WowStead Support

Introduction

This guide will help you through the process of claiming your character(s) and verifying ownership of them. This process verifies that you are the owner of the character you have claimed to your account.

Benefits

Getting Started

Once you have created a Curse/WowStead Account you will need to add your character(s) to the account in order to post, create a guild site, or apply to a guild. Go to any guild site, and make sure you are logged in with your WowStead account. At the top right you should see a larger blue down arrow with either your account name or your character if you had added on prior. If you click on the arrow you will get a menu with the option to Add New Character.

You can have more than one character on your account, and you can belong to more than one WowStead guild site at a time.

If you are on the main WowStead.com site you will need to look at the top right where you should see Welcome, CurseUserName! with a little arrow point down next to it. If you click on the arrow you will get a menu with the option to Add New Character.

Adding your character

This page has a short form you will need to fill out with the information about your character:

Game - This is what game the character is from.
Example: World of Warcraft

Game Region - This is the location of your realm.
Example: US, EU, etc.

Game Server - This is the specific server/realm your character is located on.
Example: Dragonblight

Character's First Name - This is the name of your character. Some games allow for last (or surnames) this should not be put into this field.
Example: Snigglepoo

Now click on Add.

This will add the character to your account and redirect you to the character's profile.

Verification Process

After the character is added to the account you will need to verify ownership. Once you are redirected to your character's profile look at the upper right area of the character's profile you will want to find the link Verify Ownership.

Where you click the link you will be redirected once again to a page that has a button to start the verification process. This will take you to a page that will highlight one or more items on your profile that you are going to need to remove from your character in-game.

Now log into World of Warcraft (the account with the character on it) and enter Azeroth with the character you are trying to verify. Open up your Armor (C by default) and remove the item or items that were highlighted for you to remove. Change those items highlighted and only those items. If you change, remove, add any other items the process WILL FAIL!

Once you have removed the item or items you can log out (enter /camp enter). You do not need to log complete out of the game just the character. Once you have logged out of the character it will take a few second to a couple of minutes for your armory profile to update. It has taken me around 10-20 seconds after logging out for the Armory to update for me at this time. You may need to refresh a few times for it to display the changes.

Check the Armory and WowStead to make sure your character's gear updates prior to hitting complete.  You may want to wait a few minutes after logging out of the game before clicking complete.

Once it is displaying the removal of the item or items you will need to go back to the Character Verification page and click on Complete at the bottom. If done correctly you will have a Verification was Successful Notice. If not you will receive a Verification Failed Notice.

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