Maderek

I believe it was mentioned they could some day be transferred when the move to TBC was made.

Servers are down for maintenance right now (per discord)

Wait, did I read that correct? Currently only 843 characters are level 60? Not that it's a big deal, but rather interesting, I wonder if it is true for most vanilla realms that most people don't finish the grind.

You can only play your characters on the LH realms for the time being. Nighthaven is a fresh realm and transfers aren't allowed to it.

Use two gathering professions, and auction house literally everything that is not a grey item. Had more than enough gold when I hit level 40, and I didn't need to excessively grind, it was 90-95% questing.

Nighthaven is a fresh only realm, transfers aren't allowed to it. If you want to play your old characters, you'll have to go to Light's Hope (use google).

You'll have to start from scratch.

If you want to play your old characters, you'll have to go to Light's Hope. Nighthaven is a fresh realm only and doesn't accept transfers.

Blizzard does not distinguish between good/bad/corrupt/evil/etc private servers. To them, all private servers are violations of their Terms of Service and they send out cease and desist letters regularly. Problem is, in the EU there is no specific law that does not allow private servers, thus from a legal standpoint Blizzard really has no standing - so essentially these letters are just thrown in the trash. Point is - nothing will happen to a private server that is hosted in the proper region (unless done by their own hand)

You either have the wrong client version installed (it needs to be 1.12.1) or it's a corrupted client.

Regardless, Shomie is correct. These issues are handled in-game via GM ticket.

As they mentioned in the Announcements section, Stratholme was taken down. Your characters can not be restored at this time. Why they still have this sub-forum or the character restore tool up is a mystery to me. Your two current choices: 1.) Play your characters on Light's Hope realms 2.) Roll a new character on the Nighthaven fresh realm (no, your characters won't be transferred to it)

There was big drama about a month ago and so a falling out occurred - some of the Devs took copies of the servers and made Light's Hope. I won't get into too many details because everyone has their own opinions on the matter, I would suggest checking google or youtube.

You have two options currently. 1.) Play your characters on Light's Hope realms (just google for information) 2.) Start a new character on Nighthaven realm here.

You can certainly try and stream, but yes that Twitch may decide to ban your twitch account. The mods here have no control over that.

Well it would make more sense to bring back that tool if/when something happens to Light's Hope, or when the TBC realm is released. Having it up right now just seems to me to serve no purpose. Just trying to save you all some trouble, there have been near daily messages on the tech forums asking "why can't I restore my characters!?"

Since Stratholme is closed, can the "Restore characters" link be removed from the front page? Otherwise you are just going to confuse players who return after not playing for many months thinking they can get their characters back.

Ban appeals go here: https://forum.elysium-project.org/forum/351-ban-appeals/

It's against the terms of use to modify game files, and you will be banned if it is detected by their anti-cheat software. Use at your own risk.

@PEBKAC you can't restore because they closed down Stratholme. If you want to play your character you'll have to do it over at Light's Hope.

Ban appeals go here: https://forum.elysium-project.org/forum/351-ban-appeals/

There a reason why there is still an option to 'restore characters' on the front page? Can this be removed to avoid confusion?

PvPed on a PvP server. Get rekt mate. EDIT: Brings up the fact that he has a GF also, lol. The rage is very real.

I understand the final decision, but I think it was just disrespectful to drag some members of the community along for weeks with little communication, then to hype up the release of this realm a couple of days before launch, only to suddenly shut it down after it was brought up almost immediately. The decision should have been made much sooner. There were already trust issues with top leadership and I think this hurt that perception even further. Not that I personally have anything against you all, and I wish the project best success on their new realm, but I can certainly understand the frustrations of players like the original poster. Good luck to you all.

Most people transitioned to Light's Hope during the downtime cause their characters were moved there, was just too long to bring up Stratholme and the devs didn't want to maintain a realm with 100ish population. So I understand it from that perspective. But I agree it's crap that they bait some people who were waiting for weeks only to shut it down as soon as it came up. So I guess I'm personally going back to Light's Hope, I have no desire to re-roll and farm MC for months.