Guild Wars 2

Please add the ability to save and load character customizations during character creation. On a couple of my characters, I’ve wanted to go back to change one little option in character creation (like wanting to change which charr warband member I work with after actually meeting them in the tutorial area), and I have to re-do every single selection, every single slider every time. If I could save it before creating my character, I would only have to load that saved customization to get all of it back the next time.

This would also be useful for anyone who customizes their character, then decides they would rather pick a different class, and goes back to class selection to find that it resets all of their customizations as soon as they pick a class, and won’t go back to the custom ones if they re-select their original class. (Alternately, make the game stop doing that.)

As a minor extra benefit, players who want to make “twin” characters in-game could make one, then send the saved file to their friend so that their friend could use it to make an identical-looking character. Or there could be a community of people who make really cool-looking pre-designed characters and trade them to others. I’ve played several other MMOs with robust character creation that have just this kind of feature (Champions Online is my favorite example of this), and it can be a lot of fun.

While I’m at it, is it possible for the game to check whether or not a name is available before actually creating the character? It could be another X in the bottom corner. “This name is already in use.” That way, I could check which names are available FIRST, then decide which one of them I like best.

I’ve had a few times so far where I was messing with spelling variations on a name to try to find one that wasn’t taken yet, and only realized AFTER I found one that wasn’t that it was starting to look too much like another name that I don’t like very much. Which leads me back to my original suggestion, because I need to delete my character and re-do all of my customizations just to get back to the name page and start trying to find a good name again.

I would love this option! I totally agree!

Signed. Nothing more frustrating than having to remake the entire character because you are too tall or too short or you like the design but dislike the class.