1 main or 2 mains for tank and healer?

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So I have 1 of every class for each profession and profession tree to fully gear out my main/mains for raiding and mythics (no pvp i suck at it). My pandaren monk is my main and I tank and heal with them. Now im wanting to have my evoker as my second main for healer. Ive considered this because I want to do full gems, enchants, crafted gear, and embellishments. I figured that having two mains one being a tank, and the other being a healer would mean I dont have to worry about having two sets of gear. Not having worrying to upgrade with valorstones on 1 character or certain gear builds not working with two different specs as much. Thoughts on this? Whats easier 1 main or 2 mains?

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It comes down to how much free time you have to play and how much effort you want to put in to gear them both or just one.

I have one main and 2 high level alts. The alts are sort of along for the ride and doesn’t do anything higher than heroic LFG and LFR. My main can do either dps or heals

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As a general rule i keep two “mains” going at most, more than that is too time consuming.

Once youre done gearing either of the two, you could focus more on other toons, but trying to keep too many alts on par, is gonna burn you out.

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For me it depends how different the stat prios are.

If they’re wildly different, make another character. If they’re similar or ‘close enough’ I just play 2 specs on the same character.

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You’re still maintaining two sets of gear. You’d just be doing it on different characters. You can use the same gear for both specs on your monk, just with a diff weapon and (sometimes) diff trinkets, making it a bit easier to do on one character. Pretty easy, imo.

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The way I view it is its easier to maintain two characters for roles instead of one character for multiple.

On one hand if you are playing a monk/paladin/druid for tank and heal you have the advantage of being able to share your gear that isn’t weapons, and trinkets. But stats might not match for full optimization, and in particular crafted gear can be an issue since usually crafting weapon is the play. It’s also a bit of a hassle for weekly vault since you want to fish for bis trinkets and weapon from there in particular.

Alternatively playing two characters for various roles requires a little more set up, but the gear works a little nicer since you can optimize both characters a little better over the course of the season. You can focus entirely on statting correctly for your chosen spec, both characters get a vault if you are actually using them as intended, you can craft weapons without worry.

One big thing to consider is once you reach the “good enough” zone you can pretty much just get by with 1-4 m+ a week on your secondary main so in a way if you were doing your 8 keys a week you can still just do 8 keys but 4 and 4 for a similar value. If you raid with a guild it’s also usually not a big deal to throw in whichever character you feel like, though that is a bit role dependent if you are a tank/healer.

For example, this shaman was primarily elemental last season, and I healed on it a lot, but had a fair bit of issues since resto wanted mana enchants and had reverse stat priority after ele’s mastery got changed. This season I have a mm hunter as my dps character and have used this character specifically as a fill in for healing keys, though lately that role has gone to my holy paladin, but only after this character hit 663 and helped my guild finish aotc as resto.

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You should keep your monk as your healer and roll another tank, lol.

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The whole point of a Main is kind of made redundant if you have more than 1.

If you have time to play 2 classes equally and you enjoy them both, do that.

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This gets blown way out of proportion by the community. You’ll get more mileage out of understanding your talents and proper play than you will having bis stats in every slot.

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If the stat priorities and embellishments are very different then its better to have 2 characters so they can make crafted gear and get different vault slots, if theyre close enough can do one.

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Each role i like to have a new character for.
But it depends on how high you go. If youre just pushing AoTC and M+ 10s, you can keep a single char and the stat priorities wont be an issue

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Depends on how well you want to perform, and also its heavily spec dependent. It’s not like stats don’t matter. Do you want good enough, or do you want to go a little further beyond?

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Sure, if you’re doing the hardest levels of content, having optimized stats could be the difference between completing or failing said content. But having a few haste/mast items instead of crit/vers isn’t going to be the reason you don’t get aotc or ksh.

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