Character Creation: How long does it take until you are satisfied?

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When creating your Character and Alts. How much time do you spend choosing just the right look. And just the right name.

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2 mins maybe

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5ish min for the character, over two hours for names.

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I agonize over names only to inevitably choose a bad one.

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Wait a minute :thinking:

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I have a lot of toons, and tend to stick to the same look for certain race/class combos. I spend maybe a minute or two on those. It’s the names that can take longer (although I do tend to keep to a theme with femme dorf pallys).

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10 minutes if that.

There is a barbershop for a reason.

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I like both gnomes and male night elves, the customization is easy because they only have one face and facial hair setup that I like.

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Not this one, I mean for my alts. Spring’s a great name, and my hunter here was named after a song from that general time in my life.

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As a roleplayer I usually paint a picture of what I want in my mind then go to the closest.

Though I know some people on here probably wouldn’t care, hit random like 5 times, name themselves “Deathsquelch” and call it a day.

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Depends on the customization options

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This game, not long tbh. Other games, can take upwards of 30 minutes. WoW still doesn’t have enough options. A good place to start would be to have ALL hair and beard styles available to ALL races.

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3 to 5 minutes if I already have an idea of what I want. I go through character customization fairly quickly. Up to 10 minutes if I am just playing around with stuff.

Its not like this game has a terribly complex character creator. Really wish they kept adding options to it, some races are still lacking compared to others. And even then it just doesnt seem like enough.

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Are we including the time it takes when I go to the barber shop and redo everything I thought I liked during character creation?

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Days
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I usually just randomize my character looks at the beginning. Can always go to the barber shop later.

I gave up looking for the perfect name in 2014. That was when I created my Worgen Warrior named Dawg. Today, it is either something randomized or I improperly use accented characters until I get a green check mark.

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The artist does not speak with the paint.

The paint speaks through the artist.

lmao.

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10 minutes probably, with tweaking in the barbershop once I get to see it in action under normal game lighting.

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I used to kinda meditate on what I had the urge to create, but it didn’t work out really because the philosophy of what I think the class should be was often the exact opposite than what the developers thought and it would be frustrating trying to play them for ‘class fantasy’ alone.

Now I do more in-depth research on what the classes are really like before I make one and it’s a lot better. I often will like something I didn’t think I would and vice-versa anyway, so I like to try how they feel in reality.

How they look doesn’t matter much, I mean compared to other mmos WoW’s customization options still feel limited as hell. I used to love designing characters on City of Heroes/Villains when it was a thing, in WoW I don’t care so much - it’s more about how if I’m actually going to stick playing the alt or end up deleting it when it’s lvl 20-30s or something, which I’ve wasted too much time doing lol.

I want to make a chocolate brown female dwarf just to be a Snowflake though. Isn’t that still one of the rarest type combinations? I was gonna make a Mistweaver Monk like that as an alt, I still might lol.

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Usually about 10 minutes. The hardest part are the names! I have a name idea, but it’s taken, so I have to dance around until I get something close to the name I initially planned!