Creation Deletion...and WTH

Ok. I used to be a controller player. Then a Dom Player. Then I tried a defender who was fun until 45 and boring now.

I have tried the veats, a corrupter. I think the only class I have not players is a Brute/Tank, because I just don't like the idea of it. Not so much my style.

My problem is that I seem to either lose interest in something at 35, or in some cases 20.

I can't find an AT that is "me"

My friends list is packed and they want me to join them, but I sometimes just don't want to play anything I have, which is an issue because I delete pretty much everything and keep 4 key toons who I try and level, and even they will eventually get deleted. Except my 50 because she is my only one. And I don't like her at all. Not even enough to incarnate her or buy her cool recipies. (Emp/Psi/Power Mastry) and I only ever bring her out when the team is blaster heavy and they all get mezzed.

It's not that I don't enjoy the game. I love all of the story plots. I love the feel of the game and the costume creator and all of that jazz, but Im not falling in love with anything I play, and I as an RPer should be loving them. All are concept, and all of them have backstories and such.

Heck even my Widow who is fun...is now sort of slowing down.

Im hitting a wall somewhere.

Am I the only one who feels like this? Or is there a point when the AT you thought you liked just disolved. And again this is not for lack of trying or altitis, it's more to do with the issue of not finding something that is both thematic, and fun for me.

Have you tried a MFing Warshade?

My warshade was, hands down, the most fun experience I've ever had playing this game.

Having a hard time sticking with one character is very common amongst new players, and it's just something that you get over the more you play. The only good advice I can give you is to avoid deleting your characters unless you need a character slot.

I suggest you stop deleting toons unless you really need the space. Several times as I level a toon they will stall somewhere between 30-45. I always get an idea for another toon and want to try it out. Sometimes the toons aren't played for months, then I get the urge to pick them up again.

The great thing about this game is getting 12 slots on each server for free. Altitus is a manageable disease, good luck. :P

Personally I find Brutes to be the most fun, never could get into Khelds. I've gotten every AT to 50 except Khelds......

Why do you feel this is a problem? Coming at this from the opposite direction...let's say all of your current characters were 50s. Where's the excitement in "Double XP Weekends" then?!? How do you pick with character to "work" on when they're all "done"? Other than continually starting from scratch (I hate starting at level 1 ), I don't really see any problem with what you're doing.

That said...how about making new characters in batches? You have the server slots, make 10 new characters at a time (or more!). You might find that you are continually drawn to play 1 or 2 more than the others, keep those, delete the rest, and make another batch. Survival of the fittest .

I have a problem playing "support" characters. To date, I have ONE defender above level 30, and he's my Rad/Sonic big game hunter. Still haven't gotten a Controller or a Tank past level 40.

I tend to stick with Scrappers, Blasters, and Brutes the easiest. There's just something about getting in the thick of things and smashing face that is cathartic after an annoying day at work.

Try a scrapper or a brute. In your OP you mentioned "Tank/Brute". The way you phrased that leads me to think you believe they play identically (or at least similarly), and nothing could be further from the truth.

Well, for me, the characters that "survive" the journey to 50 tend to be the ones that had the ideas that I liked best. Examples: BioStatic, a Radiation Emission / Electric Blast defender, born when his nuclear experiment got short-circuited by a thunderstorm. Or, Baal Rogh: a Dark Armour / Fire Melee tanker, the genetically engineered result of Circle of Thorn Demons, and those Shadow creatures from another dimension. Basically, if you "invest" enough in the background of the character, you might get more life out of it, or at lease be more reluctant to delete it. Even if the idea isn't so great, sometimes the character just gets on a roll (Lighthouse, human only PB, original concept: how shiny can I make a character? or Dysleximouser, human only WS, original concept: poking fun at "cat" themed characters, and ones with "w3yRd" spelling) and finds himself at 50.

Building for a particular task (tanking the STF, off the top of my head), might get you another toon to 50. When I tried that though, once the desired task was completed, the toon was deleted (illusion/kinetics controller, built for the "Illusion Suicide Squad" of the old Hami raids, and way before server transfers were an option).


It sounds like you're just burning yourself out, playing the same toon from 1st level to whatever. Most of us have other toons to switch to, to give ourselves a change of pace, but as you delete yours, you hamstring yourself into repeating this behaviour. You need to find ways to make characters you've become bored with, "new" again. The game has some ways to do this built-in: costumes. Especially now with power customization, changing costumes can provide at least a visual spark for your imagination. Repecs are another way. You're locked into primary and secondary choices, but even after 10 levels (the earliest, I personally, have ever respec'd ;D) a couple of key changes can alter the feel of a character. By level 30, you can practically re-invent yourself! IOs to a lesser extent, and now Incarnate abilites too, can also change (in some cases radically) how a character plays. Or try a level-pact with a friend, or group of friends, with the intent that you only play those toons together as a duo/team (obviously, you can have other teammates as well, as long as you are teammed with each other). Shared investment might prove harder to dissolve.

