Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - 17 Comments
Tags: alts, balancing act, balancing alts, columns, healing, heroics, instancing, raiding, the balancing act, tunnel vision
Do Some Internet Sleuthing.
Forget about other video games, I find it difficult enough to split my play time across multiple characters. Despite my best efforts, that is exactly what I have been doing lately. Over the past month I have put serious time in to not two, but three alternates avatars and my trusty bank alt. Solidsamm hasn’t missed a beat, as he continues to raise his average ilvl at an alarming rate (for me). I’ve only been able to manage the juggling act thanks to careful planning, tunnel vision, and of course, an understanding girlfriend.
Solidsamm is doing his best to gear up in an attempt to remain a reliable raider, Solidsagart is trying to get to that point, and the other Solidsagart (original, I know) is busy running through the old content. My fourth character isn’t really a character per se, but a pre-made on the PTR (again, Solidsagart). The two alternate Solidsagarts are tied to other players, so I only play them when the rest of the group is available, but the priest and rogue are entirely different. Honest to god, this is the first time I have ever had two max level characters at once, and that’s the issue.
At this point in time, I wouldn’t consider either of them my main. I play them nearly 50/50 with the rogue eeking out the percent error thanks to raiding time. As soon as Solidsagart is fully raid ready, that will change. The longer I go 50/50, the longer it will take for her to be ready. In light of that, the holy priest is about to become my main. I have nothing against my rogue, I still love the gnome to death, but my draenei offers an entirely new experience. One with new challenges, new things to learn and a new set of numbers to crunch. I’ve already had enough heroic dungeon experience to know that I enjoy healing, so the change sticking depends solely on my measure of fail. Hopefully I can keep it low, and people will be understanding.
Oh man, I almost kept a straight face. People on the Internet understanding. Hahahahaha.
I’ve been rocking the John Kerry approved flip-flop method. How do you move between your alts? Reroll out of boredom, or after one is geared to an acceptable level?
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By Elliria on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I only have 3 level 80’s at the moment, and how I decide who I use is based on my mood. If I just want to relax and not really pay to much attention, I play the hunter. If I’m in a tanking/healing mood, or if the guild needs me I’ll play the paladin. If we’re doing progression and gear upgrades can be had, the mage.
As for leveling alts, I’m leveling three, a s.priest a rogue and a shaman. The priest is my main focus for leveling atm because I want a different healing class. The other two I play when I’m either bored and want to pvp (rogue) or just flat out want to waste my time (Shaman)
By Laeltis on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Very good question. I asked about alts way back earlier this year about alts. I have 3 80s right now. With my mage at 32 and a rogue at 11 waiting to be decided if I want a rogue, DK, or a Paladin as a Melee DPS alt. I have alts only for professions and for filling raid slots cuz that’s been a main issue before. Balancing time? No such thing. Figure out who you want to work on, then do it. I usually pick which day I want to work on which toon, instead of just time.
By Urziel on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I’ve been sticking to my lock (lvl 80 4/5 tier 9) for raiding, but i run the JC daily on my DK (80, but in utterly abysmal gear) I’ve got a mage and a hunter at 71 and holding as well as a 67 pally a 55 shammy and a 48 warrior that i just pvp with for the daily.
By Dylan on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Trying to split my time between a lv 80 hunter (main) and a lv 80 paladin (2nd alt) and my mage lv 17 is pretty hard to choose what i want to be on, ive been spending most of my time on my paly, trying to get him geared cause my guild wants me to tank things and heal things so i need him geared or else my guild would be like “elad wth get geared man” and its my responsibility to get geared cause im the third tank in my guild and both of the other tanks arent on when im on and when i am on they dps while i tank so my hunters been pretty lonley latley while i spend my time on my 2nd alt
By Xianghua on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Up until my damnable hard drive died on me, I was playing my level 47-ish subtley rogue whenever I wasn’t needed for raids on my pally tank. I plan to make her my 4th character at 80.
leveling order:
1st: former holy pally (now ret/prot)
2nd: marks hunter
3rd: ele shammy
4th: rogue
5th: mage
I think you get the idea… I have it all planned out…. items on list are subject to change at any time… depends on my mood.
