I find that some expansions were really alt-friendly, to the point where you could easily level dozens of alts to max level and find a legitimate use for them. For example in Legion.
Then you have expansions that make you want to play lots of characters for various reasons (cool transmogs, new character appearance options, etc) but make it hard to do so. Shadowlands is a good example of this.
Dragonflight so far seems relatively alt-friendly in case you actively want to play alts in endgame content, because there are some account-wide unlocks and catch-up features. But it’s not as easy to level up as it was in Legion, and we don’t really have those “log in and claim your reward” features like we did back then with the Mission table or WoD’s crafting buildings.
So I’m hesitant on playing too many characters right now, with a busy schedule IRL and all.
My main is a Ret Paladin, as it has been since WotLK.
I love dabbling with Night Elves and Void Elves, and the Druid as well as Hunter classes. It’s just something about the nature theme which I like so much. So I have a few “main alts” which tend to be variations of these.
Beyond that, I have dozens of alts of various races and classes, ranging from level 1 and all the way to 60+, which I kind of want to play occasionally but never find the time for. These characters I mostly just organise in lists and plan to play at some point, but never get around to. I’ll go “this is my main Enchanter, my main Warrior […],” and so on. But they see very little playtime.
So I’d like to hear how many characters you play, and why you play the ones you do.
Do you feel limited by time or energy as I do, or are you happy with your chosen number of characters?
Do you assign them different tasks and gameplay activities?
Tried other healers as well. I hate Priest, it’s boring.
Resto Shaman is great fun, I like having a lot of buttons and an answer for every situation, it’s satisfying and it feels rewarding when you play it right.
Prevoker is fun too, mostly because of Rescue shenanigans.
But I’ll stick with Mistweaver nonetheless. I think I’ll play my main mostly this expansion.
I’d like to dedicate 100% of my time to my Monk and get to 2400 solo shuffle rating at least once by the end of the expansion.
I’ve always been a one toon guy although i have a Dracthyr alt parked in SW somewhere- had this guy since WOTLK, invested too much time in him to ditch him. I kinda like the fury warrior playstyle, always some buttons to smash
Typically I sink most time into a main on each faction, finishing all the story/lore content at a somewhat casual pace. Currently it’s this character on horde and I finally got started on my human paladin on friday, hitting level 70 today. Then I’ll mostly play whatever I find most fun at the given day, sometimes the main, sometimes an alt.
Sometimes I’ll devote a lot of time on one of the alts to reach a spesific goal, like getting something collected or a profession leveled up and it effectively becomes my main for however reaching the goal takes.
I don’t use TRP on my characters outside of the few I have on Argent Dawn, but I do tend to have a particular theme for each character, like the goblin and dwarf hunters are both engineers so they ride motorcycles and rockets, and the void elves are rogue/warlock which I find very thematically appropriate.
I only do any real content on this character even though I have 46 (i think) at at least 50 (most are 60–61) I have leveled 6 to 70 though so far and am working on two more (I like leveling - and love I can level with ease by doing WQs and gathering in Dragonflight)
So to answer the question- Instanced play just one - this one… General play I’ll have 20+ that I log in to at least once a week by mid Dragonflight.
I’ve wanted to “main alt” a Fury Warrior for some time. I have a few of them which I don’t really play. There’s a super cool build (at least in my view) which basically gives you only 1-3 buttons to press in your rotation, lol. The rest is just auto attack.
Mainly Ananda as I haven’t even finished the main questline yet.
But also levelling a drakthyr with a friend to see what they’re like.
Also have a druid who occasionally farms ore & herbs - ore for my main’s jewelcrafting, herbs to earn a bit of gold to pay for tailoring.
Usually sways between 3-4 characters I play “seriously” and a lot more that I just want to get to max lvl and gear a bit so they can easily survive in the open world. I have at least one character per class at max each addon.
