I wish it weren’t so, but they are like children birthed in the ether.
Over the years you kind of want to try different things. It also helps tremendously when trying to farm mounts or various items
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Class gameplay isn’t very compelling. So people are always in search of greener grass, and they play them for a couple weeks thinking they’ve found it when in reality it just smells different and is still brown
People are also just bored of the game now in my honest opinion. There’s no wonder for them. People still are using guides for everything they do, and it’s not like they’re new to the game trying to learn it for the first time like when they used guides in 2007. It’s 2019 and they’re still following guides to a game they should be experts at.
I think many are just addicted and utterly bored
Because I switched out from my hunter being my main everytime it gets pruned or nerfed after everyone complains.
But seriously, sometimes it’s better to branch out, I mean I hate playing PVE with my hunter or lock this xpac. For most people when certain specs or classes get nerfed or kicked out of the meta, they switch to a spec/ class that is. Others its how they play. Tons of variables why people chose alts.
I had 3 a rogue,hunter and shaman.
I have a character that I played for pretty much each expansion, then dropped them after the class was changed to an unappealing state to me, then they were dropped and a new character/class would have to take their place. So each one sits at 80, 90, 100 etc.
The thing is people tell me they’d burn out playing one character, so I guess they must be playing quite a lot to run multiple full kitted out guys every expansion.
The different class halls and artifacts appealed to me. The gold from mission table of old. Now in bfa there’s nothing worth chasing so most have minimum play.
One healer, one tank, one ranged and one melee.
I could save time by having my tank also be melee DPS and my healer as ranged DPS. But I am bad at casters, and my melee DPS is more fun to play.
To see the game, try new things. Rather enjoy having alts, the game would be a waste of time with just the one…
but that is me…
Classes are boring now, some classes can’t tank or heal, some specs are just way better at certain roles, some people just like playing different characters. Many reasons.
Contradicting yourself by saying that everything is handed to you and then acknowledging that essences are hard to get. Nothing is handed to you except for garbage epics. To get good gear you still have to push Mythic+ or Mythic raids. A guy in 415 gear he got from world quests=/=a 445 Mythic raider.
For Classic, I dump my lock in an inn when I wont have the time to invest into running around for 3 hours to finish up a couple of quests so I will hop onto my warrior, druid, or mage alt and knock out some quests while on my lunch break, and get them a couple of levels or a level.
As for retail? Because I can level so damn fast. (And back when I leveled a lock, warrior, shaman, dk, pali, and mage to max level, I had ALOT of time on my hands.
Not a contradiction at all. If people were actually just enjoying Alts, Essences would be no big deal. They’ve been coddled by game design to the point where they want multiple mains for doing the content on one toon. I also never said they were hard to get, reading is hard.
So yes, gear raining from the sky makes gearing Alts too ez mode, but you still see many members of this entitled player base crying for multiple mains without playing those Alts through the content. Alts don’t need to be maximized to that level.
Eh, just variety.
And for me, I have a goal of getting all Allied Races leveled up to getting their heritage armor before the next xpac, and up to 120 if possible.
Because trying new things is fun, and because we like them.
There is of course the biggest reason for alts: the faction divide.
I don’t have any “alts”. I have quite a few characters that I like to play though. I reject the idea of a “main”.
There are what, 12 classes, 13 races, something like that? Plus allied races? And you are really going to play just one?
People are weird.
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I like playing multiple characters. But I didn’t do it seriously until Legion. I leveled one of each class in Legion because I wanted to see all the class hall storylines.
So far I’ve done two in BfA, because there’s just the Alliance and Horde story. Also because doing 12 in Legion nearly killed me.
I’m gearing up to do 4 in Shadowlands, because there are… four covenants!
Because we are only allowed two main professions on each toon.
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Because Variety is the spice of life?
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