For an altoholic who never played vanilla? I started in TBC and have heard the game wasnt alt friendly during the start
I had a lot of alts and found it quite friendly. But if you are busy leveling alts you probably won’t have time to raid that much. At least I didn’t. But I had a lot of fun learning to play multiple classes.
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It is as alt friendly as you want to make it. If you want to be a hardcore raider it may not be as alt friendly as if you were super casual. It all depends on what you want to do. It’s your game. Do what makes you have fun.
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leveling takes around 7 days /played time to hit max level so having multiple 60s is hard to do.
A lot of the game is the leveling experience so if you into that then the long leveling time isnt necessarily a bad thing.
That’s the beauty of Classic. You can do whatever you want, because the content isn’t revolved around end game. Just play and enjoy!
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I found that the game really made its way in the social experience. Half the time you couldn’t complete a quest without finding someone along the way or being in a guild. I was also an alt-o-holic once the intense raiding schedule yielded the loot I wanted and I got bored lol. You can do it either way. Now that I’m older, I will be far more casual.
By the end of Vanilla I had a level 60 Paladin, level 60 Hunter, and Level 40 Warrior.
What Classic mostly is, is time consuming. You shouldn’t expect to easily be able to get 15 max level alts like I had in Legion(and I was pretty casual compared to some).
That said if you optimize your leveling routes and you aren’t interested in hardcore raiding, that frees up a lot of time to level alts. It’ll still be a solid time investment, but you’ll be able to have a few alts.
Especially considering Classic will never move into TBC. The alt never becomes obsolete once you max it out.
Vanilla was very alt friendly IMO, more so than retail.
Although it does depend on what you like to do.
The journey of leveling in an amazing and dangerous world with friends occupies months (or years) per character.
If you just want to level a bunch of alts to level 60, I would suggest starting with a Hunter. You can farm a lot. This is personal experience only. You could do your alts in order of “least gear dependent” to “most gear dependent” just so at the end you’ll have the most chance to have gear to hand over to your more gear dependent alts.
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How is it not revolved around end game? Could i expect to be competitive without maxing my character? I wish i had played so i would know how things worked back then
Manage your alts well and it’ll be okay, just set time aside for what you want to do ingame. Besides hardcore raiding the game is alt friendly in some way’s more then BC was.
That depends on what aspect of the game you want to be competitive at.
If you want to be a top end raider than yeah, it kind of stands to reason you have to raid to do that.
If you want to break the world record time to level to 60, then not so much.
and if you don’t care about being competitive, then you don’t have to be the best at whatever you’re doing.
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Vanilla wasn’t alt friendly more in the sense of how long it takes to get a single character to 60 and gear them up and get their professions up. If someone’s playtime was relatively limited, they maximized their time by playing just one. If someone had more playtime, they easily could have a farming alt or even multiple raid-geared characters.
(My daughter played early on and had multiple characters - long before I started in June 2006. I know for a fact she raided on a tauren shaman and a human priest, and those were just the raid geared characters she had.)
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I would consider TBC to be the perfection of vanilla, or vanilla to be a rough around the edges version of TBC.
They took all the lessons learned and really polished up the gameplay.
That said, for vanilla the meta for raiding:
Tank: warrior
RDPS: hunter, warlock, Mage (mage being Best)…
MDPS: Rogue, Warrior
Healer: Priest, shaman, pally, druid (priest being Best)
For alting whatever is fun.
If you want to raid then no, not alt friendly.
If you want to PvP at all then no, not alt friendly because in vanilla you need raid gear to PvP. Or no life 16 hours a day to reach grand Marshall for epic PvP gear.
You can no life it and raid/PvP on alts but you WILL no life it. (Soon some internet forum hero will come and flat out lie and claim this is not true but let me save you the time, they are lieing.)
But if you don’t care about raiding or PvP then you can alt just fine.
It’s alt friendly to PvP in many of the under 60 brackets while leveling. Also AV is alt friendly IMO to get rep and honor at 60. Of course what I described is casual play…
That may be true on a pve server but you will be forever ganked on a PvP server without top end gear after the first year.
Raid geared players easily kill non raid gear players in a single global.
This Vanilla private i play is like leveling retail 60 to 90 without heirlooms and fewer flight paths, but the upside is that the leveling experience is current everywhere.
The old world up to legion in retail are just empty slogs. The great thing about classic is that all content will be current. No empty shattraths nor double dalarans.
Maybe an unpopular idea, but if Blizz rolls out content up to the end of Vanilla, a reset would be nice so that we could relive content much like a ladder. And port all toons to a non ladder classic at the end of the season.
This would give people a chance to race again to raid worthy rather than live in an oversaturated world after a year or so. Unless they wanted to on the non ladder realm.
Gives people a reason to make alts and be current.
Depends on the goal of the alt and your expectations. Some will make level 12 barrens alts. Lol. Others just love the leveling. Others just like multiple classes. It all depends on you’re time and what you want to do. Have fun and build community though. That’s the main thing.
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Yes I played on PvP servers, and tooling around on a 60 with crappy gear is no fun.
That’s why I say Vanilla was alt friendly, much more fun to start a new toon if you don’t want the rat race of gearing up end-game.
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