Anyone else tried or successfully completed merging two wow accounts onto one battlenet ID? One account is strictly classic wow, and the other has all of my retail, diablo, overwatch, along with classic wow, etc. I am trying to merge my classic only battlenet ID over to my main account with all of my other games. Has anyone else done this before? Was there complications, or things you didnt realize would happen?
I have heard alot of people only do the “merging” to obtain cosmetics/mounts/achievements from one account to the other, and i realize that is not how it works.
I am only wanting to do this, so I dont have to log into two accounts to access my two wow accounts, alongside being able to use account wide features such as heirlooms on both accounts.
Any insight into what I am looking into would be greatly appriciated, I just dont want anything to interfere with my main retail account, my achievements and stuff from vanilla onwards is what I would not like to lose.
As far as merging to get shared things - that’s true for the destination account - the the one being moved leaves ALL shared things behind. Pets, mounts, heirlooms, achievements, etc. do NOT move with a license when moving it to another Battlenet.
Keep in mind with this that nothing is shared between your retail and classic wow accounts when they are on the same battle.net. You won’t gain access to any heirlooms on classic by moving it to the other ID. The only benefit for you would be one log in.
There isnt really a merge as such, just a move of a core wow licence (and its attached wow classic account)
Youd have to double check with support, but depending on which of your classic accounts you have all the mounts and heirlooms learned on, you might not end up being able to share any. If its on the account just on its own that you want to move to your retail/overwatch etc bnet, the account bound stuff like heirlooms etc stays with that account. You’l need to double check how classic heirlooms etc work now (I’m not 100% sure if they switched it to a modern version where its in a shared tab or if its physical items like the old days you just mail to your various toons - been a little while since I looked at classic) because its possible they will remain on the separate bnet.
And if you move your retail wow account over to the other account youl lose all your retail stuff
Are you just assuming this, or have you actually done the merge? I have read that you are in fact, able to use heirlooms as they are on the same account.
This is straight from Blizzards patch notes though
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
Zidormi will now reliably allow players to enter or leave the Battle for The Undercity. If you have haven’t started the Battle for The Undercity questlines, you must complete the following quests to enter:
Horde – “Darkness Stirs”
Alliance – “Return to Angrathar”
Fixed an issue preventing Heirlooms, Tome of Cold Weather Flying, Northrend Faction Helm Enchant Arcanums, and Sons of Hodir Shoulder Inscriptions from being transferable to other WoW accounts.
Brassbolt Mechawrench and Reginald Arcfire have returned to Dalaran to offer their Auction House services for Grand Master Engineers.
The Master Summoner’s Staff quest item for “Destroying the Altars” has been increased to 100%.
Fixed an issue with “The Slumbering King” where Queen Angerboda could fail to respawn after being defeated under specific circumstances.
Fixed an issue where players could disconnect when jumping in the pool after battling The Prophet Tharon’ja in Drak’Tharon Keep.
I believe this means that if you tried to transfer a character with heirlooms in the inventory to a different WoW license, it would not let the transfer go through. Which was unintended.
That is a little bit different. There is no “heirloom collection” in Classic, which is what would remain with the source account for Dragonflight WoW.
The patch note is referring to Bind on Battle.net Account items, as they are individual items. You can move those around on WoW licenses on the same Battle.net account in accordance to the rules that govern those.
I missed in your OP where you said you had classic wow on both battle.net accounts. I thought you only had the classic license you’d be transferring, I misread it.
I was trying to warn you that your retail heirlooms wouldn’t work on your classic license when you transfer it over.