Have you rerolled your main?
I've rerolled 50s before if a new powerset comes along that's better for them. I've done both - rename and make a new character (paying the 10 buck rename at the time) or just outright delete.
I'm rerolling Hecate from Dark/Psi Defender to Dark/Time Controller. She's been level 50 for years but I've not gotten TOO far in the Incarnate stuff (just an Alpha). So since I'm not a huge fan of the Dark/Psi.. I'll probably just reroll entirely and not bother renaming it.
Goblin Queen will be rerolled as a Dark/Psi Dom (until we get Elemental Whip Assault - maybe!) and then she'll be rerolled again in that case. She's in her 30s and got left there because Plant/Psi wasn't doing enough for her concept.
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Not really, but I have made a character with my name on each server I play - and each is a different Dark/Dark.
Virtue - Defender
Justice - Scrapper
Exalted - Blaster (was on Freedom, but wanted a good fifty on X and...)
Freedom - Dominator - once i22 is live.
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My 'main'? (hard to call a 'main toon' as I have so many)
Never with one that I would call a 'main toon'.
I came close with the release of Dual Blades and Willpower. My Kat/Reg almost became DB/Will, but I invested too much time and badging to do so.
I am coming close again with the DB/Will I did make with the immanent release of Staff Fighting.
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I reroll a lot. Going across the bottom of my sig, the number of rerolls is 3, 0, 3, 2, 5, 3, 0, 2, 6, 0. The Oedipus Tex character has been a Archery/Force Field Defender, Illusion/Storm Controller, Earth/Therm Controller, Earth/Storm Controller, Dual Pistols/Dark Corruptor and is currently an Earth/Time Controller. My Ice/Fire Dom is a spiritual reroll of my Ice/Therm Controller. Pinball Blizzard would be rerolled if I could find a suitable replacement for Force Field/Ice Defender, because he flatly sucks. I just haven't figured out a combo to move him to that preserves the concept and doesn't end with him wrapped in costume ruining ice armor.
I've rerolled my namesake twice since my main SG moved servers. The original Iolite Phoenix was an energy/fire blaster and is still gets played on Infinity from time to time. She was my first ever main and my first 50, so I doubt I'll ever delete the original.
When I came back to the game I rolled her as a fire/fire blaster on Virtue but decided to start off in Praetoria since I hadn't seen it yet. I didn't like her as a Praetorian and wasn't having as much fun with the set as I wanted to, so I made Iolite Phoenix Prime as a firex3 dom and have gotten her to +2. I have a few takes on different versions of her as villains too, and I tend to play the Iolite-themed characters more than any other alts.
Seriously thinking about it - my main is a fire/fire scrapper and since enemies run anytime I drop Burn, I am thinking of remaking him as a brute. I poured so much work and money into that toon that it makes me sad to even think about it, so I have not done it.
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I haven't rerolled my namesake, he's still a the same old FF/Psi he always was. He is however shelved, and on a server I don't play on anymore.
My main changes pretty regularly. Basically once my current main hits 50 an alt becomes my new main till it hits 50 or I get bored with it. Then it's time for another new one.
Incarnates changed that a bit, but I still only work on Incarnate progress with my current main. Partly because I really don't care that much for iTrials. I'll do one every now and then, but I don't really think they're fun.
Nope. Emp/Rad 'fender since I0.
I don't even have stamina on her still.
I also know a grav controller who has the team teleport power at lvl 32 instead of sing as well...
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I've rerolled my main twice. Was Kat/SR Scrapper, rerolled to Claws/SR and then Kin/SR. The character was level 50 each time; I transferred the old one to a new server.
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My main's an illusion/kinetics controller because it seemed the best way (at the time) to represent a general-purpose sorcerer. If, in a future release, they offered something better, I'd seriously consider transferring the original character to another server and rerolling to avoid losing any special badges.
I've been tempted to reroll one character (Shandora Ward)-- currently my most "incarnate" character-- now that street justice is out. Street Justice/Willpower would be so much more like her original, grittier vision (she started as one of my NPC's for a Pen-n-Paper game). Neither was around when she was created, so I 'morphed' the vision slightly to a more disciplined & agile martial arts / super reflexes. Over time those nuances bled into her personality. She's "grown" into a very different character than that original vision... not sure if I want to take her back there or not.
Then again, the "incarnate" path doesn't seem at all right for her either, so maybe another round through the levels is about all the play that character concept will ever have...
Twice!
Once because it was of a concept change, I deleted and rerolled my main villain, Ryan Grimm, to take away all his attacks and stick with just his secondary and bots.
And my main justice character, an emp/dark, Oxomoco, got new life as a storm/dark, which is much more fitting.
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Vitality has been through several rerolls...mostly because it's the only character I really play so I like to go through the leveling process again while teaming with new people. Though I have also rerolled because of changes.
Started as Invuln/SS for about two days before WP came out...then rerolled into WP/SS.
Finally rerolled into a Brute since you could finally start as a hero.
My main is a Broadsword/Regeneration Scrapper with nearly 1200 badges.
I still like Regeneration, but after more than 5 five years i´m a bit bored of the Broadsword.
Since about two years i do only use him for badging and events.
And a few months ago i decided to only collect additional badges if they don´t use to much time to get them.
If there was an option to keep the badges, or to transfer them to another char i´d probably roll a Staff/XX char as my new main.
I haven't rerolled the character I consider my "main" - Thunder Glove, my Elec/Invul Brute - as such, but I've played off of the villain-side clone plot (in Sharkhead) to create a hero-side version of the character (Thunder Mirror, an Elec/Elec Tanker - the Brute's powers are magical, so they weren't included in the cloning process; instead the Tanker uses Crey armor technology to simulate the Brute's powers).
I've also remade the Brute as an Elec/Elec on the Beta server, but I'm sure that's long since been wiped.
(Belated Edit to add: since posting this, I've actually deleted Thunder Mirror and rerolled him as an Elec/Elec Brute with the same backstory. I just like Brutes better than Tankers)
I wish they would implement a "restart" option--allows you to restart a character basically from level 1, picking new powersets and even a new archetype if you want, but hanging on to all of your badges.
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As to the OP's question: More times than I can even remember. Many of the versions are part of my stable of multiple 50s.
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
Two of my original three-day headstart characters have never been re-rolled (Dark/Dark/Defender and my Dark/Dark/Scrapper, though I have to admit only barely making 50 a month ago on the scrapper.)
OTOH, my original Inv/SS tanker I rerolled two or three times. @%^@ Vaz and science origin used to really, really suck before level 10. I eventually rerolled as Inv/SS Mutant to get around it (and would love an origin respec! :P )
Still here, even after all this time!
I started as Kat/SR on both my Scrapper (April 2004) and Stalker (October 2005), and that's how they'll always remain unless they add Complete Powerset Respecs or Badge Transfers somewhere down the line. I simply have too many badges that just aren't possible to get again to delete and re-roll either of my mains.
Street Justice/Willpower or /Energy Aura fit the characters much better, though.
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