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How Do I Recover My World of Warcraft Account?

In a nutshell: If you used to play World of Warcraft but stopped some time ago, your account is probably still on Blizzard's servers. They have no reason to delete your account. So, even if you can longer remember the information you need to access your account, you should still be able to recover it, with a little help.

Oct 14, 2025

Introduction

If you used to play World of Warcraft but stopped some time ago, your account is probably still on Blizzard's servers. They have no reason to delete your account. So, even if you can longer remember the information you need to access your account, you should still be able to recover it, with a little help.

What You'll Need

If you cannot remember any of your log in information for your World of Warcraft account, you are going to need to gather together all the other information you possibly can that might help customer service locate your lost account. This includes:Your first and last name.Any email that you think might have been associated with your account.Any phone number that you think might have been associated with your account.Your home address as it was listed in your account.The order ID for your World of Warcraft purchase.The order IDs for the purchases of any World of Warcraft expansions.The names and associated realms for any of your World of Warcraft characters.The CD key from a physical copy of World of Warcraft.The CD key from any physical copy of a World of Warcraft expansion.Your username for any account from pre-Battle.net World of Warcraft.A picture of your government-issued photo ID.

Go to the World of Warcraft home page.

However the cursor over the Account link in the navigation bar at the top of the page.

A drop down menu will appear.

Click on the Log In link.

If you cannot remember the email associated with your World of Warcraft account, click on the "Forgot email?" link.

If it's your password you can't remember, skip to step 9.

Select your country from the drop down menu.

Enter the mobile number you has associated with your Battle.net account in the text field provided for it.

Click on the Continue button.

This option only works if you have SMS Protect on your Battle.net account.

Look for the text from Blizzard containing instructions on how to recover access to your World of Warcraft account.

Enter your email in the text field provided.

Press the Continue button.

Click on the "Forgot password" option.

Enter the email or phone number associated with your account in the text field provided.

Click on the Continue button.

Look for the email or text message from Blizzard containing instructions on how to reset your password.

If nothing else has worked, contact a World of Warcraft customer service representative directly.

World of Warcraft customer service

There is no phone-based customer support for World of Warcraft. However, there are online contact options.

Conclusion

Once you have contacted customer service, you will have to wait for them to investigate and get back to you. This could takes two or more weeks.

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