hilarious how that works out.
The alts I really want to do well with get the mediocre crap…then some alt I might be considering parking or even deleting will get something fantastic lol. Just blizzards RNG sticking a hot fork in my eye lol
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I used to be really big on alts in WoD and Legion. The garrison chores really raked in a lot of gold from investing in alts. When Legion came around, all of those alts were pretty close to max level so I figured may as well knock out all the class campaign and mage towers during downtime.
That was an awful lot of time investment, though. Nowadays I prefer to stick to a single character and play other games during my downtime. I still love my hunter and rogue, but they’re on vacation.
Not really. I have four I play right now. Guuah is getting the all star treatment, Warrior is surprisingly super geared, only 2 Ilvls below Guuah. The other two are hovering around 640 Ilvl.
I think I’m going to gear my BM Hunter more, but she only got trinkets in her Vault, one of which was Garbomancer which I think is the worst trinket in S2.
But no, I don’t have any stress playing them. I’ll use them for Delves and whatever else I want. If they get geared, great, if not oh well.
I don’t have a main. I’m constantly cycling through alts. I have 4 characters that are around 645-650 ilvl right now.
This season it’s 2 DH (love the class) a DK, and a pally. Next season…who knows? Might all be different. It’s a guessing game lol.
I use to. That’s why I’ve pretty much quit alts entirely.
I’m now focused solely on gittin’ gud with this toon, and this toon alone.
You’re just asking for burn out
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No, but I just wish there was warband professions so I don’t have to recollect recipes.
No, I only gear one alt whenever.
The rest don’t need to be geared unless I choose to do a older radi that would require it.
Peoples mogs don’t bother me not even the ones who prance around in their underwear.
Mogs is just how people want to summerize character and fantasy.
I’m still trying to understand how people are bothered by how others dress up their characters.
Don’t delete alts can be useful for other things like storage or farming, but at the same time you could be not interested in the class so no reason to keep it other wise.
No, it sounds like game burnt.
Not stop, but maybe take a break.
If you want to completely quit it’s understandable, it happens and normal.
Yup, that means you have 5 mains atm. Try to remember what having a main means and work with that. My DH here I generally play more than anything else just because it feels the best out of all the classes I ever played. Ill jump on an alt rarely now but will do it if I’m bored enough.
I used to play it the way you did but felt I had no time for anything else. Focus on the main and only go on your alts if you have a sort of losing streak going on and need a break. Call alts your break toons imo. Sometimes its nice to sit back and do low lvl content after stressing about higher content.
No. The impulse isn’t crazy. It’s orderly. But, in this case, it’s detrimental.
No, but you should have different (and smaller) goals for alts than you do for a main character.
If you are unable to control the impulse for completionism and equality across all of your toons–especially since you say it brings you stress–then I would recommend limiting yourself to the warband screen only. Four and only four characters. Those are the only ones you get to develop any further than leveling to 80.
No gearing, no achievement hunting, no mog hunting for any character outside of the top four.
Obviously, this requires that you pick your four top toons and you don’t constantly shuffle them around.
If you need to delete a bunch of alts to control it…then do that. Take care of your mental health. Video games are for relaxation, calming the mind, and having a good time. If you experience stress, you gotta work that out and change things because that’s not how this is supposed to work.
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This is the key issue.
Your main should have the best of what your preferred content has to offer.
I enjoy alts, as well, but I have them for specific reasons (usually because I want a different profession). My general rule of thumb for alts is to level them to current endgame and put them in catchup gear. That’s it.
Are they ready to hit the next patch launch?
That’s the only question I ask. When the next patch drops, do they have enough item level to do the campaign quests? If I decided tomorrow that I wanted to swap mains, do they have enough catchup gear for me to throw them into some delves and start getting serious about their gear?
If they’re in veteran gear, the answer to that is, “yes.” Job done. They can sit there and wait their turn.
The hours you spend gearing up alts are hours you could’ve spent getting better gear on your main.
The hours you spend learning a new spec are hours you could’ve spent getting better at your main spec.
The hours you spend stressed out doing 15 delves instead of three each week for the 21 gilded crests are hours you could’ve spent enjoying something you want to do in the game on your main. Whether that’s M+ dungeons, improving your DPS/HPS throughput by tweaking your rotation/UI/talents/whatever else, legacy raids for mogs and achieves, battle pet collecting, or getting every cooking recipe from every expansion for the simple joy of completionism…whatever that calming and satisfying ingame achievement might be for you, you are missing it by pouring hours of your life into alts instead of focusing on the development of a main.
I had 5 characters I juggled between last season for gearing, don’t see myself doing that again.
As the first poster wonderfully pointed out, set reasonable expectations for them. I only juggle between my Priest and Rogue now, my other alts are specifically used for mog farming old content.
Not really. I’ve got lots of alts (at least one of each race or class) and they’re just there to fool around on to avoid burnout. The most I do on any alt is LFR and some lower level Delves. I also spend time coming up with a backstory for each one, even if I don’t do any actual RP.
Yes OP i suffer from exactly that so i limit myself.
But what you describe is what happens to me and I tend to have a strong ‘grass is greener’ PoV when i play a class for a while. I start seeing the pros of other classes without thinking of the downsides.
My ‘ideal’ setup and one i stick to rigidly now is two characters of the same class (one casual, one ‘srs’, optimal mog farming ftw) and one side character of a different class for when the playstyle of my main bothers me.
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My main is not my Rogue.
← I’m throwing this dude off a cliff the moment I finish my tier set appearance collection.
lmao.
Alts should be able to say things on the character select screen.
“Hey! What about me? The level 12 hunter you haven’t played in 3 years!”
I have 1 “alt” that I keep semi-updated but my expectations are they are not my main and therefore I don’t worry about anything other than keeping them at “decent/ok” gear (aka: vet or champ) is enough. I do LFR or some weekly quests or even a delve or two if I have nothing on my main but this was how I was able to switch my ALT to my main this season. It only took a 3 or 4 weeks of work to bring him up to viable speed.
If you are stressing about all your alts, you may want to take a step back and breath a bit.
I just keep alts in case I want to do something a little different or level a different profession. Most of them are under 600 ilevel right now. Will probably increase that right before Midnight comes out.
No I love my alts, but they keep me too busy and probably one of the reasons don’t pursue higher content. I like to keep them all updated at least within a decent gearing range.
Uhh yeah I’m not a doctor or anything but you may have issues lol.
But more on the question, I see alts as alts, what I mean by that is if they are as strong as your main, then what’s your main? Alts are meant to be weaker most of the time.
This is where the mistake lies. Do not do this. Filling up the vault for maximum chances success on five characters is way too time intensive.
Accept that your alts will not be as far along as your main. Once your main is “done” or at an acceptable level for you, then you can switch out these characters and an alt can become a main for a little while until they catch up.
There is also no need to do all this right now. By the end of this patch it will be so easy to catch up alts, as it always is.
Do not feel a rush to do everything now. When you feel that urge to spread yourself thin, take a breath and say ‘No, I’m going to focus on one thing for now’.
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Trying to make all your alts equal to your main is just an exercise in insanity. Take this from a crazy dude who had 15 max levels during legion, and currently has like…7 characters at max right now.
Alts are for funtime, your main is for when you get serious.
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