Why do some top players have 4-5 of same class?

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I used to think they just like playing so much or they didn’t want to mess with MMR on main.

But some of these players have 4-5 Alts, all the same class and all basically the same rating.

maybe there is a game mechanic reason? Boosting service? Rank 1 chances?

Or maybe they just like playing the same class, gearing, leveling, grinding rating so much?

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So they could circumvent RSS leaving debuff. Also multiple chances per week at vault tier gear, then play the one that gets 4 piece first.

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Playing 4-5 characters for a chance at the vault?

That is actually sad and a great idea at the same time.

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They do this to specialize in one class. I think it’s silly because what happens when that spec gets nerfed and now you have to reroll. It’d make more sense to make a bunch of different classes so you can always play what’s good

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rwf raiders do this because it’s a race
pvp players do not because seasonal rating is not a race

the reason most people i know duplicate their main spec as an alt is so that they can play more games more relaxedly, without feeling a pressure to maintain their cr

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some do it for win trading.

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some of this
there’s def people that care about win/loss and games played on their main/alt that have other characters to send with people they don’t regularly queue with or people that aren’t as good as them

mostly this

at a certain people when you’re basically at the mmr ceiling for the given point in the season sending the 200 games a week you wanna play on one character feels a little less rewarding than it would if you were progressing while doing it

making an alt and sending it qing at the same mmr you’d be qing at anyways and progressing cr adds a secondary level of serotonin forsure

sort of

in the past people would leapfrog characters so they were always queueing the lower rated one making losing rating less mentally taxing which mechanically does prevent tilt tanking on some level forsure

there’s def players who have like 5 of the same class that feel like earning 5 titles on the same class playing the same comp in the same season makes them better for some reason

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So they can get ques on one when mmr/rating gets too high on others.

So they can play with lower rated friends/randoms without trashing their mains mmr/rating.

Some of them used to do it so their carry characters could stay lower mmr.

Some do it because vault RNG is important for early season character performance.

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I know Nahj has two rogues because outlaw’s stat priority is different than assa/sub

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PVPers 100% do this. You literally have no chance in pvp right now vs someone with tier set bonus. You forget that most high rated pvpers like stomping noobs and you cant do that when everyone has the same gear so they resort to vault farming in order to get tier set first and farm people for a few weeks.

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I understand people have their reasons but it’s always pretty annoying facing someone on their 4th same-class same-spec alt when their “main” and other 3 chars are at 2800+.

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They are for boosting and carrying people.

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hardly anyone above 1400 is leaving shuffle stop
and players at 1400 aren’t sweating so hard that they’re making alts to leave on LMAO

no they don’t you’re clueless

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A: in team games you do, shuffle is still a mid-rollout feature and barely matters
B: this isn’t universally true, i’m sure i’m not the only spec whose tier is mid

yeah i’m just gonna talk about you more than to you here
this is a conviction based in delusion. maybe if “people who bought rbg 2100 in shadowlands” is what you mean by high rated pvpers

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There is no point in pushing rating this early in the season. Having multiple characters that you know how to play well has a variety of benefits. Trying to learn how to PvP on a whole other class is hard.

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usually is a strong indicator of having no life/too much invested into wow.

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see, this is what i am thinking. It seems so ridiculous to have 4-8 characters - unless there is a real motivation. I could understand 1-2 top players doing it, but it seems there are many players - EU considered here too - doing this…

why?

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HARMLESS QUESTIONS!~

NEFARIOUS CONCLUSIONS?~

Whut? zug zug

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But a lot of the dudes at the top play the same class no matter what…

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it’s easy. like every streamer, you whine about your class, hope it gets clipped onto here and put it on F-Tier on the Tier List