It should be whatever realm you have an active max level character on. This would have almost no impact on faction balance, and zero impact on realm queues as the characters are on the same account ultimately. I can not foresee enough care to implement that, though. It’ll just be straight to dead realms which you’re outbalanced 95/5 for wotlk transfers.
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Nice of them to practice in US first. Already down again. 
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This will be very confusing, since there are still people looking for characters from the realm consolidation. Our posts to answer these questions are going to be long and confusing. “What realm are you talking about? Era? SoM? Wtath? Sure, it wasn’t retail? Did you activate them for Era or TBC? …” 
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Whoa! I have as yet NO max level characters. Should I not be allowed to move my characters from SoM?
And we need transfer to at least 2 different PvP servers in Era - or as you cannot have both factions - some won’t be able to move at all. Why not just give free transfer to any Era server?
I understand limiting access to some Wrath C. servers, but Era? No server there is full
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I didn’t get any WotLK options at all in SoM - PvP or PvE. And I do have max characters on both, so it looks like they didn’t finish the EU setup yet and probably why they have not said anything yet.
Edit: Ah, nevermind - i missunderstood the actual question. I don’t have max level in WotLK, only Era / SoM.
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Removed for de-bugging
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Well the problem is that there are different servers at all on era for the same type (for example PVE or PVP servers)
What blizzard should do is the following:
- Offer free transfers to Era + Wrath (as they have now)
- When SoM ends, convert the SoM servers to Era servers and make them part of the main era cluster for that type
- Merge ALL other servers of the same type in to the main cluster in the region. (So that there are no dead clusters as it is now)
- Remove the faction limit for the server (So that you can have both factions on the same server) and increase the character limit for each server from the current 10 to the max global character limit.
- Remove the ability to create characters on any other server than the main server for the cluster.
- Give all characters on Era 3 months to “claim” their current character name.
- Remove all unclaimed names and merge all unique characters to the main server of the cluster. (Leaving only the duplicates names on the old servers)
- Give EVERYONE one single free character name change per character for all characters. This option should last 3 months.
- Merge in all the characters from the old servers that were not unique before the free name change, but now is.
- Give a permanent option for any character not on the main server in the cluster to at any point transfer it to the main server. (With the obvious namechange that will come from this)
- Close down all servers that don’t have any characters.
- Put in a checkbox in the server selection screen that hides all servers you dont have any characters on and where you cant create characters. (This should be checked by default)
- Every time a character on the old servers (that you now cant create new chars on) have not been logged in for 6 months, move those characters to the main server (forcing a namechange on next login).
- Every time a character has not been logged in for 2 years the name should be able to be grabbed by anyone. If this happens a player that logs in after 2 years or more and have had their name taken by someone else will have to chose a new name.
This whole process would remove a lot of problems with OLD OLD names of for example bots from classic before Era. It would also make it easier for all players to not have to deal with Name-Server for when writing in game (since thats the only thing making it not feel like one server) and the different login screens.
Returning players will also at once find themselves on a server cluster that is alive rather than dead.
They forgot to charge some $$ for the transfer.
Why would they do that? They already said it would be free.
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This will cause no end of naming and other issues.
Ten characters per realm is the Classic way of doing it.
I still think my TAB and merge is way better, easier, more understandable, and last but not least not as mess-uppable as what you suggets here.
TAB & Merge:
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Now in the Realm selection screen we have these tabs below: Seasonal, Russian, Classic Era.
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I suggest these tabs: Seasonal, Russian, Classic Era PvP, Classic Era PvE, Classic Era RP.
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In this way all PvP can co-exist and still be merged into one, same for PvE and RP, but we avoid the naming, moving, level-losing etc hyper-mess of the ‘consolidation’.
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ZT, HW and Celebras should not be merged, but be placed in the RP tab.
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Also this allows in an easy way for people to have more then 10 characters in PvE or PvP which would be the case if all servers were simply consolidated.
Where are people going? Firemaw ERA or Ashbringer WOTLK?
In theory it´s not possible to have both factions on one realm, but practically it is.
You can only have one faction per realm, but since the realms are connected, you can simply create the other faction on another realm which is connected.
There is no real reason why they shouldn´t allow both factions on one realm anymore…
But another problem are the char slots.
You can´t have more then 10 on one realm.
They need to figure something out… but… oh, probably not. 
I know, but we were only offered transfer to ONE realm in the PvP cluster.
My TAB & Merge solves all this
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I guess they want to encourage the playeres to move to wrath, and/or expect that most people will move to Wrath.
I´m afraid they´ll just do a “merge” solution.
They drain the era realms already with their FCT to Pyrewood/Firemaw.
I know that some people left Cele, and i know there is at least some who will now leave Evershire to Pyrewood.
And then the devs will again say: “look, NO ONE does want Roleplay/language specific realms. We really don´t need it…”
Now we know EU wasn’t completed yet before they shut the FCT down again, so the final list of realms - including RP realms - are still unknown.
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Yes, this is a stupid one. I make characters on all other realms than those two
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They’re one step ahead.
If you don’t want to play on the 2 leftover big clusters you’d have to pay.
Surprisingly nuff said
This is really unfair… Some of us want to transfer to Hydraxian Waterlords.
Blizzard really wanna kill wow and send us to private servers again
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The only right thing to do would be a free transfer to an Era server of your choice. (And some select servers in in Wrath C. )
From now on I talk of Era only:
- As it is (was this morning) people can transfer only one faction if they play PvP.
- If they have already 10 characters on the selected realm they are plain out of luck
- Some of us would like to transfer to German, French etc. realms or the RP ones, please.
I want to transfer mine to Hydraxian Waterlords in Era, second option is Nethergarde, as I have 10 on Pyrewood already.
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Yes and no.
In US the have only transfers to one era PVE and one PVP era realm, and two PVE and two PVP Wrath realms (somehow weird since you can have in Wrath both factions and 50 chars on one realm, but not in era).
But no RP realm.
They won´t handle it different in EU, beside that they might offer only one PVP and one PVE Wrath realm.
Haha!
Confuse them nods
But i think they do it on purpose, as they did with the TBCC realms…
Makes it easier to have only few realms left and “close” all other.
So, not stupid, but intendet.
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