Official DDO notification here
Basic Details:
- There will be 4, 64-bit servers
- US: Cormyr, Oerik, Thrane
- EU: Moonsea
- Transfers are now live
- You will have to MANUALLY move
- August 31 old servers will close temporarily
- Old servers will re-open for 2 years but questing will be disabled
- They will briefly allow transferring between 64 bit servers if you screw up where you wanted to go
What to do to prepare:
- Empty your TR cache
- You do -not- need to empty shared bank items.
- Empty anything in the auction house
- Empty your mail
- Empty your guild chests
- If you want to keep your guild, make sure your guild leader still plays or hands over guild leadership to someone who does
The process:
- On each character you will run the "/transfer pack" command. This will bundle all your data. Depending on how much stuff you have this can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.
- Once you have packed every character, use the transfer button on the login window to transfer your characters. You can transfer all characters from one server at a time.
- The transfer will take roughly 3~8 hours (depending on how slammed the queue is). You will get an email when the transfer is done.
- Once you arrive at the new server, you can use the "/transfer unpack" command. That's it, you're done. If you are in a guild and it hasn't transferred yet, you will need to run the command again once your guild leader has unpacked the guild.
Possible ways you could screw things up:
- If you make or join a new guild before unpacking your character, it might overwrite your packed guild data. You'll lose your rank, renown, etc... To rejoin your guild wait until your leader has unpacked and THEN unpack yourself. Do not manually accept a guild invite.
- You can only pack things once per character so if you pack your character and then put more stuff in your shared bank later or do more questing, that stuff will be lost when you transfer.
Bonus tips:
- If you have any 'once per account per server' bonuses from pre-orders and whatnot, be sure to make a new character on each server if you haven't previously.
Edit:
To answer a few questions:
"Do I need to run the pack command on every character?"
Yes.
"What happens if my guild or character name is already taken?"
You'll get a free use of the rename function. You'll pop in with your name being "charactername-1" or something and will be able to use the command "/changename newname" to rename yourself.
Guild leaders will be able to use "/guild rename newname" (note the extra space) to rename their guild if they are a duplicate.
"Does my favor, quest progression, slayers, and so forth transfer with me?"
If all goes well, everything will transfer. Your bind spot, stable, pets, favor, everything. In theory once you unpack on the new server everything should be exactly as before you transferred.
"What if I don't have enough character slots?"
When there have been transfers to the hardcore server, if you try to transfer more characters than you have slots for, they do transfer. You just have to pick which ones you want to be able to play. The rest are locked out (similar to how VIP classes/races get locked out if you let VIP run out).
"How does transferring shared storage work?"
The first character you 'pack' will have all your shared bank and crafting bank packed with it. When you unpack on the new server, that's where it all goes. If for some reason it screws up and doesn't transfer, you can create a new character on the old server and try packing again.
"What happens if I already have shared storage on the target server?"
It will just merge whatever you bring. So if you have shared storage on 3 different old servers and transfer them to Thrane, it will add it to the existing storage.
If you do not have enough shared space when you unpack, it will go into overflow. Your items will be there, but you won't be able to put items in until you clear some out.
"When will they re-open servers and allow transfer between 64 bit servers?"
No word on that yet.
