Guild Wars 2

Situation:
I have played GW1 for many years, made many friends and joined many guilds. I do remember the character names of those people from GW1. I even remember some of their guild names and tags.

However, there are many who left GW1 for whatever reason. But they came back for GW2. But you did not have a chance to talk to them before GW2 was released.

And so they made a new account and linked it to their GW1 account.
Some people used their GW1 character names and I could trace them back. But others used brand new character names.

I would like a way to find the people I knew back in GW1 by character name.
I still have them in my GW1 friendlist, but I cannot communicate with them because nobody ever logs in to GW1 anymore.

GW1 had no “server restriction” and everyone could meet anywhere anytime. GW2 on the other hand, restricts players to their server. Therefore you might not even encounter each other suddenly while roaming open world. Moreover, WvW hides all enemy character names, so I will never know that the person I just killed was a former good friend of mine. You might meet somehow in dungeons, but may not recognize each other because of new names.

You can currently input any GW1 player’s character name in HoM website and it can tell you how many HoM points they have. Could it perhaps find a way to tell you which GW2 account is linked to that GW1 character name?

Well, if you can remember any of their characters’ names, you could look them up that way. I know of a few players from Guild Wars that reused their old characters names when they made the transition since they were allowed to keep them for a few months after launch.

TriggerSad.2597:

Well, if you can remember any of their characters’ names, you could look them up that way. I know of a few players from Guild Wars that reused their old characters names when they made the transition since they were allowed to keep them for a few months after launch.

I did, and for many of them there was no match, even after trying different combinations. Some might simply not be playing GW2, but I am sure there are people i knew from GW1 that are in GW2 under completely different character and account names.

I am probably not the only person looking for “former GW1 friends” in GW2.