Guild Wars 2

I think I know the answer but would appeciate if someone could help me out.
I have a friend who will be starting to play the game soon, when he gets a new pc. Like many of us he has a favourite name he uses for all his characters. I am not talking forum/account names, but in game character name.

If I make a character on my account with this name, then delete it when my friend joins the game, will this effectively ‘reserve’ the name for him?

thanks in advance

Not 100% sure but think the name would be reserved for you for about 24 hours or so after you delete the character

Did your friend play Guild Wars? If he has the HoM and used the name(s) in that game it should be reserved for him already.

If it’s like GW1, it may last maybe a day. I remember creating a name I liked in GW1 for a PvP character.. later, deleted it for slot space and made a different character. Came back maybe a day or two later to use the same name, and it was gone.

It is supposed to reserve it for 24 hours after deletion pretty much.

And Sandra, the name reservations from GW1 have already expired. There are no names being reserved now aside from ones that are already taken or have been decently in the last 24 hours.

Oh, I didn’t realise that
I just assumed it would carry on so never checked.
Thanks Sisho