Anybody hit the pre-patch hard with levelling up Alts?

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I stopped playing for almost a year and wasn’t even sure I was going to come back to WoW after going through the first few months of Dragonflight, and doing some guild raiding for the first time in years. No disrespect to the Dragonflight expansion here - I happen to think it’s the best expansion since WotLK - but I just got burnt out with the game after playing for so long.

TWW has finally brought me back with the offer of shared reps and more gearing options so I now have much more freedom to play at my own pretty casual pace, and not get dragged into the 3-4 times a week raiding cycle.

So I came back a month or so after the MoP event started and thought it would be a good idea to take advantage of the insane levelling speed and made a Warlock. I was 70 before I’d even blinked, it seemed, so I had a look at my roster to see what other classes I could level up as options for the new expansion, as I’d learned by then that these characters would be transferred onto our roster once the event ended.

First thing i found was that I already had a level 70 Warlock. How on earth did I manage to forget that?

Anyway, I levelled up four more characters via the event - 2 as new classes I didn’t have on my current server, and 1 to replace a low level alts I had already, but were very low levels, so I could just delete them.

I was going to leave it there but then went on to all my characters on live to clear out their inventories, tidy up banks, get rid of all the old rubbish ready for using war bank and stuff like that and then read about the new pre-patch event. It didn’t sound very promising at first but when they changed it I got interested.

I have now ended up with one of every class on the server at level 70, with the exception of my Evoker, which is currently at 60. I’ll finish that one off this evening.

I’m not complaining, as it’s usually a long old grind to level up in WoW, in comparison to say Diablo 3, where you can cap up with help in around 5 minutes. I’m just surprised they made it so trivial to actually do something like this after all these years.

I know it’ll be a bit more work to get up to, I assume, 80 when TWW launches, but I’m thinking maybe it’s an early sign that WoW might be moving towards trivialising the levelling up process to some extent and maybe making the game more about jumping into end-game a lot earlier for new characters going forward.

Anyone else gone Alt-levelling mad since pre-patch and the MoP event?

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WoW retail hasn’t been about leveling anymore since several addons; retail is about endgame content.

So yes, I’ve used the event as well to boost up some alts I only “maintain” on a very basic level; most of my classes I already had on max and only geared them some more for TWW. Remix was / is also good to create alts; two more for me waiting to become retail characters.

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Both Remix and Radiant Echoes got me bad!!! I rerolled most of my non paladins alts in Remix and created a load more paladins, then I finished levelling off all the non 70s I had lying around on my account with Radiant Echoes.

I have actually done one extra since I made that, but froze her xp at 59 to for appearance collecting.

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I see less paladins in Lights Hope Chapel.

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Holy jesus that’s the biggest alt army I’ve ever seen. :sweat_smile:

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I had a clear out of all sorts of alts and just restarted them all on Draenor mostly.

The mailbox levelling on Remix is nutty.

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Well damn! Guess not having anything to do all day has its benefits

But nah, dont play alts

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Puny. You either have nothing to do in your free time or are truly a WoW junkie :laughing:

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If I hadn’t already done that in MoP Remix then I would have utilised the event. As it stands, I have more than enough alts that I’ll already never play :rofl:

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I had 8 alts sat around at 60, and 2 at 53. I levelled those 10 via Dragon Isles questing, after the XP requirement nerf, then geared 14 alts to iLvl 480 using the radiant echoes event. It didn’t seem too bad after the first couple of days. I was stupid and bought things with the currency before I knew what I’d end up with through drops, so I have items left over that I’d bought before they dropped, but lesson learned.

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Was… 20 years ago…

It hasent been the case for a long time.

Me personally : NO. I have taken a break from wow for the past 2 months.

Why ? I know that when WW comes out I will nerd out hard the first couple of months. So I take a long break before that in preperation.

I beleive its healthy to take breaks from WoW. Keeps the game fresh and game/life balance in a good spot.

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That might be a good idea. I normally burn out by the second raid.

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It works. Atleast for me.

Taking breaks is good. But there are other options :

Instead of stoping playing, slow down gameplay. So log in once every 2 days. Or dont play at all during the WK. WK are for family only.

Or another thing is to limit gameplay to X hours a day. Or at a certain time log off.

Those are the things I do to keep this habit under controll. And not burn-out.

Works. Every single time.

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I leveled up a shaman with radiant of echoes quests since I never played one before and wanted to learn more about them.

When I hit 70 I found myself leveling up so fast that I hardly learned anything mostly because of lack of challenging content. I know the spells but I lack muscle memory on important spells because I hardly felt any need to use them

It used to be boring going from place to place with slow mounts but it all changed with dragonriding at level 10.

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Remix yes.
Event, not really.

I’ve leveled one alt from 51 to 70 through the event. I also geared that alt up a bit in 1 day to ilvl 495. But it can’t really hold my attention like Remix could.

I’ve leveled 8 alts to max level in MoP Remix. I’ll gear up 1 of them for sure (this very character in fact), maybe 2. But I don’t want to burn myself out before TWW starts, so we’ll see.

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erm, I now have 26 lvl 70 hunters! (and yes, I need them all!).
Not to mention every other class…twice over.

Most of my poor alts were just stuck at lvl50 for obvious reasons so its nice to finally get them out!

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Yes I used Remix to level up the 2 ugliest allied races for the heritage armor…
And most of my Retail alts between that were stuck on lvls 40-60 on the prepatch event… Was useful to see what class Im going to play on TWW

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You could really use a few more Paladins, if you ask me. You don’t seem to play that class very much…

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I am almost finished with one character of each class, which is an acomplishment for me given I’m a bit of a main-perfectionist.

Just need to finish grinding Demon Hunter from 49 to 70 before pre-patch ends.

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You just want all the loot!

Flippin’ hunters :slight_smile: