I don’t want you to walk away from this thinking it’s not easy to level and gear an alt in SL, because it is.
You have the incorrect impression, however, that an alt should be pushing high Mythic keys or beating Mythic CN within a week of hitting 60.
That was never going to happen even if you happened to turn that alt into your new main. It would still take time to get to THAT level (albeit a bit shorter since you unlocked stuff on the previous toon).
As mentioned above, yes, you can boost your cov set to 197 if you grind that all out, but even that takes a bit of time and focus. If you’re putting THAT much effort into a new character, you can hardly call it an alt anymore.
Will they allow covenant armor to be upgraded further in the next patch? I just don’t see any point spending anima on it right now unless you have nothing you want to spend it on. I’d probably save it as a mission table buffer in that case anyway than buying the upgrades.
It is fairly quick to get up to around 190-200 with not too much effort. If you have a decent guild or friends they would probably let you tag long on some m+/raids.
It’s false to think that this game has ever given you Heroic or Mythic raid level gear when you hit 60.
If you want to reroll, that’s your choice. No one forced you. But don’t ever expect this game to give you that high level gear. You get to Normal ilevel as catch up. That’s what catch up is. You want progression? You work for it.
Soul ash is super quick and easy to get. Alts no longer need to clear layer 1 - 8 so you can run 2 layer 8’s for 1100+ a week.
Unless you got a carry guild/team, it’s gonna take you a few weeks to likely get your memories and/or progress with your renown to get proper soulbinds and conduits.
It’s not a serious question though. This mindset of mains and alts is distorted from the onset. I barely have what I would call a main. I have a number of toons I like to play and I would like to play all of them to a decently high level in pvp.
Why? Why does it need to take you potentially a month or more just so you can be competitive?
For the same reason people like you think that “everybody wants every alt to be as geared as YOUR main, and nobody plays any other way. Wow is incredibly alt-friendly, you can level up a character fast, slap on some transmog, and never play them again”.
You have no idea how people play alts. But keep writing fiction that reveals to us how you work.
I guess the reason why wod was a failure was because it was possible to level up an alt, put them right into PvP, and have a full set of honor gear in a day or two. It should have taken months, and the system should have been rigged so they could never actually catch up. Because vanilla!
Ah yes, we have to grind for necks, wait no
we have to grind artifact power, wait no
we have to grind attunements, wait no
we have to grind reputations, wait no
What is the “punishing part” ? the renown? you get lots of it by just playing… dungeons, callings, campaign, everything drops renown when you’re low. I have 4 alts made in shadowlands (so starting lv1, not from BFA) and it is easy to rank them up. This character started as an alt, now it’s my main.
The only thing is anima, that you also get more than enough as you mostly use it for… covenant gear? other than mission table, you don’t need anima for anything. And stigya for sockets is just for the highest end content, not mandatory at all
Having to unlock every zone, every dungeon, and every bit of content is really not different from attunements. And if you think there are no unlocks, you don’t play.
People hate the word “attunements”. But that’s exactly what it is, a hated vanilla “RPG element” that was shoehorned back into the game because it’s part of the devs’ fantasy world, where everything vanilla should be forced back into the game, and everything new should be removed.
But it is a serious question. The terminology of mains and alts is something that has developed along side with the game since the beginning of Warcraft. The concept is part of the very culture that has developed within the game. It isn’t distorted - its natural.
So that the effort of gearing a toon has meaning - imagine being a top end player who pushed yourself through grueling effort to be in that spot and to earn those rewards.
Then someone comes along 3 months after launch puts a week of effort in and he’s tied to you in terms of that reward. Effort should be rewarded- gear is the main means in which that reward is expressed.
Clearly what I do in the game wouldn’t count as “playing” to you. You see me as an imbecile for not being willing to lockstep the game as you do and go full control freakazoid.
right now, im leveling gearing a druid, lv 60 now, didn’t have to unlock any dungeon, i can enter any dungeon i want, i even did m0 as 130ilvl with my holy pala (also an alt)
And this whole thread is about alts, remember? Unlock every zone, like every flightpath? yes i agree there, it’s annoying, but not mandatory and will be meaningless once 9,1 brings flying
I don’t know if you play the same game, or if you know what an alt means. Bc in my first character, vuttplug, i did have to do all of that, annoying, buying boes to get ilvl enough to enter dungeons
but past that, threads of fate, it’s super easy to gear up to heroic dungeon level, and you have everything unlocked