Yeah, it kinda sucks to have to sign in and sign out on multiple characters to get a feel for how much of the game I’ve completed. I gave up on it along time ago. It really would be nice if they’d consolidate some of these, except for maybe the major dungeon and trial complete achievements.

Yes, it happens when ZOS screws up balance or ruins my fun in other ways like making my sneaky Bosmer Warden not sneaky anymore by removing stealth from Bosmer racials. Then I don't have as much fun on the character anymore and play something else.

I don't fall out of love with my main, I always go back to him, but I do fall out of love with what keeps being done to him. Every time I get him so I feel semi-competent they nerf him and I have to change everything. I'm just not someone who enjoys that, that isn't fun for me. And with carpal tunnel getting worse and worse, making it MORE difficult for me to stick with a comfortable rotation and not panic into button-mashing is really off-putting. So I take breaks from my main and then come back when I stop caring about doing content. Right now it's so difficult to keep up with DPS that I just switched to my tank and made him my substitute main. Sigh.

I don't really have a "main" yet. I started playing 2 months ago and still have to choose between my templar, dk and warden.
Haven't really tried the other classes yet, either.

Not really my main will always be my main as she's the first character i ever made, she has a special place in my heart lol, always try to do new content with her first and other things like fishing/achievements & all that jazz. I just wish i could change her class as I've fallen out of love with the class i originally chose. (not that i think that's ever gonna happen sadly )

I make and play additional characters but I keep and play my main too. I have 7 characters in ESO, all doing different things and when I log in I just pick whichever one I feel like playing today. It does slow down my main character completing stuff of course, but I'm not in a hurry and I enjoy the game more when I can do a variety of things. Especially when one character gets to Coldharbour, I get so sick of everything looking so dull and identical, it's nice to switch to someone else and go through a different map for a while.

worrallj wrote: »

Abandoning old toons and starting new ones preventing you from completing all content on one character?

When you start a new one does the continuity/completionist in you demand that you start them from the beginning of the story, preventing you from ever completing DLC let alone completing it all on one character?

Looking for kindred souls to commiserate with.

I have 18 characters. Yes I have fallen in and out of love with numerous characters over the years. Sometimes I main one or two for a few weeks/months, then sometimes I change to another for a while. So at any given time I tend to be focused on one that I am enjoying.

However, no, I do not start at the "beginning" with each character.

I have 3 characters, each from a different alliance, who have each more or less completed all the base game story, quests, side quests (and guilds), for their alliance. Each has completed some of the DLC content, mainly the earlier DLC, but not much of the newer DLCs because by then I had kind of stopped my completionist approach to game play.

There are some exceptions to the above, so I have an Argonian who is busy completing Mirkmire. A Khajit who is completing the Elswyr. A Dunmer who is busy completing Vvardenfel. And one of my mains mentioned earlier is an Altmer who has completed Summerset.

THE POINT=
In this way, I have more or less covered most of the story/quest content, at least once. I HATE having to do story content/quests that I have already done several times, it is boring and monotonous. So I dont, hence the approach outlined above. The exception is the guilds, which often require to be completed again, but even then it is not really something I focus on now.

So beyond this, most of my characters now take very little part in any story/questing, and are instead almost entirely focused on dungeons, trials, delvs and/or PVP.

Neveer, she is the one I learnt everything together in ESO
Altmer Magsorc

Also, I am not trying to complete everything.
Why would I?
What is the use of extorting gold from merchants all across Tamriel for 10 (?) points of achievement that has no use???

I don't remember when I fell out of love with Eve, my templar main.

She is my crafter. She knows almost all of the motifs. She has most of the recipes and is a crafter of furniture. She has most waypoints and is maxxed out on horse stuff/bag stuff/etc.

She is the partner to my husband's main, and together we are collecting all of the skyshards, trying to do every single quest in each zone, collect the fish and knock through every achievement we can.

I *hate* the templar class. No idea why or when it happened.

I would love the option to class swap; maybe with ridiculous parameters: you must already have a max character of that type to swap to/you start back at level 1 (retaining everything else on that character).

I have another character that I prefer, but she is not a completionist and the idea of trying to catch her up to where my husband's character is, is daunting.

What's a main? I only have 18 alts ...

Kelces wrote: »

I don't complete all content with a single character, simply because it doesn't fit the personality. Like for example making a dedicated wizard into a thief and stuff like this. Doesn't mean, I'm no longer calling it main.

Yeah I don't understand people who complete everything with one character. That's the opposite of an RPG to me.