How to reuse nick without 90-days lock.

**solshine2510** · 06-09-2013

Hi Ownedcore, I wish to share with you something that I found lately. This is my first contribution so if I failed to discover something useful or it's already known, please be understanding :-) Also, this is something that should not happen according to blizz rules, so I assumed it should fit in this forum section.

I have found that after buying paid name change, the original nick it is not necessarily locked for 90 days. For the sake of the story, I will call my two toons involved "OWNED" and "CORE". "Owned" existed on Server A and was my main. I decided to transfer "Core" from Server B to A and make my main so, naturally, I wanted to switch to my main nick, "Owned". I read the Blizz rules on their help site, plus I spoke to GM, who confirmed, that regardless of the previous nick owner being on the same account, I will have to wait 90 days before any nick gets unlocked after name change and anyone can use it again.
So, I did the first name change. "Owned" got locked, on service dashboard it said "temporarily locked to June 12, 2013", PayPal got charged. So I logged into WoW, "Core" was already transferred and flagged for rename, because "Core" was taken on this server. I had another nick planned already, but suddenly I just thought I would give it a shot and typed "Owned" into the "new nick" box. Hit Enter and... I got logged in with my new nick Owned! So contrary to what GMs assured me (I made two tickets to make sure!), I could use the nick right away :-)

I hope someone may find it useful and forgive me any grammar mistakes :-)

**Galithiel** · 06-09-2013

Working as intended. YOU can use the nickname instantly, other accounts can't.

**solshine2510** · 06-09-2013

Originally Posted by Galithiel

Working as intended. YOU can use the nickname instantly, other accounts can't.

Two GMs were misinformed then? Both assured me I will have to wait 90 days even if I want to switch nick between own alts.

**Doffars** · 06-09-2013

Are you sure it wasn't automated responses from GM's or did you speak with the GM's? This is how names work I reserved my characters name on a few of the servers I was looking at to move too and once I chose a server I just deleted the level 1 with the name and had no problem.

**gkelter** · 06-09-2013

Despite what the GMs told you (or what you assumed from their responses), it is 100% true that your names are only locked to outside battle.net accounts.

**jericco** · 06-09-2013

Originally Posted by gkelter

Despite what the GMs told you (or what you assumed from their responses), it is 100% true that your names are only locked to outside battle.net accounts.

Yea, it has been this way for a long time.