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Ivan Aidrann · Oct 22, 2007, 12:02 PM // 12:02

Opinion on which is better, using a single or multiple main pve chars?

Honestly ive been back and forth on this. I used to play on a single character, my mesmer, played him for 900 hours till the new title updates started coming in, after which i deleted him.

I then started 3 new chars, one for each campaign. With the goal to get each char all the titles specific to his/her home continent.

That came to an end when i decided i wanted to start my own storyline for my chars, to really get into the role-playing of the role-playing game. It went well, though i eventually only made 3 chars for the storyline since I reeeeally dont want to do the campaigns over again. But this is working quite nice for me. Three characters of which i have a main one, and 2 i quite often play with. Each character with a title which describes his role in this mini story of mine.

Many reasons can be given, multiple chars for better farming, single for title-hunting etc.

So now youve got my reasoning why i use multiple characters in pve. What do the rest of you prefer. One main char, multiple main chars, or like mine where i have 1 main char and 2 other?

Abbel Calima · Oct 22, 2007, 12:11 PM // 12:11

I have one main character, and thats my mesmer. I hunt titles on him. And i do have two other characters, a monk for elite missions and GvG and a starting necromancer just for casual PvE.

Im thinking about a fourth character, a dervish pimped out for PvP. The rest of my slots are open.

Targuil · Oct 22, 2007, 12:13 PM // 12:13

I have one main (title hunter) and two others. I don't even remember when i played the others... Currently only main and pvp.

Shakkara · Oct 22, 2007, 12:17 PM // 12:17

One warrior, I want to be paragon but no way I'm going to start a second character and do the titlegrind again. Plus paragons are nerfed to hell anyway.

Cebe · Oct 22, 2007, 12:22 PM // 12:22

Multiple characters are great in my opinion, since they give a wider variety of professions to play with, and help you to understand the roles and capabilities of other professions.

I myself have an Elementalist as my primary character, who has been played with for over one third of my total playtime. The rest has been spent on any one of my 13 remaining characters. I have a couple of mules and couple of duplicate professions.

Bryant Again · Oct 22, 2007, 12:24 PM // 12:24

You'd probably have more fun with multiple chars. I however haven't been able to, still the same game for me no matter what proffession I play. Not to mention it'll be quite a long time to fill your Hall of Monuments for each one.

Dev121 · Oct 22, 2007, 12:29 PM // 12:29

My ele is my main but I have nine characters all fully equiped with builds and armor. I only go for titles on Ele but just perfecting the rest of my guys before I delete him to start again and get survivor ^^.

wu is me · Oct 22, 2007, 12:32 PM // 12:32

lol i rage quit pve after losing my survivor several times -_-
But every now and then i lose another survivor -___________________-
but i do have 1 character that i didn't delete =P just to get hard mode =], and was too far down the story line anyway

edit: oh yea and i would definetly pick more characters... Im not one for monogamy

Cargan · Oct 22, 2007, 12:36 PM // 12:36

I have a number of characters that have protector of all campaigns, but I have 2 main characters.

My first main is my warrior who has a number of max titles. Warrior is the profession I like to play most so he has over 1/2 of the time spent on my account.

My second main is my ranger. An R/A primarily because I do like melee, but I like to be range often too for a change of pace. Not got many titles on the ranger as I find it enough of a challenge to get them on one character. I think it'll be a long time 'til I'm motivated to do them all again on a second character.

I also created a second warrior and ranger to play through the game just for fun but my first 2 are always the main. Everything else I just play from time to time if I feel like a change.

Why not just 1 main character? because I like versatility. I like to be able to change depending on how I feel, yet not spread my efforts around too many characters that it feels like too much work to do everything on all of them.

Unlucky · Oct 22, 2007, 12:38 PM // 12:38

Personally, I have one character I would assuredly call main and that would be my Elementalist, first character I created 6 months ago and have played through Nightfall and GWEN. (Recently got Factions, and have been spending most of my Elementalist time grinding in GWEN.)

However, I also have 4 other PvE characters:
A Prophecies Ranger,
A Prophecies Warrior, (HUGE mistake making TWO Prophecies characters within the space of two weeks.)
A Nightfall Dervish,
A Factions Ritualist. (Tied Second fav PvE so far. Playing Restoration Rit with humans is fun!

)
However, I would in no way consider grinding the hell out of the rest of these characters to get titles, they're just there for fun and variety. (+Elite dungeons and Elite skills.

