Guild Wars 2

Naming my character.

I’m terrible with character names and whenever I come up with one I like, despite how obscure it may be, it’s always taken.

I was thinking of just smashing my face on the keyboard but I’m sure whatever comes up would already be taken.

All of this made me think of something; when an account is banned for botting, are the character names released?
Some botting characters have a random string of letters for their names but a lot also have proper names, it’d be great if those names didn’t just go to waste…

All of my characters have the same first name. The last name is usually based on their race or profession. You may not like that approach, but it works for me, as I have problems coming up with names as well.

Actually, this is a real criticism I have.

When I first booted up GW2, I had very little idea about the naming conventions of the various races, or how the name I put in would be used in the game. (If, for example, people use your name when talking to you all the time, I would generally avoid putting in a first name and a surname, otherwise it will always seem excessively formal).

It would be nice if the character creation screens gave you some idea of how the names work in different races. I got clever with the Sylvari and looked up the folk names of various plants, but my other characters have very incongruous names.

Lol welcome to the club!

I had a list…. about 20 names i love! but

Focksbot – sadly that’s a little too specific and irrelevant for most players to make it to character creation. The best thing to do (I know, it’s too late to say this now!) would be to look at the wiki or any of the other excellent resources created while the game was in development. A Google search for ‘guild wars 2 race names’ already turns stuff up.

GW1 fans were well trained, I think, by the fact that that game required your character to have two names. Giving your character a surname makes it MUCH more likely you’ll get the name you want!