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Posted by Bastosa on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 - 54 Comments

Tags: alts, downtime, mains, re-roll, wrath of the lich king

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By Morbus on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am

I was known as the Alt Master in my old guild, having leveled pretty much every class to max level (yes i know how sad taht makes me, but i was unemployed). But i always keep going back to my Mage “main”, i just really like insta-cast pyroblast

By Oz on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am

Yeah i had the same. i have 2 pally’s a healer and a tank both 70 butt i enjoy my rogue alt a lot these days.

Starting to think if i should go on with my rogue when wotlk comes out…. mmmmm nah

By skowl on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am

1st!

By skowl on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:15 am

omg :b

By Oz on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:20 am

no your not

By Kevin on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am

I am trying to still figure out what my alt will be. My mains a warrior so I want to find something thats a bit different then him. I am trying out a hunter and shaman right now.

By Reyson on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:35 am

Well,my class change was pretty big, I went from fire mage(prob the most squishy class/spec of all(w00t for -7k hp at 70) to a protection paladin.(12mobs solo?np) and I’ve loved playing on my paladin ever since, I even made it my main. To pass my time till expansion I’m prob going for a healer or melee class

By Ombrenoire on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:40 am

I have played with every class, starting with a Hunter and moving to a Warrior. Lvled that one to 60 pre-BC and had her listed as my main. Then I started playing my Hunter again and I have realized that I am best suited to that class. They lvl fast, solo beautifully, and (if played right) can be damned rich and powerful in their mid-30s.

Hunters all the way.

I currently have ever race of Hunters on a seperate server from the one I play on, playing every talent tree ^_^

I know, I’m hopeless.

By Smaaru on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Well I have played several classes and found out that healer is the best for me. I love healing others in instance or raids. Only shitty about it is that when something goes wrong its always my fault. Just have to live with that.

By Jenna on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:55 am

I play only healers (my main’s a priest), so with “recruit a multiboxer” I was able to level two more of different classes (shaman and druid) to 60 and a pally to 33. I might switch my shammy to my main in wrath cause she’s tons of fun and has a cool accent, hehe.

I have tried other classes, got a mage to 13 but I really only enjoy healing.

By Peter on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:55 am

When I pick an alt, it’s almost always based on my personal playstyle first (love the PvP, love melee).

My main is a PvP/PvE Ret Pally because I used to raid Holy and it bored me to tears. Then I leveled a DW Enh Shaman because I love the class and alliance finally got them (plus my guild needed more healers so I respecced Resto at 70). Finally, I leveled a rogue because they are a totally fun class (everyone should have a rogue alt).

Sure, I’ve had tank alts and caster alts but I just don’t find them as enjoyable to play so I end up bailing on them in their mid-50s.

By Shaun on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am

My main is a Fury Warrior, so my alt will probably be a Rogue, not sure what spec. But I won’t even begin working on the alt till either 70 (or 80 if that be the case) or I get bored at a higher level and want to build up some rest.

By Scott on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am

My main is a 70 mage and the like you bastosta i went through a couple of classes and realised i enjoyed the wrolock a lot, locks and mages are pretty similar i guess, also love my shadow priest and a play a rogue sometimes. But my mage will always be my number one

By Enteri on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:21 am

I leveled a rogue to 70 first. When I got to the point where I couldn’t get any more gear I started on my warlock. I enjoy switching between caster and melee classes.

I am 69 and a half with my paladin and I have to say that leveling him was a lot less fun than the other two classes. I enjoy healing instances since its a nice change of pace from doing dps.

There’s nothing like running into a mob of creatures and killing them all slowly, but I still prefer killing stuff in 2 to 3 hits. Also Prot paladins are horrible at killing casters.

By tyki mikk on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:30 am

my main for tbc was a hunter, then I lvled a fury warrior to 70 and now I am switch mains to my orc elemental shaman for lich king.

By Ack on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am

I made a warrior cuz thats the only class that killz me in pvp (im a warlock)

By Roger on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am

Totally off-topic…

Can you help me understand how a prot pally should be using seals and judgements when tanking? I just respecced from holy and honestly didn’t even worry about using seals due to playstyle.

I try to judge different mobs in a pull with different seals in a misguided attempt to recooup mana and some hp while trying to generate threat as well - I end up just using Crusader over and over - I think something is wrong in my approach… all I end up doing typically is burn a lot of mana.

I think I saw that the seal/judgement system is going to change a lot in Wrath as well…

Any thoughts and/or words of advice?
Thanks

By Weebie on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:53 am

My first 70 was a paladin, i healed with him through SSC when i found out that i didn’t like healing.. just wanted to raid. I leveled a druid to 66, she is 70 now, tbut gave up and leveled a mage. I love my mage, more than any other of my character(bonus is that she is a gnome :D). The thing i realized is that i can do pretty much anything my heart decires, tank, heal or dps. I am currently leveling a shadow priest, still a caster but dots and burst is different. The main thing about alts is that they are different, even if they do the same thing, they can be different in many ways. Sorry for the long post -_-.

