I find it extremely useful to sketch out a rough outline of the personality I plan to play, e.g., slightly insane paranoid, eccentric genius with delusions of grandeur, angsty manic depressive, or unmotivated slob with a big mouth. The concept of personality type is completely orthogonal with respect to profession or class (assuming class is even a valid concept on the MU* in question).
I think you're mistaking using the concept of character personality with rehashing tired cliched archetypes, which are generally a combination of personality and profession.
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