My friends laugh at my altholism... Can you help me?

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I used to play wow at the time of Wrath of the lich king - but it was on a private server and I never reached the actual endgame with any character. Then I had a long break until I finally got here at BFA.

Let’s start my history: I bought my subscription for the first time in March this year. I started playing on Argent Dawn as a hunter, which I even enjoyed playing. I reached level 80 and wanted to play the character everyone praises - the Demon hunter. And I played it cool, this is the character I have most geared at this moment (450). Love mobility etc. But - the problem is that despite a good gear I can’t play this character well, in the sense I am still dying on mythic +, raids, pvp (because I just play poorly). And the worst thing is that everyone around says Demon Hunter is too simple, even child will can play that 2 buttons and you can be top DPS and be the best on the server. And the very fact that on this Demon Hunter I die on raids and mythic + made me abandon this character. At this point, my good colleagues joined the game, they were not happy that I play Alliance (they have all their life in the horde), so they asked if I had a problem to start somewhere again in the horde. I said “Ok, I was pissed off by the demon hunter and gameplay, it’s time to start again, maybe it will be better now.”

We started the game at Defias Brotherhood and I decided on Paladin Retribution. And at that moment I was struck by the first of the strong signs of altoholizm: damn … I’m not doing it well again. Paladin as a tauren is very slow, I have a hard time playing it, he is coarse, slow and in addition I have a problem with maintaining, a good rotation on it. Not only that - my friends used to duel every time I play with them, and I losted all matches (maybe once I won because immortal bubble). And at the moment when they reached level 120 … I was still tired of this paladin and tired. Although I liked to play it in WOTLK, now just in my heart, I didn’t feel like it. That is why I gave up my character once again.

No i created Warrior Fury. And it was sooooo nice to play - cool rotation, full of slack in the fight. BUT - at that moment my friends started laughing at me that I was changing my character. I said I didn’t like Paladin it at all - they didn’t understand it., they used to say “You just need to gear up, at the beggining of 120 everyone is slow and weak”. That’s why I secretly started to level the warrior on ANOTHER SERVER :confused: I reached level 120 there, but at the moment when I couldn’t pass the story sequence related to obtaining the first essence for Hearth of Azeroth (it was just to hard to beat this boss) - I once again abandoned the character.

So I began to wonder at this point that maybe just the DPS spec is not for me? I have little defense, I focus on damages and I die - I can’t get a little bit of self-sufficiency from my character. At this point I decided - I’m doing a tank.

I did a Warrior tank (from first level) and I was just hit by the stress of a sudden change in “center of gravity”. Suddenly on dungeons (during leveling), I have to lead the team, know instances so well, control the battlefield. Even if at the cost of greater survival, I just had sweaty hands every time I climbed the dungeon. But when I didn’t go to the dungeons, and I just did quests and killed mobs - I felt like a little god - nothing kills me, I’m self-sufficient, my shields and armors just compensated for my chaotic gameplay, which on DPS led to death . Then, however, the higher the level I had, I realized that Warrior has no healing skills, something that will allow me to be much more self-sufficient.

Ok, so I already have 4-5 characters (in the meantime I made a warlock up to level 35, but I don’t like him. Made Blood DK, but it’s very difficult to play). My friends already tell me (with lot of laughs) that I won’t reach the endgame with any character. They started talking to me - asking where it came from, why I can’t decide. And the most important question - what do I expect from this game, what do I want to do in endgame.

The answer came quickly, but I was too shy to say it out loud. I just felt the skill gap between me and them. They just embrace this game, I don’t really. And all in all I wanted to find a character that would allow me to get a little closer to their level. It is good that I did not go on a raid with them - because I would fool myself and probably never talked to them again. For them, this game is simple, they quickly deal with certain matters - I have a problem, I am still looking.

Recently, I have seen, for example, Rextroy’s video, where he solo the bosses on raids. And I wanted to play prot-paladin. Although it’s a tank.

And all in all, right after I did the paladin protection - my colleagues laughed at me again, not because of “another alt char”. But this time because I already have a level 120 character, that tauren paladin retri. And why I just can’t just simply change spec. And when I told them my arguments that I had to learn how to rotation, learn how to tank, and I learn these things best by doing the character from scratch - they couldn’t understand it.

And all in all, I’m in a moment now that I don’t feel like playing with them because I know I’m a laughing stock. They won’t take my game seriously - so all in all I have nothing to do about this paladin prot. Unless for my own satisfaction, because I just want to have this proto.

Am I weird?

All in all, the best part is that when I played Argent dawn - I felt a certain freedom. There I had my character, my guild, there I could realize myself and play as I wanted. And now on this defias I feel constant pressure. I want to play with someone I know, but I think I disgusted them with my gameplay.

I have no idea what to do. Should I stay at Argent Dawn, play as I want but all the time invisibly and tell them that “I don’t have time to play” etc.?

