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I only use that for throwaway characters. I have to have a name I like for characters I intend on playing
As others have said.
google âspecial charactersâ.
when you get to that character its usually ALT and three numbers to get the special character to pop up.
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No, itâs 2 expacs of no activity. Itâs never been a policy that a name frees up in 6 months.
If you delete a character of a certain level, I believe itâs 30, the name will free up in 30 days.
If you do a name change the name frees up in 90 days.
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If youâre using windows go search bar and type character map. You can copy paste and it will give you the command to on how to use the desired letter. Not only that but i been able to put symbols in trade chat like hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds due to it 
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Iâm allergic 
I am weird. Gotta name check to make sure no one else has it, otherwise I wonât use it. Itâs a problem
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There is nothing wrong with special characters, there is something wrong with the naming policy in place for WoW. Plus if it wasnât for special characters how else would I be able to pull off PurĂ© sounding like something a paladin would call themselves while meaning Mashed Potatoes in spanish.
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Really i thot it was 6 months
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I have a hard time believing they even allow special characters given they wont just let us use an underscore or a dash, for god sake.
its like names get hard enough to find something fitting without the restrictions. NPCs have last names, how about doing that?
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FF14 does many things right including the name selection. You can have a first and last name as well as some other MMORPGâs. Though at this point so late into the game it may never be a thing. I donât think Blizzard or community will justify this as an important enough issue to put money and man power behind to fix. WoW is basically 20 years old.
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Blizzard Customer Support will not release names at all for WoW Classic or Wrath of the Lich King Classic, regardless of how long the account or character has been inactive.
Thats funny cuz my classic name got taken
Iâm not surprised. Like I originally said: their name release policy is absolute garbage.
And Iâm sorry your name was stolen. That would really piss me off.
There is an exploited loop hole that people do use. Get you and your friends to report a person for their name. Get them banned and their name revoked, then use their name. Donât worry about them fighting the ticket either. Seeing how the ticket responses are all automated to not help you, they arenât ever going to get their name back.
My favorite one on reddit is when they sent a ticket in for being banned (when they werenât) and if they could get unbanned cause they werenât violating the ToS. The automated system said that it was looked over and they found the verdict justified. Then saying they wonât be unbanned, then they resumed playing the game. Was hilarious.
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I dont mind i wasent really playing that character anyway
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ive added the character with the name i want on some larger servers onto my friends list, havent seen them log on ever in years. kinda crappy
I am the most non creative person ever and i never have trouble coming up with a name. Use your brain.
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i know most of em by heart⊠playing for 20yrs and using the same looking names will do that! lol
as horde, i was known as some accented version of Lucifer⊠Fooki is my ally side.
I have deleted level 30+ (including a few 70s) and immediately reused the name. I donât know if thatâs because the name was already on my account, though.
Names do get freed up. I had a couple of my alts lose their names because I didnât log on to them for a long time. Thankfully the names werenât actually taken yet so I got them back when I logged in to rename them. That was quite awhile ago though, but it does happen.
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Thatâs exactly why.
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