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Proxithe

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Raisin

Well to be honest, there's no easy solution to this if you're not willing to try and change the way you feel about your characters. The idea of so strictly only wanting to play one character isn't a very common one. Many people have a main (like your Templar) that they have the most achievements on, crafting and questing. You can keep playing new content on your Templar to complete it, while starting over on a new char. If your Templar is as finished as it sounds, what's the point in not starting another completionist run on the sorc? Why not do it again? The whole fun of making new chars is to start collecting things again, and if you have nothing more to collect on the Templar...
You're just depriving yourself of fun by forcing yourself to pursue something not enjoyable for you. What's the point of being completionist if it brings you no joy? And what's completionist about limiting yourself to one class, one game experience? Many people would argue that completionism entails at least playing each class once.
If sticking to Templar might make you stop playing the game, then don't stick to Templar.... Unless you feel you are done with the game. I wouldn't delete it either, and keep using it for crafting and achievements, but that's also your choice. If you enjoy playing Sorc, play Sorc. If the thought of gaining content progress in sorc brings you dread, say *** it and don't do it. Although I assure you you will still make progress, and rebuild faster than you think. You can try maybe just excluding certain categories of progress... So don't redo questing if you don't want to, but do seek to complete other things again. Again, if you have little things left to complete on templar, re-doing them on your new char will be just as fun and it will be nice to have something to work towards again. I understand the idea can be daunting, but trust me -- the worst thing that can happen to you is that you don't have goals anymore. You may want to reach the end, but you don't want to stay there.
One thing you can also do is try to reinvent your Templar and play it differently. And maybe it will help if you think of your characters as different savefiles? What's the line of thought for sticking to Templar? You stay with it, you get bored of the game... Maybe you take a break. And you start over. That is the life of any game experience, in a way. So why not start over now.
Anyway, I think you need to give yourself a bit of a push and let yourself enjoy the game, whatever that entails. You can either make a compromise and make your choice.... Or you can change the rules of your choice so you don't need to compromise. All of that is easier said than done if course, but that would be my advice. I do hope you can find the best solution for yourself.

Yuffie91

I have the same issue..my main is a magden but I have been tempted to play a sorc for YEARS. They just look so cool! However I have so much progress on my magden that each time I log on my sorc which is only lvl 8 it just feels wrong. And I end up relogging after 5 minutes because I get this "ugh I've done this quest already" feeling..

FrancisCrawford

Doing quests a second time is usually not nearly as much fun, because a lot of what's good about them are little plot twists.

On the plus side, doing content a second time is usually a lot easier than the first, both because you know what to do next and because you're generally a lot better at the game.

All that said -- what is it about the sorcerer that you think would be more fun than the templar? I'm the other way around, in that sorcerer was my original class and the one I was best at, but at this point I'm enjoying templar more, for reasons that include:

• Sorcerers with pets don't have a lot of bar space, and sorcerers without pets don't have that much to recommend them.
• Blazing Spear is, to me, a cool skill.
• Puncturing Sweeps is, to me, a cool skill.
• More generally, I like the point-blank AoE playstyle, and templar has a lot more of it with Sweeps and Solar Barrage.
• If I have to rez in combat, it's nice to not also have to recast pets.

I also think Repentance is a fun skill, but even so I rarely use it.

Both classes are strong on the numbers, with sorcerers having better passive skills (a little more cost reduction than templars and more damage boosts), while templars have the great active skill Channeled Focus.

tsaescishoeshiner

It sounds like you've answered your own question: You like playing sorc right now, want to keep your templar, and don't want to redo ALL the content on your sorc. That's fine

What content DO you want to do? Do you want to PvP? Dungeons? World bosses? Redo old quest lines?

All of these are good reasons to have an "alt". I have no regrets about making more than 1 character of every class because each class is so unique and different. You haven't experienced the whole game until you've thrown cliff racers at people's faces, whipped people with molten lava, and dropped an angry storm atronach on them

This is a game, not a job. If you don't enjoy the idea of redoing all the quests, don't do it. Or do it just a bit at a time.

