WoW Petopia Community

In the latest 5.4.2 PTR build, we are testing the new ability to mail account-bound items to other characters on your account that may be on different servers. Notably, this should allow you to move heirlooms between servers, in advance of our planned Warlords changes that will make them fully account-wide.

Sending this sort of mail should work like any cross-server communication: You send the item to "Playername-Servername" and it should otherwise work like regular mail. Note that you can only send account-bound items, and not other items or gold.

Example: I have a character, Thrall, on the Benedictus server. I want to send my heirloom mace to my alt, Durotan, on the Lycanthoth server. I'd log in as Thrall, and attach the mace to a mail addressed to "Durotan-Lycanthoth" and hit send.

We'd appreciate any feedback or bug reports on this new feature so that we can address any issues prior to the release of 5.4.2. But even without direct feedback, just logging into PTR and mailing account-bound items across servers should give us useful data to help confirm that the feature is working as intended. Thanks!

Aleu wrote:

Wain wrote:It does seem like an odd time to be introducing this feature, with a new expansion just announced. Usually niceties like this are pushed to the new expansion.

I'm certainly very grateful for it, but it makes me wonder if there's a strategy reason they want it out sooner rather than later. Like, for example, maybe there's going to be a big realm transfer push soon to help faction imbalances so they want to make it more attractive for people to move a toon. Something like that, anyway. The timing just makes me suspect there's more behind it than just "we created this cool new thing".