My play system and Altaholic Style

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So I managed to have an hour conversation with my real life friends in game about my play style. I’m an altaholic, yes I’ve mentioned it a dozen times and posted about it. I can sometimes love it, and sometimes struggle with it. Anyway over the past few years I came up with a system I like and it seems to work for me. Every online game I play I do this, not just wow.

I find a class I really like I made 1 for each faction. Those are my mains, in WoW its two paladins. I like to have them both geared and able to run stuff, I feel confident I know how to play them because I have two. I also make one of each class male/female. (including paladin). I do not count my mains, so in theory I have 6 paladins.

This sparked up my friends going “what the hell are you doing? It makes no logical sense why do you need more then 1 of the same class?” We had this talk and I kept telling them, “its not why I have them, its the fact that I enjoy the games I play this way.”

I find my system a little overwhelming yes but it works for me, if I need a race change its simple I just buy one and keep the character as a male or female. It allows me to see something different every time I play.

It’s an aesthetics thing to me, I like the appearance of the characters. I could be totally crazy and start up a 2nd account and make more but even that seems too much for my style.

I don’t think my system is that bad, yes to the eye it might be much but I do everything on my two paladins and the rest are just fun characters I tend to enjoy.

Anyone else devise their own system for alting?

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i have one of each race/class combination.

that’s 206 alts so far since I haven’t bought Shadowlands preorder yet so I can’t roll pandaren or allied race death knights. I keep them different by never changing my talents/pvp talents on my toons and having differentiated them by those as well as by tradeskills. I keep socially distant from other players so they don’t judge me for not changing talents and also do no hard content, also because I have laggy internet at my place.

I can’t justify this behavior in any sane way, I’m mentally ill but that’s the way I am. I don’t roleplay so the different races aren’t meaningful enough to justify the time expenditure, it’s simply that I don’t value my time or do anything else in the world profitable or beneficial.

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The reason many people are altoholics is because they cannot come to this conclusion. They have multiple classes they like.

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I have 25 max level characters. One of each class, one of each faction; and an extra druid which I consider my main. Outside of 2 characters, the minimum ilvl on each of them is 445 and most are around 455.

I have a spreadsheet that shows all of the possible things I can do in a week such as: Weekly event, pvp cap, M+ key, etc. I also have the ilvl of each character and an average ilvl calculator for each faction AND total. I’m also very into transmog so I have the sets of gear I still need to collect and the location of the item. I’m trying to complete all of the sets for each class.

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I like to hear how other people are altoholics.

Mine is simpler I would say, I enjoy 1 spec per class. So what I do after i’m done leveling all class (12 horde), I start gearing them at the same speed and always keeping the same denominator.

For exemple, Stage one was to get them all to 120, then get all their cloaks, then get them world quest emissary gear, neck to 80 and around 445 ilvl.

Now came the Echoes, so I’m getting each one of them 4 purple essences, They all have about 2 and 4 of them have 4.

Some alts i’m at the point where I run low mythic +.

I also have 1 of them that is my “main for the expansion/patch”, in 8.2 it was my MW monk and in 8.3 I switched to my old rogue.

I recently left my mythic (4/12) guild because I missed playing alts and just didn’t feel right to focus on 1 toon (i don’t know how some of you do it for such a long time)

As of now, I have 3 healers (monk, priest, shaman), 4 tanks(pally, DK, bear, DH) and the rest are all DPS.

Sometimes I can’t pick what to play, so I start from the bottom of the list, most undergeared and just play it.

Always bring up my “worst” character.

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I agree, but I’m also trying to break the habit… I told myself I’m going to focus on one toon for Shadowlands that isn’t a tank or healer (I’ve mained a druid since BC).

Maybe we should start an AA (Altoholics Anonymous) group.

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I usually start the expansion with 1 main and the altoholism only kicks in after pathfinder/catch-up patches.

So now 8.3 is my “try-outs” for Shadowlands Main. Not sure who’s going to win, but I make sure I have all my characters ready so that Shadowlands I can pick a main.