My solution is to make a third character. You might find the anxiety to have a character do everything fades as you encounter the joys of each class. And at some point, Templar will sound fun again to you! I promise. Think of it as a vacation from your Templar. Have fun!

Example: I've decided to have my magblade be my PvP main, since I want Grand Overlord one day (which takes a LOT of PvP). But I still spend time PvPing on other characters because it's fun. I just sit down and think "What do I want to do today?" and do it. Sometimes, I don't even feed my horse ...

Yuffie91

For me it also helps because I don't do trials and such. So I try to think "well does it matter if I have to do it all again? What else will I do? I don't even raid so I have time to do it all again!"

starkerealm

Roll 'em all. Play what you want.

There's no real reason to rerun old PvE content if you don't want to. If you do want to, it's still going to be there. There's also some interesting bits of cause and effect in the game, if you've done previous content, and in few cases (I'm looking at Coldharbour) there's interesting alternate dialog for blundering in blind.

I'd recommend trying the other five classes. All six are fun.

Partomax

I have the exact same problem.

I'm sure you know that to make a functional character you don't really need thousands of hours you can make a really powerful character in just a few weeks or less depending ob how much you play. But it does feel like betraying your progress when you change mains because all you had is now gone, I understand how you feel.

My recommendation is that you do make a new character and try and get over that feeling of lost time, because that is how you're going to have the most fun in the game.

srfrogg23

Proxithe wrote: »

Hello, I have a very serious question and it's been bothering me for quite some time now. When I initially started playing this game I chose a Templar because I didn't realize the sorcerer would have had self-healing abilities, so just stay alive I made a Templar and began playing. Now I'm two years into the game and have only played this Templar character. I am a grandmaster Crafter. I know hundreds of crafting recipes, have done the main quest line, all three faction quest lines along with most of the side quest lines for each zone, I have completed the Morrowind, Somerset, murkmire, clockwork City, several of the dungeon DLCs, Elysweyr, and now scalebreaker. It may sound stupid to to you or not, but either way I am a completionist, and do not like to have more than one character, which is why I've only had this Templar for two years. Looking at everything that I've done it's a dread to think of what I'll have to do all over again on a new character but the sorcerer is an incredibly fun class for me I enjoy it much more than the Templar as I've leveled a Sorcerer up to 810. So now I'm sitting with a character that I don't even know if I want to continue playing on the sorcerer or give up and hope for one day zenimax making a class change token. I need some serious help with this because I really don't know that if I stay on the Templar I'll continue to play this game. I feel completely stuck between a character with all the progress and I do not enjoy, to a character that I very much enjoy but have no progress whatsoever. I'm sorry if this sounded a bit rambly, one I used voice to text, and I'm posting this at 3:31 in the morning, so I'm tired.

It sounds like starting another character is the only way to give yourself something else to do. You done did all the things on your main!

spartaxoxo

Just stop being stubborn and have more than one toon. Jfc This actually isn't that complicated. Keep your templar for completionism if you absolutely must have a toon that's done everything and use your sorc for fun and freedom without all the self imposed limits getting in your way.

You're literally sucking the fun out of your own game. Get out of your own head man, and just enjoy the game.

GreenhaloX

For me, the best thing in this game is creating a new toon and leveling the skillsets while going through all the different zones. I have created and leveled up over 50 toons during the past several years, and it's what has kept me in this game for so long. If it was just one toon only and doing the same thing/contents over and over again, I would have been done with this game years ago.

Agenericname

Same, so I made a sorc. I play the sorc. I like them. My templar by far has the most accomplished though. Every delve, every skyshard, every dolmen, every dungeon almost all vet HM, all of the zones except the TG DLC, vMA. In terms of achievements it easily has the most, and by a substantial margin.

My templar still does the new content when it comes out and I still chase some of the achievements. What I change is the role. I've gotten lately where I tank more with it. I have healed a good bit and I have DPSed.

