Hello. I started playing WoW years ago. I recently returned to WoW and played the retail version. In that, I was able to play my old characters again.
However, now I started playing WOTLK Classic on which I seem to have zero characters. I cannot select the server (Dragonblight) my old characters were on, because that does not seem to exist.
I played WOTLK back in the day as well, so I should be able to pick up on my old characters in WOTLK classic too then, right?
Yeah ogey.
It’s an honest question. I cannot find it anywhere in the self-help or with Google.
It seems, regardless of whether you played TBC/WOTLK/CATA, etc. before, everyone started at level 1 when TBC Classic came out. From there, everyone started leveling? So the only ones that did not start at level 1 in WOTLK Classic, were the people that played TBC Classic?
There was no new servers created for TBC Classic.
There was new servers created for WOTLK Classic.
So in the older servers, people started from a range between Classic Launch and Wotlk.
While the 3 newer ones, everyone started at level 1 during WOTLK pre-patch
Everyone started on new realms when Classic came out in August 2019. The characters we made then either stayed in Era (Vanilla) or progressed through TBCC and now Wrathh Classic. Dragonblight is a Retail Realm, it’s not possible to go into Classic with characters from there.
If you have not played in Classic before today, you have to start over, but you can buy a boost, or make a DK - ONE DK is possible even with no previous characters at all.
Tl;dr Yes you have to start over.
Hi Anatman,
All servers with the exception of Giantstalker, Thekal and Jin’do were launched in summer 2019.
Giantstalker and Thekal were launched roughly 2 months ago, Jin’do 6 weeks ago.
You need to create a character on one of these realms to play. Dragonblight is a ‘Retail/Dragonflight’ server.
Aha, I understand it now. Thank you for the information.
Can I ask for some advice? I’m interested in endgame pvp. Should I play WoW Classic, WOTLK Classic or Retail? In terms of… balanced gameplay and the number of players.
This is all you need to see to understand retail pvp. Maybe you like it, maybe you don’t. Personally I like Wotlk. 
Maybe I’ve misunderstood you, but are you saying you want to use your old - original back in the day - characters that are on retail, in Classic?
God, those character animations always get me. What a downgrade when those happened.
I’m not sure if I understand your point, but it seems like retail pvp has a lot of things going on at the same time. It seems complex and yet it also looks like a lot of button smashing.
I remember WOTLK pvp to be much simpler in terms of gameplay, even though it was still possible to have a big gap in player skill.
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