I know this is kind of a dumb question, but I’ve mained this character since I started playing WoW many years ago, I’ve never switched mains, but I’ve been enjoying my Orc Warrior more and more to the point that I’ve considered making him my main in Shadowlands. I feel a strong attachment to this character and all the progress I’ve made on him, but I just don’t enjoy Paladin as much as I used to. Is there any way to go about making the process of switching to another main easier? Thanks!
P.S. Sorry for the dumb post
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Making a backstory for the character you are wanting to swap to is generally how I hype myself into playing them. No interesting story made? No interest in the character.
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Click the other character and then “Log in”.
But on a more serious note; I just force myself to resign whatever my current main was and develop the story of my new main.
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I didn’t.
I have a main in the sense that I have a character friends and acquaintances most often know me as (which is going to be either Kunocati or Levington). But I’m more of a really lame borg collective of alts.
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It depends on if you’re going the RP route or the gameplay route. Both swaps are completely different and both have their own challenges.
If you’re swapping just the RP, then you need to decide if the characters story you are working on now has reached a satisfying ending for those involved. Or have them take a long, Berserk level boat ride until you pick them up again.
Gameplay wise it’s a little easier if you already have essences on your main and you can run a bit of content for the echoes to get the T3 essences. And effective way of that is to premade group finder the visions and get a full clear, which gives a good chunk of Echoes.
As for actual gearing, most of the world quests will help push you to a certain level, and once you reach about 430-435ish the WQs that give items will give 445, which are normal raid pieces. The weekly big daily gives a 445 item as well, once you reach that threshold.
Swapping a main is tough in BfA for content, but I hope I was able to help in some way. RP wise it’s all a personal choice and how it will affect your enjoyment of role play and those involved in it.
Edit: Also, do what you want to do. Do not let others color your opinion if you want to change your character. If you’re not having fun now, it is highly unlikely you’ll have fun any time soon. You pay/grind for your sub, so make sure you’re getting the most out of it!
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I never decide on who is or isn’t going to be my main. That decides itself based on who I end up logging into more.
This used to be an alt, up until I realized that I’d racked up way more hours a week RP’ing on this character than RP’ing and doing content on my “main”. Everybody started knowing me by this character. I only started logging into my other characters when I wanted to keep them leveled/geared to fill a particular role in content.
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I have always accepted that I have two mains. Since WotLK my DK has been a character that I attempt to keep about as geared as my paladin and in some cases it takes over as a character that I do content on. In Cata I had a weird divide of PvE on my DK and PvP on my paladin. This expansion it feels like something similar and going into Shadowlands I keep having this nagging feeling that I am going to return to a place I was in Cata, level my DK first, gear out my tank set for raiding. I will level Dawnblood and get started on the BG grind afterwords.
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This is unrelated. But I recognized that I duel RP’d you today. Had fun!
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Honestly.
I have this character that i decided a while ago to be my main, it is also my first character ever.
But I also have a Monk named Madhron, that i also enjoy a lot, and recently i’ve been wanting to main him again, i gave up on monks because of the SL changes, making the summons be baseline, it didn’t fit what i wanted from the class (since i practice martial arts in real life i wanted a class that reflected that), but after a month or so, my thoughts weren’t exactly the best, and i’m willing to accept the summons as baseline based that they’re effigies and not the actual celestials.
But now, said monk is undergeared for current content, somewhat, so i don’t know what to do, and he doesn’t have a proper backstory, and i might want to change his name since it is similar to this one.
Ideally i would have a char that could fight with or without weapons based on my mood, but since is not the case i’m always torn between warrior and monk.
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I played a destro lock from vanilla to the beginning of WOTLK, played Blood DK at start of WOTLK when it was the DPS spec, then decided to make a rogue.
Committed to rogue from last half of wrath to Legion. Went pally in BFA because a friend suggested it after a two year break from WoW.
I think you have an adjustment period where you have to kind of get into the mindset of how each class plays, despite how people shout that ‘oh it’s just 4 buttons and a burst/defensive CD in BFA’
Each still has its own subtle style and niches.
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I mained a Paladin from Vanilla WoW to the start of Wrath.
Wrath’s changes to Paladins made them incredibly un-fun for me, and I shelved the character. No fanfare. No wrapping up a story. One day he existed, next day he didn’t.
I drag him out of the cupboard every so often just to see if anything’s changed. He’s Level 76 at this point, still working through Wrath content. He’s been sitting in Zul’drak for so many years he pays property taxes, at this point.
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My secret is not having a main.
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Just find the class that truly appeals to you in all specs and embrace it.
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