Just an informative post about what happens when you merge accounts.

[Xaosync]

I remembered I had an old F2P account and wanted to merge it with my current one because I would get my Of the Alliance/Of the Horde title, seeing as I have 99,294 Honorable kills on my main account and around 3,000~ on my old one.

Took about a week for the transfer (due to issues on my end, forgetting secret Q&A). To get straight to the point, any achievement that hasn't been fully completed yet aren't taken into account after the merge, However every achievement that you've previously gotten as well as mounts are shared after the merge. So, when merging accounts, I wasn't able to get my titles. But oh well.

Used the search function before creating this and even attempting the merge altogether and found nothing which is why I'm sharing this now.

 

[sevenslacks7]

Bummer .

Also just want to add that its easier to merge a account than that.

Just go here, and as long as you know a characters name on the account you want to merge, that characters race/ class/ realm, and a bleak understanding of the email/ password, you can add it to your main account.

Used that process t add 7 of my older trial accounts to my main one.

 

[Xaosync]

The process is very simple, I was the one that complicated it.

>>Make a ticket of the 2 accounts you want to merge,
>>Provide the name attached to both accounts, if your name is Fred Fredrickson, it will show as Fred F. on your account summary page, but you must include your full first and last name
>>Provide the Secret Answer to both accounts
>>Provide the E-mail address you want the accounts to be merged too.

 

[elffies]

I actually tried to merge toons from one of my account to my main. However the gm said I am not allowed to merge toons to and from trial accounts. How did you guys do it?

 

[Dramatized]

I actually tried to merge toons from one of my account to my main. However the gm said I am not allowed to merge toons to and from trial accounts. How did you guys do it?

As long as you have the same lastname, it shouldn't be a problem. Knowing SA and SQ eases up a lot.

 

[Rollop]

I actually tried to merge toons from one of my account to my main. However the gm said I am not allowed to merge toons to and from trial accounts. How did you guys do it?

People are not moving characters between accounts. I doubt blizzard would be okay with you playing a lvl 90 on a trial account, lol. A few others already posted methods on doing this. Heres what i did.

Called blizzard, asked for both accounts to be under the same bnet license. Confirmed secret questions, as well as home address. Provided an excuse as to why i wanted them merge (for ease of use) And then it was done.

For anyone new to this, you HAVE to log into all your characters, from both accounts for the achievements to be recognized. So do it when you have a free lich king/cata/mop trial.

 

[Nakedplumber]

Remember than merging your account makes you a fake F2P

 

[Xaosync]

Remember than merging your account makes you a fake F2P

Not if you're merging f2p accounts with f2p accounts!

 

[Rollop]

Remember than merging your account makes you a fake F2P

Yeah, you have to turn in your F2P Jacket with the sweet F2P swag patch on the arm. Man, i miss that thing. But riding my Spectral Gryphon - Item - World of Warcraft makes up for it

 

[Crystalpall]

If You are lucky like me, you can get unmerged if you ask nicely

 

[elffies]

So I tried again yesterday, and this is the message I got:

We cant actually move toons from a starter edition account to a full version. If you'd like to get Shomb and Barsky off of your WoW1 starter, you will need to upgrade it to a full version of the game first.

Once you have done so, you should be able to trasfer those characters to any account with your name on it via the Character Transfer service. ^_^

And the message I got one week ago, when I attempted this:

Here is what you can do. You can transfer characters between these 2 accounts because they are both registered to you. However the account that is receiving the characters must be a equal or higher expansion than the original account.

For example if you want to transfer a character from an account that is up to Cataclysm, the account it is moving to must have Cataclysm or higher. You cannot transfer to an account that is only up to Wrath of the Lich King. You also cannot transfer to or from trial accounts.

Is this a new rule that they placed?

 

[Rollop]

So I tried again yesterday, and this is the message I got:

We cant actually move toons from a starter edition account to a full version. If you'd like to get Shomb and Barsky off of your WoW1 starter, you will need to upgrade it to a full version of the game first.

Once you have done so, you should be able to trasfer those characters to any account with your name on it via the Character Transfer service. ^_^

And the message I got one week ago, when I attempted this:

Here is what you can do. You can transfer characters between these 2 accounts because they are both registered to you. However the account that is receiving the characters must be a equal or higher expansion than the original account.

