How do you setup your alt?

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  1. Spend 3 hours coming up with a name
  2. Send it enchanted heirlooms, bags, gold
  3. Start leveling.
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Pretty much the same as the OP.

But I send 4k which is enough to buy all the riding skills as I get them, and take herbing/mining and sell all that on AH and have enough to buy the last riding skill when I get to 40.

I add the Yak and Katy’s Stampwhistle to an action bar.

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Blood Elf [ check ] Female [ check [ Mage [ check ]… all the usual features.
Start Sunstrider Isle
Throw away stick
Fire up silver tabby cat
Set up bottom and side action bars. Unlock Action Bar. Move spell to middle.
Block trade chat, guild invites etc
Wave goodbye to first quest giver and ignore all future quests.
Kill stuff to Level 5. Start crafting. Get archaeology. Build the flights to tamers. Battle Pet and Arch my way to 60. Same as I always have. Well 'ish.
Get to 60. Retire character. Delete oldest I have. Start again …
Blood Elf [ check ] Female [ check ] Mage [ check ]
You get the picture… and I’ve never had a main.

Currenty Level 42 Blood Elf Female Mage at the inn in Everlook ready and waiting first tamer. As you do ! ETA 60 in 18 days. No rush.

Thinking about it I also put my dance, whistle, wave and silly icons on the action bar and the very important repair icon and general button for battle pets. I then cluster fireball, fire blast, pyro when I get them plus late edition combustion. Only other couple I use are blink/shimmer and slow fall. Plus the flying blue duvet and stinky the blind ground mount. The teleports get added to an expanding side tool bar just above the arch icon. I do keep Undercity and Stonard out cus I use those a lot.

Every mage is set up the same. Don’t you ever move any of my spells and stuff. And then I’m good to do pretty much all I need to do. For ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever… You get the idea.

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pretty much the exact process i used to go through every time as well.

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Log in, doing a lot of quests, then remember that I have heirlooms, I take some, then log out cos I get bored.

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Same, but then add a level-60 shop thingy at the end for my case :rofl:

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I plan my keybinds by checking what my full spellbook will be at max level and filtering out only things I absolutely won’t need to bind (like Runeforging for a DK). This also means researching which active talents are good and which are never used. I determine which ones don’t need to be on visible action bars, like holy power spenders on my paladin. I save this in a text file or spreadsheet and consult it as I gain abilities.

There’s heirlooms and UI and all that stuff of course, but that’s minor in comparison (copy a prepared ElvUI profile). The only thing that can match this effort is coming up with a name.

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If there is only 1 profile you use, rename it ‘‘Default’’, and it’ll be the Default one everytime you make an alt.

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Then if that alt modifies it, it’ll be changed for everyone else who uses it too. There is one profile I base all other profiles on :wink:

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Fair enough - I have same for everyone. ^^

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  • x4 32 slot bags

  • 1x enchant per heirloom.

  • 10x enchants per non heirloom slot. (I’m stocked on legacy enchants since forever)

  • Send them 7k, a third for flying and the rest for whatever.

  • Reach level 50 and then neglect them

That’s about it.

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I will probably hit 50 before you finish setup your character :stuck_out_tongue:

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There’s a hidden treasure trove of easy leveling (and gold). When I do a new alt I do the first few quests in the start zone (as is) and I quest without bothering with most heirlooms, except for the bow for a hunter character. It’s a long response… so be warned. :smiley:

As the zone level goes up with you it’s pretty plain sailing to travel around. I mostly play Alliance so here’s how I do it. I level up in the character’s start zone (which can get you to about level 5 if you just kill more than the quests), and at level 5 head to Stormwind where you do all in town quests (including Vin). Easily can be almost level 7 or 8 by now.

Take the quest for the Stormpike delivery, then collect ALL hero call board, specifically get the MoP start quest, the BfA start quest (make your HS place there later), the start quest for Legion Dalaran and Chromie. Hand in Chromie; ignore selecting an expansion.

Do the Legion hand-in at the Harbor (don’t take quest for ring), tell the guy you heard the story before. End up in Dalaran; hand in quest for Dalaran purple HS stone, run to SW portal before pestered by the Class Hall NPC.

Now, you head to Stormwind Keep, it goes black, you hand in the Pandaren quest and don’t do follow-up just yet and do the quest to go to Boralus first. Ignore going to the harbor immediately, now take the quest for Pandaria, use the taxi next to him to the ship and get to Pandaria.

