there was an error handling the request”
Ah. Do you have your original game keys linked to your Battlenet account?
didn’t before. had it for years as normal. reforged forced the merge of course. Now access is denied
The original game keys (RoC at the very least) have to be linked in your Bnet accout.
See here:
In that case, with out the game keys, you really can only rebuy Reforged.
Just about any legitimate copy of an older version that you find online is going to want the game keys.
got the keys. turns out the code has already been claimed (by me) but still getting the same error
Do they show in your “Games & Subscriptions”>“Classic Games” like in my screenshot above?
they don’t 
Then the keys are not linked to that particular account.
You mentioned they have already been claimed by you. What/where are you seeing that?
worth making another blizz account?
When i redeem a code, i get that there. also says reforged is still “active” in that games and subs menu
If it’s telling you that the keys are already redeemed, they won’t work on another Battlenet account. Is it possible you redeemed them on a different Bnet account? An older, forgotten one maybe?
Yeah, mine says that too even though I refunded in November.
There is a public test and 1.27b version.