)

Zeek Aran · Oct 22, 2007, 12:38 PM // 12:38

I have one of every profession except para and derv, I only play PvE. I would switch between them often until titles starting becoming important, and now I only play my warrior for title wh0ring, and my sin for fun. Now I only touch upon my mes for ABs, and my others for farming. 3700 hours total, 1800 on my war. If they made treasure account-based...

Ugh, the goal of getting 30 maxed titles is what really made me drop everyone but two.

Sadare · Oct 22, 2007, 12:40 PM // 12:40

I have one main that i play more then my others but i do enjoy playing all my alts. I dont really care to much for all these grindy titles i am quite happy to pick a char and have fun playing them. What ever comes there way will do for me. Or if i go out of my way to aquire a certain armour will proberly be the only time i may grind out a certain faction.

lg5000 · Oct 22, 2007, 12:42 PM // 12:42

I'm random.. with the start of nightfall I finally had enough slots to have a character for each primary profession. Sure, some get played less than others, but.. if I don't feel like playing a certain class, i can switch to another character rather than simply not playing.

I still have a favorite class, but after hours and weeks of just one class, you get bored of it and need a break

EPO Bot · Oct 22, 2007, 12:43 PM // 12:43

I think you were always intended to have one roleplay character to hunt skills and items and lots of pvp's.

GW:EN made this a little more mandatory, because maxing titles on ten different characters = treadmill into the infinite.

Racthoh · Oct 22, 2007, 12:50 PM // 12:50

I have my three main, warrior, monk, and paragon that I've brought through all three games. Originally I was just focused on playing the warrior and monk which really gives you a different perspective on the game from the front and backlines. After abusing paragon heroes I really came to enjoy what the profession brings to the table and rolled one myself. I originally was just going for titles on my warrior but paragon makes everything so easy that doing all of it again has been a lot of fun.

Abnaxus · Oct 22, 2007, 12:52 PM // 12:52

I have 1 character of each class, ranger is my main with 11 titles, necro has 5 titles, and all others have protector of their birth continent.

Playing multiple characters is fun, when you play with friends you can always pick the one needed to the team. When it comes to titles, it's really impossible to manage more than 1, so normally you end up having a main which becomes title hunter.

Anyway, for GW2 I'd like to see this idea of classes totally changed. I like the concept of primary/secondary class, but I would like to have a universal character who can play every primary.

To clarify, you create a new character and choose race, sex and appearance, and an initial primary+secondary combination, let's say W/Mo

Then at a certain point of progress, you can learn elementalist skills, and change your primary to elementalist. Same for all other classes.

Currently the primary attribute is inherent to the class.
It could be tied to the armor instead. So if with your character you want to play ele and have energy storage, you'd only need to buy an elementalist armor.

In this way you could play the same character through the whole game (and so you would have no problem to choose which one you consider primary), and change your primary profession just by switching armor, so you could also be able to experiment different playstyles and play the role needed by the team.

Olim Chill · Oct 22, 2007, 12:55 PM // 12:55

I only have time to focus on one main character. On occasion I'll dabble with secondary characters, just to get a taste of other professions.

Big_Iron · Oct 22, 2007, 12:56 PM // 12:56

I go thru phases with my chars. I have multiple and play them all almost exclusively for periods of time. For instance, I created a Sin and played nothing but that char until I got my L3 Survivor, but have hardly touched her since. I played nothing but my Ranger during the Tombs heyday. When Nightfall came out, I played thru the entire campaign with my shiney new Derv. Since GW:EN, I've played nothing but my Warrior (which is my second oldest char). My oldest char is a Necro which I've all but retired. The list goes on. Probably the reason I don't have a KoaBD title...and never will.

WinterSnowblind · Oct 22, 2007, 12:57 PM // 12:57

My Warrior is my main character.

But more recently I've started playing as others a lot more, I really love my mesmer, at the moment. But whenever we get new content, I always do it with my Warrior first.

boxterduke · Oct 22, 2007, 01:01 PM // 13:01

I've always had 6 main characters that I like to play and finish story line + quests + bonuses etc with.
One character that is the title hunter + any HM stuff that I do.

When GW:EN came out, I found it hard to do all those titles and Dungeons with all characters so I'm still doing stuff with my Mesmer.

I think once I feel like I'm done eveything with her then I will start GW:EN again with other characters but I won't max any rep points with or even get rep points for some of them or even finish all dungeons.

Whenever I want to do a dungeon or someone needs help then I can grab my Mesmer and do that with.