So apparently I missed being able to send a couple of my characters on my WOW1 account to the original BNet account I had created them on.
About 4-5 years ago I transferred 3 characters that I play only with my wife from one BNet account to another one in order to save a bit of money.
I play more often than she does but a few expansions ago it didn’t seem to make a difference between a lot of the achievements and opening of certain quests lines were restricted to the character you played, not that character and all the alts on the same account.
Dragonflight made that more complicated because I was opening content my wife hadn’t gotten to yet and when we played together we were now suddenly out of sync with each other.
It seems The War Within is going to take that concept and amp it up on steroids which, while great for alt leveling, sucks if you have one or two toons that you want to hold back and not unlock content at the same pace.
I was hoping that maybe creating a second account (WOW2) on the same BNet account would help solve this issue but I am not clear whether it does or doesn’t. All my pets and mounts are there on WOW2. It looks as if most of my achievements are there as well but that doesn’t tell me whether any characters on WOW2 will get credit for content that I’ve opened on WOW1.
I noticed this straight off when we went in on Wednesday and suddenly content that I hadn’t opened yet on my character that I use with her when we play was suddenly telling me that I had already completed certain quests. Not good.
Since I can’t transfer them back to the old BNet account (thanks for nerfing that btw AFTER the patch went live and before anyone that plays causally was actually paying attention) I’m now sort of stuck trying to figure out if a WOW2 subscription will actually solve this problem. I don’t want my WOW2 characters to get credit for achievements I earn on WOW1. I want to keep them in sync with my wife’s account but since I can’t transfer them to my old BNet account and I can’t transfer them to her account under a WOW2 account on her BNet profile.
Is there any way to fix or solve this short of just stop playing WOW?
You could always use Party Sync with your wife and make sure she is party lead. It isn’t 100% perfect but it will mostly sync you with what her state of the game is.
Just because it sounds like this also may be an issue with this, keep in mind account sharing is a big no no, you and your wife should not be playing on any of the same connected accounts. So your own personal quest progress should be having -zero- effect on her individual bnet which should be under her own account.
It’s pretty clearly indicated that they both have their Battle.net accounts.
The stated issue is that progress made on one of his characters is impacting another of his characters that he uses to play with his wife (who is playing her own characters, on her own WoW license, on her own Battle.net account).
either way, it seems like the issues they’re having are phasing issues… and they could probably just use party sync.
your warband.
it’s telling you your warband has completed those quests.
you can still complete the quests on characters which haven’t already done those quests… otherwise the quests wouldn’t be offered.
It just read as if he’d transferred a few toons to her bnet to save cash or because she only played now and then she was using one of his bnet accounts. And that him moving forward with questlines was kinda unlocking and jumping her ahead or unsyncing them. But possibly could be interchanging ‘bnet’ with licence back and forth so its not specifically clear who owns what bnet and what licences they are attempting to transfer between
we had separate accounts before we got together and have maintained them so that part isn’t the issue. Certainly noted thou.
I had 2 separate bnet accounts under two different email addresses that belong to me as, at the time, this was my understanding was the only way you could have two instances of wow running at the same time (long time ago in an Azeroth far far away)
So I had some profession related characters on the 2nd BNet account. When my wife and I started playing, I only used that second bnet account in order to play with her so that we could unlock achievements, pets, mounts, etc at the same time.
Then comes pandemic - money got tight - I transferred characters between bnet accounts and am now regretting that I did that.
I’m trying to figure out why this says solved thou as I still have the problem that if I start leveling any of my characters its going to give me BNet account-wide credit for the achievement and not restrict it to only the characters I have on WOW1.
I can’t see how the WOW2 account actually solves anything other than for multiboxing purposes. It’s basically just the same as having all your characters on the same WOW1 account except you now are paying for a second license in order to have two instances open at the same time under the same BNet account.
the new warband system will give you credit on all toons but you can still go through the motions of completing the quests - it wont lock you out of doing them its just a system note letting you know its been completed, similar to how when you used to look at the achievement plane it it would say, achievement unlocked by xyz toon on 123 date. But you could still do the achieve on the alt. With warbands now anything under the one bnet, even if you have 10 liceneces as long as it is all in the same region everything is shared now including reputations, achievements, mounts, pets, gold, bank details etc. It shouldnt stop you from completing every aspect of the quests and phasing on multiple toons tho.
But if you are wanting essentially a blank slate youd need to fire up a second bnet not just a second licence. (You can log into multiple toons on multiple licences under one bnet - I used to run 8 at a time XD )