It wasn’t until I was hip-deep in her bank that I realized I was saying goodbye to her. New haircut, freshly-stocked bags and buffs, gear organized the way she likes it (weapons in easy reach, a nice change of clothes in case a party breaks out, that sort of thing.)
Not deleting, but saying goodbye for a while. First SSG Block, here. Then ‘wulf, then Dis. Ash is not quite there, but almost; if all I do is log in for JC dailies I’m not really playing her anymore.
(Shaman is still alive and kicking. Don’t ask me how that happened.)
Putting characters in cold storage is a hard thing, sometimes. Someone said – I think this was on Twitter – someone said that MMOs should not punish you for not logging in for a while. One of the reasons I twink is exactly to avoid that feeling that, once again, I’ve fallen behind.
With a twink like Cynderblock, however, it’s not that she’ll fall behind – it’s that the game will change around her. It did so in Cataclysm, such that she went from being really fun to being not very much fun at all in PvP. So the best thing for me to do is to put her in storage, and break her out again during Mists to see if things have improved. (As a panda, natch, because that food buff racial cannot be beaten at 19.).
There’s a lesson here about static versus dynamic characters. And I’m afraid of what that means as I consider the fate of my main.