You cannot transfer a character that is the captain of an arena team
You cannot transfer a character to another World of Warcraft account
You cannot transfer a character that exceeds the gold limit for its level
Character Level
Maximum Gold
10-30
100g
31-50
500g
51-80
5000g
You cannot transfer a character that is a Guild Master, you must transfer leadership to another member or disband your guild
Realm Restrictions
You cannot transfer a character to a realm in another region
For a minimum of 90 days, possibly longer, Fresh Start realms will not be available destinations for character transfers
Consequences of a transfer
Your raid lockouts transfer with your character. You cannot continue a raid started prior to a transfer
If your character’s name is taken on the destination realm, you will be asked to rename your character at no extra cost
Your character’s old name will be reserved for you on the source realm for 30 days
You cannot restore items that you destroyed, vendored, or disenchanted before the transfer
Your World of Warcraft friend list and ignore list will be cleared
Your guild affiliation and tabard design will not transfer. You must join or create a new guild on your destination realm
PvP progress
Your Honor Points will transfer
Your personal Arena MMR will transfer
Your Arena Points will transfer. However, because you are abandoning your Arena Team(s), you will not be awarded Arena Points for the matches played on the source realm the week before transferring. We recommend you transfer after the weekly reset, once you were awarded the points for the previous week
At the end of a PvP season, we recommend that you transfer only after receiving the rewards