Deleting a character you played for hours

I deleted my E/Mo, that was the character I started with... he just ascended at the time, but... he was boring. I don't really like the ele part. I made a ranger, which I totally love. My main character now.

I've deleted my ranger and ele, which had done everything in the game... Several hundred hours for each.

Ele was painful to play in pve, and ranger just didn't work out.. But I got lots of unlocks with them.

These days I have n/x, m/x and w/x. Each has all the primary skills, and several secondary profession skills. Oh and pvp-slot, which I used for factions char, and now released it to pvp, once more.

I made a trapper and deleted her after 30-40 hours. Constantly trapping UW was boring

ive deleted my war 55 monk ranger .. actually ive deleted every char on both my accs at least 2-3 times. they got boring and i wanted to rm with new names. only thing that makes me unhappy they all had 15k armor dyed black ><

i deleted my mo/? he had all skills unlocked on him , yes i bought all skills for all professions, and almost all elites i was missing a few mesmer and necro and 3 ranger

i also then exp. salvaged his fow, he had over 1200 hours and the masssive skillpoints came from the pre uw nerf= prot bond days.

I deleted my mesmer after finishing Hells with him and capping all the me elites. Somehow mesmer just didn't fit my playing style. Maybe 100 hours on him.

My Warrior, with over 700k xp would be gone in a heartbeat, but he has my precious pumpkin head.

I've deleted 3 rangers, 2 necros, 1 monk, 1 warrior, 2 mesmers, 1 ele. The majority of them had reached the fire chain islands without being run anywhere. I need more character slots.

I just did some quick maths using '/age': My 3 remaining characters have only 415 hours between them, out of my game total 964. This means 57% of my time and effort in this game has been deleted due to the limit on character slots.

Deleted my necro lvl 20 with two 15k armour sets and tons of gold spent to her and all missions done to make space for one PvP slot. Made a fortune with her though and it was fun to play but eventually it got little boring and from group of Warrior, Monk, Elementalist & Necromancer that was the choice I made...

When I had to delete a char I was fond of, I had him stand on the steps at Piken Square and make a speech. Then he took off all his armor and said goodbye and.....was deleted.

I've deleted a couple of characters here and there but ones that I finished the game with will forever live.
I get too attached and do not have the heart to delete them.
I always regret the name of my necro and would love the opportunity to rename him but there is no way that I will delete him and start from scratch.

I'd buy another copy of the game before deleting any of my high level characters. Simply too much time/effort invested in getting a toon through the game.

I never really paid attention to the amount of time spent playing these but I have deleted a few. My 1st was E/mo that I played to somewhere between lvl 13-15 then deleted. Then I had a Mo/me that I played to lvl 16-17 and got rid of. As of Right now I have a N/mo that's lvl 12 and I'm thinking about deleting that one to go back to a Mo/me or E/mo. I have two accounts and 6 characters over those accounts so I have a pretty diverse group to play with anyway.
Why did I delete them?
1. E/Mo was on my brothers' account, so once I bought my own copy of the game he was gone. Still one of my favorite combos though.

2. Mo/Me - I actually really enjoyed playing this character as a smite + illusion/domination. I would go healer now and then but at the time it just wasn't fun for me to be the healer. Anytime I got in a group I was expected to heal and really just wanted to play as a damage dealer so by lvl 16-17 I had enough and deleted for a R/Me instead.

3. N/mo - ehh, it's ok I'm not to into it. I don't want to be a MM, it's not for me, just thought I tried the combo to see if I could do a blood/heal combo. It's ok, but I find myself making minions anyway and that's not what I'm interested in doing. So I may give the healing thing another shot with a monk. I've tried to brush up on some healing in PvP and I'm thinking it shouldn't be much more difficult now in PvE.

Same. Bought a second account so I could make new characters without deleting any of my old friends.

Sure, several times. A hammer warrior I deleted at Sanctum Key because I got frustrated with the total lack of usable skills. An elementalist I took to Piken Square before I realized I didn't like to play elementalist. A mesmer I completed the game with, and deleted to make room to try a 55 monk, a move I still regret - the mesmer was much more fun and effective.

I have no emotional attachments to my avatars, but I keep them if possible to have options.

I deleted my first character, a R/E. Played with that one for around 150 hours, used him as a trapper, interrupter, and beast master. Finished the storyline with him, even. But once I started playing my next 2 characters (W/X and Mo/R), playing him became rather ho-hum. I deleted him to make room for a Me/N so I could have a taste of every profession. I love playing my Mesmer, even though lately I haven't been playing her much.

Edit: The story of my ranger's untimely demise: One day late in the fall, while out questing with his pet bear Monte, they were fighting a particularly nasty group of critters. Since it was the time of year when hyperphasia (extreme hunger where bears will eat anything in sight getting ready for hibernation) set in on the bears, Monte's blood lust was & rage were at such a high point, that after they finished off the mob, he turned on his master and ate him. So if you'e wandering the southern Shiverpeaks, beware! For Monte is said to be wandering around endlessly seeking out victims to gratify his newfound taste for manflesh!

Ditto that 100% !! I have 15k armor on my necro but i HATE her name... dunno what I was thinking.

I have done that alot. I'm sure everyone has at one point or another. I went through the whole "trying out every character to see what their dance looks like" phase. But I also logged in about 20 hours into a Warrior/Monk, he had only gotten to lvl 13, then I decided I'd rather have an axe than a hammer, deleted him, and remade him into a Warrior/Ranger with an axe. Both of them were called Beorn Trollslayer .

Two months ago I deleted both of my level 20 characters, one of which had been with me since the start of the game, and both had completed everything, when we added a second computer and account to our household. One of us had to start over in order to play together, and since I actually enjoy redoing quests and missions, and the hubby doesn't, it was kind of a given that it would be me. It hurt, especially starting from scratch on XP again.