Playing alts make me happy, but it’s exhausting and time-consuming because I have no self-restraint and end up playing alts like I would a main. I never feel “done” for the week.
So I’m trying to stop completely. I don’t know how though, because I really really love playing the classes and specs I am currently playing.
If you were the same as me, how did you stop playing alts and just focus on 1 or 2 characters?
Having never attempted to stop playing my alts, I imagine the only thing that could make me stop playing them is deleting them. That being said I’d probably just make some more.
I play everything but maybe not all at once
By not having the time. It isn’t that I don’t desire to play my other toons, I just don’t have the time.
When I realized that Paladin was the apex of class fantasy, transmog, gameplay, and spec flexibility no other class was required.
Also…I’m busy and life dictates I don’t got time for alts.
I usually play 1 pve main and pvp in the rest… usually I retire then at full elite armor and then take one to weapon mogs or higher.
ngl I wish I could do that. I have an attachment to them though, and I am having a hard time letting go.
I have the opposite problem where I have a hard time starting alts. For someone who only does m+ I rely on vaults for mythic track gear and it feels really bad starting an alt later in the season and being unable to fully upgrade your toon. I kind of wish they had some kind of vault catch up mechanic, even if it gave you fewer vaults…just to reduce the gap.
4 tier 8 delves for 2 heroic gear slots … and I feel done.
This week maybe I’ll do a 5th to get the weekly done. For me I always feel like my alts are just way underpowered compared to main and end up swapping back to it.
what i do is pick which tier set i like that season to invest time into obtaining , so like 2-4 sets. and the rest of my characters i park in dorn and slowly collect the LFR set through weekly events and catalyst
I hate playing alts. Diverting progress away from my main.
I did 23 T11 across 4 characters and 2 T8 on 1 character. Yeah…I need to stop.
I don’t stop. Alts are my end game content, as I do not partake in raids. I thoroughly enjoy leveling new alts. I still focus all major new content on my Main, but I am unrepentant altaholic. I enjoy running a new alt on a different class, focusing on a different spec. Yeah, I can switch between specs at any time; again, for me personally, this is what I enjoy doing.
I created my very first in December 2004, and I have never looked back.
Time.
I have limited amounts of it and wow cannot suck it all up.
ATM I play 2 chars, that’s it. Last season I started with 4 and went down to 2. Easy.
In your opinion, is 3 too many?
I never stopped playing alts… it’s just I only gear alts for PVP and my main, I’ll do both on. I don’t have the patience to gear up multiple characters for PVE when I only really play with friends and we don’t play WOW that often.
Depends what you want to do. I was doing 4 at the start but the time investment was a killer. I actually love all 4 classes, but I decided I needed to max my time investment in game, and actually just went with 1 class for most of S1 which was my ret pally.
I’m bored of how simple the rotation is, so I brought back a 2nd char into my mix so I can not burn out of just doing ret.
I will add, I do have a 10 fury twink I will play when TW is up as I love to just have fast runs for people and help them get their 5/5 for the week.
I played many characters last expansion, and switched often. This expansion, I played a priest, hunter, and druid only (though I took an 8ish month break and only have been around for 3 months of it).
I won’t play my druid or my priest anymore because I’m not having enough fun healing and don’t like the other specs but I’ll play my MM hunter.
My main endgame is delves. I ran 25 delves across 5 characters this week and ngl I’m feeling a bit sick in the stomach. 
I already did it all once
Why would I want to do it again