Character copy is up!
by Adam Holisky 
Feb 11th 2008 at 9:00AM
After a wild night of server issues, I decided to log onto my account page and try to copy my warrior over to the PvE test server. Lo-and-behold, after a few tries, the copy request went through! Horray!Of course, it says that the queue is 4 days long. I seriously doubt this, as this is often wrong. Hopefully later today many more of us will be happy little World of Warcraft campers with shiny new Sunwell toys.
While you're waiting for your character to be copied over, you can check out all our patch 2.4 coverage. From our picture galleries of Sunwell Isle and goodies found while combing through the patch files, to the latest about the many new recipes and all that new loot, WoW Insider has got you covered!
Update 12:22 p.m. EST: My character was copied over, in less than 12 hours. Some players are still reporting that they cannot get the copy screen to work, so it looks like Blizzard might have taken it down again. However if you're really itching to get on the PTR, it might be a good idea to check back every 15 minutes or so.
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ryan Feb 11th 2008 9:04AM
Wow, enough links back to the blog to choke on, but no link to the character copy screen?
George Feb 11th 2008 11:11AM
I thought I was the only one baffled by this. Normally I have to searching for the asinine "Read" link, but that's not even there.
Adam, you fail for not including the link.
Coenheart Feb 11th 2008 9:06AM
Queue is currently full, and it looks like the average wait time is 4 days. That was quick!
Wiggie Feb 11th 2008 9:30AM
Still down on EU
Naix Feb 11th 2008 10:11AM
Tell us. Do priests get holyform after all?
theRaptor Feb 11th 2008 10:40AM
Holyform is an NPC ability, most likely tied to one of the helpful NPC's in the Kil'jaeden fight.
Zach Feb 11th 2008 10:16AM
No such luck for me. I encountered error after error after error until finally queue was full. =( looks like I'll be experiencing the PTRs vicariously.
Dan Feb 11th 2008 11:47AM
No luck for me although I was able to log on and create a new toon last night to check out the island. Died about 4 times before I gave up though, it was pure pandemonium. It does say on the copy page that your account has to have been active since November of 2006 but it's said that for the last few PTR's so who knows if that's even accurate.
Prauche Feb 11th 2008 12:12PM
The way is shut........
Reid Feb 11th 2008 12:37PM
It tells me that I have a successful character copy; but where do I log on to the PTR?
TwhiT Feb 11th 2008 2:33PM
Here is the link to download the PTR update file
(*DO this if you haven't already)
http://test.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/downloads/downloads.html
By the way, you'll want to dig in your Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoWTest fold and either link the green "Wow.exe" file to your desktop or just double-click it to open up the PTR version of WoW. ThIS is how to play in the PTR
After doing that, go to this link to "try" and copy over a toon
http://test.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/character-copy.html
best of luck =/ b/c i've been trying to copy over a character since it went public :(
imparush Feb 11th 2008 6:43PM
Suck to be in EU ours still dont work:(