That one character....

ajc2123

ajc2123

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

North of the wall

Me/

Is there that one character that you have on your account, you never use, but you just can't get yourself to delete?

For example, my main character for the longest time is a warrior and she is my oldest character, going on 5 in another yearish. Problem is, I now have 2 warriors, and never use her anymore. I just use my other since she is prettier, has a more original name, great armor, more skills, better geared heroes etc etc.

I wanna start a new warrior to start getting some titles. since both of mine don't have legendary survivor (before the title existed).My mes is at 26 (stopping there....no money titles for me.) and I just wanted to start over to hold me over till gw2.

Now to my problem, I just can't get myself to delete her! I don't wanna spend 10 more bucks on another slot, shes the closest to getting me a free 5 year mini (even though my hall is full and I don't care for minis much. ), I have so much fan fiction about her. I am just so torn up to delete her despite just being some data on a server.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there someway you can push me to delete her? What convinced you to delete this character of yours?

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

If you don't like the character, delete it if you don't have any other options. Yeah, the 4 year old issue would be an obstacle. Oh well? Not much more I can say...i deleted characters until I settled on a set that I was happy with. It cost me 5 characters which would all have been 5 years old now (as well as many others at 2-3 years old) but que sera.

Lanier

Lanier

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

[Pink]

P/

Iv been having this same problem with my dervish... Iv had him for over two years (he actually got me nice minis for the first two birthdays so i guess i can't complain) but he is only lvl 19 and i cant pull myself to delete him. The reason is because I got some nice weapons for him early on that I customized. Its gotten to the point that I just use him as a storage character now.

My advice for you is to go ahead and buy the new slot if you really want a new character that bad. Personally, I would never buy a new slot but I never wanted to create a new character as badly as it appears you want to and I always used my PvP slot in the past to create new characters (that I ended up deleting a few days later so I could make a new PvP character for whatever reason). If I were in your position though, I would rather pay 10 dollars than delete my oldest character, especially if he were almost 5 years old.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

I like creating characters, and for the longest time was unable to allow myself to delete them---but I got over it and have deleted a bunch---none of them more than level 4 though (one was 2 years old, deleted her after she got her mini)....
with the stylist now I can 'change' the look of my characters (I just do the previews...no need to spend the money)....so that has gotten me kinda over my 'fix' of character creation---though I see a warrior and a ranger on my radar for deletion soon! (warrior is my pre-post character so she was created TO be deleted periodically anyways).

but my older characters no, I thought very long and hard before I made them so a hairdo make over was all they got (mostly because of clipping type issues).

Mustache Mayhem

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

BEN

R/N

I've got a mule like that.. she's only good for booty dancing

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

monk. 1st character ever. hate monking, lol. figures eh ;-)

Firebaall

Firebaall

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Spend the money on another character slot. Don't cheap out. Otherwise....delete it. You have the two choices. Pick one.

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

I've got a Dervish who I made last summer as sort of a self-sustained challenge (no access to storage). I messed around with different builds and made a Lyssa Dagger Spammer for kicks. Sadly, she's not seeing much use these days as I've been focusing on getting GWAMM on the main. Seeing how fun the "challenge" was, I can't bring myself to delete her. That and I really like her name and style, as it fits a theme with my other two Dervishes (<Name> the <Elemental Color>).

My poor Monk hasn't seen playtime in years, but I can't delete him because I love the name, which is in reference to my favorite Korean food. Lastly, my PvP sin needs to get the axe because I maxed Kurzick last month, but like the others, he just has an awesome name that I don't want anyone else to have (subtle nod to a recent Republican presidential candidate that didn't make the cut).

Being so close to five years old, I'd keep the character.

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

I've got a level 20 elementalist on my account that I never play, but will never delete. He's maybe my second-oldest, if not the oldest on my account, so I keep him around for birthday presents and storage.

I don't play him because I don't care for playing elementalist, I hate how he looks, I hate his name, can't be arsed to pay for changing those, don't have room to jam all the stuff he carries into other places, don't see any exciting reason to start playing him again, don't really have the time to be dicking around with another character like that, I hate how little progress I've made with him over the years...