By Mr.Awesome on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
for me i have the max on different server i know but i only have 1 80 all i need but other than that i spend one weekend on one char depending on mood lvled my pally 27-41 in 2 days
By ryan kubo on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Pretty much all I do is on my main 80 I run my dailys after that I just raise my main alt my Druid
By Kazzoo on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
i have 3 alts and 1 main i usually do my main but when im done with her then i go 2 1 of my alts and play depending on the week (the alt im working on is Kazzoo on the tanaris server :D) next week im working on my druid Rahdek then after that week its Kathren the DK on executis then the cycle repeats.
By denalo on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Heh sadly i have had 20 toons*shrunk down to around 9* but 3 max lvl 3 between 50-70 2 bank alts and one *im bord* pvp
warrior :80
pally:60
hunter:75
DK:75
gnome rouge”bank alt*
=====horde
hunter:15
shammy:25
troll warrior:bank alt
preist:65
By LodofCheese on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
atm i have:
80 ret pally
80 surv hunter
80 assassination rogue
80 blood dk
74 boomy
71 arms warrior
ummm 24 lock
and the character i am currently lvling, a 15 shaman
By Frysbe on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I Play my 80 rogue when the guild needs me for progression content, and I play my 75 pally at all other times. When the pally gets to 80, the guild will help me gear her out, and then I’ll pull the ol’ switcheroo and the rogue will probably sit around unless I get bored, or we’re doing something that needs his particular skill set.
By Alayea on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 12:11 am
My shaman is my main and always will be, but I’ve recently leveled two alts (a priest and a druid) to 80 so my guild can have more healer toons to call on if one of mine are saved to w/e. Right now, my time mainly split between Alayea (shaman), Gekkani (priest), and Mayae (druid). I’ve got an 80 hunter and warrior, but I’m hardly ever on them…
The way it works for me right now is: JC daily on my 73 DK, cooking and fishing on Alayea, heroic daily with Gekkani and Mayae, and a lot of rep dailies for Mayae (when I’m not trying to get her mining skill maxed). Considering I raid a lot with my guild, I don’t get much time to do all that (my plan to get loremaster on Alayea is a casualty because of it).
By aadjed on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 4:27 am
I have a lvl80 druid and a lvl74 mage. Since i just joined a raiding guild, im mostly playing my druid. But if i have like an hour before raidtime en during the weekends i play my mage. I have a few low lvl chars, that i quickly grew bored of. So far the druid n mage are the only ones i got above lvl30
By Pegraath on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
My main is a Warlock, and I rolled my shaman to play alongside a RL friend who started to play (as a rogue) so I filled the enhancement dpser with a little bit of healing when it was required on the levelling trip (so there was less downtime spent eating essentially).
I wanted to see the opening DK levels, so I rolled and played one for a little while, deciding I wanted to have a scribe, so this DK went back through the starter zone collecting Herbs and levelling Ins. They have finally hit 80 (due in main part by only having access to my laptop for 3 weeks, so unable to effectively play in Northrend). The gear on my lock is mostly T8 with one T9 piece,and saving up for the other bits.
Shaman gear is T7 with one T9 (he doesn’t get to raid except the occasional VoA/Onyxia).
DK is Heroic blues mostly at the moment.
By Elsey on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I play a 80 Lock and a 80 prot warrior and also a lv 80 dk i also have a 72 shaman im lving now which ive had for 2 and a half years evreytime i try lving after 5 mins i die out of boredem so i just make alts to keep me amused heres a list:
.41 hunter
.39 paladin
.19 paladin
.21 mage
.41 preist
.25 druid
.13 druid
.29 rogue
.14 rouge
.12 paladin
.58 dk
As u probaly tell im not to good at managing my alts…..
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