The free character transfers for WoW Classic are now available. To further ease the load on the servers, Blizzard has even opened another PvP realm for Germany: Heartstriker.
These servers are available: Blizzard announced in a new forum post that two of the German realms have been opened for free character transfer. However, the target realm differs from the originally announced realm for the transfer:
- From Venoxis to Heartstriker
- From Lucifron to Heartstriker
Heartstriker is a new German realm, specifically opened for transfers, which serves as a destination for transitioning players instead of the new realm Transcendence. Heartstriker is a PvP realm where character transfers can only be made in the coming hours. For the moment, it is still locked for creating new characters.
This is how the transfer works: If you want to switch yourself, your characters must meet a few requirements, as explained in the forum:
- You must not be a guild master.
- There must be no ongoing auctions in the auction house.
- There must be no mail in the mailbox.
If you want to swap a character, you can do that directly from the selection screen. However, a transfer can take several hours and cannot be undone.
It may also be that the character’s name must be changed upon reaching the realm. You will then receive a message with the corresponding function.
What is behind Heartstriker?
This is why there was a new realm: The new realm Heartstriker was presumably opened due to greater concerns in the community regarding the originally planned transfer.
Many players feared that Transcendence would also become overloaded due to the switch, as it is already quite full – where “full” really means full. The queue from Lucifron would have simply been postponed, not resolved.
Additionally, it was criticized that Venoxis was also already full, even having a partially larger queue than the largest PvE realm Everlook. Heartstriker was meant to prevent both problems.
New realms are generally opened only with caution. Apparently, the demand was greater than expected:
