Agree with you. If a game feels like ”have to do” and a ”job” it could be an addiction and its good for a break instead.
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Maybe you just haven’t found the class/spec that you would like enough to main this one character? I had way too many alts… until I got more into playing my mage and realised I don’t enjoy playing other classes as much as I do on my mage.
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Your characters have no personality. It is up to you to give them a back story. Use your imagination and develop a basic story involving your character. Think of dislikes, likes, passions and interests. What is your characters attititudes to certain mobs, locations, activities. Think of the things you like and the things you don’t. Travel more and maybe tag a pet along with you and don’t be afraid to interact with it. You would be amazed at what your character uncovers and then build on a story and give your char a location of worth that has meaning. Transmog one style of outfit and never change it. Become the character in the game. Next up build a whole realm of chars and make them work together. Maybe develop different skills and professions and let one feed the other. So if you need materials mail your other char and request stuff. Treat the game as a story and your characters are the main players.
I’ve been playing this game probably as long as you and a few years ago the team here decided to turn my beloved human mage into an ‘UGGO’. So I had to systematically delete all my 50 female humans and start over with BloodElf on the Horde side. It was painful, but I just treated it as the first page of a new book. I made my home in Undercity and soon I familiarised mysefl with the patterns of behaviour of all the NPCs. I give them names and invent in my mind stories about their lives. It helps me travel thro the worlds when there is a depth to all I interact with. Sounds bonkers but if you read a book you would experience the same as the author painted the characters personalities for you. It takes a bit of practice but in time the whole world takes on another meaning… and you are the lead character. You are the hero. So be a hero and make your mark. Be proud of what you do and celebrate your achievements.
For me I care not about the stuff that most play for in game as I turn left whenever the game tells me to go right. From the very first quest I just ignored it and ventured off with my tabby cat and created my own story and it never fails to amuse. You really would be very surprised just what there is out there in the World of Warcraft, and it is all available to you. So do a bit of ‘sideways thinking’ , give your character a fresh look, a fresh personality and be the story. Take on the adventure and do the unthinkable. WoW of massive… seriously big. A bottomless pit of stuff to do. Just have fun with it. I know I do.
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I suspect you’re not actually engaging with endgame…
If you’ve no urge to actually raid, do rated PvP, or M+, then fair enough. If you’ve simply not tried those things, then do bear in mind that those are the actual game that everyone else is playing. If you feel like you’re missing out - that’s why. You’re almost on the trial version.
Remember that having a social circle is a mutual thing. You can absolutely find casual dungeon communities that will be full of adults with responsibilities, but who use the group as a shortlist party finder. You do not have to commit to a schedule to have friends in game.
So if you want to change how you play; engage with that social side. Join some communities, see which ones are active, and which are best suited for your level of play.
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Being good at many things just isn’t as fulfilling as being the master at one.
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If you enjoy leveling alts, maybe you shouldn’t stop 
? It’s a relaxing, low- effort thing to take a breather from your main character without leaving Azeroth. During Legion I decided to have at least one character of each class, to get all the class mounts. Then the Allied Races came, with their shiny new armors, so obviously I had to level up a bunch of characters more…
“Alting” is a great passtime that can be relished.
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Thats the nice thing with wow though, there is no “correct” way of playing it. If leveling alts is what you enjoy doing then just keep doing that?
I have had this char since tbc and i just cant imagine playing anything else. If i level alts i just dump them at max level and never do anything with them anyways.
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Main reason for me. I thought about leveling my Warrior.
But then I remember, that I have to do the maw intro, convenant campaign I’ve already done 3 times, Korthia, and renown farming.
I would also have to do Torghast with him, just without the cube bonuses.
Even thought I like Torghast, running it with my main is enough for the week.
And for what? To hope that one of the few M+ dungeon teams would invite me?
In SL the activities I can do alone aren’t as much fun, and currently there isn’t too much activity in my guild aside from raid night every sunday.
So I just keep playing with my main.
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Alts are prohibitive in the current end game.
Play one character, or quit, i’d say.
I totally understand you and my enjoyment of the game really diminished cause i like playing different gameplay styles, but given it all passes through domination gear and gems atm and how rare loot drops are, there just isn’t a chance.
Thus why some characters like this warlock are still level 50. I just don’t have excitement for the game anymore.
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Nothing wrong with alts, play what ever you get enjoyment from. I refused to “main” one charcter this patch. Soon as I saw domination sockets, korthia grind, gem upgrade, shard upgrades. Legendary weapons behind heavy range.I was just like nope not doing it, no chance.
