My alts are toons I play when I don’t feel like doing anything on this one. Just filled my M+ vault row for the week, so if I play any more before Tuesday it’ll be on one of those characters.
I consider “alt” toons either not max level, or not played enough to be geared.
Because otherwise I consider this an “alt” but she’s equal to my “main” and other “alts”. I basically have 4 characters that I hit 2k in M+, and KSM. And I gear them to 476 then consider them “done”
My main is what I would log into when I’m doing prog.
My alts are what I log into when I’m not doing prog.
They can change season to season, month to month, depending on what I feel like maining or alting.
My rogue and Paladin were the only two I played seriously from vanilla to Legion and then I started playing every class for class halls and mage tower skins. Post Legion I now level everything to Max over two years (only shaman left and I just got 62 last night)
Now I pick what I want to play based on how much I enjoy it and how meta it is (dps only). My main is brewmaster right now, even though it’s not meta but my dps alts have been Outlaw s1, Shadow s2 and beast master s3.
If my main gets reworked to no longer be fun? I swap mains.
I have characters I’ll use to try out new content who are fairly easy to keep alive, given I’m not a skillful player. I have characters who have had extensive head canon built around them for nearly two decades. I have characters that I don’t know how to play well, but I try to get them to max level, kind of on principle. I have characters in an old, dead guild I occasionally play because it brings back memories.
I have a lot of alts and each has a time of being a main of one sort or another. Keeps me engaged.
I have a paladin that I created about two months into vanilla WoW’s original release. I have primarily raided on this paladin in all but two raid tiers since the release of the game. Everyone in my guild calls me by the paladin’s name in discord and know me by that name, no matter what character I happen to be logged into. I consider this character my “main.” I don’t have a definition of “alt,” other than “not my main.”
You’d think it’d be this obvious to everyone.
I have a total of 35 characters spread across 4 realms on 2 accounts.
I play each and everyone of them, everyday.
I have no alts.
BTW I am leveling all of them to level 70. When that is done I will buy the new expansion and start leveling them all to 80.
I am several months away from doing that.
An alt is that thing I tell myself I’m going to gear up only to collect dust the next day.
I’m genuinely curious, what do you do on your 35 characters every day? How much time are you able to allocate on each toon per day?
Shaman’s are my main… the rest of the classes are my alts… in other words the classes I get around to after I’m done with my main class… they might be waiting for days or weeks before I bother playing them again.
I do Fishing and Cooking Daily quests with all of them. Yep they level slowly but it is my choice to do so. I gave up on gear grinding years ago.
Depending on what those quests have me do, it takes between 2.5 and 4 hours to get them all done. I do find these quests fun to do.
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Alternate character. Your main isn’t set in stone. My main starting out was a Marksman Hunter/Engineer. Then in Legion, I enjoyed rolling a Dwarf Rogue, and dressing him like a Pirate. Even got the Dueler’s Edge Mage Tower appearance on 'em.
In BFA, I went out of my way to unlock Kultirans whenever they were made available, and made a Seven Foot Actual height, 300 LB. Kultiran Rogue, and dressed him up as a Pirate.
Some rumors say that I still play that very same alt, to this very day. Wandering the Forums, and the World… of Warcraft, Looking for Fancier and better Pirate Hats.
The other 54 potatoes in my sack.
Everything that isn’t this specific character