Name changed during transfer? Help!

[Melaesia-proudmoore (Melaesia)]

@Khenja-dawnbringer

Glad a blue chimed in.

A Blue also “chimed in” on the very post that got you concerned:

@Kalviery

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.

That specific circumstance was a transfer between accounts. The name is reserved on the first account, so when arriving on the second account, a rename is required.