Holy ****. So I ended up just using my brothers android as an authenticator until I get my own smartphone (which will actually be within a week or two)
But I'm going to go through the sequence of events that happened to my knowledge (there are holes where I don't know what the ****). I think it's pretty funny.
So yesterday at around 6pm I logged onto WoW to get ready for the raid 2 hours later. When I went to log in, my account was locked. That happens when someone at another IP tries to log in, they just automatically lock it. So I figured my hackers got foiled by Blizz's defense system.
Now, most of my characters are all on the Mannoroth server, which has 4 level 85s including my old warrior main, Grimmsh. However, I recently transferred my current main, my rogue Desukà, to Kil'Jaeden to raid with a new guild. I still play on my other characters, but since I was on for raid I just went on Desukà. I didn't notice anything missing, my gold looked about right (around 40k), so I figured the hackers didn't get in. I raided for a few hours and eventually logged off. I forgot to do something after I logged off so I immediately tried to log back in, but my account was closed/ banned. I looked at my email and it said I was banned for exploiting the economy, exchanging gold or something for real world money.
I obviously haven't done that so I figured I could just get them to remove it, but I should attach an authenticator to prove that it won't happen again, since I won't get hacked. This is when I made this topic.
Several HNNNNNNG sessions later I gave up and asked my brother if I could use his android smartphone temporarily. He didn't mind so I attached to my account. So then I made my plea to Blizz to restore my account.
Their response? Nope. Absolutely not. I broke the rules and their decision will not be reversed. Then they closed my ticket.
So I reopened the ticket and was basically like, come oooooon.
So they responded with, nope, these are the rules. Except actually yeah here's your account.
It was a weird message. There was like a paragraph of them implying they won't do it, then suddenly one line of them saying I can play again >_>
I get an email saying a bunch of items and gold (48k, which seems like more than I remember Grimmsh having >_>) were being restored to Grimmsh. But one odd thing caught my eye. The realm said Firetree. "But he's on Mannoroth!"
So I log in, sure enough, Grimmsh, (along with some random level 1 character I never made) are on that Firetree. The hackers transferred one of my main characters to Firetree. ****ing Firetree.
How could this have happened? When? Was he already on Firetree when I logged in to raid? Was it during? Right after when the account got locked? I have no idea!
I currently have a ticket open for that, but man. Firetree. Of all the realms, why would they send me there?
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