Thundgot has announced that another round of free character migrations are now available for Europe's World of Warcraft realms. Rather than a move to another Europe realm though, players are being invited to transfer their toons to the newly formed Russian Realms.

The move will be one-way only, from a European to Russian realm. Those with a European account wishing to move from a Russian to European realm will have to use Blizzard's standard Paid Character Transfer method. Here are the other details regarding this free transfer Thundgot elaborated on at the WoW Europe forums:

There are no restrictions on which accounts may migrate characters, and the migration is not affected by any Paid Character Transfer cooldown your characters might have. There are however some restrictions:

• Minimum character level: 10
• No active auctions or mail in the in-game mail box
• You can’t migrate from a PvE realm to a PvP realm
• You can’t migrate a character to a PvP realm if you already have a character of the opposite faction on that PvP realm
• You can’t migrate a character to a realm if you already have 10 characters on that realm
• You can’t migrate as long as you are the leader of your guild

Please note:

• If you are a member of a guild, your membership will be removed when you migrate.
• You will need to rename your character when you migrate, to give it a Cyrillic name and add declension.
• Hunter pets will have their names reset to their creature type.
• Warlock pets will get new random names, in Cyrillic.
  

Those interested in moving to WoW's new Russian realms have until September 9 of this year. Further details on how to make the move are available at Thundgot's WoW Europe forums post, via the source link below.

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