MY first toon was a human rogue. I really enjoyed PVP but at that time alliance lost every BG except AV about 90% of the time. This was back when you had to grind certain BG’s to get marks of honor to but PVP gear.
I finally had enough and rolled a horde mage. The horde mage was my first toon to reach max level. I don’t remember the exact date but feel like my mage was level 40ish about when the IOQ patch went down during TBC. I had a decent guild that did 10 man raids at the end of TBC and some of WOTLK.
I’ve never had a main, and I’m up to a rotation of about 12 or so characters that might get played 6 weeks a year each. I’ve tried having a “main” in this and other games but I just can’t do it. The grass is always greener, there’s always a power plateau.
My first character was a gnome mage that never made it past 36. There’s just something about the late 30’s with that old xp method, it’s exactly where my warlock is hung up in classic.
But back to my first mage. Made him because I thought all other males looked 'roided out, and mage seemed like the best RP fit for a gnome. I liked the mana gems, they reminded me slightly of moxes from Magic: The Gathering. I did not like how squishy and always drinking/eating it was. I ended up on a hunter and got it to 58, eventually at the very end of TBC I did cap a mage (blood elf that time) but that character was harassed and the people I knew on that server all quit, but I could never get the name on any servers I played on (switched to RP after my RL friends all quit) so never bothered to transfer it and it’s still rotting in the LK opening zone at 71 (or whatever it is now) I think.
And that was my first character I ever capped. I have multiple druids, paladins, shamans, mages, a rogue, a warrior, and who knows what else (literally at least one of everything except I deleted my death knight to take her name). I couldn’t even tell you which of those classes I prefer, let alone specific characters. This game lives and dies on novelty for me, and I like the process of forming a character more than pushing it to it’s limits power wise. That and pretty much if I can’t solo it, queue for it, or 5 man it without a timer, I’d get up and leave if I couldn’t start over as something fresh past a certain point.
Demon hunter gets old real fast
well i havent, im still me, ill always be me…
I wanted to be an elf mage but they did not exist for Night Elves back in Vanilla so I switched to Horde and became a Blood Elf mage. Since that tune I have been Horde but do play Alliance quite frequently.
I mained mage in vanilla, and in TBC wanted to play with a RL friend on a different server so I made a Druid there and ended up playing more so I abandoned my mage.
And in MoP I had another RL playing on a different server so I made this monk to play with him.
And I’m the only one left out of my RL friends that still play.
Got bored when my Alliance guild fell apart, and decided to main a belf hunter instead.
Came back several years later when things got slow horde side.
I keep both active now.
I swapped away from my Mage main when I got interested in PVP, and the idea of being rooted to the spot while casting was unappealing to me.
Ive gone from Hunter to Paladin to Priest to Mage to Shaman. I like to switch it up but I think I’ll be playing Shaman for a while now (only for resto though).
Started off as a healer, tanks and dps moved slowly to the point I could fall asleep, did tank, DPS total potatos, does less damage than actual tank, then I did DPS, yes, I don’t have the ability to make tank do I want, but at least as DPS I kill stuff and the faster it dies the faster it goes + tanks see that I can just melt stuff, so they have that courage and they move faster and man, I sure can DPS + if you want to raid on higher difficulty, ranged DPS are hot candy for every guild.
still playing my first toon as my main
i did race change her from Draenei to Night elf though, if that counts?
I did this unintentionally, but from Vanilla to the end of WoD I changed my main every two expansions, and after that it’s been every expansion. There’s no particular reason other than time for a change and a specific class grabs my attention.
I was playing mage for years. Loved frost after the MoP rework, played fire before that. Fire became less interesting to me over the years, but frost was good so it was okay. When glacial spike was introduced and the bland playstyle associated with it became meta for 2 straight expansions i decided i was no longer having fun.
Thermal void became an optimal talent choice in the pre-patch and i honestly almost switched back before i realized it probably won’t stay that way. I liked the “let it fly” style of frost. I’ve loathed the proc hoarding frost we’ve had for years now.
I mained a pally from mid tbc all the way to the end of cata…I can’t remember a specific reason I think I just wanted to try something different.
This might be the first expansion since I joined in BC that I change mains. If I do, it’s because I don’t like the boomie changes. I’ve barely logged onto this character since the pre-patch dropped, and this is the first character I ever leveled.
The closest I ever came to switching my main prior to this is in Cata my guild needed me on my hunter for Firelands, so I did PvE on my hunter and PvP on my druid during that patch.
Paladins are as boring as BM hunter but as BM I can at least do decent sustained damage and be ranged.
This is the first character I made and first ever leveled to cap. Since then I have played Warrior, Druid, Paladin, Rogue, Demon Hunter, Mage and Monk. I always come back to my Hunter though. The longest stretch was with Legion and part of BfA due to not liking a lot of the class/spec changes.
Let’s see, Blizz destroying hunters in WoD with the great pruning, then pruning a spec I enjoyed, RSV, and turning MM into a total joke compared to the spec I fell in love with when I first picked up WoW in very early Wrath.
My friend got me into WoW and I made a Shadow Priest because DoT’s sounded super cool.
Even though I healed all the dungeons, people got really angry at me for rolling on “DPS” items (this was before personal loot). They would yell at me and tell me to make a Warlock if I wanted to play a shadow caster.
So I made a Warlock and it’s been my main for like 13 or 14 years now. I still regret giving into the toxic whiners and not sticking with my Priest at the start, but I’ve had a lot of fun with my Warlock so it’s not so bad.
Because the newest iteration of balance druid sucks.