Guild Wars 2

Hi, newbie chat question, whenever I whisper to someone their name
appears at the bottom of screen, fine but how do I now remove it so I
can talk in general to people.

Thanks, rein

Either type / and the chat (so say is s, map is m, so /s or /m), hit space and type away or click the name and select the chat you want from the list that appears.

Thank you, I’ll try that.

rein

I had this issue as well. I whispered someone & could not clear their name afterwards. I logged out & back in because I could not figure out how to fix it.

So we type /m, and hit space to remove?

Any time you type /(letter or word), you convert your chat to that channel even if you just hit enter instead of typing something to say in it. So,

/s (or /say) — White text, locally visible
/e (or /em) — Grey text, visible a bit further than white text (lets you type custom emotes to describe RP action)
/m (or /map) — Red text, zone wide. Instances in a zone (such as the home instance) count as their own zones for this.
/g (or /guild) — Gold-brown text, guild chat, world-wide.
/t (or /team) — I don’t know the color, I don’t WvW enough or sPvP at all. Reaches everyone on your side of the battle in the zone.
/d (I think? or /squad) — Yellow text, I don’t know if it lasts outside zones but you get it by joining a Commander’s squad, up to … 50 players? … that can communicate in a sub-group in an area

If I want to make sure not to accidentally spam map or whisper with hotkey commands (hey, it happens), I tend to hit /g-space-enter when I have a moment so anything I type after that goes to my guild. They’re most understanding.

Donari.5237:

Any time you type /(letter or word), you convert your chat to that channel even if you just hit enter instead of typing something to say in it. So,

/s (or /say) — White text, locally visible
/e (or /em) — Grey text, visible a bit further than white text (lets you type custom emotes to describe RP action)
/m (or /map) — Red text, zone wide. Instances in a zone (such as the home instance) count as their own zones for this.
/g (or /guild) — Gold-brown text, guild chat, world-wide.
/t (or /team) — I don’t know the color, I don’t WvW enough or sPvP at all. Reaches everyone on your side of the battle in the zone.
/d (I think? or /squad) — Yellow text, I don’t know if it lasts outside zones but you get it by joining a Commander’s squad, up to … 50 players? … that can communicate in a sub-group in an area

If I want to make sure not to accidentally spam map or whisper with hotkey commands (hey, it happens), I tend to hit /g-space-enter when I have a moment so anything I type after that goes to my guild. They’re most understanding.

Team chat is a bright red
Map chat is more of a dark red/brownish color
And Whispers/PM are a lavander/purple color.