Got 5 characters with KSM doing what I love. First raid tier I’ve not bothered with since mid legion. First chores I’ve not even attempted (think max korth reps at 4 on any of my charas). And I’ve had soooooo much more fun just not caring and doing loads of 15 keys as healer/tank/melee and range DpS with my mates.
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Basically this, and is it not wonderful you can’t ‘screw’ it up, either? Worst case, you die, and you can retry unlike in real life.
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Except now there is no chance of keeping up with all the various systems and grinds, so you are stuck with ‘fall behind on main whilst concentrating on alts’ or ‘forget about alts ever being remotely good enough and try and keep up on main’.
Probably the main reason I gave up on SL is that it is totally alt unfriendly and there is no way short of it being a full time job to maintain more than one or at most two mains. Dailies and weeklies alone can take up most of a week on two toons for people with normal play time.
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Play a class like monk, paladin or Druid.
Most days I wanna heal. On the days I don’t I can instead tank, or dps. I have three distinct specs to work on and gear and invest in to keep me entertained, resulting in my character being able to perform a variety of functions.
I find it hard to alt properly. I tend to “swap mains” instead. I focused on rogue until about a week ago, he’s at 243 ilevel atm but I just wanted to get my monk going so last week I began to do exactly that. Got about 12 ilevels and 750ish m+ Rating in that first week. But what a week to start (necrotic can kiss my beefy behind)
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I don’t know what to suggest to you, this problem is completely alien to me.
the first character I ever created is still my main to this day, despite multiple breaks from the game over the years.
But if you prefer to play multiple alts without a definite main there’s no problem with that as long as you have fun.
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I have the opposite problem: I’m a mainoholic. My alts usually end up being deleted. I’ve been playing this character since BC and every time I think about the amount of things I’d have to redo on an alt makes me delete the alt.
I have done Loremaster twice, before and after Cataclysm and I would have to redo it on an alt to be able to role play in phased zones. Ugh. So nope, I’m really not looking forward to redo all that stuff on an alt. I have 14 years of work invested into this toon.
But different people enjoy the game differently, there are people who enjoy levelling and even the 50 character cap per account is not enough for them. It’s cool.
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I feel that some distinction should be made between alts for farming and those to experience another playstyle on endgame content.
If there is a strict phylosophy in WoW where any item or achievement can be acquired on any class or faction, this would solve a lot of the alt-related dilemmas that people are having. Alts for the sake of farming things (crafting, mogs, mounts etc) isnt very good for the game in the long run. However, the game currently has so many convoluted restrictions that many people are subliminaly pushed into playing alts and then get punished for it (the typical “why you hitting yourself” bully type of situation).
When it comes to wanting to play multiple characters for the sake of variety, that can only be good for the game since it helps preventing players from feeling like the endgame content isnt sufficient (which is common among people playing on single character).
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always two there are… one to embody the ilvl and progression and one to crave it and post on forums
Other 60s
other alts at lvl 60 are for appearance farming, they dont take even moderately regular attention and exist for special purposes like old raids, warfronts like queues, new mage tower may be!
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It’s not problem - it’s way of playing game.
I am also alcoholic and I enjoy that.
You don’t try to focus on each char and gearing.
It’s like pairs of cloth - you try new every day until you get bored and rotate again.
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Got all classes cause i like diversity and play most specs in game , but somehow i managed to main only 1 tune every patch .
I did a few runs or a world boss on my alts to but 95% of my time goes to my main .
I do believe in discipline and not the spec .
Gear is king and gearing up all my alts it’s to much of my time that’s extremely off putting for me . This is the main reason .Hope it helps .
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Im not an althooholic but i like to have atleast one/ maybe 2 if the game isnt super grindy!
I like diversity:
-heal pve/pvp
- 1 alt to casualy tank
-2nd alt if my friend wants to try a new arena comp.
How do i focus mostly on main?
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put urself some targets to achiev( arena rating, mythic plus achievements, finish all raids atleast on normal, rated bgs) i usualy target atleast 2 content types and try to achiev a KSM mythic( kinda new to this and i like it) or atm atleast 1800 in arena)
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its important to like ur main classs- nowadays the diversity and individuality of classses its kinda in a bad way- but if u look from anothet perspective u can enjoy ur class/spec for what it is.
Ex: i like disc, the spells aesthetics and the healing role pve/pvp makes me wanna improve.
Set some long targets for ur main, but start with small steps!
Ex:
Play an alt only after u managed to grow some target on ur main( lets say u have mythic 6 max, this week try to go 9-10 atleast)
Lets say ur 1200 arena- try to go atleast 1350.
After uve seen improvements u may get the motivation to play ur main more.
In the end, its nothing wrong with you my friend!
Hope it helps a bit!
Have a great week!
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