So, reroll "baseline" characters after 8th anniversary?

[Buran.3796]

   I currently have 13 characters, most of them from the first two years of the release of GW2, and getting the extra celebratory dyes from my alts were rewarding moments. This taste turned sour after the ninth year: a single no repeteable dye, plus some garbage as usual.

   Now, the chant used to be "don't reroll characters, the yearly rewards are valuable", and I agree that if you have a character with full leveled crafting skills, or you already paid gems for extra inventory or template slots, deleting it is a mistake. But, if you have characters with no extra expenses in crafting or gems, and you're a bit annoyed since you make the mistake of making a lot of characters from the same race (so now 1/3 of them share the same voice, so they lack "uniqueness"), isn't to reroll those characters an excellent choice? Brings the joy of replaying again old content with the specs released over time, having a more varied array of voices making points about the story, your skills, the landscapes... What do you think?

[Doctor Hide.6345]

I am currently at like 20 characters. I started as all Sylvari with the classes and got bored of lack of hair for them, so I made all the classes again as Humans. And I plan to make all the classes again as Asuran, so I would rather personally just buy more slots if you want to replay stuff again on something else. Those old characters have been there long enough, and in my opinion kind of reserved the right to exist even if they are barely played.

[Mesket.5728]

11 chars, 2 of them from launch and the rest from a few months to a year after... yeah the 9th reward was pretty lame. Specially the unique die. So basically that's it, no more special rewards for older characters.

[Buran.3796]

On 11/15/2021 at 10:55 AM, Doctor Hide.6345 said:

. Those old characters have been there long enough, and in my opinion kind of reserved the right to exist even if they are barely played.

   The thing is that I use some of them as mules, or they stay in a fixed place doing daily mining or gathering or just to swap builds in PvP/WvW. And since now most of my gear is legendary and I regret some of the race/gender/class combos I did, and there's no rewards for legacy characters once 8th anniversary is left, rerolling seems very tempting...

[Vidit.7108]

If you're not going to miss those birthdays then sure. Delete away. I'd at least make sure to get map comp and certain story bits finished for the black lion keys first. Otherwise imo more character slots is worth it since if you change your mind later about race & class combos (say because of new especs) you have a character ready to go. 

[draxynnic.3719]

If the only reason you're not already deleting and rerolling them is the birthday gifts, then sure. I'd personally be a little hesitant about having to get the hero points to unlock elite specialisations again, but hey, if you have a completely fresh character than joining a HP train is probably a good time investment, and if in practice they're mostly acting as mules anyway that probably isn't a concern anyway.