I agree 100% with Luthen. I think it's a bit unfair to expect us to downsize our characters in this short of a time frame. While some may not have trouble doing so, I will. As a recent permanent player of Blight, I still have the originals of all my characters on their original shards. The thought of losing them has me a bit upset. While I'll never return to a live shard, I hate the idea of deleting those characters.

I'm not disgruntled about downsizing (even though I'm not pleased with it either), just the time frame of which was given.