Raising the character cap is certainly a popular topic that has been mentioned countless times over the years. With a new race/class on the horizon, I feel there’s no better time to once again have a discussion about increasing the character cap that players have access to. A lot of people have been at or near the cap for a very long time. There are a lot of players who don’t enjoy deleting their characters for a variety of reasons, which means once you hit the cap some hard choices need to be made. This means having to delete a beloved character, resorting to opening up another account, or simply not level new alts despite a desire to do so.
We’re going into a new expansion with new things on the horizon for us to explore. A new fresh talent system that hasn’t seen major updates since Mists of Pandaria, major UI updates, and profession improvements. Alongside that, you have the scaling implemented with features such as Chromie time. You’ve never been more incentivized to level an alt than right now.
Personally speaking, I’d like to see any level of increase but I feel doubling it for the foreseeable future would make the most sense. 100 characters seem more than adequate to me. However, even a 10 character increase would be a major benefit to a lot of people.
There’s a second issue I’d also like to talk about.
By my count, I have 66 deleted characters across a wide variety of realms. As a result, I did actually forget about a few characters I have deleted that I may want to restore. My main issue is there’s absolutely no way to find out how many deleted characters you have on a realm without checking. I spent at least half an hour going to each individual realm, hitting the restore character button just to find out what deleted characters I had and writing them down.
I don’t think I should’ve had to do this to find that out. My suggestion would be for players to have an easy place to find out where they have deleted characters. I think this is something that can even be done on the realm list itself. Simply list deleted characters in grayed-out parenthesis next to the realm on the realm select screen, but make it an option people can turn on and off if they so choose. Either that or provide a separate place for them to accurately see this without needing individually check all the realms.
The Realm List could also use a few improvements or quality of life updates. I think having a search bar to type in a specific realm name would be a big benefit. You can’t move through the realm list with anything other than a mouse, which seems a bit of an accessibility issue to me. I had to click ‘YES’ each time I clicked on a full population realm. I’d like for there to be a prompt where you can turn this off permanently after getting the dialogue box the first time.
Feels bad.