My mage pulls out 1.2k dps on bosses in heroics with crappy gear.. thats another reason why i love her

By Steven on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

My main is mage (best class i think and he is lvl 61) but the one thing i like about my class is that he crits for about 1.3k plus i have a lot of instant casts i do have my rogue alt but he bores me a lot what do u think i should have for an alt besides a tank or rogue and hunters r to hard for me
i talk to much x{

By Jondare on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

i started as Prot pally wich i really loved lvling to lvl 70 and aftertwards PvE’ing with, but i needed someone to make something out of the cloth i got, so i made a mage, wich i however havent lvled more than needed for tailoring to get high enough, and as i now got a lot of greens, i created a Hunter to DE everything, but the same hapened to her as to my mage.
“Deep Breath”
suppose i just cant live without being able to kill 4+ mobs at a time

to Roger:
the best tactic, if you have enough threath lead that is, is to judge wisdom on the maintarget, keeping Righteousnes up all the time, judging when it gets of CD, and continuing like this all the time.
and ofc your main prioryty is to have HS and concecration up all the time

Sorry for the long post

By Bastosa on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

@Roger

I was considering writing a blog post about this, but I decided to scrap it considering how drastically things will be changing. I’ll probably do something similar when I get the new mechanics figured out.

Anyways for the next 5 days, here is the quick and dirty version.

Seal of Crusader, Pull (Avenger’s Shield), Judge Crusader, Seal of Righteousness, Judge Righteousness, then just reseal and Judge Righteousness every time the cool down comes up. Make sure you keep the seal up at all times.

Then just make sure you are doing your other tanking stuff, spamming Holy Shield and Consecrating when you have enough mana to burn.

If its a squishy mob that goes down fast skip Crusader and open with Righteousness, if your are in for a long fight and worried about going OOM open with Wisdom.

By PZ on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Whats with the idiots and the 1st posts? Give me a break…

By Krafla on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

My first lvl 70 was a horde shadow priest, went into The Eye with her. When I made a load of new friends who all had Ally mains I rolled a Feral Druid, now my Druid is lvl 70 too and I’m playing her more than I play my Spriest. The problem is I miss my Shadow Priest too much so am currently levelling an Ally one so I can play her with my friends. hehehe

By Overshot on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

My main is a hunter, and I’ve always been alured to the DPS class. So when I found out about the refer a friend thing going into action, me and some buddies refered each other and got working on some alts.

I had a hunter and a warlock already, so rather than make another DPS, I decided to make a tank and healer. My friend already had a healer, so he made a tank and a DPS. My third friend already had a tank, so he’s going to make a healer and a DPS.

This way we can always raid with each other on whatever characters we need. Not only is this efficient, but it’s a great way to explore the game and to understand the aspects of the other classes.

By Roger on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Awesome - would love to see a post after the patch goes live - really haven’t found as good an explanation about seal rotation and multiple mobs but this was excellent advice from both Bastosa and Jondare!

THANKS!

By ehhhhhhh on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

i hav 5 alts 18 fury worior 35 combat rogue 37 lock 55 druid tank 58 frost mage and one main 70 hunter BM the only i sticked to i loved the fact that i had a pet to do my bidding people say rogues are fun i am not disagreeing but i just didnt like playing as a rogue i mad a worrior on;y because i thought that you can only make a dath knight with a worrior but once i foudn ou t tha wasn true i dropd him i lveld my lock over time i usauly just went when i was bored druids were the clas for me i wnt from 28 to 55 healing combined with mell awsome but till than i had a70 hunter allrayd and i gave in to the temptation to go on my hunter and get my gear and after running acouple instance with mage and fighting mages i saw the power of mages i started playing my mage it wasnt bad but i missed my hunter and at 38 i went to my hunter and been a hunter ever since i hav a bunch charaters but i didnt bond with anyone like i did with my hunter and after the blogs i read may give my mage another shot

By nebrakaneizzar on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

well. i’m a 70 warrior, goin to spec prot when geear is good, and i have a 18 already its a shaman, also 24 lock and 21 priest, but i’m gonna stick with the shaman as alt because its a class good for everything and very fun to play

By Frazz on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

I have three mains. Does that make sense? All 70’s: a prot warrior, a balance druid, and a resto shammie. All geared to play in Kara, with a few pieces of Kara and badge gear each. I play different alts to please my different moods, or sometimes to fill gaps in our heroics. I honestly don’t have a favorite, and all three are called upon on a regular basis to help out. I will say that healing and tanking require a lot more thinking than spamming wrath. But spamming wrath can be a good thing after a long day!

