Someone seemed to of found all my Alts and I’m trying to figure out how. Afterwards I made sure to go to Wow progress and make sure my Alts were separated, I’m not seeing a way for raider IO to show. I made sure to tick the only show achievements from current character over all Alts in my wow settings but I still don’t think that’s how it was found… any idea why anyone would care to stalk someone in wow? And how do you look up someone’s Alts?
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Names, achievement number, achievement dates, guild, server, checkpvp, etc.
There also used to be a plugin that showed alts of forum posters, although they might’ve broken that.
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If someone suspects a character is your alt they can just look at the pets, they will be identical and there is no way to hide them, ever. They can also add your alts on check-pvp.com which will link them if they are your alts, but they have to enter them or someone else needs to have searched for them before for that to work. Dataforazeroth.com is also usable for finding alts if you know how to use it. You can’t hide on there either.
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Your character pages all share the same kind of information like battle pet, mounts, etc. There’s no way to hide your alts.
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You could post from a classic character. Cant check your battle pets if you dont have any battle pets.
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People will cross compile pets and mounts between two characters?
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There are other websites to use. At least, so I’ve been told. And some people just have concerning obsessions. If it gets bad, make sure you report them.
I thought there was a battle net option to exclude your information from 3rd party websites? I just checked that about an hour ago and so far can’t look myself up.
It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t, and it depends on the site in question too. But just fyi, when I searched your hunter here on check-pvp when you made this post it did pop up along with two alts, one of them a warlock. The page refreshed and now returns a 404, but it looks like someone did tie at least two characters to this one using check-pvp before you turned that setting off.
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You’ve been super helpful. What’s the other character that showed?
I didn’t catch the name before it refreshed, sorry. I just know one was a warlock since I caught the purple.
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Well I’m glad that setting feature is working now then. I just tried looking it up and it’s not working it seems. I was known for a DK as well.
There’s a bunch of ways to do it, but it really requires a 1/1 comparison between the two characters to find correlations.
Like lets say you have the Drowned Hippogriff pet at level 19, and the Sunborne Valkyr pet at level 5. All your alts will have those same things in them. But to discover that it would take a lot of work unless there’s a way to completely automate the process. There’s other ways to check, like if I set you to ignore, your alts should also be on ignore… but that’s more a way to hypothetically check than to discover.
I don’t THINK there’s a way to do it from classic characters at all.
The real question is what would drive someone to spend the time and effort to sit down and try doing this.
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Yea, named Anon. The plot thickens.
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Well I also renamed my battle tag as everyone got one free one recently but I don’t think that would erase an ignore list. It would change the name probably but unless I was somehow the only person on that persons ignore, that wouldn’t be a way to tell would it?
That doesn’t really do it either if a player is smart about it.
Long story short: It was TBC and someone stole a lot from the guild, and name changed, but we had a ring she crafted for the MT, I think a resist piece for Hydros (?), but that part doesn’t matter so much.
What does matter is that it no longer was just a throwaway piece of resist gear for 1 fight, it was the ring of [that player’s name] Tracking. Every time she changed her name, and she did this 3x since our GM kept outing her in chat, the “crafted by” tag would update as well… so that was fun.
Hey it could also be something simple like looking at your guild character tags?
Like does it say, for example " Max Engi/Tailor - Lovabull’s alt" or something like that.
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A better question would be:
What are you doing that makes it bad that someone finds them?
I always just behave honestly, then it doesn’t matter if someone finds my alts. “Hey, but your alt is that NE Hunter Kybeorie, and that NE Priestess Kylathia (who started back in Vanilla, at 12:35 AM the first day!)”
“Oh, I guess you got me there?”
Kind of what I’m talking about; they might want to do that if you were trying to join a guild, for example, to see if some of your other characters set off a red flag or something.
Or someone might do it if you were exaggerating and said, "My other character this… "
Who can tell? I’d never bother doing it. I think the most likely reason would be a guild/group you wanted to join.
There would not be as much reason as back in Vanilla/whatever where everyone was only on one server, with them often getting a “reputation.”
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As someone on a RP realm and from experiencing this myself in the past, yes. People will definitely cross compile pets and mounts to see if they’re your alt. It’s even easier if they know you name your pets! As for the reason why… IDK some grudge or ungodly obsession with you
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Apparently so.
I’m curious, why does this bother you? To me, it just doesn’t matter.
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Do you “need” privacy? our society says yes. The old “if you arent doing x you dont have to worry” has shown itself to be a bad idea over and over.
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