If they were your friends they wouldn’t ask this of you.
^Rhuor makes a very good point.
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Agreed. If I could, I’d help, too. I’m hoping OP is using in game gold for game time, or at least has a good budget.
I know that recreational activities are still important during stressful and financially hard times. It helps psychologically.
Oh, I see. Yeah, I think it’s more the character identity for them, more than anything else.
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I played my Druid for 15 years and then switched.
It’s tough.
The trick is to find something new to fall in love with. When I switched from my beloved Druid to Monk, I was like… meh…
I had HAD a Monk for years. I have all the classes. But I never played it much.
At the end of BfA, though, I was looking at it, and was like hey… Vulpera monk. Vulpera Monk? That would be fun. Yeah… yeah, I can do that!
As long as you can find something you’ll have fun playing, making the switch is okay.
I’m still emotionally and mentally attached to my original toon that I started on in 2006. Ironically, I haven’t even had that account since 2009. My formative WoW years were all spent on that toon though, so I miss it every time I play.
That said, I “kind of” have an attachment to like one other toon from Legion because my boyfriend at the time and I played together on it, but other than that I have no attachments whatsoever.
I am starting over completely with DF and only having 1 toon from hereon out to solve this problem. Without the character identity this game is kinda meh.
You nailed it. A lot of people’s toons have such ridiculously long histories behind them that changing a single thing about that toon can be mentally challenging, let alone deleting it or faction changing it into something else.
To the OP: don’t delete. Don’t change it. Trust me. It’s not worth it and you’ll regret it pretty much forever.
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I don’t know. I feel like I don’t really care about the characters themselves but I do care about the experiences I’ve had on them if that makes sense.
Don’t it. DF will have cross faction dungeons, raids and PvP. There is no reason to do it.
The whole point of cross faction is to play friends regardless of character’s race/faction.
You said they are awesome, but a good friend will never ask you to delete something in which you have invested so much time 
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Working on a story with Rosenivy since I created them in Wrath. So yeah. Bit attached.
Its a bit funny how he’s acting now in the lull between the end of Shadowlands and the start of Dragonflight. Lotta drinking during that time skip and he has to get a pretty big healing appointment to sober up to help the Dragonflight Expedition. Which he only agreed to go because its not some big world ending rescue mission. Just helping folks research.
Seriously he’s at the point where a character becomes so powerful that they’re horrendously bored of combat
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This druid is older than some WoW players. She started life back in 04 as a Night Elf druid at the start of vanilla WoW. Ive played other toons over the years but always come back to her and the moment Worgen druids were announced I race changed in a heartbeat even though back in Cata I hated the old model. I wouldnt give this character up for anything.
I wouldn’t delete a toon. Personally, I’d simply make a Horde toon and level it up. Bit of a grind but for me, less jarring than getting rid of a toon I’ve invested time in. Make it a miner/herbalist, go to darkmoon faire and leveling can be pretty quick. Heck, even just going around gives you XP as you ‘discover’ new locations.
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keep that toon and just make a new horde one where ever your mates have gone too, this is one of the reasons lots of us are on many servers both horde and alliance, i am on like 9 servers 
own a couple of guilds that no one ever came back too but the bank space is awesome 
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I can’t imagine what justification any guild would have to insist you delete a character. That makes no sense.
Roll a new character on the server/faction they go to. I’ve done it a few times and generally, it doesn’t take long before that character starts to “fit”. Also characters I think I’ve abandoned often come back as my main in a later expansion.
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I deleted likely 150 or 200 characters since the 17 years I’ve played , about 25% of those were level capped at the time as well.
Leveling characters is one way I relax with game. But there’s one character that I will never delete … my very first character , my dwarf paladin. For 6 months he was the only character I had on my account and this was when I played at least twice as much as I do now. I was enamored with him.
Six months later however I made my first alt and that ruined me as it set me on the path of an alt-o-Holic
but no one is touching my dwarf pally
Just re roll a character on the other server.
It is easy to level another toon why tomorrow there will be a 50% increase in experience till pre-patch.
You can still visit that toon wherever you want. It can be like your little get away character
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don’t delete your character, simply don’t use it. Also you’re on Moonguard, a mostly Alliance faction, crossfaction grouping exist so why would you even need to switch?
Also all your alts can easily be used to camp rares and farming. For example, I no longer play my very first WoW character, so I park them at certain locations to get rares.
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Mentally attached, never: Don’t get me wrong, I love playing as Tynne both in RP and in game. However, that’s just asking for a lot of trouble, especially in an RP context!
In reference to your guild’s ultimatum, couldn’t you just make…a new character and level it up? There’s no restrictions in regards to that and while they’ll have to wait for you to get max, it really doesn’t take too much time to level to max nowadays.
If you don’t want to, you shouldn’t feel pressured to, especially when alternate methods exist.
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Since cross-faction grouping is a thing now if they create a Community you can stay Alliance and still play with them.
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I’m not. I wish i were. It looks fun. Instead i delete, remake, race change, faction change, class hop, you name it. Heck I’ve deleted characters just because i wanted to use the name elsewhere
I’m pretty sure your guild didn’t ask you to delete a toon.
Find a different guild… I’m sorry to break it to you… but regardless of how nice they seemed through SL, if they are telling you to delete your toon and make a horde toon, then they don’t actually care about you. To them you are just another body for a guild run. If they actually cared, they would have asked you to just simply make a horde character, especially since you can have characters of both factions on the same server since WoD… there is absolutely zero reason to delete your character for them. The only reason they have for wanting you to delete is to try and force you to play the horde character all the time. I guarantee you, after you make a horde character to play with them, you’ll notice an attitude shift from them… odds are, they were nice this whole time just to recruit, now that they have you hooked, they want you to swap factions “to join the real guild” where you will be just a number.
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