One of the biggest turnoffs to me the last 2 retail expansions has been how much of a massive pain in the butt it’s been to to try and maintain more than 1 character to a reasonable level with the 10 billion time-wasting systems and mechanics in place you have to log in and do every damn day.
Then every day you don’t do it, it just snowballs to the point where you couldn’t even be bothered logging in.
As someone who enjoys having 2-3 characters for different playstyles, as far as I can remember from TBC the only things you really need to worry about were dungeon rep, and then the dailies they release on the Sunwell island (?)
I mainly just want to be able to do random BGs and heroics on a couple of characters without pushing bleeding-edge raids or arenas or whatever… how doable do you think that is on more than 1 character in TBC?
From my experience, I’d say rather alt-friendly. I remember back then I had 3 lvl 70s. A prot warrior that was technically my main, a priest that I also raided with depending on comp needs for fights (and also did BGs on), and a resto druid that I did some casual tier 4 raiding on. I didn’t have any issues maintaining all 3 since there’s no ‘maintenance’ per say as we see on retail. Just things for you to grind, and once it’s done, it’s done!
I’m actually looking forward to having multiple characters I can play on. Gave up on even maintaining a single alt on Retail, double chore duty just isn’t fun.
If they keep attunements in the game as they originally were in TBC then the game will be very alt unfriendly but that’s assuming you want to clear through most PVE content with them.
Based on what you plan on doing with alts though you should be good.
I think alts will be a better experience for a lot of people than their naxx geared mains.
And I think because of that, there’s a lot of opportunity to level multiple characters and get sufficiently geared. The biggest hurdle is reps - tbf not much has changed in 15 years.
Hmm… getting to outlands is fairly alt friendly, between the boost and the general increases in level speed.
At 70? Depends on the phase, doing the attunements on multiple chars might be harsh depending on how those end up being handled. Badge gear plus heroics plus kara in later phases makes gearing alts not horrible.
It’s actually VERY friendly, had 2 hunters, horde and ally, druid ally, Rogue horde and pally horde. Anyone who thinks it isn’t just doesn’t remember. Heck, it even got better half way into the expansion. with it being at 2.4, it’s going to be stupid easy. No reason for blizzard to sell a boost per account.
TBC is semi Alt friendly in what would be considered Phase 1, but becomes more alt friendly due to numerous catch up mechanics by mid phase. (This assumes they follow the original template on catch up mechanics like expanded badge loots and discounted previous arena season armors)
Stuff like that.
IF they follow the original pattern its extremely friendly.
I would say thanks to the phase1/2/3 etc pacing of content, extremely alt friendly. You’ll have several months of P1 to get attunes for P2 done, so you shouldn’t feel as behind as people did the first time around.
If you don’t care about raiding, even more alt friendly- the entire pvp gearing system works great for alts. There’s also powerful crafted pieces.
you’re acting like people level alts along side there mains, Majority of them don’t. There are those that do. Bust going by how todays playerbase plays, it’ll be stupid easy.
Not true at all. You are able to do all the raids without being attuned, you just needed someone to open the door for kara, SSC, and TK.
I’m now convinced that people are remembering TBC differently, just like vanilla/classic. People are underestimating how much casual and easy that TBC actually is.
Yea this. If you don’t want to raid it’s a breeze. And while you don’t have to do them, most of the dailies are such easy sources of gold that having more alts also means you’re able to farm more effectively. Leveling from 1-60 is also much improved so if you level the normal way that’s more “friendly” as well