Guild Wars 2

I have recently joined a large guild for the first time since I have started playing this game and I now realize I never know who is typing in chat when they are on multiple characters. I wonder if we could get the option to have guild chat show our account name instead of the character name? Or if that is already an option could someone please tell me how to do this.

Thanks

I honestly don’t think this is an option. At least it’s not one I’ve ever heard of. But it’s a smart idea.

They are revamping guild chat for HoT, including letting us see 5 guild chat channels at once. Perhaps account names will be an option then?

Meanwhile if you mouse over the name in chat you will see the account name.

Yeah, I confuse my guild all the time due to the fact I don’t have a main, and tend to swap chars for different things. I’d love it if you could turn on something that showed the account name like the timestamp.

Previously when I used to farm the Not So Secret JP chest with all my toons for the blade shards, I was hopping ~30 toons over an hour or so. This was very confusing to people in the guild who didn’t know who I was.

It was even worse back then because when you hopped characters, your guild chats were completely reset, so you had no idea of what people were talking about while you were in loading screens.

There is currently no way to see account names in guild chat, but I completely agree with this notion. It’s been very helpful in other games that have this same function with multiple guilds.

You can just mouseover the name in chat and see the account name. You can do the same thing in the open world with character portraits. It only works with if you’re both repping the same guild though. If HoT does bring in multi-guild chat, I’m not sure how that would work.

FrostyBou.5491:

Yeah, I confuse my guild all the time due to the fact I don’t have a main, and tend to swap chars for different things. I’d love it if you could turn on something that showed the account name like the timestamp.

Same here. When I am asked which character is my main I respond with a puzzled look. I would say all are (although some I like better than others) but it all depends on the situation. SW? Ranger, no question. Anything in the shiverpeaks? My engineer. Teq? My elementalist or my mesmer. It must confuse my guild like anything as I can be talking to them in one character one minute then change to another (although I try to give a bit of a warning).

You can give people nicknames. I tried to find more info to link, but couldn’t. I think you have to add someone to your contacts, then right click and create a nickname. After that, I believe all chat channels show the nickname. Up to you if you want to do that for 100 or more players

This is a great idea. It would be very helpful.