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If you deactivate your subscription on World of Warcraft will it delete your characters or your account

If you deactivate your subscription on World of Warcraft will it delete your characters or your account
Short answer: NO
Longish answer: When you cancel/deactivate/don't pay your subscription, the account gets locked and no one can access it without restarting payments. This does not delete any toons and/or gear/gold. It just puts it into a kind of limbo state until someone pays the subscriptin fees again.