Breakfast Topic: Where My Altaholics At?
by Amanda Miller 
Nov 1st 2007 at 8:00AM
In these dark days before the dawn of patch 2.3, one must wonder; where are all the alts? Before the advent of speedier levelling, of an expanded Dustwallow Marsh, of improved dungeon loot and more experience for all; is anyone bravely soldiering on?
On the bright side, I genuinely feel that this experience will separate the true altaholics from the wannabes. If you simply cannot pry yourself away, even if you are passing your Dustwallow days as we speak, then you my friend, have a problem.
I once had a couple join my guild who claimed that they enjoyed levelling. They would level their characters to 60 or 70, maybe, and then drop them and begin again. Why? They felt Outland, and end-game, and anything other than levelling, was really fairly boring. Is anyone else out there actually regretting the upcoming hastened levelling experience?
For anyone levelling their first character, this situation must present quite the conundrum. To continue questing and grinding, or to hop on a plane to Fiji and return to rested XP and speedy goodness? Perhaps this is not impacting your life quite so dramatically; maybe, you will simply show your face at the dinner table once or twice in the upcoming weeks.
Let us know how living pre-patch 2.3 has been impacting your gameplay.
Filed under: Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Callandra Nov 1st 2007 8:07AM
I certainly get the itch to try new classes frequently. I've leveled everything but a Mage/Shaman/Warlock past 20.
The problem lies in the rather slow progression, and lack of rewards. I have 1-70, 1-63, 1-66 all in Outland. I love it. The quests are great, the rewards are great (and UPGRADES are plentiful). However, in the old world the upgrades are spaced far apart, and there seems to be very little direction in many of the different areas.
aratan Nov 1st 2007 8:09AM
I'm still leveling my four alts (one main, three secondary) because it provides variety in my gameplay. When the patch comes out, there are still plenty of race/class combos to try out.
Besides, why would anyone 'rest' their alt in expectation of a patch for which we have no release date?
Buuty Nov 1st 2007 8:08AM
My level 43 mage (new main) is officially ON-HOLD until 2.3, In the meantime, I am supplying her with gold from my 63 hunter alt.
Caribbean Nov 1st 2007 8:09AM
I'm at the threshold at level 29th. I think I just pass up the Duskwallow stuff and level to 40 in the next days. That place never appealed to me anyways. Who wants to spend all day in a swamp?
Rizel Nov 1st 2007 8:17AM
I currently have a lvl 70 shaman, rogue and some alts at 20-30.
I really like leveling by doing instances, I like to do group-related things and at lower-levels your reputation doesn't really matter unless you're a ninja.
When you reach 60+, people are less likely to do instances with random people, which makes it harder to get into a party.
Also lots of people will leave after the first wipe.
The lower-level dungeons are far more appealing to me compared to the 60+ dungeons.
My shaman still runs around in green/blue items while some "friends" I made during my leveling are running around in epix.
I am currently working on my warrior which is lvl 22 at the moment, I want to have a character that does something else instead of dps.
Lucas Nov 1st 2007 8:46AM
I've got so meny alts, that are just hanging out, waiting to get leveled.
3 lvl 70'ties all waiting for the expansion.
...and 9 low levels all in the Level of 11-30, all of them are just halting, and I cant seem to find the curage to level them...
But what' really freaks me out, with an alt is, Reputation grind, and Keying, a Mount, More Mounts, etc... argh... I have it tough enough with th 2 Mains I have, and my PvP alt.
I hope some of the old areas get some really sweet love.
//Tallens'out
Ghen Nov 1st 2007 8:18AM
after the duskwallow news came out, my paladin went from 30-42 and my hunter went from 1-36.. I'm pretty sure the hunter will get past duskwallow levels by the time the patch comes out.
Ghen Nov 1st 2007 8:18AM
don't mind my speeling
Jon@thebronzekettle.com Nov 5th 2007 2:30PM
I've currently got a plethora of alts that are all on hold until 2.3. I don't think I've ever had to level a character without rested xp. =)
LordTurack Nov 1st 2007 8:36AM
I am leveling a toon for my daughter. She is currently level 57. I expect to finish this one over this weekend. She requested level 60 so she can quest in outlands.
