I realize it’s a long-shot, but I wanted to check if there was any possibility of locating my old characters from 2012/2013. I had a number of max level WOTLK characters and only played a little Cataclysm before ending my subscription. I did not wipe/delete my characters, just ceased my subscription. I’ve resubscribed and started playing under the same account again. Thank you in advance, I know it’s been a long time, but wanted to ask as I’ve not been able to locate them myself.
Try creating a lvl one toon on the realm that should refresh it.
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Did try that already.
your characters are now much lower level than you left them
Affirmative, as they’ve been squished (if they still exist). They were max at the time/for that Expac.
They do. Outside extremely rare situations (that even then aren’t necessarily intentional), Blizzard doesn’t delete characters.
If you can recall any names or class-race combinations, that might help an SFA track them down if they have time come morning.
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Absolutely. We were, I believe, on Dalaran but the og Dalaran got merged/moved.
Some of the characters on that server were:
Everthefool Dwarf Priest
Foolhardy Human Warrior
Catquick Night Elf Rogue
The Dalaran realm has not moved. I have a character on that server and she is just fine. Sort the realm list by name to see if you can locate it in the list.
Also, no Retail realms have been merged. Some have been connected to other servers, but each server still exists. More info and a list of all current connections can be found at the following support article: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/14296
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The armory is a notorious source at best, but there does appear to be a level 44 character of this description on Moon Guard, though that is higher than what a level 80 character would’ve been squished to.
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I’d located it, created a character and reloaded. But found nothing. I swear my old guildies said they got migrated, but apparently I’m wrong, thanks for the heads up. I’ll try again to see if any old characters refresh.
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You can wait till morning and a blue can shed some light later.
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You’re welcome. Best of luck.
While I have no idea whether your characters will still be listed here or not due to the amount of inactivity, it can’t hurt to try.
Visit this link ( https://us.battle.net/support/en/restoration/characters ) and see if you can find any characters and their realms in the list.
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Checked there earlier, but thanks for the suggestion. Still no luck there, or after creating another character on Dalaran.
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Level 20 now if they were all Wrath 80s. There are also other sites out there that track your toons over long periods of time even far after they have gone off of the WoW armoury. But the WoTLK toons the had were all set to level 20. I came back after a long time to one of my old accounts I had not logged into and they were de-leveled and the names were all set to have only the first few letters of their names with a bunch of random numbers and letters behind the first few letters so the names were taken from my old alt account toons. Might be a bunch of level 20 toons that have funny names now.
Level 30, for clarity. Level 20 would have previously been in the 45-47 range.
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Oh my. You are right. It is 30.
Edit but yea OP. Your toons that were once 80 will be 30 and if any had full set gear it is most likely now turned into legacy gear with set bouses disabled. A questing green from almost any zone at all will be better than what your old level 80 WoTLK end game raiding epics were from that long ago.
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Found’em.
You have another Bnet under an AOL email. These have all had their names released, so they’ll initially appear with numbers.
They are on an old named license.
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Odd, when I renewed, I initially logged in via the AOL account/username and simply updated to the currently used email by updating the account. That wouldn’t tie back to Bnet as well?
Thanks for the insight!
It is a totally seperate Bnet, Foolslock.
You can’t have the same email on two different Bnets at the same time. You may have thought you changed it, but it’s still under the AOL email.
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Many thanks, Orlyia. I’ve bridged the mental disconnect. Thank you.