I think I need a few more quests in a few zones for the hero achievement and it's tough to find the motivation, so I play my sorc for a while, or my warden. It'll be there when I'm ready. I'll go through spells where I won't play it as much, then I'll go back and pick up where i left off.

Araneae6537

I created a collection of alts early on and have different ones starting different quest lines (each expansion/chapter and then the three alliance quest lines). I enjoy the character I first reached level 50 and then CP 160 with, but I don’t intend they will be my main for group content once some of my other characters are ready. They are my my main crafter so I will eventually get all skyshards with them, but for me, I would find it tedious to try to do everything on all characters, but also less fun to do everything on just one.

FierceSam

I’ve got, gulp, 11 characters. Each one of them plays very differently and has their own characteristics.

I wouldn’t go as far as to want to achieve everything on all of them, but I would say, “don’t be shy about creating new characters if you want to experience their play style”. Each one is different.

In terms of questing and levelling, there are so many different routes you can take that it’s easy to avoid constantly repeating things.

Have fun.

zaria

Depend on your play style.
However its many benefit of having multiple characters.
One obvious one is to hold more gear, another is other types of play styles.
Its also nice for events as you can you can repeat daily quests.

But no don't do everything on both, just the stuff you enjoy or is beneficial for you.
My main is the completionist the rest are not, even if

Beaverton

PvP my friend. I have captured Allessia hundreds(thousands?) of times, but each one is different. The war is never ending so there is no completion. Try every class, every spec. Enjoy the journey. . . .

Repeating quests is soooooooooooo boring!

P.S. GO to Kaal if you do PvP. Skip Mulamniir.

Kalik_Gold

Make an alt. My main (Templar) is my only quest character, crafter, for completion purposes also.

I still have alts to enjoy other aspects of the game.

shootatme80

I love creating new characters and experimenting with sets and abilities. Leveling can be a bit tedious, but after that trying new things is what keeps me coming back. You only have to repeat content that you enjoy. I would recommend trying all of the classes.

SirLeeMinion

I have a lot of fully leveled alts and have repeated much of the PvE content, so my answer is biased. But I'd say roll with the Sorc you are enjoying now. Being a completionist can make it tough if you feel you have to do everything again, on the other hand, if you actually do redo the content you can make different choices. Few of them impact the game at all, but if you threw Valaste under the bus for skill points last time, this time you can save her from mean old Uncle Sheo. If you are into RP at all, play your new toon as a flighty character that never completes anything. While it takes forever to do everything again, it doesn't take horribly long to level enough skills and get enough skill points to be competent with a character

peacenote

Lots of good advice in here. One thing I'll add that I haven't seen yet - consider changing the type of Templar you play for a while.

Besides PvP, just in PvE there are at least four of each class - magicka DPS, stamina DPS, Tank, and Healer. Not to mention hybrid builds. Maybe it's time to, say, switch to a stamplar if you've been a magplar for a while if you are bored. Maybe you enjoy Sorc more, or maybe Templar has just gone stale.

Something to try, anyway.

starkerealm

peacenote wrote: »

Lots of good advice in here. One thing I'll add that I haven't seen yet - consider changing the type of Templar you play for a while.

Besides PvP, just in PvE there are at least four of each class - magicka DPS, stamina DPS, Tank, and Healer. Not to mention hybrid builds. Maybe it's time to, say, switch to a stamplar if you've been a magplar for a while if you are bored. Maybe you enjoy Sorc more, or maybe Templar has just gone stale.

Something to try, anyway.

Also, on this subject, don't worry about changing your character's race. Unless you're chasing the leaderboards, it doesn't matter.

Floydianlaw

My ‘main’ (i.e. favorite and most played to this day in PvP and PvE) is the fourth char I made. I now have 14 fully leveled and fully gold geared chars (cp 1220). My first four leveled through the VR system to VR 16 individually because cp didn’t exist and VR wasn’t account wide.

