OT: AltsFollow

We've reached that point in the expansion where some folks have done pretty much everything they want to do with their main and are turning elsewhere for entertainment. (Insert joke about marriage here.) Sometimes my guildies (total: 2) or I will start a new alt and if we really enjoy a particular class/spec/race, inspire the others to try something new as well. So, what alts is everyone starting/playing? What's fun/not fun about playing them versus your priest?

Personally I'm at that point where there are too many jobs and not enough just fun things I want to do with my priest. Doing the battleground daily is its own kind of hell right now, but since it seems they're fixing that (see main board), I feel less obligated to do chores and feel okay about letting her sit tight except when I just feel like playing her. It's really sad when you don't want to do something with your main, but then feel guilty for not playing them. Note to self: get in touch with reality ASAP.

So I've got a few alts I've been dabbling with, in some cases barely out of the starting area:

1. Druid (level 42, just like that band from the 80's). Leveled a druid to 70 once before during BC, so it isn't entirely new, but there have been a lot of changes since then. Fun changes from playing priest: stealth; big healing numbers on battleground meters; I enjoy being a feral druid even more than I enjoy being a shadow priest, so questing is more fun. Things I miss: my blood elf; shields; fear; the wide variety of healing tools - I still haven't found a healing style I like nearly as much as the priest's. Any time I'm playing any other class I miss levitate.

2. Warlock (level 18). This is the only class I've never leveled past ten before, because I don't like being evil. But I was bored and I didn't like having that one class untried, so I came up with a warlock who isn't evil (shut up, it's fiction, I can do what I want) and gave it a shot. I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Fun changes from being a priest: I just like the mechanics so far. I like how my health, my mana, and my pet's health are all kind of the same pool that I can manipulate numbers back and forth in. Also not a change, but I love all the dot's, it feels like home. :) Things I miss: I'm always annoyed leveling up a class who can't heal themselves; healing overall; what do you mean fear has a cast time?

3. Hunter (level 11, I think). Ah, the hunter. I am famous for leveling hunters into their 30's, then getting bored and deleting them. I think I just like the idea of having a dog. I know hunters at the level cap are a lot of fun, but leveling them just never really engages me. This one will probably sit in my login screen for another year and then get deleted. But I love my dog.

I also have my pally, who I will probably gear up once the new battleground tool goes live, but right now I'm not doing anything with her except smelting titansteel once a day. I love her survivability versus the priest but paladin healing mechanics just don't click with me.


Sorry for the wordiness, I'm engaged in housewifery today and must post in order to put off vacuuming. I'm sure you understand.


Edited, Feb 19th 2010 9:32am by teacake

This is a topic I can get my arms around :P

I'm an Altoholic user, since I planned my own little guild worth of professions. I planned on having enough alts to have all of the professions maxed for easy money making. Now that I'm pretty much there, by bank guild is not doing poorly. I keep waiting for someone to complain about the 1000g bonuses I keep handing out while the WoW economy tanks :P

That said, I play my 80 feral druid regularly...getting her up to a 5300 gearscore as a tank. I built a decent healing set on her, as I used to pvp heal on her in BC and loved it (nothing better than kiting a rogue and a warrior halfway across the map to my dps to nuke them down, laughing the whole time). However, when I was gearing her to tank in random heroics, I was hating life because of the way dps just don't watch their threat...and don't care. Learning to tank has easily been the most frustrating thing I have done in this game. Even more frustrating thatn pvping w/ a bunch of PvE gear wearing noobs who stand around at the Blacksmith. :P

I also have an 80 warlock, which was my original main. I don't play her much anymore, partially because of boredom, and partially because melee dps ALWAYS destroy me on the meters. However, since you're also leveling a warlock...they are super easy to level. Go Afflction and just faceroll. Also, they can "kind of" heal themselves. Pull a mob and drain life, life tap and drain some more. Do a health funnel to get your pet up, and drain life until the mob dies. Boom! You and your pet are at full health.

On to my "profession" alts. I have an 80 mage, who has been relegated to JC/Engineering (uses the Dal AH) duty. I find mage dps very boring.

I have a 77 shammy who's job it is to mine, make glyphs for my mains, make vellums for my warlock's enchanting, and stand around at the IF AH to do most of my buying and selling. I like dpsing on the shammy, and someday may finish leveling him so I can try some enhance pvp (those wolves are just stupid fun). I might spec resto just to finish leveling in instances.

And then there's my "youngins". I have a 45 hunter that I'm bored with. A 43 rogue that I'm leveling just for pvp (rogues are stupid easy and nasty to boot). And a 29 pally that I just can't get excited about.

I think that's it.

Have a great day Tea :)

Edited, Feb 19th 2010 10:03am by margeux

You too!

I'm on the board with the idea of profession alts. I've got mining, herbalism, alchemy, JC, enchanting, and tailoring covered right now. I dropped inscription a while back and wouldn't mind a new scribe. Blacksmithing might be nice for weapons. Not real concerned about engineering (which is fun for the character it's on but not as useful for your other characters) or leatherworking.

Funny how so far everyone has multiple other healing classes. I guess with healing you're either all in or you don't bother.

From reading the replies... I play WoW too much..

My main, priest. He is in his off-spec shadow gear.

My rogue

My shaman Also has a full resto set.

My warrior, in his off-spec gear, Prot main spec is much better geared.

