Hi all,
Like many of you, I was playing Legion Remix. I was on my newly created demon hunter named ‘‘Onryo’’ and I think there might’ve been some server issues? I couldn’t change talents, hand in quests or even log out. So I completely closed the game, and tried to log back in. But when I want to go back on my DH, I get the message ‘‘A character with that name already exists.’’
Is this just a random bug? Does the game still think my character is logged in? Someone didn’t steal the name, right?
Pretty confused.
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Hi,
happens both in Legion Remix and TWW.
I am basically unable to do anything - handing quests in, teleporting from Dornogal to OG, placing recrafting orders etc.
Everything results in some sort of “eternal lag” for me - I can still move and see other people doing stuff, but I can’t use any abilities, mount up, use items, even not able to log out… When I alt+F4 and try to log back in, it says “A character with that name already exists”.
The game is basically unplayable at the moment and there are currently no reactions from Blizz on this matter.
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I’ve not been on Remix yet but it does sound like there are issues atm.
The ‘character already exists’ happens when your character hasn’t logged out properly and the game is confused.
- Try logging into a different character and then logging fully out of the game
- Reset your user interface to make sure your files and addons are not corrupted
- You may need to wait to allow the server to remove the character, which happens after 30 minutes of inactivity
I would avoid doing their step 2 unless absolutely necessary. Having your interface reset is a pain.
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Just adding a +1 that I have this issue.
Didn’t even get out of starting area. I was configuring my UI and addons for the new char (just copying profiles from other chars, nothing too fancy), and then when I went to complete first quest realised my whole char was soft locked and I couldn’t do anything.
Restarted wow and bnet, but now I get the error “A Character With That Name Already Exists”. Guess I’ll wait 30 mins and retry…
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I’ve been getting this all morning too.
To top it off, i just did the mm hunter artifact quest and at the end of the scenario, I got the bow and it wouldn’t let me leave. Hearthstone used but didn’t teleport me anywhere etc.
I logged out, did the character stuck option to which got me out but it also rolled me back in level to 13 from 14. I had level 14 shoulders equipped that were red because i was too low level for them!
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Getting the same issues here to on Lemix.
I have no addons installed.
Unable to interact with quest hand in.
Abilities don’t work.
Unable to exit game or log out.
Unable to log in as “Character already exists”
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The best thing is just start remix tomorrow when the servers gonna be less loaded
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I’m getting a DC while trying to do a public craft XDDDD then my JC “already exists” :V
Same issue happens with TWW as well… I cant leave a bg, I cant click any button basically
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Its Legion Nomix right now.
And “The World Without”.
Nothing seems to work.
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I rlly thought its b/c of my addons or something but aparently everybody encounters the same thing, for the past 2 h I wasted my time trying to join few skirmishes that were 2v1s mostly, not being able to leave them afterwards, quing anything from bg to dungeons, that didn’t work either, as soon as I got the q it ended in not being able to enter, not being able to port in any other city and so on… I understand its a big day today, its normal that these things happened, and I am sure this will be fixed asap, just be patient guys its not the end of the world, take a break smoke a cig and chillax
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Same here. The only thing that works for me is the unstuck character service from Blizzard Support, but it has a 4 hour CD… So maybe, and until they fix it for good, they should disable the CD to that service and let us unstuck every single time it happens this awful bug.
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yeah Im afraid to queue anything rated… dont want to get slapped by -150cr just because I had to alt f4 in the end
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I won’t say I’ve had zero issues, but minor ones and I’m able to play just fine.
Maybe these problems are more prevalent on busy servers?
Lag has gotten out of hand again in Lemix it worked for a while nut now I cannot do anything . Cannot access Felhammer/ Order hall, cannot turn in qs… Blizz pls help
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I got this error because I relogged since my game were lagging in legion remix.
Logged out and now I cannot login.
I have turned my PC down and are not even online. My GF added my character on her friend list to see when it goes offline.
It is online while my entire account are offline gg blizzard I cannot get back in.
I cannot even delete the character because it is online.
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understatement currently in the last 4 hours i’ve had to alt f4 as the game cant close when you want to hand a quest in and the game bugs out and your stuck there can’t doing anything 15 times. then game has just done it again where cant hand a quest in , this release is nothing short of a complete blizzard 100% disaster with guess what no reply from anyone about the issues this game is causing.
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So right now most of our guild is logged in twice in guild list, with one with a stuck main. This has been going on for hours now, not 15mins and it’s happened to people with vanilla UIs.
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My Remixer is on a dead French realm.