Or should I insist on playing on defias and confront myself with the fact that I’m just a weak player and I will not reach the level they are and just prove to them that they would give me peace and not say that they want to make arenas with me? Because they are my friends, I don’t want to tell them directly that “sorry guys, I don’t want to play with you because I don’t want to be ridiculed by you and humiliate myself in front of you”. I prefer to play quietly like I like … but, I don’t know, well :confused:

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Nothing wrong with altoholism until you get to 49 characters and start needing to either delete some or create a second account so you can create more…

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You are free to choose how you enjoy playing the game nothing wrong with that. My account is littered with alts that I alternate between to level up.

If you explain to your friends how you feel and what you enjoy they should learn to accept it. If not I would probably consider the choice of friends if I were you.

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I love how pre “” classic""" every npc karma farmer warrior bot just flagged and said “we don’t do that here omg go buy retail”.

Now? Saying you played on private servers for years, is okay it seems. Hilarious mental gymnastics by the npcs again.

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People already made good points how its fine to be an altoholic

But if you have to, pick multiple All-rounders for varity as mains

I main Druid & palla atm instead of all 12 classes

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Or coming on here asking for more slots.

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Yeah but we all know blizz will never do that when they can make more $$$ from people having second accounts :wink:

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That isn’t really altoholism, that’s you not finding something you like. I have tried every single class and spec multiple times over due to expansion changes. My main changes all the time. I think you already answered your question: stick to AD.

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This is a lot of text, but it’s simple really. The problem is, you seem far too focused on impressing others and not enough focusing on what makes you happy.

People search for aspirational characters or make ones because they generally aren’t happy with their current situation. To some people (with buckets of time) having lots of max geared chars is 2nd nature.

My advice is to find a character that you have fun with and can be at ease with in your own skin, even if that means in a different guild more suited to your own play style. Most of all, just relax, stop judging yourself so harshly.

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Tell them altoholism is not nearly as bad as alcoholism.

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This is a game, you should focus on having fun. If you enjoy your fury warrior or demonhunter then play that. Stay on argent dawn if you enjoy the community, if not move somewhere else. Life is hard enough as it is, so try to enjoy the game because its a hobby not work or school. Wish you the best OP.

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I’m sorry, but I have to say I have never laughed as hard reading a forum post XD

I have a few tips tho.

There is nothing wrong being a newbie in a game. I am a noob in many ways in the game and I have played the game for over 10k hours.

The issue here is that changing your class wont make you a better player. Skill only comes from the time you spend playing the same character and class. Find the class you like the most and then just stick to it.

If you are having hard time focusing on the game mechanics at the same time while doing your rotation you should try out an addon named “hekili”. It will show you your basic rotation and give you much more time to focus on things around you instead of wondering on what button to press next. I have used this addon to learn specs and classes I have never played before. With that addon you can clear a HC raid without actually even knowing your basic rotation.

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It’s possible they don’t realize they are actually hurting you with their behaviour. If you like them, try talking to them. If they are really your friends, they will accept your position.

I have been in a mythic guild for a little while in legion. I only just started playing wow, and with my previous guild we raided normal and heroic and I improved in those raids decently and when I was asked to move with some guys to go do mythic I accepted (also the most fun guys went so even without the raidspot I would have joined)
Turned out, mythic raiding really wasn’t for me. The others adjusted a lot faster to the new experiences. I enjoy playing alts even though I’ve had the same main since I started playing wow, and this didn’t work with having to do a lot of other stuff on my main to stay competitive enough for raiding. So I quit raiding.
Right now, I don’t even do high-end endgame activities.
My personal endgame is get pathfinder, then level alts and farm things I want from old raids and dungeons. And this I enjoy a lot.

So what I’m trying to say is; find out what you want out of this game. If I understand you correctly, you want to have space/time to explore what you enjoy in this game before committing to a main character and focus all your time into it.
As said before, you need a lot of practice on a toon and also read guides, join discord server for your class/spec, watch youtube-vids so you can understand why you use certain abilities. Study raidlogs to see what other players do during fights.
It has helped me a lot in the past, I did improve and understand my class better. But I found this is not how I want to play this game. I will study for my reallife job, not for a game I play to relax :wink:

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you should get a bag of guns and go all Falling Down on them

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I can’t help myself in MMO games. If there are classes I really have a burning curiousity to play them all and usually on both factions.

I have at least 30 characters in WoW, but I’m trying to focus myself on playing only 1 or 2 these days and ignore all the rest.

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Well he is right like all those chars and all of them are absolute garbage so.

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Use their humiliation as motivation to prove them wrong.

Or you can continue to be stuck in a rut with characters like you are now, which believe me, I was confused on what class to play.

Every class has something I find amazing, I found that I like melee ranged and healing so I chose a class that can be all 3 shaman.

Base your class on your favourite race or just go the class that you would like to be whilst day dreams.

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