I have two friends sadly both quit wow now. But played with them for 10 years.
Both played just the same class and spec for the whole 10 years when I first met them. They never had the urge to re-roll or even check out the other specs of their class.
Friend A just played ret , and Friend B BM hunter. Even in Legion when they re-made all the specs they never changed. They weren’t alt swap 12 times a day like I do.
Just how do you guys do it … like how can you just play 1 spec and 1 class forever. Is there just simply nothing better ? Afraid of change ? Confortable playing 1 spec , the idea switching just even it to check it out too daunting ?
How does it stay somewhat fresh for you ? do you like it when the spec changes each expansion or do you find that frustrating ?
Is the archetype the only archetype you want to be. I just can’t help but lvl new toons , swap toons , on a daily basis. I can’t even s tand playing just 1 faction all the time. I like new flavours to my broth.
Are you that 1 spec 1 class person. What do you love so much about it ? No judgement here so simply curious.
I am the one class person for sure. I made this rogue ages ago, and I have not been the most prolific player in the world. But I like the thought of going around picking pockets, sneaking like a shadow soundless…you have no idea where I am. But I am behind you, laughing…
I do not really feel drawn to try other classes that much. I am not that much of a computer gamer, so I stick to this. And to me it does not get old at all, I like it enough that I do not worry about that.
But I am also the kind of person that can eat the same thing for lunch every day, so maybe I am just set in my ways.
Remember there is no wrong way to enjoy a game. But this was a fun question
Of course. Just like I like chicken (burgers/sandwiches/salad/pizza and so on)
Especially if it’s free. Like my warrior was most of the time back in Vanilla pvp.
Heck, I’m sorry. This is ment for my ptsd doctor next week
Although not like you Hamuut where I swap toons on a daily basis, I am a bit of an altoholic. I like to see other classes and how they play, I have also changed mains over the years because I may have got a little bored with one class and try something new.
When I first started to play I couldn’t seem to settle on anything and a friend encouraged me in this, he said try every class because this way you will find your true love, the class you love to play and that will become your main. Thankfully he also promised me I could have an affair/fling with other classes along the way
I’ve been one class player since TBC and one spec since Cata (originally Discipline, switched to shadow then).
My memory is going so familiarity helps but also we seem to be generally just above the middle - sometimes very good but very rarely bad.
Well… I do have alts (in Legion I leveled up almost all classes to experience their class campaigns) and I HAVE tried the other specs my class offers, but yeah; my main has been BM hunter since Vanilla (with a 3 month intermission of being a paladin main in TBC - big mistake).
How? I mean… I just love this class/spec combo so much more than any of the others.
Besides that, I have always been more of a ‘focus on one character’ type of player. Just dividing my time across multiple characters just feels bad to me; it feels like a waste of my time and energy.
I change around my ‘fantasy’ from time to time. A lot of the time my character is a ‘treasure hunter’ type character. Sometimes it’s an old fashioned explorer type, sometimes a wild, almost feral, hermit type character, sometimes it’s something based on a certain ingame civilization/aesthetic/theme like a creepy Drust hunter, a pirate-y hunter, a ‘regular citizen’ type character, a tinker hunter (since I’ve basically always have had engineering as well on this character), etc etc.
My character’s pet load out… My character’s mount, transmog, appearance. Heck, I’ve racechanged more times than I’d care to admit. All of that helps keep my experience fresh and exciting.
One class but not one spec. I’ve tried all three specs of the warrior since BC. I was levelling as tank with a healer buddy, often in dungeons. Then came the raiding period as tank. Then came the raiding period as Arms / Fury.
I’ve been Fury for a few expansions now and I think I will stick to it. I have no urge to go back to tanking or group gameplay any soon and Fury is a lot of fun, especially since we’ve got Single-Minded Fury back.
It really goes down how you enjoy playing your character. In one of my first guilds I had a friend who was the PALADIN, playing all three specs and switching specs regularly cost a lot back in BC / Wotlk. Each to their own.
I could never stick with a single class and spec… even with priests being my main, it’d get really dull after a year.
