Tried trading for a trinket at end of AA.
Showed as in the trade window for me but not for the person trading the trinket.
I then reloaded twice and it wouldn’t let me open a new trade window with them.
Tried hearthing but it acted like my hearthstone was put into an invisible trade window (icon greyed out in bag complete with the usual “moving item” sound effect).
Then attempted to log out and back in and got the ye olde “a character with that name already exists” error, but I do not believe that the trade issue was being caused by server lag.
Side note: in the unlikely event that the tank from aforementioned +0 AA run that tried trading the games bag to my dk is reading this, thanks for trying to trade. Hope u realize I didn’t just troll by dcing and purposefully not coming back in.
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I’ve experienced the same thing on multiple occasions throughout the day
This happened to two players in my NO run just now. They traded a neckpiece, but neither had it in their bags and both players were stuck unable to hearth or be summoned out of the dungeon. It took awhile to log out and back in again and still no necklace on either end.
Edit: once both players logged back in, the necklace reappeared in the bags of the player that looted it initially.
This happens to any items being traded across realms. Huge bug.
Adding to this: A SPriest buddy and I (HPriest) were running heroic Azure Vault and I got a trinket off 2nd boss. Tried to trade it to him and we both hit accept, though on my end it looked like he wasn’t hitting accept, and vice verse on his side. We both ran to catch up with the group only to see that neither of us could cast or use anything. We both tried to log out and… nothing happened. Had to Alt-F4. Tried to log back in and we’re both plagued by “A Character of that Name Already Exists”
Here to report same issue. Happened at end of a m+ when someone tried to trade me an item after completion.
Same issue. Could move around like normal, but couldn’t use any abilities. Alt+F4’d the game, couldn’t log back in for 15 minutes. Same thing happened to the recipient of the trade.
Tried trading with a friend in HFC LFR and both the initiator and recipient of the trade got their UI locked up and couldn’t logout or open another trade window. Reload UI does not unlock. Character “is busy right now”
Furthermore: the affected characters are not seen to be moving again after being stuck like this (even though the character thinks they are moving). The affected characters are not eligible to loot additional mobs/bosses that are killed (no sparkles, corpses aren’t clickable). Clicking “teleport out of dungeon” does not work.
Addendum 2: If both parties leave the trade window in the “stuck” state instead of closing the window, it will eventually (after about 10 minutes) complete the trade. The recipient will be able to equip the item (to soulbind it) but cannot vend it because “Internal bag error.”