Quote:Blizzard should never have allowed a transfer to ring the gong, because this happens a lot from what I understand. Hell, Cleoboltra could finish the questline here and jump servers herself to do the same thing if she were willing to leave Stormrage for months just to get that mount. That's broken, and it screws over servers where people are working for it. Blizzard has bigger fish to fry, true, but I personally wish they'd thought of stuff like this. Many new servers don't even try to go through the quest because they expect some transfer will just pop in and ring it anyway.
So...no one born on the server can become Scarab Lord? What, exactly, do you have against Ahnold running for US President, anyway?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitstaff. :D
More seriously, Blizzard has measures in place to prevent this. From the transfer FAQ:
Quote:A realm may not be an eligible destination for a variety of reasons, including:
* The realm is full or densely populated at this time.
* It has been fewer than 180 days since the realm was launched
* You are attempting to transfer from a PvE (normal) realm to a PvP realm. Characters currently located on PvE realms are only eligible to move to other PvE realms.
* There might be an upcoming free character migration to or from this realm.
The aforementioned restrictions may also apply to the eligibility of source realms. Keep in mind that we are constantly evaluating these populations and availability may change without notice.
Please note that Blizzard reserves the right to disable paid character transfers to or from any realm at its own discretion.
So fresh servers have 180 days to open the Gates. That is arguably too short to protect level 60 content in a post-60 world, but the precedent exists for protecting content via a transfer moratorium and not via some bizarre spaghetti code addition to the quest eligibility.
It would be much less elegant (and unpredictable for the player) if transferring removed your ability to do certain quests, a list of which can be found on the WoW website...in a locked file cabinet in a broom closet with 'Beware of the Jaguar," on the door.