Why So Many Alts?
I had a guildie ask me over the weekend what I’m planning to do with my druid in the endgame. My response was "Nothing." I may do a couple of Karazhan runs with my alts if they get to 70 before Wrath comes out, but I really don’t plan to do endgame with them. This seemed to strike him as very peculiar.
For me, endgame is the end of gaming. In many ways it’s the end of fun. It’s great to have a character that’s hit the level cap, but your character will no longer be picking up any interesting new abilities. You’re done with achieving things on your own. My max-level toons go fishing and run instances and that’s it. I could do things such as killing six million Zaxxis or 25 dailies per toon per day or save up 214,748 Gold 36 Silver and 46 Copper. Frankly those all strike me as rather dull activities.
For fun, I start up another alt. I try to level my alts as quickly as possible. It’s not the journey so much as the feeling of accomplishment from hitting the next level. I love it when I pick up a new ability at the trainer and I try to figure out how it can be useful to me. There is a certain pleasure in knowing exactly where to go for quests.
There is a thrill to tanking the latest boss in our raid progression. I enjoy raid leading (most of the time). Trying to top the DPS on my hunter is a challenge. Destroying five player instances on my paladin is amusing. Despite this, the most fun in WoW for me is leveling.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
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August 28th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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