What a Ban Reaches on a Forever Account

The account holds things the character does not

Legacy points are the clearest account-level object in Forever. Blizzard's own description puts them on the Battle.net account rather than on the character who earned them, shared by every non-Hardcore character, with 65 challenges published and 16 points spendable on any single character. That is progress which does not belong to a character at all. A measure applied at account level therefore reaches further than the trade that prompted it, while a measure applied to one character leaves the shared pool untouched. Which of the 2 Forever uses has not been described anywhere.

What is on record is 3 lines from the September 17 Q&A: GDKP is not allowed, the economy is to be watched with the stated aim of reclaiming laundered gold, and the stance on buyers is described as harder than in previous years. None of those names a scope, a threshold or a method. The wording is short enough to read in full, and it is worth keeping apart from anyone's summary of it, which is why the stated RMT policy sits on its own rather than inside a forecast.

One split is already visible in the design. Because the shared pool covers non-Hardcore characters, progress made by a character on the Hardcore ruleset is accounted for separately from the rest. Nothing has been said about whether enforcement follows that same line, so treat it as a fact about Legacy points rather than a fact about penalties. It is still the useful starting point: before asking what a measure takes, it is worth knowing which of your progress the game itself files under the account.

Moving property out changes less than it looks

The reflex when risk is unclear is to shuffle things: mail the gear to an alt, park the coins on a second character, drop stock in the guild bank. Inside one Battle.net account none of that changes which account holds the property. Legacy points cannot be shuffled at all, because they are not items and they were never on the character in the first place. That is the part of a Forever account most unlike a Classic one, and it is the part that no amount of mailing reorganises.

Handing property to another player is a different operation, and it is final in the ordinary way any sale is final. The limits are the same ones that govern every delivery in the game: faction, region and playstyle all have to match at both ends, which is set out with the channels themselves in handing coins to another player. Because the world is split into 6 separate markets, stock built in one of them cannot be lifted into another, so there is no outside shelf to put anything on.

One client rule narrows the shuffling further. A Bind on Equip item whose appearance you have not collected binds when you sell it to a vendor, so the buyback window does not return something tradeable. Practically, that means the decision about what reaches the auction house is made before the vendor rather than after, and it applies whatever your reason for emptying the bags. None of this is advice about risk; it is simply the shape of what an account can and cannot move.

Questions

Is a penalty applied to the character or to the account?

Nobody has published an answer for Forever. The only account-level object we can point to with a source is the Legacy pool, which Blizzard describes as held on the Battle.net account and shared by every non-Hardcore character. That tells you what the game files under the account; it does not tell you what any enforcement measure is applied to, and we are not going to infer one from the other.

Do Legacy points travel with a character?

No. They are earned by completing challenges and then held on the Battle.net account, shared by every non-Hardcore character, with 65 challenges published and 16 points spendable on any one character at a time. That makes them the one piece of progress that cannot be moved, mailed, traded or reorganised between your own characters, because it was never attached to a character to begin with.

Does moving gear and coins to an alt accomplish anything?

Inside a single account it moves property between your own characters and nothing else. Handing property to another player is a genuine transfer, but it is also a sale you cannot reverse, and it still has to obey the ordinary limits: same faction, same region, same playstyle. Since the world is split into separate markets that cannot trade with each other, there is no neutral place outside those limits to hold anything.

Does any of this change what gold costs?

It is part of what a seller prices in, because turnover on delivery characters and accounts is a cost like any other. With no official exchange in Forever there is no reference rate to anchor a quote against, so the number comes from farming hours, how many sellers cover a given playstyle that day, and how thin the market is behind them. That is why quotes are republished daily rather than stated once.