Breakfast Topic: The alt before the storm

Everyone has at least one alt in WoW. It may be the bank alt you send all your items to while questing away from a capital city. Some of us have one of every class, or multiple alts on different realms to play with friends on a different server. Cataclysm is going to change the way we play our alts forever, though. We will have goblins named with every variation of "Gringotts" used as bank alts. People will name their worgen after Twilight characters or make names that mocks Twilight.
But the two new races aren't the only things happening come Cataclysm. We are getting new race/class combos. Roleplayers will have new characters they can roleplay or add the new class/race combo into their character's story. While Blizzard has yet to give us gnome paladins, our little friends can now be healers, which gives us the chance to take 24 of our gnome friends and knock on Deathwing's front door.
I myself am playing through all the starting zones for each race before Blizzard changes the starting zone areas and quests forever. I also have a full set of heirlooms for my future shaman, druid and possible priest. My biggest goal before Cataclysm comes is to level my undead mage to 80 so I can experience the quests for Horde and Wrathgate from the eyes of the Horde. My mage has been sitting at 42 for almost a year, and if I don't dust him off soon, he may very well be lost in the Cataclysm. I plan to level a worgen druid, a dwarf shaman and a goblin warlock. I want to enjoy the new quest chains and take in the scenery.
So, fellow players (whether with one alt or 20): What will you do with your alts come Cataclysm?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
jrj_paladin Aug 28th 2010 8:06AM
All of my character are going to die in the Cataclysm and I am rerolling everything.
Moeru Aug 28th 2010 10:00AM
You my friend are very brave. I have 7 80s and I'm considering rerolling maybe one or two but that's it. There' some achievements/items I just can't part with.
Schadenfreude Aug 28th 2010 11:36AM
I asked the GMs on my server to free up two amazing names to be my goblin mage and worgen priest respectively, the two classes I still don't have an 80 of. (My last attempt at a priest got stuck at 25 and mage at 12). I'm also thinking about race changing my rogue into a worgen. Personally, I need more character slots. Troll druids, undead hunters and tauren paladins sound amazingly cool, but I'm pretty attached to my characters as they are, so I might find another server to roll some new class combos on for funzies and experience their starting quests and lore and all that.
If I ever get into the beta I would probably do just that since I don't like to play through questing and leveling up my max-level characters. I don't want to get tired of it already when I have 3+ 80's to rush through it immediately.
Sciarc Aug 28th 2010 1:48PM
That's a bold move. I'd like to do the same, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to actually delete any of my three 80's. I might just start a second account for Cataclysm and unsubscribe my first, "killing off" my current toons in that way. If I ever get nostalgic and want them back, they can be re-animated.
jrj_paladin Aug 30th 2010 4:14PM
Well for my case I have only 1 lvl 80 and a druid on it's way to 80
and a bunch of random lvl Toons so not much loss on my part. That and
it's trudition just about with my brother and I to restart everything
(but our Guild) and with Cata changing everything it's going to be a
blast :).
Sarvannas Aug 28th 2010 8:07AM
A worgen hunter ofcourse because it's the only class i don't have an alt with yet.
Boobah Aug 28th 2010 10:57AM
Wait. Seriously? I thought everybody had a hunter alt, with the possible exception of those who have a hunter main, but most of those have hunter alts, too, from what I hear.
Weird.
Harvoc Aug 28th 2010 11:59AM
Actually my main is a hunter, and I don't have a hunter alt lol.
Shadda Aug 28th 2010 12:12PM
To be fair, my hunter alt is of another faction/server, rolled so that I could play with an old guild mate without having to re-learn my class...
Izaach Aug 28th 2010 4:18PM
I swear, I thought everyone had a Night Elf hunter. Hell, even my grandma has one.
deluded spider Aug 28th 2010 5:05PM
I had a night elf hunter. I got her to 20 and killed her. Then I re-rolled a blood elf hunter. I got her to 28 then killed her.
And I'd had another hunter before that, a long time ago.
I just don't like hunters, I guess.
Hirumared Aug 30th 2010 2:19AM
Lol My main is a hunter, and I have a hunter alt. Bg's with a low level hunter with full boa's/enchants is pure awesomesauce. Low level bg's are won by the team with the most hunter's lol.
Scougelord Aug 28th 2010 8:08AM
I've got very important exams coming up around the same time as Cataclysm, so I won't be playing WoW much if at all. I am currently levelling a troll hunter alt casually (he's level 78 now) and I plan to roll some more alts of various races in Cataclysm. Nothing too exciting, but questing through the new Azeroth should be fun.
Name: Aug 28th 2010 8:47AM
Do you have important exams all year 2010 or have they announced a more specific release date now?
PictoKong Aug 28th 2010 10:40AM
They said in 2010, that being said, we are pretty sure we will have exams before christmas (i usually start to study heavly mid-november)
Arcticcore Aug 28th 2010 8:11AM
Same thing we do every night pinky...
Aureliusz Aug 28th 2010 8:53AM
This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth.
Toothy Aug 28th 2010 8:56AM
...try to take over the world!
Dum-da-Dum-da-Dum..
Rhamona Q Aug 28th 2010 10:10AM
NARF!
Docseuzz Aug 28th 2010 11:50AM
yes, but with me and puppy longstockings, what would the kids look like?