To think that I used to believe he would be my main. Then I deleted the first ranger I ever made, which was also the first character I completed Prophecies with, and then made Shayne, and he and I quickly became inseparable. The elementalist was left in the dust, and my last big push I made with him was completing Nightfall before completely ditching any efforts to do anything with him.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Deakon View Post
Isn't it a bad idea to put your character's names on a public forum, given the rash of account hacks?
That's why the option to put your character names in your profile was removed. By now though, people should realize that revealing your character name is a level of risk. If people want to talk about their character names with anyone on here, doesn't seem like a problem to me.

Deakon

Deakon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

Arkansas

Just The Four Of Us [TRIO]

Mo/E

I'm like that with my Paragon. I've got 1 of each class, each lvl20, and an extra monk that I just brought over from pre so I could 55 in Kryta without the WiK stealing my aggro. Anyways... That's the main reason I keep her. She's my only Paragon. I seldom use my ranger either even though it's fun to play.

Side note... Isn't it a bad idea to put your character's names on a public forum, given the rash of account hacks?

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Deakon View Post

Side note... Isn't it a bad idea to put your character's names on a public forum, given the rash of account hacks?
Happens all the time in the trade forums, but I've been feeling very paranoid lately, so I changed it.

Diab Soule

Diab Soule

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm View Post
I've got a Dervish who I made last summer as sort of a self-sustained challenge (no access to storage). I messed around with different builds and made a Lyssa Dagger Spammer for kicks. Sadly, she's not seeing much use these days as I've been focusing on getting GWAMM on the main. Seeing how fun the "challenge" was, I can't bring myself to delete her. That and I really like her name and style, as it fits a theme with my other two Dervishes (<Name> the <Elemental Color>).

My poor Monk hasn't seen playtime in years, but I can't delete him because I love the name, which is in reference to my favorite Korean food. Lastly, my PvP sin needs to get the axe because I maxed Kurzick last month, but like the others, he just has an awesome name that I don't want anyone else to have (subtle nod to a recent Republican presidential candidate that didn't make the cut).

Being so close to five years old, I'd keep the character.
You could delete those chars and recreate news one with the exact same name.

tuna-fish_sushi

tuna-fish_sushi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

California

E/A

Got a Ranger I hardly ever use, can't delete him since I bought him obby armor and would feel it a waste. I may convert him to female for some dancing action in kamadan when bored...

Gill Halendt

Gill Halendt

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

16 characters on my main account, some of them are hardly used, if at all.

Yet every character of mine has his/her own background story.. Some of them are pretty much mementos of different periods of a quite troubled life: it's fun to see how I came to utterly different styling choices through times, subconsciously reflecting my mood.

Every time I look at them, I remember the inspiration, the motivations that brought me to the creation of each of them, so I can't just delete any, I keep on buying new slots and accumulate...

Benderama

Benderama

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2008

UK

[Rage]

Rt/

yeah i have that problem so much, i deleted one of my chars like that but now i wanna do it again XD better to delete once you've done all you want to do with him/her.

Mintha Syl

Mintha Syl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2010

My ritu. She's weak and boring, and for the moment I don't want to spend time changing completely her build and everything, and I dodn't even know if I would enjoy her even with another build. But I don't like deleting, I'd rather buy a new slot. And in the meantime an unused char can be a good mule.

jch_8705

jch_8705

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

77550 USA

Prophets of Eveready Magic

D/

my paragon he was my very first lvl 20 character ( and i had prophecies and factions way longer than NF) got him his hierophant spear and vabbi armor hes 4 years old and ive had the game for about 5+ years now took me a year to finnaly get a character i liked...i loved and still love the wings from the chants and such

Abedeus

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

R/

I don't delete my unplayed characters, because they are usually over 2 or 3 years old. Soon getting another gift on my Ranger... and if I hadn't deleted my Necromancer back in the times of Factions, I would have 5th year anniversary gift coming soon ;[

FireWhale

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2009

W/E

I have 9 chars and I play all of them (all profs except para. nothing against paras, I just don't want to spend the money). I used to have two wars but I deleted the 1 year old one in favor of the four year old one. My sin is gwamm and the rest have all of their prof's skills and runed heroes and have completed all campaigns and eotn. I think the fact they are all very developed makes it really easy to pick up any one of them and just play. There's also never a shortage of anything to do, given how I have to juggle zaishens (and now wanteds) for 9 characters.

