Do you miss playing your older character?

Simple question, but perhaps a complex response depending on the person. ;P I'm asking this just to see how other Maplers thinks.

I started a Pole Arm Dragon Knight about a couple years back, and only got it up to 10x. I now play a lv 133 Night Lord, both are very different in their own ways.

PADK = close-mid range (imo), massively high HP with Hyper Body, mob-oriented class, usually train with a Priest at Himes / MDTs (back then lol <3)
NL = far range, very fast with Haste, bossing class, always wanted for parties

I do miss my PADK very much. But sometimes, I couldn't go back to it even if I tried. I'm too accustomed to playing my Night Lord nowadays. Though I admit, NL gear is incredibly expensive compared to that of a PADK's. A godly Eclipse these days won't cost over 2b, I'm sure -rolls eyes-. Even if it's a +7 eclipse with all 10%s/30%s landing on it. All in all, I don't regret making my Night Lord, perhaps I'll play my DK again some other time, and I do miss it very much. It's just I'm too occupied with my Night Lord, and I can't be bothered to train more than 1 class at a time, usually. >_<

Marksman: High DPM, Low HP, Monster's punching bag.

Buccaneer: Moderate/high DPM, High HP, Lots of skills with invincibility frames

I'll take option #2, Bob.

My axe warrior?

Not one bit.

I have never been able to fully devote myself to another character - I simply enjoy the momentum I have when training on my DrK. I feel like a steamroller - Rush, JumpFury, Rush, Fury, etc - I am almost constantly moving forward, never back, and monsters just get shoved out of the way. There's nothing that can stop me.

There isn't really a character I really left for another character. Of course I have secondary characters, but I never really abandoned one except for my messed up rogue(my first character ever). Although it might be possible that once I get my Wind Archer to a high level playing my CB might be hard and strange.

Bowmaster: 2nd or 3rd best DPS, Low HP, medium avoid.
Corsair: Best DPS, Slightly more HP, low avoid.

I do kinda miss my Bowmaster. I don't miss relying on crits for my kills (one of my main complaints about Bowmasters), however, the fast pace and simplistic playing style were pretty fun.

I'm gonna stick it out with my Corsair though. They can't move around as well, but they're incredibly powerful and have low pot costs (freeze please). Also, having skills that do more than 100% damage is nice. I actually get to see 40k's with my mob skill. Bowmasters don't even have a mob skill >.>

Also, I hate Dragon Pulse. Storm Breath please.

Older: Weak Nightlord that everything killed
Newer: Godly Dawn warrior with half ass flash jump that rarely gets killed

No, I don't.

My first sin (And beta character) - Absolutely. I got him up to level 103, then it got hacked. He was dexless before dexless was a word mang.. Then I raised him to normal dex, then he got hacked Wheeee~

My first DK (Unfortunately spear) - Absolutely, once again. First character to 120 and I loved him dearly. He was so much fun to boss with even though he was completely unfunded haha.

My axe fighter - YES!!!!!! Most fun I've ever had with a character.. Don't know what happened though, but one day I just went on and quit hah. Sad, sad, sad...

I like to consider my Shadower as my "first character" seeing how my Hermit, Asisith, was a huge failure. He was (and still is) level 90 with 120 base DEX, threw Icies and Kumbis until level 80, where I then upgraded to Tobis. His best claw was 46 ATK, and my first 10 mil was made around level 60 by selling Orbis Rock Scrolls.

I'm glad I chose to play a Hermit as my first character; I now had the worst class in Maple at the bottom of my to-make list, and was more interested in playing something that most people didn't bother with at the time: a Bandit. I took all of the issues I had with Asisith and made sure none of them would come close to happening on Septher, and also got into the habit of scanning the FM/smalltime merchanting so I could at least compare to the other Shadowers in Scania, whereas Asisith stood no chance.

So no, I don't miss playing my old character. Flash Jump was pretty fun, but I'd rather have a Soul Master with a slightly inferior Flash Jump with an actual arsenal of skills.

My DrK was kind of my 'diamond in the rough' character. Looking back, I probably spent too much effort trying to make him good, when I really didn't need to. I resetted 66 points of dex on him, and spent large amounts of time training and looking for priests for very low pay outs. Throughout pretty much every boss fight, my damage has never really mattered. From going to small time bosses like Pianus to Zak and HT, it did not matter if I attacked. I just needed to HB every minute or so. I think there was one time where my damage mattered, a zakum profit run, but it wasn't to earn anything important. Nearly every boss run that I did, I was underleveled too. I started to HT at 143, and zakked when I was still 9X. My damage only mattered in training and comparing with others, both which took too much effort than they were actually worth. If I could go back and change things, I would probably put less focus into making my character better, and more into saving for another one.

My corsair was pretty much a ride downhill. I hit levels in half the time and earned money more easily. The real change is that my damage is much more important. Corsairs don't have a crutch to get partied on like other classes. The character makes me feel less like a liability and more like credit.

