I made the horrific mistake of creating a persona I can't delete. Every time I login, it always swaps to the level 1 persona and removes nearly all my equipment and augs. Please I'm begging you, the xpac was released over a month ago, it's time to fix this.
/snip for emphasis I do wish I could help and I hope you find a solution. But, for now personas seem to have far too many issues and I will avoid them. It seems like an idea that isn't quite half-baked.
Im not saying auto-save. Im saying there is a button to save your equipment set. Its called Save Set. If save set works it will tell you Your classname equipment set has been saved. If it doesnt say that then try this - click on a different class then click your main class and then click save set. After that if you swap to something else then back again it should auto-load your gear. I just tried it and it works. And if it doesnt autoload then click Load Set.
Congratulations that it works for you! I'm very happy the save set button works for you. As for myself and any other sane individual, I'd prefer for auto-save to actually work and not completely glitch out.
You would be incorrect, as it is a check box underneath the list of your personas for that character. As for Koshka, you've been presented with a viable workaround, put it to use. But yeah I agree it's long past time for many of the bugs to fixed.
The issue of automatically logging in as your most recently created persona is being fixed in next week's patch.
Not that I intend to use persona's ... but ... there was a time when Microsoft's products autosave never worked either. Err on the side of caution and save until they fix it. Life lesson from outside the gaming world.