My characters are gone, really gone.Follow

Well, heres how it goes:
I got up this morning to log in, and I arranged the servers by Character...ok great, Some of the servers still aren't working, but Garona is, so my Rogue works...awesome.

Anyway, I decide to click on Burning Blade, where my Night Elf Priest and Gnome Warlock live. Where I would usually get stuck on the "Retriving Charater list", it works...but no Priest and Warlock. I'm thinking "ok, still must be down", but just for fun, I started a Warrior, just to see if the servers work, low and behold Burning Blade works, and my Characters aren't there. I did a /1 to see if anyone else had that problem, only one person responded negative. I "have an open Ticket".

Help me. :(

And always carry a towel.

You're in luck, as I had this exact problem this past saturday.

After frantically posting on the tech support forums and submitting a ticket to tech support via the online form, I checked back into the game. After about a half hour or 45 minutes, my character was restored.

Now, it should be noted that Blizzard apparently had very little to do with this insomuch as they did not fix anything in response to my request. I didn't get a response to my ticket until several days later, and once I replied to the forum stating that my character had been restored, it faded into oblivion near as I can tell.

My point is that you may well be ok, you'll just have to give it a bit of time to re-display your character. Take some deep breaths and follow the steps I listed above (posting a message on the forums and submitting a ticket) if for no other reason that to let yourself know that you're "going through the motions" of correcting the problem (and letting Blizzard know that this issue is not isolated).

Keep us up to date as to what happens. If you need it, I still have my tech support ticket response that gives me some procedures to try to restore my character to it's server listing. I'm not able to access it right now, but if you're still in this bind in a few hours I'd be glad to post it up for you.

My Tauren Druid is back, but still no sign of my Priest or Warlock, but I'll bet they come back.