I enjoy playing each one because they all take different mindsets and all have different strengths and weaknesses. Experimenting with a different build is always fun too. Course..my monk is perhaps the most boring. Just roj roj roj. Thankfully anet said they are looking at smiting prayers.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

I have a whole account like that, it was my initial account back when the game was launched, but for some reason I changed to another account when factions came.

So now that account is just four 5 year old mules + 2 extra from getting factions as well - since they are so old I'm keeping them.

Lord Dagon

Lord Dagon

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2009

Inside the Oblivion Gate

The Imperial Guards of Istan[TIGE]

E/Me

Same problem w/ my necromancer on my first account. I never play him anymore but hes gotten me through 3 years of game awsomeness till i discovered Elementalist.
now i never use him. now the acoRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO has become storadge and i need room for more mules but i cant hit that delete.

so i feel your pain. But my suggestion is to either buy a new acoRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO( i went overboard and bought 2 xD) or pay for that slot. that slot will help w/ alot of heatache. ^_^.

Iuris

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

W/

My dervish used to be rather... neglected. Didn't like the guy at all, mostly, because I had no idea what to do with him. Then I dug into the skills, made a suitable build, and he got a lot of work done. By now, he's not played because I don't want to go title hunting with him

Laraja

Laraja

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

Somewhere over the rainbow

Descendents of Honor

Rt/

I've got an ele I'd like to delete, but she's the only toon I've managed to get through NF (I'm not a fan of that campaign). She doesn't have any maxed titles. She does have elite armor though. I hate throwing away money. At this point, I prefer to do HM stuff and I'm not good with an ele in HM.

I'll probably delete her when I get my rit through NF,which should happen soon.

Cale Roughstar

Cale Roughstar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

W/E

I hate my assassin, don't really care for my paragon, and my Mesmer is kind of meh. I also have a mule monk. I don't delete them because there is nothing that I would play instead of them, except for warriors, and I already have two of those (and I love both). Mules ftw.

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Diab Soule View Post
You could delete those chars and recreate news one with the exact same name.
True, but I like my minis.

Also, there's a big nostalgia factor involved in certain characters. Gill Halendt took the words out of my mouth:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Halendt View Post
16 characters on my main account, some of them are hardly used, if at all.

Yet every character of mine has his/her own background story.. Some of them are pretty much mementos of different periods of a quite troubled life: it's fun to see how I came to utterly different styling choices through times, subconsciously reflecting my mood.

Every time I look at them, I remember the inspiration, the motivations that brought me to the creation of each of them, so I can't just delete any, I keep on buying new slots and accumulate...

combatchuck

combatchuck

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/

I have a ranger that I will probably be deleting when I get his 5 year gift.

Astralelf

Astralelf

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2009

E/Me

My monk. It was my 2nd character lol

I don't use him anymore because I like Rit healing better then monking :3

Hes been just sitting around and getting me minis as the years go on. so i'm gunna keep him for now lol

Grav

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2010

New Zealand

W/

My only non-L20 character is a L15 ranger. But he's the character I play when my brother wants to play GW; the problem is he's not really into GW right now.

Of my 20s, I feel like I want to change the look/name of my assassin but not quite to the point of spending the $ for it. So she's just sitting there... might do it if there's a special on that sort of thing some day.

Saborath Gilgalad

Saborath Gilgalad

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Minneapolis

Natural Born Killas [NBK]

My lvl 3 paragon and lvl 14 rit. Both of which are still on there repective noob isle. They were create when nightfall(para) and factions(rit) came out and play for about 2 weeks each. Now they are used mainly for storage and getting B-day presents.

