Does anyone else feel like they have to play their older characters? I have my Hunter and Mage as my two characters I made back in 2005/06 and I feel like I am meant to play those because they are my oldest characters.
I had a 4 month break from the game and I’m coming back for Dragonflight now, I always want to play other characters I made throughout the years but I feel like I have to play one of these two because they are my originals, usually my Hunter but there are quite a lot of them around (not sure if this has changed but I know Hunter is usually the most popular class)
I don’t know why but I feel like I should play a less popular class sometimes as well, and sometimes I feel like switching to Alliance again because they are the underdogs and I should help them out
Maybe I’m just overthinking or this is some kind of OCD I have developed Anyone else feel similar to this?
This is my original hunter I created back at vanilla launch.
Of course she’s since then been faction and race and name changed multiple times, but the essence of that original character is still there. At least for me.
Rather than playing them, I have it more like simply not deleting them while making space (love making alts). My first character on the account didn’t even do Legion fully I believe, and the one that was my main during that expansion didn’t really get much playtime within BFA and so on. So I simply leave them be for sentimental value, but do not actively play them.
I often take a break, and when i come back I forgot what I wanted to do, why I placed it where it is and why I made those builds I did - and the game always changed so much I can’t figure them out.
So I leave them and create a new character (one on each faction) and play those til I take another break.
If I play an older char, it is because I stopped playing is when it was so low in lvl, so I can continue without any problems.
Not really, but I wouldn’t delete this character ever. Simply because it has a lot of nostalgia attached to it, and a lot of very rare untradeables. But I don’t feel forced to play it. Just play what you feel like playing because you enjoy playing them, not because they’re your oldest characters. Your old characters are not going anywhere
I worry that they are angry at me if I don’t play them. I always log them off in a city so that I know they have plenty to do whilst not adventuring and dont get bored.
I used to with my druid from '05 but after MoP I just couldn’t get on with the class and she fell behind. I then felt a disparity between who I was and who the character was. I could never change that character, she was to be a nelf who looked the same and with the same name forever… but sadly I didn’t like it any more. Yet, if I changed it, she wouldn’t be that character. So, she’s in the delete shelf. I sometimes bring her out and try to play but… nope.
Oldest character now is this one and with the rate they’re bashing tanks I’ll be switching to Hunter
This was my 1st character back in October 2005. I just can’t let her go, no matter what. Honestly, I wanted to change her name and race, but I didn’t want to spend money so I used the Legion expansion boost on a BE Hunter. But later on I felt sad how much I had left this character behind.
I got to a point where I plain out refuse to leave anyone behind including characters I deleted and brought back.
Now between: Vanilla characters, new characters and deleted characters, I’m leveling 25 characters
Outside of those 25 characters, I’m currently playing, I only have 4 level 20 characters, which I want to keep at that level, because if my subscription stops, I can still play them.
1 NE Druid (1st Alliance character) level 14 lost in another server and a army of level 1 bank Alts.
I still have my banks full of cloth, Leather and Mail gear, so I’ll probably level up 12-16 Alliance characters this time.
Will I make it ?
Only the future can tell.
This is my first character (that I have - I first levelled a hunter to 20 during the hearthstone crossover but deleted that as never intended to return to WoW - how little did I know).
I do have 10 (I think 60+ DHs) but this is my first and primary.
I began playing on Retail at March 2019, so close to 4 years ago mid-BfA.
Out of the countless toons I made back then, only this priestess (my main) remained. The 2nd eldest is either my hunter or my warlock, but of the two I just recently undeleted the lock for DF prepatch after existing for a very brief time only during the SL prepatch.
The rest of my toons I made towards the end of SL on AD, as some of my former frens have toons there and mogs are cheap so it was worth sniping all the cheap looks from AH from time to time.
So… I’m probably the minority who only keeps toons they actually use for something good, generally some account-wide progress.
That said OP, if you want to put those alts to good use, just farm mogs with them, or mounts or whatever. DF doesn’t “force” you to do a ton of chores so this is the perfect time
My oldest characters from back when I first played (BC to cata), no. They are to remain “locked in time” if you like. So, I will always see them as they were back in the day just as I left them. Mostly for the nostalgia and sentimental value as the friends and times I had back then in a different era of my life are all gone. Shame about the level squish though.
Since returning in SL and seeing how easy levelling is now, I made one of every class, two of some, and they are now my alt army that is parked outside of a raid or instance and they farm mounts. I have one main and one alt that will do current content.
I wish I could, years ago I lost access to my first account and had to make a new one.
But since then, yes, my mains always stay roughly the same.
I don’t know, to me it just feels better to have a couple fixed characters instead of zapping through alts all the time. I enjoy capping alts, but they’ll always be nothing more than a nice diversion to me.
No, when I first started playing, I played for other people, I was a different person, I made classes because my guild/friends/group needed them to fulfil a role.
For me RP immersion began in WOD, I was still in a guild then, Horde based, I didn’t play group content anymore but I held in there as these people had grown up with me for a lot of years.
However the garrison on Horde side is chronic, it’s a bunch of tents, I saw the Alliance one, and it’s a castle, a CASTLE!!!
That began my solo/duo main career, and I have stayed with her since then…
I still play in my castle by the way, I love that place…
This char dates back to TBC, sometime in 2007. I don’t feel the need to play it but I do play it most. Although back then I did play my Paladin a bit more. TBC to Cata that was my main (as in leveled first, did the reps and other grinds).
My first char is an orc warrior from 2005 that is 60 but doesn’t get played much, leveled with pet battles or similar.
Anyone else feel similar to this?