Make something silly. Completely ludicrous. A concept and a voice that are pure comedy. Don't delete them when you get tired of the clown, just let it gather dust. When things get too serious/boring you'll have your Grav/Storm goofball to come back to. (Energy blaster is also a good pick.) And leveling them won't matter because they aren't a serious character, aren't a serious build.

Make a character with an RP goal, something bordering on soap opera drama. She discovers that her parents escaped from Praetoria but left a sibling behind and you can't resolve that until the later Praetorian arcs in the 40s. That is 43 levels of angst to toy with right there, and a goal.

Warshades. Warshades, warshades, warshades. Crazy fun from all angles. My warshade is my blaster, my tank, my cures-all-ills go-to gal for fun. Dechs' guide gives you the mantra "Must find more bodies" and its a good one. You love teaming, you love moving fast, and you love plowing through huge groups at mach speeds. You're also sharing a body with an alien. Who may or may not be quite over being evil and having a search for power. (Canon says that the two personalities combine to form one complete new one. I find playing it as a dual personality a lot more fun.)

Get to the tailor often. Screw replacing enhancements, you need new outfits.

Don't delete someone you've lost the love for unless you need the space. They're fine waiting for you to come back.

I'll echo what other people are saying... when you get bored of one character, don't delete it. That thing that made it fun up to that point might seem fun again in the future. Really, this is a game and the whole point is playing something fun. The more characters you have available, the bigger the chance is that someone in you roster has something you'll feel like playing.

I admit, I'm trying to teach myself something somewhat related as well. I'm really good at grinding to 50 so I can get that crazy level 50 build that I made in Mids slotted... but often I push that so much that I force myself through leveling when I'm bored with the character... so the character doesn't see much playtime at 50. Alts help tired chracters feel fresh. If I had more alts before, my list of 50s would probably be very different.

So yeah, don't delete. Obviously your preferences fluctuate, so you never know if you might find an old character fun again.

Wild Streak - Lv. 50(+3) Beast Mastery/Sonic Resonance Mastermind, Amnesty - Lv. 50 Staff Fighting/Dark Armor Stalker

Oh wow Nyx, I have been having the exact same problem too! I want that one arcytype powerset that says "This is my all time fav powerset to play and will be my MAIN character to fall back to" But that's very difficult to find in CoX. Perhapes your MAIN fav power set doesn't exist in the game yet.

Or what I think is happening is despite the concept being fun and cool until the lvl 30's it might simply be the problem that not matter what arctype we pick the combat becomes extremely repetative without realizing it out front.

What I mean is every fight we end up using the same abilities in a certain order and only slightly changes it up as we level some more only usually enhancing the current routine. Sounds boring to me to be doing the exact same formula every fight but we do end up doing it.

I think I've narrowed my fav type to Doms but even now I'm reconsidering. For now my fav powerset I believe doesn't exist in game yet. We have to choose the sidekick for now lol

The cure for getting stuck:

Make a flavor of the month character - one that is obscenely over-powered.

I would try a Fire/Dark corruptor or an Electric/Ninjitsu Stalker, maybe a Spine/WP scrapper- a Plant/Kin controller or a Plant/Thorns dom.

Something that just levels itself. Then just make it a point of once a week run a TF with it - you will see how freaking awesome it is and then it gets the juices flowing again.

Been here forever and have deleted oh so many 50's. Unless it has that spark the thing that makes me smile - I cash them out and re-roll sometimes with the same name.

Happens all the time, but I certainly wouldn't delete any characters over it, unless you just really hate them.

I played my DP/Pain Corrupter to around 32 before getting bored and moving on to another character. He sat there for months, until I got bored of the other character I made. Then, as I glanced over my characters, I saw my Corrupter and remembered the fun I had and started playing him again.

He just reached 45 last night.

I'm getting bored again, but it's not because the character is bad. It's because I have ideas for other alts and an itch to play some of my already existing characters. As my desire to play other characters rises my desire to play my Corrupter wanes. But even if I don't push through to 50 right now, I know that some day in the future I will see him sitting in my character menu and remember how fun he is. At that point I will lose interest in whatever other character I'm playing at the time and enjoy my Corrupter once more.

Also, don't buy the whole "I have to find which AT I am!" My first character was a Tank, and I found myself taking to the role easily. I would even say how I found "my AT." Then I made my Rad/Rad Defender. Then I made the only character I have ever taken straight to 50 with no breaks; my Warshade. I would even say that Warshades are my AT, and it probably is as close as it can get to being so, but then I could turn around and play a Scrapper. There are no "my AT's", just a bunch of fun characters ready to get played.

I find it helps not to concentrate on one. I have a handful of characters I really love, but I can't play any one of them night after night without alting. I do nominally have a main, but also my other main, and my other other main. And a couple more alt mains on the way.

One thing that helps with really getting into a character for me is having powersets that let me transcend the AT a bit. For a lot of mine that means adding control to an AT that doesn't normally excel at that. Keeps them interesting in the missions, anyway, though it probably doesn't help any from an RP standpoint.