I have 3 alts of my own, all around level 19, 20 & 23. I will wait for the patch to level them, and continue financing them with my level 70 and making them 20 slot bags (LOL).
Vestras Nov 1st 2007 8:36AM
Well, I personally am at a crossroads (Not the raid, the metapysical one). first debat is to ream my alts for petty cash to equip my main with Epic Flight Form, or to wait another 2 weeks to get the gold from dailies. After that, I have m prime alt sitting a 64, and I think before I start on any of my lowbies I need to finish him off to at least 70 if not raid viable.
After that, then comes a choice. I have 3 lowbies all around level 20. A hunter just for whimsey, A discipline priest from when my olf guild needed healers, and an elemental shaman to try something a lil diffrent. Right now I don;t know who is going to get attention first...The hunter will most likely stay by the wayside as I am just not feeling it, but put too much work in initially to just delete it. The priest is less nessesary now, and then Discipline is getting made over soon, and I just don;t feel like doing a shadow priest. the Shaman. Well, I rolled it to try something new (Ie Melee combat), but I found the elemental tree too tempting not to try. Sooooo...What now?
O yea...and then there is my horde alt...
superfrank Nov 1st 2007 8:36AM
I can't bring myself to level another character to 70, I hate the low level quests with a passion.
Saandstorm Nov 1st 2007 8:44AM
I am a self confessed altholic. I have a alt of character class (plus one Horde). I play an alt until it's no longer rested and switch to someone who is. To be honest I get sick of my characters if play them too long. Which is why I could never raid - playing the same character in the same couple of instances all the time would drive me crazy.
That being said, I'm only focusing on the four alts that are in the 61-65 range until 2.3 comes out. As much as I miss playing my lowbie alts, its just not worth it for me to run around with them until the XP revisions come out.
dacamper Nov 1st 2007 8:50AM
I have a level 22 warrior alt and he's staying there until 2.3 is released. This is because although I enjoy levelling, my real motivation is to get him to 70, so it makes sense to me to go make gold and grind for the engineering changes on my main.
superfrank Nov 1st 2007 8:50AM
@8 I think I might have done some instances with your daughter...
George Nov 1st 2007 8:52AM
I have many an alt, and my only concern about keeping up with them is that once I get to around 50, I'll want to run Scholo and Strat like the good old days. Will I even be able to find people who are willing to do this, or am I just going to be yelled at to get to Outland? What if I really want my Tier 2 @ 60? How many levels could be gained from running Molten Core?
So many questions that no-one has tried answering.
JonRowley Nov 1st 2007 9:06AM
@15 There have been some comments but they are not good news.
From what I can tell is the only changes they are going to make to the old high end dungeon is to compress the level range so that if you are high enough level to enter the instance you are high enough to finish it.
They have also promised some mid level gear adjustments, but unless they fix the rewards in places like Scholo and Strat to be better then what you get in the early questing in Outland I think it will still be hard to get groups.
Moose Nov 1st 2007 9:22AM
Hello my name is Jon and i am an altaholic.
Yes, my main is at 67, but i have a 45, 43, 35, 30, 25, 24, and a few in their 15. It's my boyfriend, he has two servers full with toons (one Horde, one Alliance) he pulled me into the altism. I am a bit afraid of the power leveling, but as they say, only time will tell.
warthog2K Nov 1st 2007 9:31AM
I've paused the levelling of my Hunter (40), and Warlock (26) until the patch comes out.
I'm also levelling a Mage (20) which is still in the Draenei starting area. If I'm going to do anything I'll be finishing off the quests there as they're much more fun than the early Redridge quests where the progression / scaling seems to spike oddly and there's so much to-ing and fro-ing that drives me nuts.
I'm also waiting for a friend to pick up WoW (should be in the next few weeks) at which point I'm going to level a Paladin alongside him - always fancied trying a healer and the Paladin's ability to hold aggro will help when playing alongside my friend's newb squishy 'Lock. Looking forward to that one.
The first hour of any session though is Daily Quests to grind out enough cash for Epic Flight Form on my Druid main.
Metaphyzxx Nov 1st 2007 9:28AM
it's funny, now that you mentioned it. I hit my first 70 on saturday. Later that same day, I rolled a new character on that server, and another character of the same class as my new 70 on another server.