Server Transfer in Classic

Yes or No?

Leveling takes forever. Should characters get marooned on servers they don’t want to be on?

As a service that people can buy at any time ? NO!

As a service Blizzard offers/forces upon dead servers to help them recover from collapse ? …meh, we shall see

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They said they would look into it.

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How was it done in 1.12?

Level on a PVE server then transfer to a PVP server: yes/no?
Level on a PVP server then transfer to a PVE server: yes/no?

No
Yes

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PVE–>PVP was not allowed for a long time even after vanilla.

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I kind of figured. Seems like cheating.

Logical. Still, leveling to 60 takes a long time. Would suck to have people locked to PvE servers forever. Makes sense though, so as long as people know it’s a permanent decision rolling PvE.

Don’t roll a pve server then lol

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Along these lines, did they have faction transfers at all? I am assuming no but I like the idea of allowing them if only to help those who wish to aid in keeping faction balance. I mean if people want to spend cash to keep factions from getting out of control, how is that not a win-win?

Yes, I remember reading a blue post stating that it would never happen.

I’ve learned that in Activizzard Language, “never” means, “our profits are doing well this quarter”.

I’m fine with server transfers, I believe they were available in 1.12 weren’t they?

No faction transfers. That’s probably a better question though.

One could certainly argue that rolling the more dominant faction is a competitive edge. People would roll whatever is stronger to level to 60 then faction transfer for better PvP Q times.

That was implemented mid-WotLK.

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I do believe they had paid character transfers by 1.12. So they should have them in Classic.

But it wasn’t exactly something you could do at any time. IIRC there was a time period you had to wait after transferring before you could so it again. I think it was a month or so.

According to https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Transfer it was a 6 month time period you had to wait before transferring again.

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No server transfers, that’s a BFA level of stupidity. Nothing killed community in WoW more than allowing server transfers. Completely ruined server identify and server communities.

Sick of seeing these idiotic posts that are rehashes of the absolute stupidity from 14 years ago that lead to current retail.

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There is no dominant faction in vanilla though. You can make your argument for whats better, but then I can make a counter argument for the exact opposite.

Faction transfers will not be allowed nor should they be. If you want to reroll you just do it the old fashion way.

K but it was available in vanilla though…

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Server xfers came out in vanilla.

DHKs were stupid and pointless too. But they were in 1.12. Realm transfers were in 1.12. Sorry bub.

Faction dominance on some servers will be palpable. Imagine a 3:1 ratio on a server where any horde tagging a quest mob will immediately get bullied by 3 alliance.