Physical Authenticator Died. Can't login

So I had this physical authenticator ever since original MoP but now its time has come to an end, it run out of battery and won’t generate codes, but I cannot log into the game.

“Luckily” I was still online when I noticed it died out and made a ticket for it to get removed by Blizzard since I cannot remove it myself, because you need to log into your account and generate a code from it.

And of course I got an automated response which is the following

Greetings

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Lastly, if none of the above steps resolve the issue, please contact your internet service provider to ensure there are no problems at their end affecting your connection.

Like, are you guys even serious right there? Not reading our tickets and sending automating responses to a matter that DOES need your intervention? Otherwise this is it for me I can no longer log into WoW and obviously I’d never make a new account when I have so many collectables and unobtainable items on an account from 2009.

Didn’t blizz say years ago that they were going to replace the physical ones with the app version? I would guess you should have done that…

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I did add both options but for some reason I wasn’t getting the option to get app to work instead of the physical one.

Regardless of the case, it shouldn’t be this hard to remove your physical authenticator and perma lock you out of your account. They can just ask you to provide the serial number behind the attached physical authenticator to remove it, instead of asking you for a code that it generates in order to log in and remove it. It’s contradicting itself.

Hi there Archronos,

Sorry about the confusing reply you got at first – it seems your ticket was incorrectly categorized as a connection issue.

In most cases like this, you can remove it yourself using SMS verification but if needed you can also submit a ticket for assistance here:

If you don’t have a valid phone number set up already, you’ll need to verify some details about the account, such as the serial number you mentioned.

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Thanks a lot that actually fixed it.

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Happy to hear it worked out!

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