It’s actually pretty hard to run out of things to do on one character in an MMO, if you’re an accomplishment/completionist style personality there are a LOT of things to get done. Also doing them predominantly on one character usually makes it faster/easier to keep track of.
Cause people have jobs and do not have the time and desire to play 16 hours a day to grind every single thing on alts cause the game does not believe in account bound items and story line skipping.
I doubt anyone really does have just one. That would be extremely abnormal.
How is it extremely abnormal? I myself only have one character and nothing about it feels weird at all.
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Don’t play WoW like a full time job (or more). If you put enough time into the game, you are ALWAYS going to hit walls where you have nothing to do, and it’s going to happen faster than it will for an average player.
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Make the alts. But don’t main them. They’re a distraction to keep things from getting too monotonous. They don’t have to REPLACE the main.
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Have goals and be willing to update those goals. No goals = Feels pointless = Main Swap to keep entertained. Super distant semi-unattainable goals = feels pointless = Main Swap to keep entertained. IMO smaller immediate goals are better. Hit them, reevaluate, update.
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If you schedule allows, joining an organized team might help. Raiding, Rated PvP, whatever. Some people still swap as much as they’re allowed in such settings, but for me, I don’t want to rock the boat. I don’t want to change the comp on my team, and I don’t want to bring in a character that’s behind the one I started with, because it makes things harder on everyone, slows down progression, etc. This one is a whole lot less relevant these days though, just due to the nature of Raiding vs other content. It’s just not a primary gearing method anymore unless you’re pushing Mythic IMO, and we all know most people don’t push Mythic.
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The thought of doing everything I’ve done once more hurts my soul. Although I do swap classes for each xpac
What does this mean?
It’s because classes are boring now. You get bored fast and move onto the next alt just to get bored of that class and over and over… and by the time you finish you start again from the start. This is what happened to me slightly in wod, worse in legion and now in bfa I have just the one and quit from not having any class i enjoy
i only play 1 character every expansion.
Its not always the same character, but usually it is.
Been playing the same DK since WoTLK with no alts.
However i did make an exact copy of my DK on the opposite faction just because i was in the elitist dueling crowd(Until PvP got massively changed), and wanted to be known on both sides.
Although I have an entire football team plus a couple of alts, this hunter has been my priority for 12 yrs up until 8.3 when I made a serious decision and moved over to my mw monk.
Unfortunately, I simply get no satisfaction from playing this character anymore. She had a good run, however.
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Awww, sounds like an amazing life for her but still sad to hear. I love that you had her for so long though!
Yeah 
it’s been a crazy trip for sure. Just the past 3 yrs in particular I’ve had a harder and harder time wanting to play her, for ingame as well as very personal reasons, and since I have such a fondness for my monk, I thought it time to retire the hunter, outside of posting on forums that is, lol unless I get perma banned here lolol, and let the monk take the reigns.
Thank you so much for your response to my comment though.
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Maybe because everything you needed to progress your character was locked behind reputation+time gate?
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1 character means you get to experience the FULL GAME and after almost 14 years I still have tons of things to do for the very first time. I take my time to experience the world of Warcraft and do a bit of everything. I never get bored or jaded. But I also don’t play 10 hrs a day, I don’t repeat the same content every single day and I enjoy the entire game - not just 1-2 parts like others.
Its all your choice. We choose whether to grind or not. No one tells us to run the same heroics or mythics daily/weekly. But we do it to get rewards sooner. Having time away from WOW and even time used to read Warcraft comics/books/etc. - it adds to the fun.
Ive taken my time, no rushing, no grinding and completed over 12,000 quests not counting any dailies. And I have years of content to enjoy for the first time, even if BFA was the last xpac.
Heres the key: one play might take 5 mins to rush through a few quests, while another takes 20-30 mins or more. One player might get through content faster, but did they really experience it or just rush through skipping quest text and only doing what is required? nothing wrong with having alts of course
I will always prefer to enjoy the ENTIRE game for the first time rather than enjoy 5% of the game across 20 alts. FUN> WORLD/STORY > CHARACTER > LOOT
Because BfA turned alts into a chore.
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In FF14 it’s easy since you can play and level all classes on one toon.
In WoW, I agree; so many cool races. I just wish I could link their quest/rep/everything progress.
I did because of time issues irl. But now that I have a little bit more time on my hand I’m gonna try and do four characters for shadowlands and hopefully finish all endgame content with them.
My alts are all storage and crafting mules. Need an engineer for easy AH access and an alchemist to keep me in potions/flasks.
Been playing the same arms warrior since TBC, I have alts, but outside of hitting max level that’s as far as it went with them.
I have probably 10hours a week most weeks to play wow. 5 of those hours are spent raiding. All other time is spent grinding systens to stay competetive with raiding.
Id MUCH rather have 1 toon full bis, with Cutting Edge achievements and extremely powerful to where I look like a GOD when I pug lower difficulty raids, then to have 6 alts with crap gear and no worthy achievements.
So better question, how do people play 10 chars ?