So, I’m the kind of guy who likes to pick one class and be good or know a good amount of each spec. With that said, after several months (4-6) I get curious about other classes.
What do you guys do?
If you’re a one class person, how do you stay involved with the class for so long?
If you’re someone who likes to alt, do you try and make each alt as powerful as your main or do you just have alts to take a break from your main and not care about the alts ilvl/gear/completion?
Why do you pick the class/classes you do? Gameplay, theme, lore, etc?
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I have lots of alts. And I’ve been basically a one spec per character person since Legion. It’s easier now to maintain two specs on my healers, but in Legion it wasn’t. And I liked leveling alts back then, so I’d have one per spec.
Which, by the way, was not the best idea, considering the +15 appearance I cannot get now, because I don’t play those alts. 
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I used to play alts.
Blizzard decided I don’t play enough though and added the disgusting legendary and covenant conduit systems.
So now I play less because I don’t have any alts.
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i have alts but my alts are all the same class and spec
i wish i wasn’t a single classer and had invested time into learning another class. im slowly working on resto druid but it’s hard going from 11 years of holy to resto
i pretty much only pvp so having alts makes it easier to play at all brackets and with different people and if one push isnt going well i can swap to another alt and keep playing
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I only play one character at a time. The last time I was excited about making alts was during Legion. All the weapons were so cool I kept making new characters and couldn’t decide what to play.
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For me its all alts at the moment. I used to focus a lot more on just my Mage but as I lost in interest in endgame content I found the alt list growing. This compliments my new pass time sacrificing free time at the alter of “all the things”. Its fun to screw around with a double tap aimed shot on marksman, dotting up and melting targets on an affliction lock, or wondering what survival hunter is meant to be but the trade off is progress. I have 1 character over 230 the rest meander around the 220 to 225 space.
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I have one main who I focus on to complete reputations and story quests and such.
I can’t do that on all my alts.
I usually work each alt up to a high-ish gearing level (for me that’s like ilevel 220, so I’m clearly super casual). And I take my time. Then I move to my next alt and do the same thing.
At least for the alts that I have at max level.
Arcane Mage, Prot Pally, Survival/BM Hunter, and a Sin Rogue are my alts so far. All very different and fun in their own ways.
I die most on my Rogue because I get so caught up in the damage dealing that I stay in fires/whirlwinds/death beams/etc.
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This is me. I usually complete the story and grinds on one character. Get that character to a passable ilvl where I can do “ok” in casual content (normal raiding/random bg’s, low M+). Around 225 or so this patch, and then pick up an alt.
I feel like I hit a point of diminishing returns and lose interest in optimizing.
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There was a time when playing alts were fun without worrying to grind so hard. Nowadays it seems they wanna go against the thought to an extent. Now I just stay on my warrior, but this expansion has slowly been okay with alts. However it’s still not to my liking.
now that we can have 50 alts, i have 25 alts on ally server, and 25 alts on horde server, then i chart out 2 of each classes that uses different specs, and what professions they’ll have, because eventually, blizz will screw over one class one patch buff another class breaking and fixing classes, so i keep 50 mains on hand at all times
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I’ve had Max level of every class since I think legion now.
I tend to play my rogue or Paladin who have been my main characters since 2004/2008 respectively. However, whenever I hit my content or gear wall (aotc/ksm these days, used to be mythic raiding) I then throw myself into alts.
Currently have a 240 dwarf outlaw rogue and a 230 belf vengeance dh. Thinking about levelling my orc brew master next.
Edit: my demon hunter is only about 4 weeks into 60, I didn’t find catch up that bad. I was back into +15s in my second week, have higher renown than my rogue as well.
The only downsides are ill never catchup on domination shards (don’t really care to grind rank 4/5s) but I can do without raising on two characters. Also, none of my characters will ever get rank 6 korthia or fully upgraded covenants. Heck, I don’t even do mission tables.
Demon hunter has been my default ever since it came out. It’s simple, it’s versatile, it’s mobile, and it’s fun for me.
The theme itself stopped being the draw after legion. It’s just the only class right now that makes me happy.
I used to main a mage for a long time, and in WoD it just started losing its appeal after many many years of playing. I was set to just put the game down for good, but i was determined to try out DH before i called it quits.
This character started out as an alt i was gonna shove into my friend’s guild, it even had a different name at the time, but i was just so taken with it that i quickly decided that i needed to main it. Eventually i gave it my old main’s name, even.
I did lapse once, thought the grass was gonna be greener on the other side this expansion. Saw the AoE caps on DH and the overall nerfed state of it going into live and decided to take the shiny new spriest for a spin. That made me miserable, and i shan’t be making that mistake again.
Edit: also i get all these neat shirtless options from legion 
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I’m just guessing, but it sounds like you spend much more time in game than many people have, an hour or two 4-5 nights a week or so.
Sure, alts are easy if you play 3-5 hrs a night, because that’s a massive time commitment.
Speaking as someone who mostly has just PvPed, I have typically had one of each class at max level in every expansion after TBC (thanks RAF). That was just leveling though, I usually would play one of four classes competitively (rogue, warlock, dk or priest). In MoP and WoD I was maining all 4 and in Legion with templates I was playing classes I’d never PvPed with before just to get elite sets since alting was extremely easy, especially in the second half of the expansion.
In BFA I only played priest competitively and only in s1. Since then I haven’t touched rated or any PvE content and mostly just play randoms on whatever class I feel like, though it is pretty bad in SL with the massive gear gaps. I can’t fathom trying to be competitive on 4 mains in SL like I was in previous expansions.
Playing alts is painful this expansion, I’m stuck with my main and ocassionally play a shaman alt.
I’m a one class player and will player different specs depending on the content. That said, my typical process is something like this:
- Play main until content becomes boring.
- Log on to an alt (I have 3 level 50’s).
- Realize I’m not going to enjoy grinding rep, renown, etc.
- Log off and practice my guitar.
Over the past two expansions, I’ve gotten much better on my guitar.
I used to, when I mythic raided.
Now I level alts with my wife and run some keys (almost never near 10 in a week. Done 10 like once.) I heroic raid as a social invite in mythic guilds so I usually only raid one a week.
anybody that doesn’t have at least 40 level 50-60 alts are playing the game wrong and have cheated themselves if I’m being completely real.
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I just wanna make a note on this. I just yesterday dinged 60 (from 50) on my rogue, and used threads of fate to level up. Each zones “completion” bonus gave 3 (used to be 1) covenant rep, so by the time i had finished 60 i was renown 13. Did the campaign and only 3 callings on that rogue and am renown 35.
TLDR; the renown catchup is almost nuts in how quickly it accumlates now.