Do the airplane and parachute quests, ignore the rest, go to the village, take portal back to SW (you can do close-by exploring if wanted). Now you go to the harbor, talk with Jaina, and skip the story and end up with Taelia.

Do all the quests until you got the map achievements, then get the quest for Hatherford (the skins) and do the follow-up quest for the camp beside the cave at the bridge and the other one for the logging camp. Hand both in, ignore follow ups. Now go back to the Boralus portal room and port to Ironforge.

Now you begin cashing in the hero call boards. On the way, do the quests I call “talk quests” (go talk to such and such for me) and the “delivery quests” (like the aforementioned Stormpike delivery quest) and do these “easy quests” on the way from hero call board hand in to the next.

When you collect the hero call board quests keep 2-3 slots open for the above mentioned talk and deliver quests. If not talking with Chromie (at least!) they tend to give 10 to 21 gold a quest though the xp is low but that’s compensated by the exploration xp you’re getting AND from the hero call board stuff.

The route I do is as follows: Ironforge, through Dun Morogh to Loch Modan (do pilot quest line on the way), pick up Stormpike quest in Thelsamar, go north, then through the tunnels (do the quests from the dwarves), then from the camp where you deliver follow to the road towards Arathi Highlands (talk quest to do at the camp before the bridge), then go to Refuge Pointe, then take the road to the tunnel into Hinterlands. Go to Aerie Peak for flight path, then go to the Plaguemist Ravine path east of Aerie Peak. Arriving at the lake, turn west to Chillwind Camp, then go to Andorhall, then ride east on the road to Eastern Plaguelands all the way to Light’s Hope Chapel (you can figure out if you want flight points and what route you do but do the Pamela quest line on the way up to when you talk with Chromie). Arriving at Light’s Hope Chapel you SHOULD be about level 15. Do the quest for the undead at the Browman Mill, then take the quest from the goblins with the rocket and then fill up with more hero call board items. Now go on the rocket and get free xp as you fly south.

In Badlands, hand in, go to Fuselight, then ride around the building with the telescope (I think that’s what it is), jump down and ride across to the explorer camp (check in the Crypt above their camp for the rare too - either as a pet for a hunter or xp from a kill). Then your route is towards the fortress, in front of it turn left, ride to where the dragons are but turn left again and follow the scar to the alliance camp. From there you get to Searing Gorge (past the ruins of the horde place), then ride through Searing Gorge to Iron Summit, from there through Blackrock Mountain to Flamestar Post, and from there to Morgan’s Vigil. Now HS to Boralus, and go through the portal to SW, and pick any other zone to repeat the process similarly until ALL hero calls are depleted for the most part. Up to the Morgan’s Vigil point I can get an alt to around level 20 with ease, end up with between 300 and 700 gold at a minimum, and if I have a gathering profession of herbalism or mining be at least at 100 skill.

Then I begin looking at what I need for the character in gear, money and other stuff. The above process takes me typically between 3 and 5 hours if I just get on with it. Faster with the gathering skills. You can create your own version of a “efficient route” to do similarly if so enclined. I know this isn’t the play style for everyone, but remember that the more quests are still available to complete at maximum level the more gold you can earn from them.

Also, I had read about the fact that, allegedly, you get teleported abruptly from Chromie time if you select the expansion from her so after reading that I’ve opted NOT to take her quest. Though xp earned is lower I’ve found that quests are done considerably faster in general and they offer 10-20 gold a pop. But in the end everyone should be able to play the game their own way. This is my setup for alts, and if you decide to copy this guide then I hope you have fun with it. :slight_smile:

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I mostly level them up to max via questing (I try to choose a different continent for each alt, to keep things fresh). Once done, I gear them up a bit via world quests and get them a spiffy transmog set from my collection. I might not use them all… but on my word, they are going to look their best.

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I get bored most of them, at various levels, but transmog them is a must.

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Log in, enable my extra bars (also use default), get cross with my RP addons and move those, choose my title, sort out the minimap tracking, resize my chat box and disable General and Local Defense (blasted Trade only being available in cities).

Plonk my chosen mounts for that race/class on the bar and my inbox whistle, play around in my appearances for an outfit or two.
Make my looms, cry at not being able to use my yak mount, cheer at level 10 and then grumble because I need to send myself money to buy bags and actually change mog!

Oh and my new favourite: Learn ALL the heirloom maps (away from people) and bask in the glorious achievement noise and completion~

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I thought that got broken or banned? I hope it still works, I could use it.

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It’s neither broken nor banned, works fine.

You’re probably thinking about raid lockout sharing in a similar way, which was gutted a while ago.

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