Guild Wars 2

Just a trivial question that suddenly came to mind.

How can you tell if a particular name for a character you want to create is used by another before you enter a name at the end of the character’s creation?

If there’s no definite answer, I’m not bothered by it.

As far as I know, there’s no way to know in advance until you try it when you’re done designing the character.

Only other way I can think of would be to enter the desired name into your contacts list. If someone has that name then you’ll have a new contact added. If nobody has a character with that name then it’ll tell you that there is no character that exists matching that name, you can then use it later on when you make a character.

I use what StinVec has all the time.

Actually I use my Block list to do it so I can unblock them easier (I keep it relatively clean).