I get invested in my character as well, but that doesn’t require any of the stuff you listed in your first post. It just requires a bit of head stuff from me, coming up with a bit of a backstory that gives me an idea of who they are, and I’m sorted.
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I’ve found the most important thing about creating a character at all is their name. I can spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Then I can be annoyed/dissapointed by the gameplay.
Then maybe by a lack of good mogs.
It is a game. Go out and Connect with real people instede.
I get that. I’ve created 2 BM hunter alts a little while ago to keep me from race changing. This is one of them (and decided this will be my ‘main’ forum posting character - since she’s a gnome).
I have noticed I care a bit more about these two alts than I do about ‘usual alts’. They are basically alternative forms of my main character, in a weird way, I suppose.
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Some of you are being very mean just because the OP used ‘connecting with character’ as their terminology.
I’m attached to my main. That doesn’t mean I see it as a person or pretend I am the character but there is nothing wrong with people who do RP. They are just more creative than I.
To me it’s always a bunch of pixels on the screen but that doesn’t stop me prioritising that char and playing it the most. It’s my main!
Some people have several alts on the go that they keep geared. It’s not unheard of.
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Yeah I’m not connected in an emotional sense. I think my terminology was wrong.
Maybe invested? Like my original paladin main has like 60 reps. It just annoys me that I want to main a new class and I can’t take any of that with me.
I have all the mage tower and trading post class sets for main but nothing on Alts. You could argue well you should’ve levelled alts etc during legion but I was happy with my char then and now I’m not and would like to play something else.
I’m not asking for these things to come back it’s just off putting that I have to grind out things I’ve done before on a new character. I’ve done that content before. Hopefully that makes sense.
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Because once you’ve done the ‘work’ on your main, the thought of doing it all again on an alt isn’t good.
Reps for example, got 120 on my main, when I look at having to repeat that on an alt because I’m bored of the class, it just becomes a chore.
Part of the reason Retail is an issue is the total issue with accounts wide work, so if you get bored of a main, it just becomes quit or suck it up.
Exactly! I want to play another character but not have to do the same things again.
I just feels like there’s something missing so I lose interest and I don’t want to play my main so I just log off.
It also feels wrong if I’ve done say 5/6 reps with my main and I switch to an alt then I end up making progress on that rep that’s missing on my main. Feels like I should stop what I’m doing and switch to a character that I may not be having fun with.
I have almost 21k and I don’t specifically go for achievements.
Alternate universe Tahs!
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And yeah, connected as in “I like this character and want to play it” if I had to start again, annoyed at 20 years of lost stuff but I’d get on with it.
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