Demonology warlock is looking pretty, I discovered this in patch patch 8.2 (used to be affliction) and that might be the one who takes the shadowland lead.

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I’ve thought about doing the same thing. One of each class/race combo. I understand the thought of being judged by others for pur play style. All in all, we need to play the way we enjoy.

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I’m the same way, but I’m going to challenge myself to one class… and it being dps for Shadowlands.

Demonology locks are fun to play! I’ve switched from Prot pally to WW monk to DH to Outlaw rogue… so my plan to main one isn’t going too well.

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Very interesting that brain can identify there is a problem and the problem should register it as a problem but it doesn’t.

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My brain ignores that lol

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I don’t have as many alts as OP, and I have many that really don’t get played much except to be leveled in each expansion I play so that I’m familiar with all of the classes in a basic way. I find it helpful to know what everyone’s abilities are, and I find it enjoyable to level one of each class.

I have multiples of all my favorites so that I have one Horde and one Alliance. If I have a curiosity about a new race or a difficulty in choosing one race over another, I’ll level one of each and then use my favorite of the two.

My mains, however, are typically my focus for at least an entire expansion. This is the first time I’ve swapped mains out mid-expansion.

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I’ve tried to stick to my 2 pallies as mains. It’s worked well through BFA.

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I love all of the Altaholic camaraderie in this thread. I also have multiple accounts (3), and I realize that with the addition of Allied Races, I can no longer create one of each class/race combo, unless I am willing to add at least a fourth account. If you count Pandaren as two races, one for each faction, you actually have 202 possible race/class possibilities. Now, you could limit to one kind of Dwarf/Tauren/Draenei/etc. per class, but where’s the fun in that?

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To be honest that doesnt sound like a bad plan. I mainly played warrior, pally and hunter through the years. Those have always been my mains. I went two pallies for BFA. The Allied Races is what pushed me over. I have tons of 20s mostly allied races, just sitting

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Yes! I also … oh wait … 206 … you mean every combination. Well, no, I guess that’s on a whole other level beyond me and anything I do.

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I go through periodically to clean out and delete any characters I have no intention of playing with further. I make a lot of them to see if they’ll spark my interest. Some do and some don’t. If a character has been sitting there for a while and I have no desire to actually DO anything with them…I get rid of them.

I keep one Horde and one Alliance of each class at 120/level cap, but any extras I make to mess around with/check out a new race with…I get rid of them after a while to keep everything neat and orderly.

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That’s awhole other topic, I believe we should have more slots without buying the game 4x but yeah every class race combo is something I’ve thought about.

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I love this. You do you.

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If I’m not in that one (and I think I am), I have replied to other “Raise the cap” conversations. This would make my WoW Misc spreadsheet happy, and also crazy, at the same time.

That being said, what types of things are others tracking on their spreadsheets. I saw iLevel and events. For me:

  • Level tracking, with Race, Class, Server, Level, Last Level (date), projected Shadowlands Level
  • Highest level by class/faction, and Highest level by race (boosted and unboosted, for reasons)
  • Darkmoon Faire, tracking monthly and daily quest completion, Last visit, and Prize Tickets
  • Raid Progression, keeping track of each raid, per character, and how many bosses completed
  • Projects, for any current event or content. Recently had Class Hall Campaign and Mounts (completed, removed), and still have Class Hall Armor Sets, and Reputations that still need Exalted
  • Loremaster, since I still need a couple old ones in Outland (Netherstorm and Shadowmoon) , half of Northrend, and Twilight Highlands
  • My Race/Class breakdowns, showing what combos are available, which ones are unavailable, and what level each of my characters is. I do not duplicate race/class, so each race/class number is indicative of each character.
  • Tier transmog completion, including the 0 and 0.5 sets from Darkmoon Faire, and currently up to Naxx sets, per class.
  • A bunch of random stuff, like a grid calculator for the Benthic Murloc in Newhome that requires multiple purchases. The grid does all the math for me, and tells me what to buy first, and how many, then what to buy with those, etc.
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