EmpireManager normally learns about your characters one at a time - you log into each one and it shows up in the Dashboard.
Fine for 3 alts. Tedious for 30. Ridiculous for 60.
There’s a better way: GetCharacters - a one-page web tool on this site that reads your roster from the Battle.net API and hands back a paste-ready import string.
1. Authorize Battle.net#
Click Login with Battle.net.
You’ll be redirected to Blizzard’s OAuth page. It asks for read-only access to your WoW character list - no ability to modify anything, no access to gold, items, or your email. The access token lives only in your session and is cleared when you log out; nothing about your roster is written to disk. Privacy details.
2. Fetch Your Roster#
Click Fetch Characters. Your Battle.net accounts appear with checkboxes (one per WoW account, with a character count). Check the accounts you want to import - usually just your main account, but you can include alt accounts too.
Optionally narrow things down with the Filter by name, realm, class, profession… box if you only want a subset.
Then click Fetch Professions & Details. The import string appears in the textbox below, in the same format the in-game Import/Export window expects. Hit Copy to clipboard.
3. Paste Into the Addon#
In-game:
- Open the Import/Export window - click the button in the Dashboard header, right-click the minimap button, or run
/em ie. - Paste the string into the text area.
- Check Auto-assign roles (recommended - assigns Artisan and Gatherer roles automatically from detected professions).
- Click the Import button (bottom-right).
Done. Every character from your Battle.net account now appears in the Dashboard. Characters you never log into just stay partial, which is fine.
What Gets Imported#
The registry format carries:
| Field | Source |
|---|---|
| Name, realm, class, race, faction, level, guild, ilvl, spec | Battle.net API |
| Professions (including per-expansion skill levels) | Battle.net API |
Sort order (# column in the Dashboard) | Existing export, if any |
What Auto-assign Roles Actually Does#
Unchecked: creates the character entries, no role changes.
Checked: in addition to creating entries, assigns Artisan and Gatherer roles from the detected profession fields:
- Character has a crafting profession → Artisan (with that profession checked).
- Character has a gathering profession → Gatherer (with that profession checked).
Other roles (Banker, Auctioneer, Lockpicker, Zookeeper, PvPer) are not auto-assigned. They’re strategic choices that shouldn’t be inferred from the API.
What’s Not Imported#
- Gold and bag contents - populated on first login.
- Non-profession role assignments - you check these manually in the Sidecar.
- Zone / subzone / last-seen - populated when the character logs in.
If Import Fails#
Validation errors print to chat. Failed lines are skipped; valid lines continue. See Import & Export for the full validation reference.
See also#
- Quickstart - now that you have a roster, configure your first rules in 4 more minutes.
- Roles & Assignments - what Artisan, Gatherer, and the other roles actually do.
- Import & Export - full reference for both data formats.