Tell me, what is the point of having more characters?
Every expansion, WoW gets less and less alt-friendly. In the olde days you leveled your character and THAT WAS IT. Nowadays, with all these borrowed powers, you need to complete several lengthy unskippable questlines to get even the basic class functionality, then grind half a dozen reputations to unlock the rest. Occasionally they throw you a bone like essence vendor, but Echoes are TIMEGATED almost as badly as reputations, so it makes little difference - unlocking anything still takes WEEKS. PER CHARACTER.
Iāll repeat my main point since whoever asks this seems to have missed it: I want to be everywhere, on every single realm eu, 2 accounts currently arenāt enough, 100 slots arenāt enough.
If people put an orb of mystery at 5k on random x realm I want to buy it and sell it for 19,5k, cause by now if it werenāt for this cap Iād have gold and maxed characters on every single realm, itās only due to blizzard that I canāt make chars on a few realms, and so goes for pets and bigger stuff, the limit is not the gold making but the ability to create enough chars.
As the situation is with connections coming, I (personally) would be able to reach my goal if they even increased the cap to 55 per account, up from 50, that could be even a 1-time-paid-feature if they liked, because with 2 accounts Iām this close to having enough slots.
But obviously the more accs you have the more you pay monthly, so itās perfectly reasonable to ask for 100 slots per acc at this point in time I believe, would be a noticeable change from the 16 years old cap.
The quest cap is there since vanilla and itās there probably because of technical limitations of 15 years ago and they never bothered to change it btw.
Honestly? No idea. Perhaps to prevent people from intentionally flooding servers? You tell me, since youāre against raising the cap.
I agree, others disagree. I can see people having a bunch of characters they donāt want to delete, especially if they were actively raiding on several servers.
No it doesnāt. You present no argument against raising the cap outside of āmy personal opinion is that it is fineā. And sure, that opinion isvalid. But itās not an argument that should be taken seriously, according to yourself. And more importantly, even if the cap is fine for 99.9% of players, thereās still no reason to not help out the 0.1% of players who would enjoy having a higher cap.
I think the 50 cap is from the creation of the game.
It was 50 per account in vanilla and never changed.
The character per realms cap was 10
Then we got DKs and people were upset as they have 10 per realm already in some cases.
Later we got pandas. Again some complained.
They allowed a specific extra slot per realm for DKs.
They added one more slot (please lol) for pandas.
Then they unlocked the limitations. You could now have up to 50 characters just on one realm if you wanted.
(But if you wanted more on that realm or any other you had to buy another active account)
The overall limit has been 50 chars for 15 years, so I say add another 10 with shadowlands. Its been 15 years after all. Consider it a bonus for those who have stayed and come back time and again, to this game
Besides. The high end raid folks will need the extra slots.
Each one will need 4 chars per raid slot as many of the high end guilds are telling them they will NEED to level 3 alts to have 4 so they can have 1 per covenant by the time the raids go live.
They need the slots as much as we do lol, and bliz are mostly interested in the raid folks.
So imagine having 2 raid slots in shadowlands.
That tank+druid you had will have to be 4tanks and 4 druids now for your spot to be held open.
Donāt have one for each covenant? Too bad, so sad find new guild right guys?
(Especially since its going to be hard to go back to a covenant you quit from once before. Swaping once? is fine but rejoining after quiting them is hard)
Iām one of those people who will never reach even 50 characters. With expansions becoming multi system based its hard to take care of just a few characters let alone 50 so I donāt fully understand the need for more.
