An alt is something you actually play semi regularly, yet some people just level a toon to max, never play it, and call it an “alt”. What’s the point of having 50 max lvl toons, across servers, if you only avidly play maybe 2 of them? Wouldn’t that time lvling 40 toons been put to better use gearing out the toons you actually play?
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Some of us get enjoyment from levelling in the old content we like. If I’m bored I’ll make a new alt just to level. I’ve played through the magical tree questline for Suramar probably 20+ times by now.
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One of my goals is to maintain current-expansion level toons of every class and every race. This requires 24 alts. Having alts also makes many parts of the game much easier, such as farming and professions.
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As was said above sometimes you just want to play old expansions. Not everything has to revolve around end game and the gear grind. Also more alts means more weekly chances at mount/pet/xmog drops. Farming gold WQ on an alt army is lucrative as well.
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With how quick n easy it is to level n gear a character, no.
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RP characters.
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I enjoy Demon Hunters. So my main is Alliance and my alt is Horde. Also, I have 4 more DH at 70 and about 10 more at 60. Mostly for farming mogs and mounts. I have other classes at 60/70 but those are parked outside dungeons/raids for the mounts.
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There are some alts I mostly only play for the 500 tw token quest. Now I have thousands of tw tokens I can use to buy rep for expansions that have special drops in paragon boxes 
No it isn’t. An alt is just another character on your account that isn’t the main one you play.
What if I like leveling and hit my personal gear goal for my main?
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I don’t have quite that many but I do have a lot, spread across two accounts.
I sometimes just want to level a new character. all they get used for is farming. right now I have everyone parked at Nalak.
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Because I like the Human and BE starting zones so I make toons to do them multiple times.
Also this isn’t a job. Not everything has to be about efficiency.
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It’s my $15 a month. Or, 12. Whatever.
Why do you care?
p.s. To really answer your question you have to look at your mount collection, then look at mine, then look at yours again, then look at mine again.
There’s your answer.
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I like to replay same specs from ground up when some major rework comes out, like talent trees in DF. Sometimes I haven’t played the class for two expansions, and I feel overwhelmed when I see all these new spells.
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I have a priest on horde and alliance. That’s the reason I leveled it twice 
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I played hunter since BC and now I rerolled a new hunter this time to get an entire speed set.
I have multiple alts (25 I think) and I do it cuz im mental.
I have 2 of each spec in most cases. 1 alliance and 1 horde
I did this because I would swap back and forth between the
1 when I did pvp and lost on one side.
If I lost a lot on horde Id swap over to my alliance toons.
Yeah its nuts but it works for me.
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Shhhh nobody can prove it’s a problem if you don’t admit it.
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I think they already know 
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Some of us are weird in that we like to level and not do end game as much.
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I enjoy having characters that fit some of my favorite themes, even if I don’t regularly play them. If I didn’t love DK so much I probably would rotate through them a bit more, but I just can’t bring myself to main anything else no matter where Frost DK falls on the performance rankings.
Currently I have at least one of every class, and I also have four warriors, three hunters, and two paladins.
Warriors: Gnome SMF, Night Elf TG, Mag’har Arms (intended as Dragonmaw Orc, but only Mag’har has the right skin tone), and Nightborne Protection
Hunters: Night Elf Survival / Marksman, Void Elf Marksman (High Elf themed), and Dwarf Beast Master / Marksman
Paladins: Human Prot / Ret, Blood Elf Ret
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