As a player with alts I always enjoy playing them from time to time. However I’m not at endgame so I can’t really say anything about this.
So my question is this for those who have alts in endgame content. How do you guys manage to gear up all your alts to the current ilvl? Or do you play one character per day (or week) and then move on too the next?
Personally, I don’t. I use my alts to farm currency and loot.
I tried to gear up a few of them, but gave up. Too time consuming. Especially since I don’t run them in the higher level content.
But that’s just me. I’m sure others do things differently. I’m a casual player, so gear is not my top priority.
I’m a solo player and a collector. I have 4 alts I play because I want the mythic appearances of the current tier sets. I just do my 3 T11 delves (another if I don’t find a map in the first 2) then my 4 or 5 T8s to fill the vault.
That’s about all I’m doing now. All my characters that I’m playing are in the 640-645 ilvl range right now. That being said I’ll spend crests or something on a visual upgrade over an ilvl upgrade.
It’s pretty easy and quick to get an alt up to around 640 using delves and the vault, but past that if you want to continue to gear them up you’re going to have to do all of the same things you might do on your main, such as running M+ and raid. If you want to go slowly with them then you can just take the crests you get from delves and gradually upgrade the gear you get from the vault.
In at least some cases, it is clear that the answer is that they have an unhealthy obsession and spend far too many hours playing the game.
I have four that I wanted to play in my end game, which is Delves. But it’s starting to burn me out. So I may drop two. The rest just kind of languish until there’s catch up gear. lol
Delves, weekly quests, and the vault for week 1 of a new alt should get you to around 640 item level. From there just do M+.
It’s never been easier to gear up alts and get them ready for end game content.
I don’t.
My alts are primarily so I can unlock class\faction specific things and have more elves to dress up. Once they’re level 80 I don’t really do anything at all with them in current content, unless the expansion introduces something I can’t do on Phlynch.
I only have four characters. 
4x T11s delves (with map) a week gives sufficient gear and crests for alts.
After 2 weeks you can craft a 675 weapon for 60 gilded crests (you get 31/week), 2 sparks, and mats.
My Druid alt is 653, same as my main, by doing this. I just started on my Warlock last night and 3 T11s with map took her from 622 to 633.
If your alts are lower that that then do campaign quests and lower level Delves until they’re high enough ilvl for 11s.
The item that summons the Underpin is key… Binds to Warband and 2k undercoin.
Depends on what you mean by “current ilvl”
I usually have 2-3 characters around 80-90% of max ilvl, and the other characters float around whatever ilvl it is they get to.
I dont chase ilvl. I just play. The more i play them, the better their ilvl.
Simple
Depends on the goal of the char.
Most of my chars are for pvp which takes like 5% the amount of time it takes to pve gear a char.
I mix these 2 strategy for 12 class(no voker)
1 Step for each.
or
10 step for one.
Sometimes I’ll be grinding a specific thing like a honor set, so I’ll grind it all on one toon before moving to the next.
Sometimes I’ll want crest to upgrade? So I’ll target 1 world quest and login all my toons on the same day to do that world quest.
It really depends on the day and the target at that time. Sometime I don’t touch an alt for a week, while I’m pushing rating on 2-3.
If I was Raiding, It would probably be “Clear raid fully on one main”, then start bringing alts one at a time in Pugs.
Dungeons, you could do more, 1 dungeon for each alt per week to unlock Vaults.
It takes no time at all to gear for PvP. I have several characters I am setting up for PvP. PvE, however… I only have one character for that and I barely play it.
I do 3 t11 delves and 1-5 t8 delves per week on a bunch of alts. Each alt takes around 2 hours per week. By my math, this should get them delve maxed at 671 (and hopefully unlock the myth transmogs) by week 14. The I’ll repeat the process on another crop of alts but faster due to catchup mechanisms and seasonal unlocks. Along the way some will raid for and some won’t.
I just do world content and delves - so I gear them all each week by doing the events and try for 4 caches each and do delves when I have interest.
I don’t play all my alts to the highest ilvl.
I manage expectations with my alts. I don’t push them as hard as I do my main.
You don’t.
There is not enough time in the world for gearing everyone unless you’re a high M+ dweller.
I just set a ilvl goal for my main and fiddle around with alts until I’m done with him, then it’s just maintenance mode for the main (which 3 T11 delves now) for the gilded runes and each subsequent alt that reaches the aforementioned ilvl goal, which is usually champion track 8/8.
I used to ignore crafting entirely, but I’m investing in professions on all chars this season, t maybe profit in the next, so I might fiddle with crafted gear soon, which will greatly accelerate the process.
17 characters, all 615 to 625. Couple are higher. Everyone does Theatre / Awake Machine / World Boss (not so much anymore…) every week. Everyone does the TW weekly when it is up (healers do the TW raid if there is one) for the Cache. Boss skip groups are definitely your friend here.
I don’t run Heroics or M+ or LFR as they take too long. I do (2x) T8 Delves per character if possible to give Heroic vault or else the currency if I get another crappy trinket in that row.
I don’t craft anything. Lean onto the Vault and Warband bound gear a lot.
It is time consuming. I play a lot of hours. Fortunately it works with my schedule and S/O, and I find it enjoyable.
Why? To unlock a ton of xmog. To always have whatever the FOTM class is ready to go. And of course to generate massive amounts of cumulative gold earnings!
And also: to gain a deep understanding of every class and spec; I know my own performance ingame improves as I can anticipate what other classes I play alongside will do at any given moment.
Also to serve as a mentor to new players and friends I bring into our game.
Best way is to do one ten a week from the start then transfer over once your main plateaus.
Second best way is to use delves to get gear, then farm crests for crafted gear
For pvp, do 2 world quest tours for bloody tokens