Anyone know if it's fine under blizzard's ToS to have a horde and an alliance toon on different accounts on a pvp server?

[Sethra]

So I currently 5-box horde on one server, it's PvP.

I'm considering getting a 6th account to create a level 80 alliance toon on that same server.

I know it's legal to transfer gold from one character to another via the neutral AH, but I was wondering what else was against the ToS. Specifically:

1. Using the toon on the opposing side to get honorable kills. Only for achievements, I don't play in battlegrounds. Things like getting Halaa tokens or earning kills for City Defender.
2. Using the toon on the opposing side to get /who info on people for world PvP
3. Using the toon on the opposing side to sell faction-specific items to myself (such as the argent tournament pets from the opposion faction).

Anyone ever run into this situation? I'm mostly interested in #1... cash is somewhat secondary to me. I'm a giant achievement whore though

[skychilde]

Yeah, #1 is against the rules, it's called kill trading.

[MiRai]

If you're worried about getting City Defender on a PvP server I wouldn't worry about it too much. I just finally transferred back to a PvP server and I acquired that achievement within the first week or two. The Horde are always attacking our capital cities and vice versa. How long would that take to keep running back to your corpse so your alt could kill it over and over again anyway? I would think the rez timer would be up to 3 days by the time you got 50 kills.

[KvdM]

2. Using the toon on the opposing side to get /who info on people for world PvP

Gets very close to harassment (a friend of mine already asked a gm about this).

[Otlecs]

1. Using the toon on the opposing side to get honorable kills. Only for achievements, I don't play in battlegrounds. Things like getting Halaa tokens or earning kills for City Defender.

Win trading applies only to Arenas so I reckon this will be absolutely fine. You're open to attack from other members of the opposing faction in world PvP so it's not a risk-free gain.

It's a little grey though, so I'd check with a GM to be absolutely certain.

2. Using the toon on the opposing side to get /who info on people for world PvP

Absolutely fine. There's a handy reference to this in a post about Angwe somewhere else on these forums:

3. Using the toon on the opposing side to sell faction-specific items to myself (such as the argent tournament pets from the opposion faction).

Absolutely fine. There's been lots of discussion about using the neutral AH for this sort of trade and the blues have always said it's completely legitimate. I don't have a reference immediately to hand, but it won't be hard to find when you look.

[Enndo]

Yeah they will ban you for that.

[Otlecs]

>Yeah they will ban you for that.

For what, exactly?

Nothing he has asked about is remotely bannable.

[Tdog]

>Yeah they will ban you for that.

For what, exactly?

Nothing he has asked about is remotely bannable.

You entirely certain about #1? I can't see someone getting banned for 2 or 3, but #1 I would definitely be aware of. Best way to know would be to make a ticket to a GM and ask them just to be sure. Getting all your accounts banned after you've put all that time into getting to 80 would be a real waste

[Otlecs]

That's what I said in my original reply, Tdog. Then Enndoh asserted that they would "ban you for that" (I guess for doing what the title says - having horde and alliance on different accounts), and for that I am certain that he's wrong.

In the absence of existing hard evidence, the general guideline I use is that if I ever feel the need to post here and ask if something's ok, I'd be better off asking a GM directly

There is existing evidence to answer two out of the three questions, and I think there's good grounds for believing that the other is ok too, because - so far as I am aware - Blizz have only ever talked about win trading in arenas and not general "kill trading".

But, yes, that point should certainly be unambiguously clarified with a GM.

[Tdog]

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