So wherever I played, I had a handful of alts both to experience their PoV on combat, and to cover professions as a help for mains. Say, my main is a tailor and ench with fishing and cooking, but I have a huntard for farming and a mage for alchemy. Easily covers me with consumables for endgame content.
I have been frost spec ever since they remade it to dps. I just love the fantasy of it and how it feels like a real death knight thing. I have stuck to this spec in in up and down times, it was way behind at the beginning of this expansion but i usually find a way to make it through as i know devs will look into it sooner or later.
Same on my rogue, been specced as combat until they remade it into outlaw and haven’t changed it since. Except for legion, last 2 months i played alot of pvp as assassination.
My hunter is only markmanship as i just love that spec. Played some survival as off spec pre legion.
I mostly stick to one spec on most of my alts.
But instead of respeccing i just create a new character with a spec and race i usually don’t play, the reason is so i can better learn it and it reeally feels new and fun.
But alas, im running out of race/class/spec combos to roll xD.
Hopefully we get a new class in next expansion.
Part of it in the past has been due to being stuck to the character more. Things weren’t always account bound like they are now; for the longest time nothing was, so making a new character was like starting a new account.
Other than that though, if you enjoy something, why swap? I’ve played every class and spec plenty over the past 16 years but I’ve always stuck to my warrior (all specs) and paladin (holy) as my mains, while since Legion adding monk (mistweaver) and demon hunter (both specs) to that list depending on viability. Not exactly one tricking it, but certainly not branching out entirely.
It’s similar to people playing a small roster (or only one) character in a MOBA, or people playing the same shooter game for years on end. Sometimes you just enjoy the gameplay even with the changes over the years.
Single class player here, although I play two specs - mainly Discipline and seldom Shadow. I like playing a priest. If you could have your favourite food every day then why not eh? Incidentally irl I have five copies of the same shirt, and multiple copies of other pieces of clothing.
I have a couple of historical alts, now mainly retired:
A level 50 blood elf priest (which nowadays I only use to unlock tailoring transmogs). I retired this character after I decided I liked the void elf aesthetic.
A level 50 human mage. I think I got a free boost to 50 as part of my sub, which I used on this character. He only existed so I could unlock void elves. I really liked that he can teleport to most of the major hubs, but aside from that I found that I wasn’t a huge fan of the mage playstyle.
I like playing a healer and I think that dps is a bit boring, and tanking a bit stressful. I wouldn’t mind trying a druid, monk, shaman, or paladin at some point. If I have more time, I might make a monk or paladin but at the moment life is too busy for alts.
Started as a prot warrior back in late WOTLK and continued that spec till Legion, when i played arms and fury for the order hall campaigns - settled as fury and played that spec ever since. I did try other class/spec but never quite connected with any of them
1 . I decided to become an animator & taking my artistic abillities more serious so i had less time for alts
2 . blizzard made the game too grindy to even consider more than 1 char now, plus there was more fun & customization in bfa with azerite armor, essences, ect
3 . Alot i know just play what works for them, if it aint broke, why trying to fix it
With how much work you have to put into a single character I’m not surprised there are those who only play a single character or spec, I’ve been thinking of doing this for a while now.
I’m very much a one trick pony. I’ve mained this char and resto spec since early tbc. I just dont like anything else as much as i like playing rsham. My main alt is also a rsham, on horde i’m not a very good player, but rsham i at least manage to play on an ok level.
World of Warcraft’s ability to do this was always one of its most outstanding features.
The explanation is not simple at all, but fundamentally it is a situation that comes about when you see the community of your server through the lens of your character and its role, and when they see you through that character as well. Once this happens your character and personality becomes as one in the eyes of other, creating a roleplaying persona. If you embrace it it will stick to you like glue, and it will only continue to cement itself by years and years of content that you play socially with these players.
This is the ultimate expression of World of Warcraft as a roleplaying game; when the game uses its world and community to create a roleplaying experience for you even when you have not sought it explicitly.
For me to happened to such an extent that almost nobody wants to play with my mage but everyone wanted to play with my druid even when I had mained a mage for years and even when mages were better or my rating was higher on the mage. It was like when I stopped playing Druid I left something social behind - I even left people behind.
i’m not a very good player, but rsham i at least manage to play on an ok level.