Think it will be possible to transfer from Era to TBC when it release?
Most likely not.
The other way (Fresh to Era) might be possible, although I am beginning to doubt that as well.
Very unlikely I think.
My belief is that AR characters will simply be deleted once the āseasonā comes to a close, and youāll all have to start again on a new char once the next āseasonā begins - probably after their version of TBC, unless they decide to go a stage further and expand into Wrath.
This is the key reason why Iām not playing on ARs. Iām just not interested in playing a temp character on a timer.
Much more likely they will create a TBC or WotLK āeraā and leave the Anniversary characters there. I donāt think Blizzard ever directly ādeletedā any characters ever, unless you count progressing them to some expansion you donāt like.
Worst case scenario for me is they get merged into Classic (Pandaria now I believe?).
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No way will they simply delete them, even SoD characters are getting a destination.
I figure this is there way to fix the issue of not leaving a wrath era server which was a collosal mistake on there end.
If they ever did that Iād take out a long-term sub, and probably open a second account too, and WoW would become my āforever game.ā
But I personally canāt see it ever happening. Blizzard seem to take perverse delight in doing the precise opposite of what players want. Nobody wants their AR chars deleted, so itās highly likely that this is precisely what they will do.
Then why havenāt they said this?
I am not the only one not playing Anniversary simply bacause we do not know where it is going to end.
Era Wrath or even better TBC servers would be my dream.
But as long as we do not know if the servers are going to Cata once again, being deleted or what. No way Iām going to play there.
Quoted for truth!
I used to think like that, but then I realized I donāt actually care about what happens to the characters, I only deceive myself into thinking I do.
Retail Nicolay sits in retail, havent logged onto him since early Pandaria (and even that just once since mid cata on a whim). Classic Nicolay sits in second quest hub in Hyjal, never to be loged again. SoD Nicolay is 50 and I donāt even care where, revamped Sunken Temple bored me that much. Thereās a dead HC Nicolay lvl 26, sitting, still in ghost form, on some Era PvE server I donāt even care to remember the name of.
I thought āwhat will become of Anniversary Nicolay?ā And then I realized I donāt give a flying toss. I will have fun in BWL and AQ and Naxx and SSC and TK and Hyjal and BT andā¦
And then I will abandon him, and will be none the poorer nor sadder for it. Because I had fun.
My belief from the very start of Fresh is that you will be able to transfer to Era.
It is just plain businessā¦I wouldāve suggested the same for Blizzard.
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Start with Classic, not TBC - let people invest a year in their character = 1 year extra subscriptions.
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Offer a transfer for the character they spent so much time on before the release of TBC.
This is what I would have suggested, and I would have done so waaaay before you even knew about Fresh. Donāt think for a second that the transfers will be free lol.
I wish I could be like this. My Retaill main stands in front of Northshire Abbey, handing the torch on to my new Classic main. He on his part now stands in the same place, for my HC characters.
I canāt NOT feel attatched to them and want to play, because we share a story, and no I canāt any more. Itās like a good friend has died or worse.
Edit:
I play Hardcore all the time, happily killing off character after character 
But on the other hand I know I can go on playing that VERSION of WoW, and this might be the core of the matter to me. Cata is not fun, hence Iād rather play my HC toons in the Era server. I play on NekāRosh ā¦
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Itās still the same Nicolay of Brightwood, Senior Enchanter of Dalaran and a democratically appointed Tribune to the magically-challenged citizens. He just gets sent to a new timeline by Chronormu every time he fails to prevent the destruction of Azeroth by Deathwing. Theāve done it 5 times now, and are getting exceedingly efficient at it. One of these days he will surely manage to prevent the Cataclysm by warning everyone who will listen of its coming.
I occasionally think about my original characters, which Iāve not logged into since the original Cataclysm and probably never will, I donāt even have the retail client installed. - but itās now been so long that my connection to them is long-since severed. I canāt even remember the name of the Druid I madeā¦
But my original Classic character, thatās still quite painful, I had big plans for her, but Cataclysm destroyed all that, just as it destroyed all of my plans in the original game.
I left her in Darnassus, where presumably sheās still stood by the mailbox and will be for all eternity. Had several alts on the go too, I think oneās still on that hill in Westfall where the Defias mobs are, or maybe not given that Cata trashed most of Westfall and that location probably no longer exists, oneās in Shattrath City and the other is somewhere in Dragonblight.
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Oh, I hope he succeeds!
Each time I have left WoW behind, both in BfA and Classic Wrath, I have brought all my characters back to their starting place. That way I hoped to feel a connection to them when starting a new. I never succeeded, their journeys have been different, different guilds, different choices, different paths, even different drops. All those small variations, that makes up a life.
My old main makes me feel nostalgic, after all he was a part of my life, and we shared many adventures from 2006 to 20119.
My Classic main makes me feel sad and angry. I just never ever imagined that we would not be given TBC Era or at the very least Wrath Era. And I am still mentally kicking my behind for not cloning him to Era where I kept all my other characters when Classic progressed. Now he just sits in the Cata edition of Northshire, untouched and bemoaned.
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Yes I wish Iād cloned my old Classic Era main when the servers progressed to TBC. At the time I told myself that I refused to give Blizzard any more of my cash, and never for a moment imagined that theyād progress to the hated Cataclysm, that seemed like an act of complete and utter madness and against the entire point of Classic.
Proves how little I knewā¦
You mirror my thoughts and sentimens here perfectly.
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