Question: Will my legacy mount (old unarmored mounts from 2004/05) or gladiator mount transfer over if I move the character to another WoW account? Currently on two separate WoW accounts and two battle.net accounts.
I’m looking for someone who has had my specific experience.
I know mounts, pets, toys, achievements, heirlooms aren’t supposed to transfer over, and I was told when I get this account back it wouldn’t have any of these. Yet I logged on and it had over 150 mounts. Does this mean if I merge these two bnet accounts and transfer the character over to my main WoW account it will continue to have them? If not why did it work when I recovered the account?
This recovered account highest level was level 90 (MoP) so it must have been on someone’s battle.net account (merging WoW accounts to bnet was mandatory in 2009) and removed to the one I just created to put it on.
Movement: bnet1, bnet2, bnet3. bnet2 was a fresh bnet account, no other characters on it. bnet1 is my main account.
Recovered characters were moved from bnet3 to bnet2. I log into bnet2 character and they have over 150+ mounts including legacy and gladiator mount on one of them.
I want to move them from bnet2 to bnet1 now. Why did I keep mounts if they were moved from bnet3 to bnet2?
While I haven’t done this myself, I’ve seen enough people complaining about the results of mergers to conclude if you care about any of your stuff on your characters… just don’t do any mergers. It’s a path that literally courts disaster.
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How do you explain that I retained over 150 mounts then? Only a specific few were character only
You don’t want to combine Bnets. You’re going to lose stuff from one.
Basically what should happen is this:
Bnet1 has 1 WoW license with 10 characters.
Bnet2 has 1 WoW license with 3 characters.
If you move one character from Bnet2 to Bnet1, the stuff you had on Bnet2 won’t be available to that character or any others on Bnet1.
Of you move all characters from Bnet2 to Bnet1, you won’t have anything from Bnet2. In theory.
But there’s a huge thread somewhere on how this has been screwed up too. People losing things on their first account when they shouldn’t have, etc.
I need more information as to what exactly happened with that Bnet account and WoW license before I can determine what’s up.
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Please be very, very careful with this. There have been a few threads recently where the merge went very wrong and they lost things. I wish you luck.
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Movement: bnet1, bnet2, bnet3. bnet2 was a fresh bnet account, no other characters on it. bnet1 is my main account.
Recovered characters were moved from bnet3 to bnet2. I log into bnet2 character and they have over 150+ mounts including legacy and gladiator mount on one of them.
I want to move them from bnet2 to bnet1 now. Why did I keep mounts if they were moved from bnet3 to bnet2?
Why was Bnet3 merged into an empty Bnet2? And just to clarify, you don’t mean a WoW license was added to Bnet2 when they asked us to put our stuff into a Bnet account?
I’m just trying to get clarification. Because I know I have a second WoW license under my Bnet account now because they wanted us to have our WoW licenses in Bnet accounts and my second WoW license wasn’t originally under the Bnet account. So I made the Bnet account for my first WoW license and later I had to put the other WoW license under it, too.
I figure the more details I have, the better I may be able to answer.
I was asked if I wanted to move the recovered account to my main account (bnet1) or a fresh one. I elected to put it on a fresh bnet (bnet2) because either way it was being ripped from one bnet to another and if I wanted to later I could merge again which would be the same process. Keep in mind at this point I was convinced I would would have nothing but useless low level characters so I didn’t really care.
Things change over time. It could have been something they did before they automated things. They won’t move things manually anymore.
1st… There is no such thing as a merger. It is a transfer, period.
2nd Only specific pvp mounts will transfer with your character. Those are going to be mounts that your other characters can’t use.
3rd If it is any pet, mount, toy that all of your characters have access to they are tied to that bnet account, so if they don’t exist on the other bnet account they will be lost to whatever characters you move. If you move the whole wow license they’ll still be tied to that bnet account and lost to the characters on that license.
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Okay, so it was a WoW license they asked if you wanted on Bnet1 and you opted for Bnet2?
Then that is different. And that’s why you kept your stuff.
There is not actual merger for Bnet accounts. It’s simply moving your WoW license from one Bnet account to another and leaving one empty-- with all of the account bound stuff over there.
The WoW license was taken from bnet3 (stolen bnet, not mine) and put onto bnet2. Shouldn’t bnet3 have all these mounts? Why do I have them on bnet2?
Because it was a different circumstance and different time when it was done. The system changed.
Only blizz can answer that… All I can tell you is that what I was told when I combined bnet accounts. I basically made my own refer a friend account.
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Are you referring to when WoW licenses were merged to bnet? This was in 2009. There were level 90s on the account so it was at least MoP (2012) so they must have been on a bnet account.
But this is 2019. That was still seven years ago. Much has changed and while we can sit here and speculate the specifics for years, only Blizz has the detailed answer and their current FAQ doesn’t support what you’re hoping for.
Is there any more information I can provide or are we going with “wizards did it”
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OP - It’s just that some of us just recently read another account-merging-gone-wrong thread and do not wish for you to go through something similar.
Here’s the thread : Don't get screwed by account merger and consolidation
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To compare that scenario to mine it sounds likes he moved bnet1 (full roster) to bnet2 (newer license with not much on it). What I’m trying to do is move bnet2 to bnet1. Normally this would be cut and dry answer but the fact I retained mounts from moving licenses from bnet3 to bnet2 is what is causing some confusion and the main point of this thread.