By Stuguy88 on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

My main is a prot warrior and my main alt is a holy priest. Go figure

By Dimak on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

I’ve been having a hard time finding out what my alt should be. My main is a hunter and I took your approch of finding something similar with a warlock but I found it even more annoying because I had a pet again and it was to similar for me. I am trying out a shaman right now and it seems to be wroking great.

By furycow on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

my main is a hunter and i tried playing a warroior and a preist and i hate them both i like my alt warlock cause it kinda of a lazy class you just DoT and sit there as you watch them slowly melt is so much fun XD

By furycow on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

i spelt warrior wrong i know

By Xsile on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

Kind of on the same boat with, Frazz. I also have a balance druid 70 (which seems to be getting an overhaul by looking at the talent tree.) Also have a 62 shadow priest which has been put on the back-burner to make way for my 32 gnome warrior.
Something tells me a gnome duel wielding 2h weapons is going to be overkill (which is why I am doing it). Anyway my point is that I want to have a variation of heals, dps, and tanks to chose from, and even respect them to mix up who does what.

By kamuki on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

You also spelled priest wrong…

By Egma on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Thats great news, I love my Pali, I love my hunter, so I should find a DK an ok class to play since it mixes the melee of my pali with the petness of my hunter, as of right now I don’t plan on making a Dk a main, I’d rather stick to my hunter or possible Paladin depending on how many of the Pali changes stick, but that doesn’t mean that I am not going to screw around with one for a bit atleast since I have atleast tried every other class before choosing the 2 I like the best (warlocks are close to hunters in my prefernce, but having done hunter first warlock just isn’t right, I like the pet I like the range, it just doesn’t feel right though), and yes I realized I said I like ranged and melee, I like the ease of ranged, but I like the thrill of melee in the sense of “oh s*** no I am down to 10% health common die faster die faster…. yes you died when I was down to 3% health, luckly with no DoTs on me”.

By Jorres on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

I have leveled an alt of all classes to at least 14. I have a 70 BM hunter and 70 combat sword rogue. I find them as alts to my 47 ret pally or my 63 ret pally because i always tend to find the pallys really fun to level with.

By Diego Camargo on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 1:05 am

Oh man, i have my Draenei Warrior 70, ready for be my guild tank, and I always do that when my guildmates needed, but, i think it was a good thing to learn how to play with another char, so, i made i Draenei Shaman, and man, what GREAT char, with a mace and a axe, my totens and my spells i really beat’em all, is so fun to kill a enemy with 5 lvls higher (once i kill even a 10 lvls higher player), it’s like my friends say ‘Shaman is Jesus, walking over the waters, ressurrecting from the deads and healing people’ hahaha

Now i’m starting a Draenei Priest (i know i know, i just love Draenei) and it’s whole differente world, but in a good way.

Good fun is the essencial

By admiraljustin on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 4:00 am

My main is a protection paladin, and after trying out most of the other classes, I’ve found my alt.

Druid. I can do fantastic dps but with a gear swap, I can turn around and tank, something which I love just as much as dps.

I need to be in melee, I can’t really stand ranged dps or healing. I like to hit things or get hit.

By Nekowarrior on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 5:20 am

i made my alt a prot warrior as i always wanted to tank as there are never enough around IMO and what else better than a warrior? i also hear so many complaints about how hard it is to lvl and grind as prot, so i wanted a challenge, it aint all that difficult, they need to stop QQing

By cocopuffs on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 7:20 am

i know what you mean about drenei i had a shaman once i love the dps unforginately it was on my cousin acount so i dont have excess to him i look forward to making another one on my acount but theirs just so much to do before WOTLK i curently play a 55 feral spec druid i tryd balance on difrant acasion whould be lying if i said i liked it the dps is good but it burns mana like crazy i just missed being able to take 3 mobs at a time i will get especialy good after WOTLK

By Rangrdangr on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am

I rerolled ally on my roomates server where he has a NE Spriest and it was solely because of Dorkins and Jimmy.

