With that question, I mean alts you can relatively gear up properly to do some dungeons etc. Nothing too stellar since I’m sure we all have alts serving as mules/banks/AH goblins.
I’m tempted to say 1 main and 1 alt, for someone not being on no-life mode. But I may be wrong, how do you manage your alts ?
1 main and 1 alt is pretty manageable these days but it really comes down to what can you handle.
I’ve seen altoholics with a dozen alts but just like Heist, I keep it to two: The Main and the Alt.
For me its really a question of how do you define “Properly to do some dungeons etc.” and what do you define as “no-life mode”.
You can easily get characters geared to do +15 keys, and from there you can just do 1 dungeon a week to get the vault.
But of course, pushing above and beyond will be too time consuming.
People play how they want to.
I’m more of a one main kind of girl myself. I have six alts that do the other professions for me and they get to do their weekly profession quests etc, sometimes I use them to gather collectibles faster.
The rest are just capped and retired until the next time.
I had 6 or 7 characters (didn’t keep count) get KSH last season, I think three of those (or maybe 4?) got all the dungeon teleports, and the others got some.
But I did close to 1000 M+ runs, so you may consider that ‘no-life mode’ (although I was only mythic raiding for the first half of the season).
Got ny main doing keys around 16 then 2 alts at 10s
For at least a casual PvPer, gearing up is really easy so 10+ alts is very manageable.
That meaning, if you’re only looking to cap conquest and don’t really care about pushing rating,
Define gearing properly I guess? I have 5 geared for +16s but only really 3 I’m confident on.
The problem is mostly dividing my attention across the different play styles. Hard to be good at everything…
Like many others have asked: What do you define as “gearing properly”?
I took an alt from 395 (Forbidden reach gear) to almost 440 in two days (Admittedly, there was a weekly reset inbetween those days), so i think that by now, the sky’s the limit as far as number of alts goes.
I think it depends on how you play the game, especially on what kind of social network you have in game.
If you can spam M+ easily, as in you’re in a community / guild so don’t have to queue, be rejected and all that, then you can probably play 12 alts quite well.
If you’re a solo open world player like me then I find one main is enough work and my only other level 70 alt isn’t doing too much at all.
I would say to a level that allows me to play them in dungeons/raids (I don’t necessarily mind the level), or maybe around heroic raid level gear ? Middle of the pack if that can be more clear.
I’m unfamiliar with the gearing process these days since I haven’t played WoW’s endgame content for a really long time now. Just subbing to get some transmogs, unlocks a few things and call it a day.
I was thinking of giving War Within a shot since they promised more outdoor content which is what I enjoy.
From what you’re saying it seems a lot easier than before.
I was thinking of 1 main and maybe 2 to 3 alts. But from past experience having 1 alt could mean heavily slowing your main’s progress.
Seems like a lot ! How do you do it ?
Tbh if you dont really care for the level, you can have tons of alts… I have… I think 31 max lvl chars. 8 of them I do pvp on, just spam a few solo shuffle ques to get capped, rest are for M+ where I just jump in a key do it for the weekly and then thats it… And they range from being able to do a +5 to my disc priest doing +19-20’s 
So as people have mentioned, depends how much you care for each char. If you are fine missing a weekly vault here and there, and dont really care for high end keys, you can manage as many alts as you really want to. But you probably wont be the one running around with BiS gear topping the ladder for highest progress
Getting full honor gear is like an hour or 2, and after that, weekly quests from doing Blitz. You almost get your weekly cap (500 or so conquest) filled by just doing that.
I see, seems much less of a pain to gear up in PvP then. Good to know thanks !
To be honest, this season can go up to 3 alts with no issues. I have a main dps, and one tank, one healer. Tanks and healers are way easier to gear as by the time I get an invite on my main, I already have done like 2 dungeons on one alt.
I haven’t really done PvE this expansion, but to me it seems like engaging with the upgrading system takes a lot of time, which you can completely ignore if you just want to do PvP.
I’m not a mmo PvP fan but I was thinking of keeping 1 character for battlegrounds.
Depends on play style. There are people who maintain zero interactions with the open world and only run dungeons. In that case I can see how it’s possible to manage more characters even with limited playtime.
For a balanced all around play style 2-3 characters is probably the max with the time the average person has.
I dont really care about maxing out my gear…but I am a big fan of collecting stuff!
So I like to have at least one max lvl character for each armor class to collect any transmogs along the way.
(so I have hunter, warlock, DK and druid. Plus some spare hunters just coz I like playing them!).