you make it sound very zero sum
imho it’s shouldnt be “loosing out on a main”
but more like " new things from a new perspective"
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Thank you everyone for contributing, every opinion here was helpful, so I am glad I used this forum. And I found the perfect answer right here:
I will definitely dedicate a day or two a week for any alt I feel I want to level and see how it goes. 
Worgen Warrior and Nightborne priest are on my list now.
For everyone!
idk how much time you have to play but you could always make an alt and level it a few levels per day by doing a single dungeon or a few quests.
At this point its likely you have done most end game stuff in the base game already so its not like you will miss out alot. And you probably will have your alt at max lvl before the next major patch
Imma be honest here. There is no beating it, regardless of which version of WoW u play, there will always be something u could progress on ur main instead of playing a alt.
What the person ur replying to has likely found. Is theyve found something they care less about, or is in a frozen state of play so without any further progression, u csnt feel the need to progress.
That wont fix your problem im afraid.
Classic is relaxing to a mindset for several reasons.
It forced you to get over fomo, leaving the game, and classic is frozen in its patch, theres 0 future content, u cant miss out in a game of frozen state because the content never moves.
You wont fix the issue. Your going to just put urself in a situation u can ignore it.
Just like people who cant help but perma reroll, and get irritated at it, because they are permanantly behind because of it, others simply never change chars.
This sorta mindset will be a tough cookie to break, as if u do break it u could simply lose interest in fomo entirely and end up a altaholic. Maybe set days for each side?
Do your main in the prime of the week.
Wednesday tgursday friday saturday
And play alts when the weeks died down on a sunday monday tuesday?
I have been the same! Always stressing about what I - HAD - to do.
Then Legion came and added RNG on RNG on RNG and I felt more put off… but kept at it.
Then BFA came, and it just asked a LOT from you, so you ended up focusing on 1 char anyway…
Then SL came. . … and boii did I melt on the floor from even attempting to do stuff…
and now in DF I am just “meh”, I don’t care anymore.
I don’t even do it on One character.
I fell behind and my friends are easily doing their normal 20 and above, meanwhile I am just logging on, running in a circle, doing the climbing + pokemon snap quest, maybe 1 or two m+, then logging off.
Sometimes logging on to level an alt…
I just… CBA anymore.
Idk what is worse: Apathy or Stress.
Interesting, I’m kinda the opposite. Chose the evoker cause i wanted to try get into healing but didn’t really like the playstyle of the other healers other than Holy Priest which is kinda undertuned atm. I’m in love with it and it’s brought me back to playing WoW as my main game after years of alt leveling and on and off playing. It’s helped me understand healing and I do enjoy the more tactical planning ahead aspect to it rather than smash buttons as fast as possible, however I do still like to dip into some DPS and let loose and smash away at times. I’ve been doing a few mythics/raids and then jumping on my warrior for a couple hours just to reset my healing brain a bit. I’m also considering making another alt for lolz just cause I really enjoy doing different zones and experiencing the character/spec growth.
I’d just not stress about it if i was you and just do what you fancy doing at that given time, depending on how much you play and how much gear you have you might find your hitting a progression wall while waiting on the server reset anyway so sometimes it’s best to spread your time over a couple characters. I’m doing Evoker Healing for PvE content and currently gearing up my arms warrior for PvP/DPS PvE cause i’d get FOMO if i stuck to my Evoker as i’d feel im missing out on a big piece of content.
If you don’t play your main that much because you’re alting, then you also don’t have to worry about not having the absolute maximum on your main.
Even more so since catch-up mechanics are a typical policy, and there will be diminishing returns.
More generally to overcome FOMO, appreciate the value in non-doing and the freedom to have idle time to empower you. Actively project importance on that other half of existence besides the hamster wheel. Great power lies in non-doing and the balance of a reasonable middle ground.
To avoid excessive alting: Learn to focus your mind (candle meditation style), and your actions will follow that mindset.
Remember: The game is not a world you are living in, but a complex tool for helping you gain enlightenment from experiencing the universe.
Of course free will allows you to choose a much more trivial purpose of playing the game, but do you want to devalue your existence like that?
i have currently
level 70 DK , Evoker, Druid, Warlock, Hunter
level 60 Rogue
im 424 pvp ilvl on all of them
the gear treadmill " hamster wheel" cant touch pvp now
honestly pvp is so chill , its the best in terms of alting
- PvE has been unrewarding for some time and as a Former mythic raider, ill tell you life is too short for such stress and constant gear resets each patch
pvp has been the best switch i have ever done,
if i need to have 2 weeks off, i can and wont miss anything in- game
I usually only focus on alts in 2 situations: Either i don’t enjoy my main anymore and quit it or i played it until l"completion" which is basically the case for me right now. Reached my personal goal of 418 ilvl and 2700+ score.
By following either of these 2 things i either won’t care about my main anymore or only need to do my 8 weekly dungs so i completely got rid of that feeling you have when leveling/playing alts 
none of the rewards you are fearing of missing out on mean anything to anyone.
No one even cares about the top title from m+
Get burnt out and drop the game for a while.
I have 10 at 70 and 3 at 60+, I dont feel i am missing anything…but i am mostly into old content, mounts, mogs, achievements and such…
The problem for some players comes with infinite grinds, which a percentage of the player base feel they have to do even when they’re not having fun. Grinding is an easy habit to develop and in WoW is usually rewarded. We will often do something that isn’t much fun for a reward that we really want, or feel we need to be able to do something that we enjoy a lot more. Generally, effort = reward.
But some grinds have effectively no rewards, the two main ones being the ultra-low drop-rate mounts (which have now pretty much all been made easier to get) and pushing M+ above KSM. The only suggestion I can make is that being able to say “it’s not worth my time” is the most important part of enjoying WoW. Don’t frame it in terms of feeling bad for falling behind, just understand that falling behind is inevitable for you because you don’t actually want to keep up.
buff every weak the lowest spec
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