For example if you want to transfer a character from an account that is up to Cataclysm, the account it is moving to must have Cataclysm or higher. You cannot transfer to an account that is only up to Wrath of the Lich King. You also cannot transfer to or from trial accounts.

Is this a new rule that they placed?

Well, firstly, expect almost all aspects of your trial account to be restricted. But i think that rule has been in place for awhile. They dont want you moving a lvl 85/90 over to a wrath only account, which makes sense. But why they wouldn't let you move a lvl 60-80 over to a cata/mop account, i don't quite understand. Other than its just a blanket rule, no exceptions. WoW has alot of those.

 

[Rollop]

If You are lucky like me, you can get unmerged if you ask nicely

I'm curious, does it really remove all of your achievements/mounts? I read somewhere in another thread in this section that someones account was basically stripped after removing one account off their b.net license.


Also, OP should put in his/her first post that the only real drawback to this, is being shunned/berated by a few "pure" f2p fanatics. Really though, if you're going to be sour over the 5$ needed to do this, that's your business. You could take yourself to McDonalds and buy your self a happy meal and an ice cream sunday for less than 5$. See

McDonald's » Happy Meals,​

i think they even come with a toy, so cheer up.​

​

 

[elffies]

Well, firstly, expect almost all aspects of your trial account to be restricted. But i think that rule has been in place for awhile. They dont want you moving a lvl 85/90 over to a wrath only account, which makes sense. But why they wouldn't let you move a lvl 60-80 over to a cata/mop account, i don't quite understand. Other than its just a blanket rule, no exceptions. WoW has alot of those.

Hmm. I'm not so sure. Cause the toons I'm moving are both trial twinks from a trial account. And the destinated account is my main account. My main account is a trial twink for wow1, but for wow2, i got a month of paid game (I don't know what expansion, it was before MoP came out) from my friend. Is this the reason that I can't merge the trial toons to my main account?
But still, can't they just add wow3 and make it f2p?

 

[Rollop]

Hmm. I'm not so sure. Cause the toons I'm moving are both trial twinks from a trial account. And the destinated account is my main account. My main account is a trial twink for wow1, but for wow2, i got a month of paid game (I don't know what expansion, it was before MoP came out) from my friend. Is this the reason that I can't merge the trial toons to my main account?
But still, can't they just add wow3 and make it f2p?

I'm not quite sure honestly. I've never transferred characters between accounts, but Merging accounts and moving characters are 2 different things. Here, maybe this will answer your question https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/character-transfer-restrictions-for-battle-net-accounts

I really don't think they will let you transfer a character off your trial account though. They want you to pay for that account. Although, you may find a nice gm to help you out. Good luck

 

[willix]

I actually tried to merge toons from one of my account to my main. However the gm said I am not allowed to merge toons to and from trial accounts. How did you guys do it?

You have to upgrade your trial account to a normal account before you can transfer characters to/from it. You also have to upgrade it to the current expansion of the account you want to transfer characters from.

What the OP is talking about is not character transfers, but merging account licenses between different Bnet accounts. Like if Wow 1 on my main Bnet accounts was full on MoP, and I wanted to merge my Wow 1 on my second Bnet account to my main Bnet account.

But doing individual character transfers is not possible on a trial account.

 

[elffies]

That clears the confusion, thanks.

 

[Snowjobs]

damn comented on wrong thread
......

i like tacos

 

[Goesid]

no such thing as pure rofl.

 

[Fujin0]

I lost all my pets after merging because it was older F2P-main (with pets) gets merged together with new P2P (no pets) to P2P-main+F2P-secondary.

Black Tabby Cat, 2 Dark Whelplings, armies of Westfall Chicken, armies of Singing Sunflowers, armies of Deviate Hatchlings, excluding Razzashi hatchling all the raptor hatchlings, 4 different darkmoon faire pets.

And I also lost my 100k HKs achievement+title and every other title that was still in progress and not earned by 1 specific charecter (I still have Ambassador and Noble for example, because my human rogue has both finished on its own obviously, but the shared 100k I had are gone).


Yes, I asked a GM, he was really friendly and told me he just can't do it, because those are lost in the process, I keep character-earned achievements, but the account-wide ones are gone. Keep that in mind when you merge your accounts.