When I get “really” serious (going for the M+ mount) I only have the time to focus on 1-2 characters, which is why I usally don’t like to do that.
I perfer having different “mains” eahc week or month and doing the weekly “chores” (like Accord quest currently) for all characters.
Mostly I end up with DK, Priest and Hunter who are my “real” mains, although in SL priest was so bad for M+ he got replaced by a WL and my DK had to surrender his place to my DH. Hunter is just easy to play but brings utility at the same time, so I always end up playing it at one point.
Since DF launch I had 4 characters focussing on the four renown factions, which is why I have now 3/4 factions on max renown without farming the “grindy” parts of the rep.
DK & Hunter usually do the solo content, which was Visions (BfA) and Torghast (SL), priest is more the group player.
Here you can find all my characters’ backstory: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Hedonick/works
I have 2 I play actively now, but I had 15 at max level in BFA. Have almost 50 characters on the account in total.
I play my druid(been my main since 2007) and my mage atm, but don’t do any progression content. I struggle jus getting LFR done because I had a baby last summer. Get to play when the baby is sleeping.
I basicly do the world content on my druid and mage, and try to throw in an occational mythic, LFR or heroic. I do not get all done every week, and have yet to clear LFR. My record was 6 bosses last week, done over 3 days.
I find Dragonflight quite alt friendly, but I am personally limited atm so not getting that much done.
I am limited by both as well as willpower (mainly because of RNG, I just hate it by now). So I mainly do a key a week, maybe the world boss if I feel like (translate: if I can use the kill for something else too, say for now, it counts towards Catalyst charges, otherwise nope thanks, not worth the hassle for 100g), and I do TW and M+ weekly on this toon and my paladin.
The rest I don’t even touch unless it’s TW week as I just prefer doing the old dungeons. They are easier, friendlier and give a sense of nostalgia, and the XP is juicy. I do check for uncollected mogs from time to time in the AH, however. That’s about it
Usually have the main doing everyday end game stuff and then level an alt. My Paladin is waiting for the rework, my Hunter is the new main with 387ilevel from open world and nearly max renown. Trying a Spriest for lols but otherwise, doing the end game stuff more than once a day is too much for me. I say once a day it’s twice a week now but still cba doing more than once.
I’m currently playing 4ish characters. My main who’s working on 13s ish my hunter who slowly gearing and dh and evoker who I basically clear raid finder with
I do. I’m very behind on rep because I switched my main and now levelling an alt. It’s not the end of the world because rep is not needed for actual character progression, but it’s pretty boring having the stock standard drake this far into the expansion.
Not really. I mostly play Battlegrounds, so once they ding 70 I just farm them some gear and move onto the next one when they’ve reached as far as they can go for the content that I do.
I like to level in different zones. Thanks to Chromie this is now possible. I use alts to experience parts of the lore I’ve never experienced before, and I just enjoy the levelling process.
I have levelled my Mage and my Paladin together since they used to lend gold to each other when I started raising them in Cata, so they both got to 70 in the first week. Neither has a very specific backstory, but a definite sense of their development and personality.
I have found both Hunter and Demon Hunter pleasant and low-maintenance general-purpose alts, so they have somehow managed to hit 70 as well. Genuinely not quite sure how - do a little of this here, and a bit of that there, and it adds up.
Conveniently, that gives me all four armour types for farming mogs, if I have a mind to, which I don’t at the moment.
Another 14 alts are gathering dust at 61-62 in Valdrakken. You’re right that it’s easy enough to level, but I have trouble seeing what it’s worth levelling for. Professions have lost me, world content has been strangled at birth, none of the factions or characters or stories feel compelling, and I really don’t fancy starting every Wednesday with 18 trips to the World Boss.
I play about 6 of them, haven’t done that since Legion and all the awesome Order Hall and Artifact Weapon content. Crafted gear, fun raid and dungeons, and gameplay variety with the new talent trees are keeping the game very fresh for me.
