I’ve trouble letting go of my chars, even those at a low(er) level that haven’t been played in a long time. I tell myself that I’ll play them, eventually–and that I’ll lose good names, which has happened; still, I want to clear up my character “clutter” but just have trouble doing so.
I’d like to hear from others who also struggle with deleting their non-played character(s) and how it is that you’ve managed to put some of them behind you, permanently.
PS: Ironically, I only had a few chars until the end of Legion, at which time I created a DH on each faction. Somehow, I morphed into an altoholic from that point onward.
But seriously, as a fellow altoholic who is also an RPer, if I don’t have a backstory written out about them, then they might get the axe if I need to make room. I have also found that making toons on the PTR helps quell that impulsive need to make alts that I will hardly play lol
I make the stinky mistake of making a character thinking I will want to play it, then leveling it up too much to comfortably delete it, then realizing I don’t want to play it that much.
I made another holy priest yesterday because I could get the name Bird on Velen but now I have to think about getting tier on another priest
I’ve been thinking of trying RP. As of right now, none of my chars have a backstory; so, I can’t use that method to let them go, but I could see how it proves useful.
I’ve both trial and “trial” characters–i.e., actual class-trial chars and AR ones that I thought I’d end up playing. I guess the level 10 AR’s that’ve been collecting dust, as well as the class-trial chars, could stand to go first.
I suffer from this practice, as well.
PS: I’m the OP. Forgot to switch characters before replying. (See? I’ve too many of the dang things. LOL)
If that’s the case, on my nonRP servers, I’d just pick the lowest lvl characters that I hadn’t touched in a few weeks or months. I could always remake them if I decided I really wanted to lvl them.
You just delete them. I’ve been playing since the beginning and have deleted probably 100 or more characters at this point. Now days they don’t take much of a time investment to level up so deleting anything that’s not max level is fine to me.
I don’t usually delete high/max level characters. For lower level alts, I sell everything they have. Armor and all. Then I send the gold over to another toon and I’m ready to delete. Never feel the urge to undelete them after that.
The first to go are always those on servers I’m no longer playing on. I have two level 60s and a level 70 in that situation and if I need to delete them I will delete them, it’s just an evoker and two characters that are duplicates of what I have on my home server.
If not that, like if it’s something that I was reserving a name, I go after the ones I’m no longer feeling. There are names I’ve had for years, never used, and now or at any time in the future I may decide the name wasn’t something I actually wanted.
I have 60 characters or whatever the cap is, but I can always find something to delete if something better will be made in its place.
i argue with myself about whether or not i want to keep a character for a long while, going back and forth on it (i don’t really play that character that much - but they’ve got such a cool race/class combo though,etc), and after a long while of grumbling to myself, i eventually delete them after sending all their stuff to another character, then naming a battle-pet after them so i don’t forget’em… and sometimes i bring’em back/recreate them.
like, currently, i’m arguing with myself over deleting my zandalari monk and druid, so i can make a new druid in their place.
Really, the only toons safe from deletion are my Ret Pally and this Hunter, only because they both hold sentimental value to me. But I do keep a small stable of alts, one for each armor type, in case someone wants to do a mog run (and I already have heaps of plate/mail, so its nice to get other mogs).
I don’t. Most I can’t even bare to race change them. My core I’m hesitant to even change their spec. If it started as a male orc arms warrior it will stay a male orc arms warrior.
man i have no problem with deleteing some of my alts but i still have my very first toon but i don’t use him since he still has .5 tier armor and dungeon armor on from vanilla
Blizz doesn’t need double the amount that I already pay 'em. Besides, if you give an altoholic 120 char slots, then the end result usually is 120 created chars.
I’ve a number of them that’ve sat for several years, which is another reason why it’s harder to let them go, I suppose.
I’ve deleted many chars over time; but I still wind up with all, or nearly all, char slots filled. I guess I’m a char hoarder: whenever I’ve created more “space” on a server, I wind up filling it back up.
That’s my process, too: keep higher-level chars and sell off everything on an alt; and, yet, I still wind up making more alts that wind up sitting around. Ack.
Yeah, I have some characters on servers I don’t play on anymore(aside from using them to farm for mogs), but I don’t delete them because I’m sentimental. Since we can have 60 characters on an account, that should leave you a little wiggle room at least to pick the ones you can part with.
