Stuck with 10 years old characters

[MaxiPotato.1870]

Hello,

I recently starded playing again seriously but i'm stuck with 4 low level characters that i don't really like i created 10 years ago, are birthday gifts really a big deal or i should just delete them 

Edited October 26, 2023 by MaxiPotato.1870

[Danikat.8537]

You can see all the stuff that you'll get in birthday gifts here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Gift

I'd say you probably only need to keep 1 so you get the new account gift each year (probably your oldest, but if they're close in age it might not matter). Having more older characters does mean you get more of the reusable stuff like the teleport to friends, birthday boosters etc. but it's not that much of a big deal if you miss out on them (even the one-off stuff is only 'nice to have' there's nothing in there which will make a huge difference for you).

I know some people keep most their characters (maybe all of them?) and buy additional character slots to avoid deleting them, and recommend everyone else do the same, but if it's annoying you I think you'd be better off deleting some of them.

[SandraSolace.7682]

Also, even if you might not like what you have right now, you can evolve them into chars you do like. There are many options.  So before you take any drastic steps, look into that. 

[Randulf.7614]

Keep them unless they genuinely take up space. If you feel you must delete, leave one.

You could always use boosters to put them up to 80 and then leave them be if having low level characters is bothering you

[Teknomancer.4895]

If you have the character slot space, keep them around. The stacks of birthday boosters can be used for any character, they last for 24 hours and they're full of really nice buffs. The other consumables and dye packs etc are cool too.

[Danikat.8537]

I'd never keep a character just for birthday gifts. Although it might help that I haven't wanted to delete my first 4 since the first week I started (when I did delete 2 of them to make changes) so I don't need to worry about it delaying access to the newer gifts.

It might also help that over the years I've probably made over 100 characters so I couldn't keep them all even if I wanted to. Most of them were made to be temporary - they were key runners or for doing one particular story path or experimenting with something or other and I knew when I made them they'd be deleted eventually. Between birthday boosters from the ones I did keep (4, then 5, then 9, then 11, now 13) and celebration boosters from...wherever those comes from I've got enough to keep the boost up pretty much constantly and I don't really need the other stuff (I never remember to use teleport to friends) so I'd rather have an empty slot for a character I will use than one that's just sitting there waiting to be moderately useful once a year.

[MaxiPotato.1870]

Thanks for all the replies, i think i'll just delete my duplicate guardian so i have one free slot for class testing purpose and buy slots for maybe each classes later. 

[Randulf.7614]

You should get more slots with every expansion if memory serves. I seem to have gained a few that I never bought

[Cuks.8241]

It really depends on your preferences. For me birthday gifts are mostly useless fluff. I would still keep the oldest one.

But that really depends on you if you care about cosmetics, dyes and some unique funny items.

[Lucy.3728]

Has anyone noticed that birthday gifts these days don't specify how old the character has become?

[Randulf.7614]

38 minutes ago, Lucy.3728 said:

Has anyone noticed that birthday gifts these days don't specify how old the character has become?

I hadn’t, but I looked it up on wiki and they have indeed just renamed it a generic birthday gift for each recurring year past ten 

[Luthan.5236]

I'd keep the chars - because of the birthday gifts. Had a GW1 account ... super old from release and collector's edition. Never really played GW1 and wanted to start it in 2019 or so lol. Deleted an old char and then discovered that I could have gotten the gifts there first. Basically only minis for some HoM stuff.

In GW2 the black lion statuettes can be interesting to gather. Unless you need the slot to play a different char immediately ... I'd keep the old chars. If you buy expansions you'll also get extra slots. Personally I have one char for each profession: I can understand that a duplicate guardian is not really needed when you are tight on slots and want to try out another profession.

For stuff like "wanting to manually start from level 1 go get back into the game after a long break" I'd suggest to make a new char (if slots are free ... if not maybe buying another one) - leveling it a bit. And then maybe later considering to go back to the main (the old char).

Key running and making 100+ chars and always deleting it ... is a special thing. Similar to making more than one char of each profession for cosmetic purposes. I know some people do this. But I guess the amount of those people ... is low.

[Buran.3796]

Keep the older. You can delete the other ones once they reach the 8th birthday, since after that only you older will get full benefits from the age.