And my most recent 80 my hunter. Still trying to get the ring out of H:PoS... kind of tired of that instance.

I also have a level 33 mage that I level on the weekends. 5 80's 3 of which have full off-spec gear. I started getting my rogue a PvP set, to try and get back into it, but I just can't seem to bring myself to do it. I already know that once I level the mage, if the expansion isn't out, I will be leveling a paladin next.

I have my hunter for my other char I just like seeing big numbers come up on the screen for him while not pulling hate same as my priest and big heals lol

Post your alts threads make me feel like i'm standing in front of an alcoholics anonymous group.

80 Paladin: Had a lot of fun defying conventions as a ret in burning crusade, and tanking makes me feel like a hero. Holy is very very dull. Our guild raids are on haitus so i play him 10 minutes a day to get frost emblems.

80 Warrior: Intended to be a pvp character, but the honor grind is just too horrendous so i'm putting that off til the big battleground changes in the next patch.

80 Priest: I actually did grind out the gear for this guy and did fairly well in season 7 playing rmp. Disc is pretty much the most fun healing spec in the game.

80 Rogue: After the initial painful 15 levels or so this character was a BLAST to play, and still is. Rogue pvp is just incredibly intricate and deep.

80 Warlock: Enchanting alt these days. Destro is a lot of fun just for the big chaos bolt numbers, though you feel very fragile with no pvp gear.

80 DK: I actually deleted him shortly after hitting 80, i think it was just too similar to ret paladin.

I think i actually like rolling new alts and playing with talent trees and reading elitist jerks more than i like playing the characters themselves. I basically level to 80, gear up and try out all the different tree, then jump immediately to an alt and start playing around with their mechanics. Probably gonna roll a hunter next....

edit: Rolled him up on Kazzak, Runswithfire Tauren hunter :D It's a high population realm, what's the ally/horde ratio like?

Edited, Feb 20th 2010 6:33pm by ArtemisEnteri

I already have a hawt female orc on burning steppes. Which i might add is something like 6 horde: 1 alliance so i'm looking foward to some pee vee pee while leveling.

This is a very relaxing way to level.

Wait, it's more than just blood fury vs warstomp isn't it? There's bonus pet damage..... Resolve....wavering....

Edited, Feb 20th 2010 6:57pm by ArtemisEnteri

If you want I can log in real quick and throw you a guild invite now, but I won't play since downloads are on on the other PC and I can't be bothered to get up.

Wait, you think for 20 minutes and come up with ORCGASM?!

/RPfacepalm

Do it like me: Faceroll your keyboard. How'd you think I came up with "Kalivha"?

(Æthien did the same to get his name. 'Tis true.)

Seeing how my current main (the priest) is only level 63 at the moment, I can only talk about characters I don't play anymore, really. I had a level 70 resto shaman to raid with when Kara was still progression content, then switched to my shadow priest after a short while, then stopped playing. All this was on someone else's account so I don't have those characters anymore and at least Miko (my very first priest!) got deleted. Miko was also holy all the way to level 69, at which point I respecced Shadow and loved it far too much.
About half a year later, I started playing again, leveled another priest and shaman (for the latter not entirely on my own) to 70 (this time as Elemental and Shadow). I stuck with Elemental on the shaman, went PvP-Disc on the priest and then quit again.
Then I briefly tried to level 6 characters evenly a few months ago, quit again because soloing everything was no fun, and then joined Aeth, and now have my 63 priest, 61 DK (haha) and far too many alts in the 10-25 range.

I'm finding low level characters much less fun lately, really. Healing on my druid with zero mp5, no shield and no AoE heals feels really uncomfortable. She also has no Penance but funnily enough that's the one thing I can get used to, I think.
Basically my priest had Spirit Tap and virtually never went out of mana by level 20, and all my current lowbie casters have serious mana issues in instances, which doesn't go well with the whole rushing mentality. For damage dealing casters, I can't even stack spirit because it'd affect their DPS.

I might try and learn tanking on my druid if this healing thing doesn't get better soon. I think I'm sort of decent on my DK even when half the time, I have no clue what's going on. But my priest is my main and I'm really focusing on her.

I might transfer my old shaman to Kazzak, actually, now that I have money. I just realised that I could do that a minute ago.

Arex - 80 Druid, my "main" i guess you would say. First toon I ever rolled because of a previous MUD I played druids were OP and I always thought that should carry over. Did my first kara raid on this toon and went all the way from t4-t10 in raid with him.

Einziger - 80 Human Dk, my second character to hit 80. I made this toon for mostly farming and pvp. Well I don't farm on him or pvp on him I do more raids than anything else. He pretty much is gathering dust until I get the gusto to keep going on him.

Bowno - 73 Dwarf Hunter, made this hunter out of boredom and it was a blast until I got to 73 and lost interest, still gathering dust and rest until I level him to 80.

Hodarbalex - 71 Human Rogue, this was the rogue of the original owner of my account. I leveled him from 31 to 71 then he permanently became my banking toon.

Ciant - 60 Human Paladin, my twink pvp freak. I steam roll bgs with this beast.

Kairo - 29 Nelf Priest, another character I've twinked for the bracket. I've had fun with her as well.

Edit:

I love whisky as well, don't worry it's never a problem.

Edited, Feb 22nd 2010 12:04pm by ArexLovesPie