Ask WoW Insider: Defining mains and alts

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8-18-2008 @ 5:09PM

Spring said...

We are clear in our guild that it doesn't really matter lootwise if the character playing in the raid is a "main" or "alt." It is the person playing the character that matters and that is the same. In general, there is usually a "main" character that someone has chosen to gear up and raid with. However, due to raid composition that person may be asked to bring a different character for the greater benefit of the raid. That character is just as entitled to loot as if the "main" had come to the raid.

8-18-2008 @ 5:57PM

Barth said...

I'd agree for the most part. if a person is asked to bring their alt Pally because the guild needs heals, then yeah they deserve loot the same as mains. If however, a person brings their rogue-alt who they've been leveling just because they want to pew pew for a change, they shouldn't get loot over those who's mains are rogues. Not to pick on DPS, but that's what usually happens and starts these discussions. If you have a regular raid spot on a particular toon, and the guild depends on it, then that is the main.

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