Faction Transfer Now Live

[Multibocks]

WTF Blizzard! They dropped me in Exodar. Seriously, who goes there!?

[shaeman]

So for those that have successfully changed faction, how do things work.

1. Reputation - have they mapped it one to one to the opposite faction. PVP factions too.
2. Mounts - if you have a racial mount does it change to the new races mount. e.g wolves to elephants for horde to alliance shammies.
3. Achievements - have they mapped over achievements for pve. What about pvp achievements - That takes class for example.
4. Flightpoints - do you have to run round like a loon discovering them or do they give you them all.

[Schwarz]

So for those that have successfully changed faction, how do things work.

1. Reputation - have they mapped it one to one to the opposite faction. PVP factions too.
2. Mounts - if you have a racial mount does it change to the new races mount. e.g wolves to elephants for horde to alliance shammies.
3. Achievements - have they mapped over achievements for pve. What about pvp achievements - That takes class for example.
4. Flightpoints - do you have to run round like a loon discovering them or do they give you them all.

1

What will happen to the character's reputation levels when I change its faction?
Upon changing factions, the reputation level associated with the character's previous race will become the reputation level of the new race. All other racial reputations will be converted according to the following chart:

Orc (Orgrimmar) ↔ Human (Stormwind)
Tauren (Thunder Bluff) ↔ Gnome (Gnomeregan Exiles)
Undead (The Undercity) ↔ Night Elf (Darnassus)
Troll (Sen'jin) ↔ Dwarf (Ironforge)
Blood Elf (Silvermoon) ↔ Draenei (The Exodar)

Additional faction-specific reputations will be converted into their cross-faction equivalents (if a cross-faction equivalent exists). You can view a full list of qualifying faction-specific reputations and their equivalents here.

Faction neutral reputations will not be affected by this process, and faction-specific reputations which do not possess an equivalent will be lost.

2.

What will happen to the character's mounts when I change its faction?
Mounts which are not considered faction-specific will remain unchanged by this process. Faction-specific mounts will be exchanged for a cross-faction equivalent. You can view a full list of faction-specific mounts and their equivalents here.

What will happen to the character's non-combat pets when I change its faction?
Non-combat pets will not be affected by this process and will be available once the character's faction change completes. This even includes faction-specific non-combat pets.

3.

What will happen to the character's achievements when I change its faction?

Achievements which are not considered faction-specific will remain unchanged by this process. Faction-specific achievements will be exchanged for a cross-faction equivalent. You can view a full list of faction-specific achievements and their equivalents here.

What will happen to the character's titles when I change its faction?
Titles which are not considered faction-specific will remain unchanged by this process. Faction-specific titles will be exchanged for a cross-faction equivalent. You can view a full list of faction-specific titles and their equivalents here.

4.

What will happen to the character's flight paths when I change its faction?

All flight points associated with the character will be reset and you will receive a new list of flight points which are appropriate for the level and new faction.

All that info was pulled straight from the mmo-champion FAQ. Go and read it if you have more questions

[Svpernova09]

Time for 'nova to go horde on Madoran!

ROFL. My GM has threatened to fly to TN and kick my ass if I faction change >.<

[07:48] nahlia: no
[07:48] nahlia: you may not go horde
[07:49] nahlia: stop.

In reality, I'm thinking of swapping my 77/78 Rogue over to the Alliance

[shaeman]

All that info was pulled straight from the mmo-champion FAQ. Go and read it if you have more questions

My work blocks that site so couldn't see the article.
Appreciate you taking the time to link that info - Just wanted to make sure folks know it wasn't coz i was too lazy to follow a link.

[falsfire3401]

I successfully moved my rogue over to horde to join my guild. Sweet! Got to join them in Ulduar/Vault/OS! Now I just have to gear up so I can be in top 3 on dmg again like my hunter always was (hunters are OP - my hunter is 12th in gear in my guild according to wow-heroes, but I consistently rank 1-2 (rarely 3) on dps/dmg)

The racial factions map one to one but they shuffle them around a bit so your old race = your new race. For example, normally Orgrimmar and Stormwind map one to one, but since I went from human to undead, they shuffled it so Stormwind mapped to Undercity, and Darnassus mapped to Orgrimmar.

Mounts: Same thing as racial factions above. I was a human with a night elf mount (and Darnassus exalted obv.), and because I switched to Undead, my Darnassus rep and mount instead got translated to Orgrimmar rep and mount.

Being level 80 I was granted *all* flight paths in the game, even though I hadn't previously discovered them all on my rogue. So if you haven't become friendly with Sons of Hodir yet, be careful! Don't fly to Dun Niffelhelm (sp). Nah, I am honored with them so that didn't affect me, but I could see that as a surprise to somebody who's not met them yet...

[MrHepp]

My first thought was "Great, now my blood elf paladin can join my alliance team!".

Then I realized that my blood elf paladin is on another realm than my alliance toons and on the same account as my tank. This means I would need to transfer both faction, realm and account for this silly elf, just to add a third paladin to my alliance gang. Not worth it.

[falsfire3401]

My first thought was "Great, now my blood elf paladin can join my alliance team!".

Then I realized that my blood elf paladin is on another realm than my alliance toons and on the same account as my tank. This means I would need to transfer both faction, realm and account for this silly elf, just to add a third paladin to my alliance gang. Not worth it.

Realm and account can be accomplished in one transfer

[ioho]

Just a note (didn't see anything in the FAQ regarding this) - it seems to have completely reset my tournament dailies after transferring I had all but one complete on horde, but now on alliance I have to go back to the very beginning of the dailies. Not sure if that was intended, it seems to go against what they said about titles/reputations (whatever you want to class it under).

[Monkofdoom]

They've said the EU transfers will most likely be at least another 2 weeks, shame