124178-i-havent-played-in-awhile-why-am-i-being-forced-to-rename-my-character

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I dont understand, it's a max level character. Ive never had this happen to me in any MMO before.
 
EDIT: It's going to force me to rename all of my characters??? Seriously?!	
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when all the servers were merged into one PVP megaserver and one PVE megaserver they added surnames to help get around the problem of naming conflicts when the servers merged
 
Everybody had to rename all their characters, its not so bad, you can use anything including titles as part of your first/last name	
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			Yeah, it annoyed me too when I came back. I just added a random last name to all of them and kept the original first names.	
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			It's not that bad. Your name can either be a FirstName LastName or Title Name, or Just throw a single letter in the second name, I see lots of Name X or Mr Jones. Gives you a bit more creativity. As you can see from my character names, I was not creative ;)	
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Yeah it was kind of annoying.
 
I got some funny names though, so it's not too bad c:	
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			TL;DR: Servers condensed, realms merged, characters require two names.	
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you can divide your own name like: Vha rros
you can add another name that goes with the lore: (chua) Vharros Vaux, (mordesh) Vharros Zarkoff, (aurin) Vharros Starlight,  (granok) Vharros boulderfist, (draken) Vharros battlehorn
you can add a letter or a name simbol: Vharros Alfa, Ultra Vharros, Vharros Xyou can do some weird stuff: XxVha rrosxX
or just for the lolz: Vharros Ownyou, Vharros killingmachine, Vharros theguynexttomelovechuas 
have fun giving your chars a last name	
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XY is a good default last name I like to use. Makes my characters sound like experiments, and doesn't take up too much screen real estate 
 
Bot is also a good last name for any mechari characters.
 
I was resistant but I ended up enjoying it because I get to reuse the first name on multiple characters.	
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			It's really not so bad. It's just that it makes all the money and effort spent on the name reservation system seem short-sighted. Hindsight being 20/20, they should have had a 2-word name system to begin with.	
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