I miss playing my priest, back when priests were priests and not HS mules till 120. I had a lot of fun being an actual support character, both able to train well with most classes as well as be helpful at bosses too. And when bishop was released, I still had fun for a little while. Genesis was definitely an awesome skill when I first got it, and was awesome for a long time. But then it began to sink in: I'll be doing this to level 200. At least as a priest I could either be a supporter or split a map at himes and get decent exp either way. But as a bishop, I was just a genesis spamming machine. There wasn't much to it at all. The most fun I ever had on the priest/bishop route was training with a FP and MDTs/Grims. That was the best time I ever had training pre-fourth job. That and the boomer glitch

For my corsair, I wouldn't say I've enjoyed it as much as my priest, but much more than my bishop. I have several skills to use as oppose to just one as a bishop, and I don't need to stop to buff anyone! And being an attacker at bosses makes me feel a bit more important than just being a res mule. The downside is having to dish out the meso for some equipment. As a bishop, as soon as you two hit skeles you were set for a while and didn't need to worry about equipment. And getting to that point was easy to do by late 13x/14x. As a corsair, even with all the time and money I've spent on it I still can't two hit skeles 100% of the time. But it's still better than standing in one place for hours on end using the same skill over and over.

I miss my Bandit, but my Brawler is still very fun.

My cleric on BETA was pretty fun, he got to level 38 and he had str o/.

He motivated my first character after BETA, which is a priest. He went low-luk and I had really good times training at MDT, DT and Himes with a party. It started to get boring because my damage was pitiful and I couldn't really train alone decently (stopped at level 85).
Also, the 4th job kind of demotivated me, spamming genesis didn't seem so cool (as well as the bishop bandwagon).
That led to...

My F/P mage, which is my current main character (lvl 102), it has some features my priest lacked: strong single target damage from the start (fire arrow) which I still use even into late 3rd job soloing HHs; highly independant, you could even say it's a lone wolf, I can survive stuff, boss, train, all alone.
I'm pretty strange and I go train at unusual places like nightshadows or elderwraiths and I have fun with it. I feel 4th job will be fun with all the new different skills (I won't be getting meteo straight out.
I'm pretty happy with my current main.

I also made a xbow which is level 62 now, it's fun playing him and i have good expectations for 3rd job.

Old character: an I/L AM. It was fun up until fourth job came out and everyone realized that the one and only class they'd ever party with again would be a Bishop. Not being needed/wanted at bosses was a killer, too. Bossing was the only thing that made Maple fun for me.

So I made a Corsair. Sure, I don't two-hit several Skelegons at a time anymore, but it's the most fun I've ever had in a class, and I've tried almost all of them at one point or another. I'm never going back. <3

umm...I have too many "old" characters. My interests kept shifting as new jobs came out. I usually gravitate toward classes with more skills and variety in gameplay.

I've changed around way too many times. I was a claw rogue in Beta, got bored with that immediately and made an F/P, remade both in Scania for some reason, started a Fighter in Bera...

my first real "main" would probably be my CB, though. In 2nd job EVERY job is a spam fest, so there wasn't really the idea of comboing or chaining attacks back then. I only got it to 3rd job before I quit MS, but it was the first time I actually spent a lot of time on one thing. Would I go back to that? Probably not. I didn't enjoy the 3rd job very much. It was way too difficult to train at Ludi as a CB back in the day. I felt pathetically weak. I've been wanting a Shadower since 4th job came out, but haven't really gotten around to making one. Not going to restart the CB, since the stats are all messed up.

I think my only other "main" would be my BM, which I started after I returned to MS in early 2007. I do not like BMs. I made a Ranger because I like Fire and I enjoyed the variety of mob skills Rangers have (Bomb/Rain/Inferno). I had a lot of good memories with Goby parties. I don't care what people say, though: Inferno was pretty awesome back then before we had good Rain spots like Pirates/Typhons, Bomb got improved, and SE existed. I really enjoyed the idea of setting up a Puppet out of reach behind me as I held down a mob with Inferno. It was cool setting up mobs and sniping positions with Puppet and a lot of fun in general.

4th job ruined it for me, though, which sounds super weird for most people. Sure, BMs are actually a good class, while Rangers are pretty low-tier in terms of usefulness, but that's not what I want out of my character. I HATE Hurricane. I don't care if it's super flashy. I jump-shot too much, which only makes you look retarded with Hurricane. SE and BE aren't enough to make all the mob skills any good, either, leaving BMs sitting next to NLs as the worst 4th job mobbers. I like mobbing (not ulti spam, though - I like moving around too). Not going back to that.

tl;dr: I quit my old characters because MS keeps evolving. Classes I found fun back in the day became uninteresting to play as a new job came out or training spots shifted. Right now I'm loving my Corsair and my Blaze Wizard.

I can't find one job to stick with. I Wanna try every job out there.

Well i think its a dum question when im asked that. Because my main is my only old character I have ever had. And I play it quite often. So why would i ever miss it?

No. My 'older' character was horrible. It was a level 104 Crusader without max booster, without max HP increase, 100 base DEX, etc. When I was level 60, my friend even hacked on it and got it banned from the rankings. Screw that character. lmfao!

My Bishop was my first character (well, technically it was an I/L but I deleted it shortly after). I've quit my Bishop several times to try out other characters and I always end up back on it. I even find my Corsair more enjoyable than my Bishop, yet I've quit my Corsair twice to return to my Bishop. I think the main reason is because it's so much easier to find parties on my Bishop so I get to train with my buddies a lot.

Yes & no. If your asking why I'm saying that, it's simply because my oldest character happens to be sitting with my main in Broa. Sometimes I do get a little bored of trying to jump the levels with my f/p. Either I'll switch to one of my newer characters, or take up the Mark of the Beta on my old i/l which I moved from Scania and start smelling the fresh scent of ozone from maxed lightning.