My main is a dragonknight as it has the majority of my achievements as well as motif and recipe knowledge. I'd rather play my templar or nightblade. I'd love to switch my main (either with a class change or account wide motif/recipe/achievements) but that isn't an option at the moment.

Yes! My first character (Dragonknight) is still at level 17. My second character is my main which is at 444 cp right now (Stamblade). Third character is my Tank 444 cp, but it's not my favorite, because tanking is boring and repetitive a lot of times, but it's a necessary utility.

I want to play Imperial Dragonknight. Yet I have to play Altmer Petsorc to be able to do content solo. It is not fun fun for me...

My main, a magblade I created at launch in 2014, is still my favorite character to play, although she is no longer built for going into vet trials or even some of the harder vet DLC dungeons. She started out as a stamblade, morphed into a heal/dps mag/stam hybrid with a resto staff, leeching skills and a bow backbar (this was definitely a viable build in 2015, and it was an absolute joy to play). Now she is a somewhat low damage but very survivable magblade who can function as a leeching magtank and/or healer in easier content (up to and including vet non-DLC dungeons), and deal at least half decent DPS if required. It's a great build for solo play as well, and it's still my favorite character for questing. She has done pretty much everything the game has to offer, except for the DB questline and climbing to higher ranks in PvP, simply because I don't like those two parts of the game.

My only "endgame build" is a Templar healer, but with the recent recurring and serious problems with the game, I haven't been doing vet trials for quite a while, and she is a bit too specialized both in build and gear to be of good use in easier content where strong heals are not required. Other than that, I have a multi-purpose Sorcerer and a Templar tank, both built for fun and convenience rather than for performance. I take them for a dungeon run now and then, but they really don't get out a lot.

My first character (Templar healer) is still my main; done all the WBs, zone stories, crafting, maxed antiquities, etc. No regrets there. But I hadn't played her in group content in forever. Did pledge on her the other day because it was Elden Hollow and I needed the lead, but usually I end up tanking or DPS these days, so that's one of the other 10.

Partially, the other characters are the focus because they still need things (levels in Undaunted/Fighter's/Assault, etc.) My main maxed everything long ago, so the only things to do are new content or side quests I missed along the way. Or excavate things found on my other characters, of course.

Going a step further, my second account gets a lot more attention, because it isn't max CP and currently has 2 characters that need mount training. So most days, I log into my main account briefly to collect mail, the daily reward, etc. and then actually play my second account.

(I have the second account to play class combos that are somewhat less interesting to me, so I don't fill all the slots on my main too soon. Also for RTS mail and the ability to vamp/WW myself if needed.)

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I'm an admitted altoholic in MMO's. I just enjoy playing a variety of different characters. Recently though, I came to the realization that the original toon I created when ESO launched is really not my favorite one to play lol. I run him through all the content, chapters, & DLC's. Yes, I've considered switching my "main" to another character but it just doesn't sit right with me lol. Am I the only Tamrelian who feels this way??

No. If I do not like something in the game, I change it. I have all the options to. It's one if the good things about ESO.
Besides, one can always repurpose an alt toon to still have fun regardless.

As an altaholic I don't have a main plus alts, I have a lot of characters that are equal individuals albeit of different levels.

On my main account with 18 max level characters (6 classes, 3/class), I have 1 main crafter (an Imperial DK, the best racial choice for a crafter due to the free style you get on creation), but I don't consider him to be my main character.

Back in the days, due to lack of damage with my dd's, I switched a lot between characters to find out the honor of main character went to my Argonian Healplar, who was an Imperial in her previous life. But I lost the love for healing (too much crying and blaming the healer from the dd's when they died or didn't get buffed while continuous standing behind the healer, in hard hitting AoE's, or even both), so I tried some tanking (Warden and Dragonknight, which I like to do, but not that much to do the more difficult veteran content like dlc pledges and trials) and improved my damage with dd's and realized I liked playing Stamden (respecced to Healden, big mistake) and later on Stamplar the most of all the classes and roles (except Necros', they are to new for me). But maybe that's because I have good sets for stamina, but not yet for magicka (shame on me).

I consider my Stamplar as my main character (for now). I've done (vet) pledges and trails with all characters and classes, except the necromancers, with different rates of succes. And now that I recently reached cp level with my last 3 characters (all necro's) I'm preparing (gearing up, farming skillpoints and leveling skills) a Stamcro to try her out in pledges and trails too. And for what I've seen so far of her, I like it, so maybe I will switch main again.

Because gearing up is made so much easier nowadays, I'll probably endup with 18 main characters

I consider my first character my "main" (imperial DK tank) its also my crafter and the character i do all the zone clearing, quests and achievments on. I have 17 other characters that I also play sparingly, but the one i enjoy playing most... i really cant say, depends on what im doing.
for pve dps i like my mag sorc
for pve tank i like DK
for pve healer i like necro
for solo pvp i like necro or NB
for group pvp i like warden
for erp i like khajiit

It's ok to change your main. I've made a commitment to myself to only do things that feel fun in ESO so I don't get burnt out. I have two mains because of this and it helps keep it fresh. I'm cp 1200 and still have lots to do on both chars because I am not in a rush to complete every quest or achievement, but rather to just enjoy. I have specialized alta for trial tanking and dps to give me more freedom in how I use my mains.

I was in that situation for years. My original main is a Breton sorcerer. Altmer sorcerers used to be better, however, so one became my dungeon main. And templars were clearly better healers. And I enjoyed using a thief as a landscape main.

That said, recently he became my antiquarian, and I'm approximately as happy to heal a PUG on a sorcerer as on a templar, and sorcerer is a fine solo class, so right now he's feeling fairly main-ish all the way around.

Besides, I don't like my thief as well these days, after he was both turned into a vampire and renamed Grumpy Ex Wood Elf.

I would love to switch to another class like dragonknight which I recently taken a liking to.

But having to do all achievements, crafting, skyshards, and most importantly quests put a stop to that. I despise playing a new character and have npcs everywhere asking me to do the quests I already did yet again.

Sorry but you didn't save Solitude and North and South Elsweyr, can you save us please? The queen is threatening the city, GRR.