characters not deleted?

i still have my dervish on my character select screen...will i be able to use it again when the game comes out (and i buy it)?

Yes , your characters will not be deleted, they never said that ,they will get reset to lvl 1 , all items gained gone, and money 0.

The titles you earned will also be reset the 3 things that remain are

Your character ,Which class they are which skin you choose which height etc.
Naked i believe,for if they want to change how the armor looks they woudnt want to give away before game releases.

The name will be saved.

All skills you unlocked will remain unlocked,So that means your pvp character can use them, of course not the dervish or paragon skills cause you have to be a dervish or paragon in order to use those skills,but when game releases your heros can already use those skills even tho you havent learned it yet.

Dang i thought I was going to start nightfall with a lvl 11 dervish o well...

I still have my blood red and black dyed armor and hes still level 13.

For now Who knows what October 27th will bring :P

Aww, I was hoping to keep the 3 plat my Nuker has.

Well I hope they don't let us keep inventory items but it would be nice if they let us keep what we were wearing and level and just reset our location, money, quests, titles and anything not equipted. What could that hurt?

it would mean you would hit 20 early. wont happen.

Yes, It's basically the same thing they did with Factions.

After Nightfall comes out, you will have two weeks or so to add a Nightfall key. Once the two weeks are up, and no Nightfall key is added, then the characters are deleted.

Once you do add the key anyways, basically everything on that character will be gone except the name.

Not really as big of a deal as people make it anyways. Most people were here during the Factions preview weekend, and should know how it works. Even so, you also need to remember that any progress we did make on those accounts only took two days to complete in the first place, so really shouldn't be a big loss.

Whats wrong with that? People can hit 20 in a day. Saw it during the preview.

If the game had a level cap of 50 or somesuch I could see it being a problem but thats not really an issue with guild wars.

But its not the factions preview. Didn't you start out as level 20 in the factions preview and weren't you aloud to go much farther in the game? I wasn't there but thats what I heard. They also had a big celebration at the end. None of which has happened.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.

Factions preview took place in the Kurzik area, with lvl 20 monsters. This time the "pre area" was big enough to explore so they could have the preview there, if the had had the Factions preview at Shing-jeia Island I doubt the would have sold more than 50 thousand copys of factions.

I created a Elonian PVP necro, but used all prophecies skills etc. I can still use that character. I picked the face with the gouged out eye, and have been playing with him in RA even after the event finished. But yeah my dervish is still there but i think ill delete him anyway.

Actually they DID "Ever say that" >_> They used the phrase "will be removed from participating accounts"

But of course that has changed.

Well if you look at the game updates page they say they will be reset not removed. I just assumed that when they say "participating accounts" they meant the limited event accounts and not actual game accounts.

Haha... I *hope* I can keep everything. I still have a 20/20 sword hilt on my character in his inventory.

Yes, but that's the incredible minority that you saw. It'd be a bit unfair to others if some changes further along makes things different.

Yes, level 20, and with some end-event killings. That was the Factions preview. Who said Nightfall preview had to be the conducted in the same way? You actually just started off in the middle of the story, not "allowed" to go further.

Actually by sunday level 18, 19 and 20 were becoming quite common. Thats only 3 days.

Its an instanced game its not like someone being higher level is going to mess with your game but it rewards them for putting in work during the weekend. Sure Anet doesn't need to do that since we all knew they planned to delete the characters but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice if they did.

Thats exactly my point. He was saying that people who played the factions even should know how it works. This isn't the factions preview everything including not resetting the character completely could be different.

Your characters will be reset. You will keep: PvP unlocks, character appearance and name. For many players, retaining their name is siginificant and is enough to keep a PvP toon rolled with the same name or to simply leave their Dervish/Paragon idling until they add Nightfall.

I like my Paragon character appearance except I think I made her too tall now that I think about it. I'm not going to delete her though, just in case my Gray Giant doesn't carry over if I delete her. Just in case, I want to shove it in storage

meh, doesnt matter...i killed my dervish and my Rt (who was on factions) and in turn made a warrior and another Rt and plan on making a dervis and paragon when nightfall comes out. then much later, a monk!