Creating a new character has some issues right now.
Customized a new character, (tauren shaman, not a class trial).
Selected a starting area (Red Rock Mesa).
The finish button greyed out once pushed and nothing happened. I pushed ‘back’ and tried again, this time getting the error that the character name already exists (it didn’t before). I went back to the character select screen and it locked up, with a constant message of ‘retrieving character list’. I force quit the game.
Logging back in to the game, I found the character I tried to make in my character list, but he’s naked. Thinking this is just a visual issue and it hasn’t fetched his gear yet, I logged in. He has no gear.
This is also not unique, as two of my family tried to do the same thing, with the same results.
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Something similar happened to me today. I tried to create a character, got the error described above, and now the name shows as taken even though it showed as available before.
Unlike the OP though, the character was not created and isn’t on my character list even after a relog. Moreover, now I can’t create any new characters on that realm (creation on other realms works like normal). When I try to create a character on the realm, after selecting a starting zone and pressing finish, nothing happens for several seconds, until finally I get a popup saying “Error creating character.”