Hyperventilate

Hyperventilate

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Somewhere in California

I Gots A Crayon [Blue]

Me/Mo

My Paragon. I hate paragons, I see their usage and potential, I just don't like playing them.

But there she is. I can't force myself to delete her... so she just collects dust. I've had paragons before I've deleted but I can't force myself to get rid of this one.

Stealth Bomberman

Stealth Bomberman

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2008

had same problem before on my sin. took me a few days to finally delete him. ull notice it reallys gets to u and u feel alot of regret in like the first week. ull soon learn tho its just a game

Evil_Necro

Evil_Necro

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

川崎区、日本

currently guildless..

Rt/

Can't bring myself to del my gay ele... been contemplating like... hmm, almost 4 years now.. >_>

PS: Can anyone tell me how is the prospect on making a new assassin this late in the game? is there any enjoyment to be found? I find it hard to play assassin previously after they reach lvl 20.. feels like, a huge "okay, now what?" in my head since my main is a warrior and I still need to complete a lot of titles with her.. >_<

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

Spend the $10. Keep the character.

Despite being data on a server, I find myself attached to my characters. And why not? For all we know we are all of us just data on a server somewhere.

Mintha Syl

Mintha Syl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by Grav View Post
But he's the character I play when my brother wants to play GW; the problem is he's not really into GW right now.
You don't know how much I understand you! My chars made to play with others are still on pre-searing, and one of the two with no hope to come out sincer her "partner" doesn't play anymore and I'm waiting for someone else. And my ritu was being saved by playing with friends (that is funny even with a hateful char) but that very seldom happens.

aspi

aspi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

eeew

N/Rt

Only a dervish that I never touch, but I am not deleting. Still hoping for a nice derv buff so I can enjoy playing with her instead of thinking hmm my sin can do this better and faster.

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil_Necro View Post

PS: Can anyone tell me how is the prospect on making a new assassin this late in the game? is there any enjoyment to be found? I find it hard to play assassin previously after they reach lvl 20.. feels like, a huge "okay, now what?" in my head since my main is a warrior and I still need to complete a lot of titles with her.. >_<
Moebius/Blossom is still big, as are Crit Scythe and Crit Barrage (though to a lesser extent with the Sharpen Daggers change).

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by ajc2123 View Post
Is there someway you can push me to delete her? What convinced you to delete this character of yours?
As you can see from the posts, many people feel connected to their characters and have problems deleting them. The only time it's possible to just wipe out a character is when you don't feel that connection. I'm sure a psychologist/psychiatrist would have a field day with most of us because the characters are bits of our personalities and we tend to look at deleting them as wiping part of ourselves. Especially after they have existed for a long period of time.

So I don't think anyone on the forum can help with your dilemma. Depending on the existence or non-existence of that "connection", you can either easily delete a character or find it impossible to do so. It would be much easier emotionally to just buy the character slot.

ajc2123

ajc2123

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

North of the wall

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by wilebill View Post
Spend the $10. Keep the character.

Despite being data on a server, I find myself attached to my characters. And why not? For all we know we are all of us just data on a server somewhere.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude....

lol yeah, guess I am spending another 10 bucks. Glad to see I am not the only one like this.

Zebideedee

Zebideedee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

55?? 57' 0" N / 3?? 12' 0" W

N/Me

I have an Ele & a Dervish that I won't delete, made the Derv for running and the Ele for farming. As it turns out I hate farming and can't be bothered running lol. Nowadays I pretty much only use them when Chahbek Village is the z-mission

fireflyry

fireflyry

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

New Zealand

A/D

My Derv and Para.

Derv because the class is wicked artistically and has the second best artwork in the game imo but sucks in groups.Para because I'm hopeful they will fix it outside imbaspam and I love being a team buffer.

Dreams are free.

My warrior faced a few rage deletes but seriously...wtf am I gonna GvG with considering my main is now a Sin.