With Classic coming out next year I’ve finally decided to give recovering my old account one last shot.
Here’s the deal. This is only my 2nd account. I originally had an account back during Vanilla, up until the end of Wrath (with a little dabbling in Cataclysm). I had acquired some nice things, including the silver/teal Judgement armor set from the pre-patch for Wrath, as well as the Blood Guard PvP rank on my first character, and the accompanying armor set from it as well.
These are all things I would like to have back, but there’s a problem. A very big problem.
An older friend of mine was the one who set me up with a World of Warcraft account back during Vanilla. I was upset because I’d lost everything in another game, and he made me the account as a surprise.
That’s a nice gesture, except when he created it he created it under my online username’s name.
I didn’t find out about this until many years later, when I tried to come back to WoW during Cataclysm. By then, RealID became a thing, and I found out my account was not in fact under my real name, but a fake online name.
I was so upset, I closed the account down and made a new one (the one I have here). I’ve used this account ever since, but I always thought about trying to see if I could recover my old account and perhaps merge it with this one.
But there’s another problem. Last year or so I tried getting it back. But I don’t remember the password, and after trying a few (failed) attempts it locked me out and asked me to check an email sent to the account’s address. But that’s the problem… I CLOSED both the old email accounts a long time ago, I had no way to check that email!
So, I’m stuck. I can either just deal with the fact I’ll never get my old Classic account back, or finally break down and ask customer support.
I have some small proof that IS my account. I can give the names/class/race of some of my old characters, I have only ONE photo taken during Burning Crusade still on my hard drive, but that’s it.
So what should I do? Should I open a ticket with customer support? Can anything even BE done, considering the name doesn’t match this account and the emails I once used for it have long since been closed?
Edit: I can also supply the names of both the email accounts attributed to my old WoW account. The original I used, and the one I changed it to during Cataclysm.
