My Name Changed during Transfer

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I was going to point to a different section of that article:

Under “Consequences of a transfer”

  • If your character’s name is taken on the destination realm, you will be asked to rename your character at no extra cost. This is applicable when you transfer a character to another WoW account while remaining in the same realm

When a character is deleted, the name is reserved for the account that the character was deleted on. A character transfer basically deletes the original version of your character and creates a copy of that character on the new realm.

So in your situation:

WOW1 (Source)

  • Realm A
    – Character deleted by transfer
    — Name is reserved on WOW1, Realm A

WOW2 (Destination)

  • Realm A
    – Character copy arrives
    – Character copy needs a new name, the name is reserved by WOW1.

I hope that makes sense. Game Masters cannot remove the reservation. Something that might be able to offer is a free name change in 30 days when the reservation on “WOW1” expires. You’d want to submit a ticket at that time to make the request.

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