how to find out when you created your wow character

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I'd love to know the creation date of my first toon as well.

As luck would have it I created my current main on WoW's 4th Anniversary, as marked by my blizzard bear, so I have an achievement to mark her creation. ;P Would love to know about my older toons though. :S

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Did you create your character the same day you created your account? If you go into your account management, it'll show you what day you made your account.

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No answer-but would love to know for each of my characters (just so I could really, objectively tell how long it took to get to the point were they are now). You know, cause in your mind your thinking well "so and so" only took "x" amount of time yet "such and such" is taking so much longer with same amount of time invested, but unless you actually kept some kind of a journal on each character you probably aren't being realistic. (At least for me--days can run together what with juggling work, friends, wow, etc.)

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If you've been on the same computer since you created that character, you can check the creation date on that character's wtf folder. If you're on a PC, it'll be something like:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wtf\account\[account name]\[server name]\[toon name]

Right-click the folder, click Properties, and it'll be near the middle of the window that pops up.

(I'm not 100% sure of that path, you may have to poke around a bit to find it.)

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What if you're not or it had crashed and you had to have it re-built?

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If you've had to rebuild, you're sunk. The date on the folder will be the first day you returned to WoW (or that character) after the rebuild. If you're on a new computer but you copied your files over, the date might be correct.

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Ah I've deleted my WTF folder a few times so sadly that won't work. :(

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You could try to do /played or whatever it is and just count back from that?

Well.. it sounded good in my head at least. :/

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Oh, duh!! Nevermind, doesn't count for the days you don't play. Sorry. :(

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Yeah, the time it counts is real played hours. 1 day = 24 played hours. :) Man, I do wish that idea worked though.

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