I watched him play the hunter class and put out so much dam DPS that it made hunter class look incredibly fun and i really wanted to try it out. Right now my Draenei Hunter is closing in on lvl 50 and I tamed King Bangalash and as a tribute to the mighty Dorkins I named him Jimmy II because Jimmy the first is so epicly delicious I tamed his little brother…or perhaps his cousin =]

I love playing my hunter as opposed to my Holy Pally its so much fun! So, thank you Dorkins for letting me see wat a hunter can really do and I look forward to watching you pwn some newbs in future episodes! =P

By mrbeig on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am

I have hunter as main and shadow priest as alt. i am still working on alt to get him to lvl.. I like playing priest as it has more fun and i enjoy every moment of it.. i hav druid too.. i like to do bgs with him… tho he is lvl 28.. I think the best alt one could ever make is Gnome Rogue.. (if u hav some love to gnomes)

By Vên on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

Hailing from TRG here. I used to play a hunter, played him for ~6 months straight, never really levelled an alt past 30 cuz I didn’t like him. recently I decided to switch servers and also go from Horde to Alliance. at the current time I am levelling a warrior to be a tank. I guess I just can’t stand melee dps, in my opinion, dps is better ranged. I tried dpsing on my warrior for a few instances, but even as fury spec, I wasn’t doing much damage. Seriously, I do the same dps as prot as I do as fury/arms. I guess I wanted to be a tank after playing a hunter because I feel like I’m useless as dps, and I don’t like seeing other people get hit because the tank can’t keep aggro. Also, I chose warrior instead of paladin to tank because frankly, I want a challenge. Paladins have their magic button (consecrate) for aggro, warriors actually have to do something. Besides…. I think paladins are better suited (for me) as healers. They aren’t squishy healers, which is awesome, and makes a tanks job that much easier. Not that I have anything against pallies, they are awesome tanks, and awesome at everything really… I guess I never really went for AoE stuff, and I absolutely HATE pallies who spam consecrate with no regard to hunter traps or sap >_< (I don’t use thunderclap too much, only when there are more than 2 mobs to tank, which isn’t often when hunters, mages, and rogues are around.)

Vên, Executus, TRG.

By Athelias on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

i found that a warlock is very fun to play as an alt to my hunter main. mainly because they both have pets. but the play style is very much the same. send pet in let him get aggro then go all out dps and maybe pop a pet heal.

By kiley on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

my mains a fury warrior and as excited as i am to play him in the expansion with titan’s grip and heroic leap and all the other new abilities, i’m more excited for my “main alt” which is a resto shaman. Kinda odd that when looking to play an alt after leveling up a rogue (which was just too similar to the fury warrior), a shadow priest, protection pally and elemental shaman, once i switched to resto i knew i found a fresh taste and i liked it It was the contrast i needed, ranged vs melee, Healing vs dps and still not squishy like a clothy. Plus resto shamans are great for dungeons and raiding which is what i love the most about the game. Blizz has always impressed me on their ability to cater to every player and every players “alternate” desires in the game XD

By nawbrogue on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 9:09 am

1st I made a pala. He seemed fun and everything, then when I got him to lvl 40 it started to make me bored so I made a rogue and leved both of them, witch was pretty good thing, cause my rogue leveled so much faster cause I knew some of the quest’s. and in the end (at lvl 70) my pala came a suckadin, rofl, then I tought that “oh no! that aint going to happen to my rogue” and kept almost every blue drop I cud get. after my rogue came to lvl 70 I made wlock, witch was annoying to lvl cause when I started to lvl it I didint know a crap about caster classes, expecially nothing about wlocks, and ofc my lvling specc was a rip-off (specced like to heavy destro in the start) and it allmost made me delete my wlock, then at lvl 30 someone said me that I shud respecc. I did so and got 7 lvls in a day (full rested ftw). after getting my wlock to lvl 70 I made a warrior, who was easy to lvl cause I knew like every freaking alliance Q up to lvl 70 and respecced it to fury, thou he turned out to be a bad char in the end too still not getting any gear to him and after getting over 100k of total PvP kills I’m bored of it.

By JamieGhomie on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 10:11 am

My main is a 70 rogue. With my first alt I went paladin. So we are kinda opposite. Been working hard to level him up. With the AOE grinding, it makes leveling and questing a lot faster then on my rogue. He is currently level 54. Tanking is a breeze. The reason I chose protection is because since I was a low level rogue I wanted to pull big mobs. Which didn’t really work as a rogue. Changing from ambushing and backstabing to having to fight the things face on without creeping up behind them is a nice change. Now I gotta grind my way to 70 before Lich King. Then the hard choice of “who should I level to 80 first?” Because I enjoy tanking a lot more then melee dps. But my rogue is in full epics which would make it easier to level to 80 right? Well I just don;t know. Anyways good luck to everyone in the coming expansion.

JamieGhomies 70 human rogue - The Scryers

By tayharri on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am

I leveled a pally, priest, and lock to 70.
Personally the ability to tank, heal or dps is very refreshing.
Sadly I jumped on the RET bandwagon and am enjoying the new playstyle and utility of the new spec, not to mention to maddening DPS.

I’ll go back to tanking, i think. Maybe not.!

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I started a mage after both the others, and it was the first to 70, the other two are storage toons.

For my alt, Im waiting for the DK.

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