I used to find noobie-chars addictive, now I'm your side, I'll lurk for answers

I take it slow and rotate their leveling process with the usual stuff I do on my max level characters.

Most of my alts are doing the daily writs but not much more. However, my main PvE characters is a DC NB, but then I started enjoying PvP on EP side with an NB alt which I leveled almost exclusively in Cyro, and it's now my main PvP character and 2nd main.

Most recently I rolled a pacifist character, a 3rd NB. It's the most fun I've had while leveling since those other 2. I can barely do any quests, but I can take almost all skyshards, explore the world and enjoy how beautiful it is while being sneaky as hell. And also sort of PvP. Except for the literal PvP part. I help flip flags, ress players, repair and burn enemy sieges and camps. Once it's high enough rank I'll also start placing camps with it.

The main thing with those 3 characters is that I've played them very differently, despite all of them being nightblades. Which is probably why I find it hard to chose which one to play most days. When you do the same things over and over, it can be a bit stale. Even when I changed classes, it felt very much the same even if the character played differently. But these 3 feel unique enough that I enjoy them all.

I love new characters. I actually have a problem of hoarding EXP scrolls since I don't want to level them up too fast. Pity I can't sell them...

The big one for me is Bleakrock. I love that place so much, but - as the saying goes - you can never go home again. It's really nice to just go there with a new character and see the place again.

Also, stories. Each of my characters has a backstory in planning, so I know exactly how I want them to go. Maybe taking it a bit overboard considering I have 200 pages written for my main and he just finished Deshaan, and only idea which keep growing for the others, but it's loads of fun to consider how they would act.

Mostly I do a lot of testing for them though. I was considering one of my alts as a NB until I played one and it didn't really click. And events, when they're around, particularly when they can farm motifs for my crafter.

I think it all comes down to whether you enjoy the class: skills, animations, general feel of it, or not. If you do, then after the levelling process (which is admittedly painfully boring when it's your nth alt) comes the fun part of being able to wear max gear and tackle harder content. However, if you don't really like the class, there's little you can do, except maybe trying different playstyles, like having that character, as say, a PvP healer etc., and that could make it more enjoyable. I have alts in all specs, and although I want to play with all of them, there's definitely classes I prefer more than others. I guess never really comitting to learn an alt spec plays a part in it too, but at the same time, the game should be an enjoyable experience, so if you can't find yourself liking playing with a given class, then move on to a different one.

Thank you everyone for your posts and ideas! It opened my eyes to the game again; there was so much I forgot about (guess I got in a rut).

I generally don't do many side quests. And even side main quests like i get tired of talking to the High Elf Queen over and over. I stick to stuff I like - Dohman's for one, gathering crafting mats while I kill stuff in the wild and delves and housing. For example when Summerset came out I did that quest line and then on a recent character. In between I skipped Summerset. Similar to Elsweyr, Orcville and others. My main has started to do some Clockwork City. I haven't been there in 3 years and a bunch of characters ago. It breaks up the boredom.

As a pvper, i just grind characters up as quickly as possible. If you get a good grind spot and stack exp bonuses, it goes by pretty quick. Trying to lvl as fast as possible is kinda a game in and of itself, so it can be somewhat enjoyable.

If its a character I can relate to and I come up with a good backstory/RP details for I tend to keep it.

Lixiviant wrote: »

So I was pretty excited to begin a new character (Breton Templar) and try out new skills/rotation. But after a while, doing quests and visiting the zones I've already explored starting to bring on boredom. What techniques do you use to keep your interest with a new character?

if a character is a bundle of stats I end up deleting them. however if I give them a story or personality I tend to keep them, as they are more of a living thing and thus harder to just delete.

I can't. The moment i go with my NB i just see all the quests, and i'm like. ***ck this i already done all of these... Also i look at the crafting, and i see how much to farm for it. I have a crafter with all 50, but i don't really have the resources to make a ton of epic items for deconstruction.