Don’t do like I did, found my name was not taken, then deleted it to recustomize my char. Name taken they said …can’t use my name of choice anymore for some reason
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The reason is simple, all names are first come, first serve. You gave up the name, someone else grabbed it, you no longer can have it unless they give it up and you get it.
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Grabbed it in the milisecond I deleted the char
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I really wonder how dangerous it’s going to be to delete and recustomize your character on launch night. I don’t doubt there will be MANY people who sit down at 6pm EST on 8/26 (or your local equivalent) and simply spam the name they wanted but missed out on for hours straight, so the second you delete your character, however briefly, you lose the name. If you want to recustomize a character, best to do it in the dead of night well before launch. Sorry you lost your name, though. Unlucky 
Proably set up an autoclicker or script to spam character creation waiting for you to delete it.
That’s the only way I can think of to be sure to grab the name, the odds that they just happened to try at that moment are astronomically low.
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You can make a character in the character creation, switch to a new race, which “saves” the current appearance for the first race, and then back out of character creation. Now you can delete the original char, go to character creation, switch to desired race and enter name without wasting time editing appearances!
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wait…wut?
Way over my head, I just recreate 
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I just did it early Saturday morning. Figured few woke up as early as I do, deleted and remade my chars. No issues. But my names may not be as popular as other peoples.
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Did you try again a minute or so later, in case there was a small period of time required?
Yes I tried and still taken to this day
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Curious what the name was.
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If you’re going to change about the appearance or whatever I’d do it during a ‘down period’. Like in the morning or something. I’ve done it at least 12 times because we moved servers. no issues
Someone probably scripted something to just spam character creation on a name and left it there for days
Its unfortunate but find solace knowing whoever did that was probably a degenerate and needs the name way more than you do
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Blizzard doesn’t notice that an account is attempting to create a toon 86,400 times every day?
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Good news is you can get on day 1 and let them know how you feel since you know their name. In fact, I wouldn’t do this to someone for 1 because I’m not evil, but for 2 because he’s already getting a bad reputation with someone on the realm and it hasn’t even started.
That sucks though. I’m sorry.
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The risk we all take when RSVPing a name, i had to work had my son RSVP 3 names which he made all undead wars lol.
Last night i decided to roll the dice and set up 2/3 , luck was on my side.
Glad I already did mine soon after the initial wave. I figured people would camp out a bit before recreating and so did others so they never expected me to do it suddenly!
I am so glad I took the chance on the names, by making the characters first. I keep hearing these stories of people that went back to fix something on their character and then lost it.
To be fair the other person might have just tried for the name when you went to fix the character and may not have even know the name had ever been previously taken.
I am sorry you lost your name OP, I hope that you find a better one.
I wouldn’t think they do. It’s not like it could crash the servers or break the game
Unless they are on the opposite faction
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