Character recreation?

[Shioban]

How would they know? It was a client-side issue.

When we logged in we were asked to change our characters, if we didn't want to change anything we'd just continue on with the old appearance it loaded (our old characters) and moved on.
There was no option to import any other data from the benchmark, which a lot of us had put time into perfecting our characters we wanted to use for ARR. As SOON as you logged in the data was locked, whether it was a new and or same appearance.

Only 1.0 characters are affected by this issue, therefore only 1.0 players will receive a Phial of Fantasia. Easy.
Each character is marked as being a 'Legacy' (Legacy in this case meaning any 1.0 imported characters) and 'Non-Legacy.'