So I feel like playing a different race all of a sudden. I have an alt of that race at Lv 46 - free boosted in a previous expansion - but no professions.
Options:
Delete the alt and race+name change at a rather pricey $25.
Level that alt to 60 and grind out some professions - that I haven’t decided yet and am having trouble deciding; the professions will be unleveled for previous expansions too (although I never did complete BFA professions on my current main).
Option 1 is also kind of dangerous because I don’t know if I will stick with it. But I get to keep the “history” of my current main and almost fully leveled professions, and I don’t have to do anything else.
Option 2 is going to take awhile and I will be repeating content - also have to figure out what to do about professions; will be kind of dumb to take the same 2 as my current main. Professions levels for past expansions will be blank too and leveling them is going to be a pain if I have to - depending on profession.
So …
PS:
I wish we can change races at the barbershop but I doubt that will happen anytime soon - because it’s a revenue source for Blizzard (although they were generous enough to make appearance change free at the barbershop when it was once a paid service) and probably there will be significant background processing to do when a player change race (and they want to discourage it due to processing cost); although they can discourage it with a cooldown too.
You can put off professions until later and then do them one expansion at a time. I recently leveled up bc jewelcrafters on several servers. It’s doable. And if you don’t need those professions right now, there’s really no hurry.
Level the alt. Professions from old stuff doesn’t really matter that much. Maybe pick up a different profession for extra stuff. Enchanting (Enchants)/Tailoring (Bags)/Alchemy (Alchemy) are all good ones to have, as are gathering professions.
I guess I can take herb and mining for the XP and to get mats for when I do decide … but I still have to decide. /sigh
Ya … sort of leaning towards the alt now that I typed out the whole thing. $25 is kind of expensive - especially given how flicker I am.
Still have to level to 60. Trying to avoid BFA because I hate the plot. Maybe the allied races quests will get me to 50.
A profession like Inscription … good lord I will have to go through all the expansions, farming drops and stuff. Yikes. Others aren’t as bad because like you mention most of the old expansion stuff is irrelevant so I can just ignore it.
My current main is already Enchant/Tailoring. Alchemy … I don’t raid so …
Or maybe I should just keep playing my current race.
I find leveling rather fun. Even as DPS, running classic (cata on chromie time) dungeons doesn’t have long queues.
Naming alts to be lore-proof is also a fun challenge. It helps me bond with characters better. www.fantasynamegenerators.com/world-of-warcraft.php this is a great help with that. And if choosing races like blood elf, troll or night elf, I often also check the wiki page of their native tongue for neat things.
I mean, you’ll get the quest for SL at lvl48 anyway as far as I remember, so I’d say level up those two levels in BfA it’s basically just doing the very first stuff of the intro quests anyway if you just need two levels.
I always race change. But to keep costs down since I like both factions, have one of my favorite classes for each faction.
It’s worth it to have one character that you’ve had for many years running still out and about doing things. Even though achievements are account wide it just feels right, idk.
If you want to level and enjoy it at a leisurely pace, ignore the following.
Leveling to 48 is ridiculously easy if your goal is to hit 48. Vanilla and BC content had major quest hubs that can earn you 5-10 levels per zone. A few are:
Stranglethorn Vale
Hellfire Peninsula
Nagrand (BC & WoD)
Barrens
Turn on War Mode, use the BfA pots for the extra 5% xp, and buy enough heirlooms for the rested xp bonus.
Thanks. That good advice. Just did a time-synced Legion dungeon. Decent enough XP. 4-5 more dungeons should get me to 50 if they give the kind of XP that dungeon did.
I will see how far I can go.
In most cases, I have resorted to the game’s name generator except for like Humans and Forsaken (basically undead ex-humans) since they just use regular English names.
Once is enough. I notice I really don’t like Blizzard’s “overarching” storylines regarding the Alliance and Horde. I think it’s because we are part of those factions. It always feels bad when the story forces you to do something that you don’t want.
I enjoy the side stories more, like Suramar’s and most of SL’s content.
I really wish Blizzard would allow us to mail opposite faction alts. I kind of want to make a NE Druid because I always wanted to try play a druid and I think it would be a good fit to join the Night Fae Covenant.
Unfortunately, all my stuff is on the Horde side. I can roll a Tauren … but the character model’s size bugs me. Trolls being druids also just feels weird.
Of course that’s assuming I have the patience to level one …
Faction reputation unfortunately isn’t account-wide. I’m Best Friends with Garrison Nat Pagle on my current main. /sigh I guess I can grind at the Garrisons again …
Going to try dungeon crawling first - hopefully I can pick up missing pieces for transmog purposes.
I think the question you need to ask is why you want the change.
If you’re just bored of your current character as a human and want to grow attached to a character as another race, I would recommend going with an Alt.
Your leveling experience with the new character will give you a chance to connect with the new model/animations/head-canon for the character far more than just race-swapping a current toon.
My own experience in race-swapping has been that I often bench a toon that I’ve race swapped shortly after doing so because I don’t often feel the attachment to the new model and the prior boredom is all that remains. While I do come back eventually, that detachment that comes is quite real.
TLDR: Level the alt; you will be happier.
P.S.: Professions are stupidly easy to level at max now that they’re expansion-specific, so I really wouldn’t worry about them as a factor in your decision.
Believe me after doing it SEVERAL times with both factions, you can level to 50 over couple days of ‘casual’ play. Just last night I leveled my DH from 39 to 44 just buy doing questlines in vanilla zones that I haven’t finished. All in all I think it’s been three ~ 2-3 hrs evenings (after work) and I’m on 44. Only professions really worth it before 50 are the gathering professions since they give you XP:)
I always do herbalism and mining for the extra xp, even though I don’t need the mats. If I do need a particular profession, it’s unlikely I’d need every expansion. So make that decision when the time comes when you need it.
If you do decide to level up professions in old expansions, you’re going to need to be able to farm the mats yourself, because the cost to buy those mats is often non reality based.
But I get to keep the “history” of my current main and almost fully leveled professions, and I don’t have to do anything else.
it’s basically just doing the very first stuff of the intro quests anyway if you just need two levels.
I’m Best Friends with Garrison Nat Pagle on my current main. /sigh I guess I can grind at the Garrisons again …