I started in Wrath, so I have no experience of Classic. I keep reading about how hard it was to slow it was to level more than one toon. I am thinking about playing both a Dwarf Priest and a Tauren Shaman (want to heal endgame) That way, I can experience both sides of the story and I see which one is more enjoyable to focus on and hopefully click with a group of people to play with. That toon would become my main. Is that plan just a pipe dream?
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You’ll have plenty of time, in theory, as long as you don’t mind missing some of the release phases.
You have plenty of time. Don’t sweat it. Besides, there are times when switching to an alt and a different zone can refresh your whole experience.
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I had a 60 Hunter and Paladin in Vanilla, and when TBC dropped I had a 40ish Warrior as well. I was also not as alt happy as some people.
That said, you absolutely will want to focus on one at end game unless you don’t have much going on in your life beyond WoW. Going after end game is where the biggest time commitment comes into play.
First, not sure if you understand that this will have to be on two different servers as you cannot have alliance and horde characters on the same server (they are sticking with this right?).
But yes, you can play two characters and get both to 60 and even gear both up. You are making it harder by having different factions, which will require you to set up two separate social groups for grouping and guilding, etc.
Time is all it will take, but you can swap between while you have rested. I am not someone who does well with alts (had a single character through all of vanilla) but this time around I am going to attempt two as well.
This was only true on PVP rulesets. On PVE rulesets, you can have both factions on the same server.
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I personally had three 60’s in original vanilla (my first toon took me a couple months to get to 60, but after that it was much quicker). Were they all raid geared out…nope. I played everyday (a lot), but I wasn’t a raider (saw some of the raids, had some epics, but had mostly blues). I had plenty of time to level alts and all of them had their epic mounts (made a lot of gold selling bags, and resit gear to raiders through tailoring). About 6 months before TBC dropped though I really started focusing on my priest and that’s what I played for the next 11 years. So I’m sure one of the classes you play around on will end up catching more of your attention at some point. I say just go with what happens and try not to plan it out right now because you never know who you will meet or who you will cross paths with that could change your course.
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I played on a PvE server in vanilla and you couldn’t make toons of the opposite faction. This has been discussed before.
I plan to level three characters to 60 before the honor system launches. Tauren Shaman, Undead Mage, and Night Elf Hunter. Easily doable if you’re efficient and make good use of rest XP. Honestly, I’d advise everybody follow a similar plan if they intend to play on a PvP server as the roaming death squads are going to get substantially worse once the honor system rolls out and there aren’t any BGs.
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You are wrong.
It has been discussed before, yes, but it did not arrive at the conclusion you believe it did. You could make characters of both factions on PVE rulesets. I did, in fact, do so.
I personally like to take as much time as possible to level. So multiple characters works great with such an approach.
The instances are designed to be run multiple times and blue items last a while. The under 60 BGs can be quite fun, as the dynamics change in each bracket.
Each level is to be savored IMO. Then at 60 there will always be that.
Even if getting to end game fairly quickly is your goal, two characters should be doable, since rest experience increases leveling efficiency.
This is pretty accurate.
@ OP, It’s not impossible to play multiple toons in vanilla, but it is certainly a hell of a lot harder to manage than it would be in the retail game, for example… In WoD I played and geared up 8 different toons within a single PvP season, for example… In legion I had 8 toons doing PvP/towers (which is why my honor level is so nuts)…
In vanilla, and with MORE TIME TO PLAY, I had 3 total 60s… My main (a lock), an alt in blues/bg-rep epics, and a second alt that I didn’t even have time to run through dungeons. Basically with more time at my disposal, I was still only able to really effectively gear 1 character, and a moderately passable alt. Just getting to level cap will take you 6-15 DAYS per character depending on how well you know what you’re doing/where you’re going… Then you’ve got getting dungeon geared, farming for professions, farming for mounts all taking up significant chunks of time as well. Alts can be rewarding in vanilla, but they more than extract their “toll”.
The flipside of the above, however, is you feel significantly more importance and attachment to your choice of “main” and/or primary “alt”… There are probably 8 or so classes/specs I’d be interested in playing in some capacity if I had unlimited time within which to play them, and from that list I’m again going to be selecting 3 to roll with, and like vanilla even among those 3, there are going to be decisions made on how much I prioritize each of them. That secondary alt, is quite admittedly probably going to be barely played again.
Hope this answers your question, OP… or at least gives you a bit of insight into alts in vanilla/classic.
A big benefit to leveling both is that you earn rested XP on whichever you’re not playing at the moment.
A con of playing opposite factions (whether they’re same realm or different) is you won’t be trading or mailing goods or gold, so there’s no synergy between them.
There is an article from June 2006 when Blizzard added paid realm transfers where they mention faction limitations specific to PvP realms only. If it had been true of PvE realms as well, there wouldn’t have been need to clarify PvP realm.
“Also, if a player decides to transfer from one PVP realm to another PVP realm, he/she can only do so if there is no faction violation (that is, players cannot already have a character of the opposing faction on the destination realm).” - Source = https://www.gamespot.com/articles/wow-realm-transfer-details-unveiled/1100-6153087/
I had 6 level 60 toons by the end of Vanilla, and I spent a lot of time levelling.
Mage, Hunter, Priest on Horde, Druid, Rogue, Warrior on Alliance.
I also cleared MC, BWL, and AQ up to Twin Emps, plus Instructor in Naxx.
Its definitely doable, and most people took one or two characters to find what they liked.
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I’ve only ever been on PvP servers, so I sometimes forget there is another way ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
I’ll make an alt, but i have no idea how serious i’ll be on it i’m a main man, i love getting EVERYTHING there is to do on my main done, then helping random people and doing dumb stuff.
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I love how excited they are about Cross Realm Battlegrounds:
GS: Okay, onto other subjects. At Blizzcon last year, Blizzard brought up the potential of doing cross-server battlegrounds, that is, letting characters on different realms battle one another. Any update on how this is coming along? And how do you balance this since there tend to be far more Alliance players than Horde players, which means that there might be waiting queues while alliance players wait for an opponent?
SD: We’re very excited about this feature! It’s in development now, and internal testing is underway. Currently, the faction-balance issues play a bigger role in whether you’ll get into a game or not. With cross-realm battlegrounds, we can match players up across many realms, which means games will be starting and ending all the time. As a result, the wait to get into a battleground should be considerably less. We will, of course, test cross-realm battlegrounds on our public test realms for everyone to try out.
Whatever, I guess we’ll see. No skin off my back if I’m wrong. I’ll be lighting up horde by the dozen either way come Classic.
You do you. My main took most of my time up so I only had one alt who was somewhere around level 40-41 when the B C prepatch started at the dark portal. As other s have said, it can be nice, but the time constraints due to pacing will usually put your main far ahead of your alt.