Comments on: Do I have WoW ADD or Am I an Altoholic?

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:08:50 +0000

I always think those other spells are so neat, but when I hop over and try them, they’re really just the same as what I’ve already been casting.

I have tried almost everything at this point (a hunter might be the only class I’ve never leveled at all), but I can’t see myself hopping between them. And I’m too much of a min/maxer (at least at heart, if not in practice) to sit without a single character at max level in a level/class-based game.

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:06:51 +0000

I’m that way, too, or at least I thought I was. I am single-minded in my focus when I actually have focus. Right now, that focus is PvP on my Priest. I want to get him resil’d out so I can have fun in Battlegrounds and do a few Arenas now and again.

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:05:29 +0000

There is something flaky about us. I really enjoy the Paladin, too, though. As much as it sucks, I may stick with him for PvE stuff and the Priest for PvP.

And I did, too, actually, Drew. I found out when we were still in BWL that the Priest was the class I loved the most. Unfortunately, the grass seemed greener for this expansion, and I will have to rectify that mistake before Cataclysm.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:29 +0000

I’ve a huge altaholic too and honestly it frustrates me because it takes me so long to hit the level cap in games. My issue is just that I grow bored of the class I’m playing and become attracted to another one. It happens all the time to me and I’m jealous of those people who can stick it with one character and hit the level cap with ease.

Of course, the other side of the coin is that I’ve seen a lot of players who only ever play one class and have tried nothing else. I think doing that is a little sad as they’re missing so much fun by trying other classes.
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By: Larísa

Larísa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:48:18 +0000

My main is my main is my main. Basically. But with some nuances.
It depends on where in the cycle of a patch/gearreset I am. Once a new tier/dungeon is released, with for instance the new frost emblems, my first and only priority is to gear up my main, raiding character as soon as possible to make the very best out of her. After a while, when she’s got a decent set (in my case 4xt10 set and no longer any need to gather frost emblems) I can start to look at my alts once gain. The further you get into a patch, the more alt-attention. Currently I’m raiding with my main 3 times a week, but outside of raids she isn’t played much.

I like this variation in pace, although I suppose my poor alts disagree a a bit about my priorities.

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:57 +0000

I never could get into GW. I tried. I love how the game starts at max level, but the rest of the mechanics never really sat well with me. That, and I never had any buddies to play with, which totally ruins an MMO for me.

By: Drewbie

Drewbie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:49 +0000

I can’t believe I had a spelling error on my Twitter and now you reference it in your blog. The shame!

I have Drewbie as my raider and that’s all I’ll ever have as a raiding character. I started leveling a priest just to help with healing way back in the days of running Molten Core, but she never even got to lvl 30. In the Burning Crusade, raiding got stagnant so I leveled a lock all the way to 70. She was alot of fun, but I never intended to raid with her either.

Now with Wrath and the ease of leveling, I did take my priest all the way to 80 and have her gearing up. Again the intent was to help cover healing for the guild (since most people playing healers are flaky and can’t seem to decide what they wanna or when they can play . . . . ), but the need has waned and my time to play has as well.

I got lucky, in a way, in that I stumbled onto my favorite class right out of the gate and have never wanted to really play anything else. I’ve dabbled in nearly every class at least a bit, but I just don’t like any of them the way I like my first character.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:33:15 +0000

I forgot his Paladin. Apparently everyone has one nowadays.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:08 +0000

The only game where I had the will and the time to make multiple chars was Guild Wars. OK I have a Warlock and a Paladin in WoW, but I did this after I came to the conclusion that the endgame role of Paladin was not to my liking. That was before they became the Ghostcrawler-powered uber class they are today.

LOTRO: Champion (Armored Melee, 2nd class tank)
WoW: Paladin and Warlock
Guild Wars: http://picasaweb.google.com/Longascimages/GuildWarsChars#
my main was the Warrior-Monk till I finally “got it” how to be and play a Necromancer! Reminds me a bit of WoW.
STO: Tactical Officer for the Federation, the same for the Klingons. No intention to ever roll a Science/Engineering alt so far.

I sometimes cannot help but wonder, people hate levelling, would like to skip it. Ok – so why not play GW? The game there starts early on at max level. Compared to the tiny dungeonholes of WoW this is really advantageous.

4-5 max level alts for WoW players is not the norm, very active players like my buddy Steve though usually have them. (Rogue, Warrior, Warlock, Shaman)