Originally Posted by Selaya What will happen to guilds, their vaults and its contents?

We have discussed this to great extent, unfortunately guild transfers would be next to impossible and it would cause major issues across the board due to characters that are moved onto the new realm might have different names, different unique IDs and everything elated to it.

Just like you assign permissions and trust to the members in the guild who take care of the guild vault, you should do the same for the merge and have the items sorted/saved somewhere so they can be re-inserted into the guild vault. Staff can help out and make sure that prominent guilds don't lose their names.

The thing is with character names, we went into great depth when it comes to this discussion and unfortunately there's no path that we can take without someone feeling like they're neglected. So we made it able for people to at least reserve their main characters, 2 weeks prior to the actual merge and also the date/exact time when this will commence will be announced so players can take their time to reserve the names.

Originally Posted by relytgg Is the merge bringing the character data with it? So people will not have to roll new characters?

Of course, that's why it's a merge.





Originally Posted by Dongwise Is it true that you will be wiping all achievements from all players for now a 2nd complete time, rendering all people have worked for in the past year+ worthless?

No.





Originally Posted by TheSerbian 1. What will be the max player cap on Icecrown realm?

11 000 and with even more performance improvement, higher.

Originally Posted by TheSerbian 2. Are you going to transfer over Arena teams? If not, are there any possible plans to "refund" arena rating or such? I suppose fresh start would be better in PVP aspect since we will have Ragnaros and Deathwing teams together now, we might have a new TOP 10 teams, who knows.

No, but the arena season will last for 3 months after the merge (4 months for other realms) so there's ample time to compete.

Originally Posted by TheSerbian 3. Will there be any sort of limit on how many characters we can transfer over?

No.

Originally Posted by TheSerbian 4. Is there going to be any sort of requirement for transfering over a character? For example character must be X level to be transfered to Icecrown etc.

No.

Originally Posted by TheSerbian 5. Since there might be balance issues with Horde & Alliance, are we going to have any option to transfer over to Horde or Alliance for free or such?

Both realms that are merging have nearly equal faction ratio so there should not be any issues, if we notice any scale issues we will enable the feature just like did in the past.





Originally Posted by gustavossouza Very nice =)...

Originally Posted by gustavossouza Now How About Cataclysm? U guys said that will release 1st part of old Content on Cata Realm, u rlly mean it or not? You guys will do any of those stuffs on Cata?

We'll be actually performing first tests later today on the old content porting. There's no estimate on when the update will come. Once it's tested, we will have a better idea on when it'll happen.





Originally Posted by Proterean Realm first achievements will not be removed from the players that earned it. Nor will any other achievements, or any progress.

Originally Posted by Findetousles Hm...Icecrown. Ner'Zhul seemed like much more badass name, and really associative.

Anyhow, one question about the names: Can we reserve any name that is occupied by a lvl 80 character on Deathwing (eg), or only the names stored on the respective account? In other words I can reserve names stored on this account, and not some other person's name?

Originally Posted by Proterean Originally Posted by Heavenlolx Can u answer pls about banned chars? If my char is banned how i would be able to transfer it?



This is a merge, all characters that are on Ragnaros and Deathwing will be put on the new realm. The system put in place is for reserving names, please revise the Q&A in the second post.

Only names that you own, correct.Character name reservations for Deathwing and Ragnaros merge will be available Monday, May 9 at 19:00.