Pulling a Snarky (no, not that)

[Skyhawke]

I've hemmed and hawed about this one. Usually redoing or getting rid of a character doesn't bug me, but redoing my main after all these years? Hard til I realized how often I've seen Snarky and others do it. Since a Rad/Willpower Brute is kinda yuck these days and I hate seeing him collect dust, I've redone him. Starting over with a MA/Psi Brute (still love Brutes and hate tanking). Martial Arts since it was what Sky-Hawke used back in the beginning (as a Scrapper) and Psi because I've fallen in love with it and really like the set. Doing something a tad different though. I'm starting with my ooooooooold beta outfit for the first 15 levels, then switching to the one I had for a long time after launch til 25, adding the cape at 25 and then finally graduating into the final look that he has had for so long at 35. 

 

Anyone else feel that twinge of guilt when redoing a main you've had for years or just me?

 

Edited September 29 by Skyhawke
No capes til 35!

[Snarky]

I really like the homage to each of the era of your character.  Enjoy the new you!

[lemming]

1 hour ago, Skyhawke said:

Anyone else feel that twinge of guilt when redoing a main you've had for years or just me?

I've done that a few times now.   I have a Energy/Psi Stalker that I'm thinking of restarting, but it's more of a project I've lost interest in.

 

I have a couple 50s that I'm thinking about replacing with different versions.   My main badger might actually get retired, though in their case, just put to the side.

[MoonSheep]

i would never re-do my two mains, my mind/fire dom and kin/sonic defender. both were created in 2019 and the time they’ve been around for gives them value from being aged like a good spirit in an oak barrel

[MTeague]

As long as the new version captures the soul of the old version (no, not with Banished Pantheon magics...), I wouldn't feel bad or guilty about it.

 

But I would measure six or seven times before I started cutting. It's doable, but losing badges, losing accolades, losing credit for every story arc I've done, deciding if I really want to rebuild up to Confidant with each contact all over again.... It's not something to do lightly. At least, not for me. 

[VPrime]

I play the game almost as if it were a single player game with a main storyline.

 

So I have re-rolled my main multiple times to play through the story from the ground up. 

 

It's always fun, and opens up options to try different missions and costumes throughout the leveling journey.

[Skyhawke]

17 minutes ago, MTeague said:

As long as the new version captures the soul of the old version (no, not with Banished Pantheon magics...), I wouldn't feel bad or guilty about it.

 

But I would measure six or seven times before I started cutting. It's doable, but losing badges, losing accolades, losing credit for every story arc I've done, deciding if I really want to rebuild up to Confidant with each contact all over again.... It's not something to do lightly. At least, not for me. 

 

Oh, but that's something I do with any character I get serious about so I'm looking forward to going through all of that again. This time, it's with an old friend with a new vibe. 

[Troo]

why go changing?..

Spoiler

  

Spoiler

somethings are just right

 

 

 

Edited September 29 by Troo
a spoiler in a spoiler :)

[Scarlet Shocker]

Scarlet Shocker was my 2nd toon, born on Defiant back in 2006. She was always an Electric/Electric/Electric blaster even when blasters were pretty well obsolete but when I came to Homecoming I remade her on Excelsior as an all electric Sentinel. 

 

There's a Scarlet on every shard, just cuz, but that one is by far my favourite. I much prefer playing it, easier to play, more resilient and the slight downturn in damage output is a small price to pay. 

 

so I totally get the OPs PoV 

[Xalon]

What is the new name for character?  MA/Psy Brute looks very interesting 🙂 

 

I haven't recreated anything yet. Maybe in a few years when I have one of each archetype or more than just 3 characters LOL. Still got a few years of content to enjoy for those 3. But I do like that you are keeping the name similar so it's like your scrapper leveled up in a way lol. Very cool. Go getem!

[Bionic_Flea]

3 hours ago, Troo said:

why go changing?..

 

Don't go changing

to try and please Flea

We never should have come this far

Don't be bragging your so peculiar

and we won't looove youuuu anymoooore.

[Ironblade]

Ironblade was my first character.  I read the game manual while I was downloading the game (I believe I had DSL at the time), back around Issue 4.  I read the AT and power descriptions and figured regen would be an easy set to use while learning the game and broadsword gave him a D&D feel.  (He was an archaeologist who discovered a magical helmet.)  When Homecoming came along, I remade Ironblade first and I now have Ironblade on every shard.  He's level 50 on all except Victory so far.

 

I've only ever redone one character.  Unarmed Wombat was a claws/SR scrapper around level 25 until someone commented that he wasn't really 'unarmed'.  I deleted him and rerolled as martial arts/SR.

[Ukase]

My main has all the badges. I can't see remaking him, because getting those is a pain in the butt. 

 

[Snarky]

3 hours ago, Ukase said:

My main has all the badges. I can't see remaking him, because getting those is a pain in the butt. 

 

I thought you liked challenges!

[Skyhawke]

So far, I've really been enjoying it. I'm just soloing (except for some ToTing, but xp was turned off for that...just wanted the badges) with no xp multipliers other than ones that come from finding exploration badges. I'm actually doing story arcs I haven't seen in forever. Bonefire? Tsoo Shenanigans? I'd forgotten those even existed! I'm at 19 now and I've done a lot of content because I usually used double xp and just bounce between the big ones like Hollows and Faultline. I've even gotten the War Hero, Dignified Combatant and Steel Savior badges. Whaaaaat? I've fought fires in Steel, even. Settling in nicely to this being my new "main" and just doing everything with him.