#1 - Jan. 16, 2015, 9:58 a.m.
Our server engineers were able to work some magic and get Garrisons to travel along with you when you copy your character over to the 6.1 PTR realms! Your followers, buildings, blueprints and active missions should copy over, but pending work orders will not.
The Character Copy system leverages the same technology that the Character Profiles on the web armory site uses. This means that if you've recently transferred or if your armory profile isn't loading properly you may not be able to transfer your character to the PTR right away.
We had to push some code to live 6.0.3 retail realms to enable the garrison copy. Without getting into too much technical detail, you need to make sure that your character armory profile is updated:
Log onto your retail character.Travel to your garrison.Fully log out of the game and wait a few minutes.Launch the PTR client via the Battle.net App (making sure the account drop-down says PTR)On the character selection screen, click the Copy Character button located under the Template Character box.Select your region in the upper-left corner.Press the Copy Account Data button in the bottom left and select Okay.Once that window closes, re-open the Copy Character screen.Your characters should be listed here.Copy your character over to the PTR, and login! You should be in your garrison!
If you're not sure your Character Profile is updating, an easy test is to remove a piece of gear (boots, for example), and log out. Once you see your character on the armory without boots, you know it updated properly!