Play a few different classes in mag and stam and find a char you love as opposed to quitting. To be honest, I enjoyed playing everything again on multiple characters for achievements, skill points, etc.

Fishing, I would never do on even a second character. First was fun’ish...not again.

Frostystuff

My original main was a dk that i played as a hybrid early on (was back when duel wield magika was a thing), when i returned to the game i made it a magdk and when my friends were going to return (which they bailed on) i made it a tank and started rolling a sorc for solo play. I now have a warden healer and almost finished a new magdk because i missed it.

Long story short maybe explore some different roles in group play, that and finding a desent guild is what keeps it fresh.

Never done stam so will do that next not sure which type though.

thermatico

Just make another character and get them to CP. There is no reason to have to do all the content over. You already have a crafter and many achievements. I have the character I created first who has obviously done the most content, master crafter, all motifs, etc. but I also have 12 other characters with nowhere near the same progress.

Proxithe

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Ysbriel

I understand that frustration, when I first started this game I made a Dragonkight, a Templar and a Sorcerer but I barely played until the Warden was released. I was frustrated trying to choose which class to play and how am I was going to be able to develop all this characters. It took me quite a while to actually feel comfortable with any of them while attempting to go for the solo play and basically not know jack about how things really worked in this game. So since I had pre ordered Morrowind to get the gray bear and make a Skaal Nord so i decided to stick with it as a main. It was a struggle, I didn't enjoy any of it at first being clueless. Anyways I didn't choose the Tanking Life, the Tanking Life chose me and that is what saved this game for me, Tanking with my Warden, Healing with my Templar.

Wing

Proxithe wrote: »

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@Proxithe

I am very much the same way. so here is some advice.

there will always be regrets

if you play a sorc and try to start over as it were you will regret it, and if you stay as a templar you will regret not playing a sorc, neither regret is better or worse then the other (this is life advice too)

if you are truly having more fun, like actually just have more fun on the sorc then anything else, then play that until such time as they do implement a way to switch class (at some point they will, there is money to be made)

don't delete your main, just sit on it.

starkerealm

Proxithe wrote: »

Anymore I stand a goat's head Oasis dark anchor while listening to music every night witches become the standard when I log onto this game.

Well, that's a recipe for burnout.

Proxithe wrote: »

I just still don't understand why they never made a class change token.

It wouldn't work. I don't remember anyone from ZOS ever publicly going into the details of why that doesn't work. But, apparently, things get weird.

parpin

i had same issue in gw2, i started as ranger did everything up untill season 4 with ranger, i had 4 legendary weapons on my ranger and full ascended gear( max gear) then i realized i like mesmer much more and i am better at it in pvp, it was very hard decision to start over, but i put myself through it and now it is done and i feel much better when playing gw2, at start it is hard but it worth it because it is mmo and meant for long term. new content coming every year and you know you play them with class you like and you are good at playing that class , so yeah it worth it in my opinion.

bmnoble

If you want to experiment with new characters go ahead you can always go back to your main whenever you want, you only need to worry about which ones to keep once you have used up all your character slots.

My advice is not to bother doing quests on alts, especially if you have done most of them on your main, level the character doing more enjoyable stuff, dungeons, battlegrounds, just experiment with gear that is not suitable for your main character that you have had your eye on, try out the different ish combat styles the other class's skills give you etc..


I usually lose interest in my alts and go back to my main, I always end up re specking my alts to do daily writs after a while.

Yuffie91

Wing wrote: »

Proxithe wrote: »

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@Proxithe

I am very much the same way. so here is some advice.

there will always be regrets

if you play a sorc and try to start over as it were you will regret it, and if you stay as a templar you will regret not playing a sorc, neither regret is better or worse then the other (this is life advice too)

if you are truly having more fun, like actually just have more fun on the sorc then anything else, then play that until such time as they do implement a way to switch class (at some point they will, there is money to be made)

don't delete your main, just sit on it.

I don't think they will implement a way to switch class