Written by: Cheetara
Well, I finally decided to get an alt to 70. I have tried many times, got bored with it, and then went back to the hunter. I didn’t want another dps class, and the only think as easy to level as a hunter is of course a lock. So I decided that I would roll a priest, and by golly, I think she just might make it! She is sitting pretty at half way to 66 right now, and has plenty o’ questing to do.
But then what happens when I get her there… more faction rep, more kara, more of ALL that stuff… sightara. When you are leveling, you sometimes forget that the game BEGINS at 70. But, it does. I think for now I will just worry about getting her kara keyed. You can get into OHB at 66, right?
Maybe I will start a fun kara alt night. KarAlt ‘08? It could be fun… or it could be hours of wiping on moroes! >.<
March 13th, 2008 at 6:46 am
As a self-avowed priestaphiliac (I have three on Feathermoon alone, one of each spec), I can say two things. One, playing priests are fun. I don’t care what people say; I enjoy the challenge of leveling priests and they’re fun. Second, if you reveal to anyone that you have a healer (assuming that your priest is in fact Holy), you’ll never play your main again. That’s what happened to me, sadly, which is why Eszti languishes in Karazhan and Gruul’s while Csilla is hoping to get her vials in the near future.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I have 2 warriors and 1 priest. Pre-BC, I had a Hunter too… but I’ve left that one behind. As a guild master, alts are the answer to the guild’s needs. When I saw we were low on healers, I leveled the priest etc. So I have DPS, Healing and Tanking… all of them Kara Geared or better.
We would go into Gruul and later TK… and more often than not, I’d be healing because we were always lacking that class role.
After the fact, I look back and say to all you who level alts: “Do it for the right reasons!”
If you level just to try something different and see if you have fun… Great! If you level to fill a need in the guild… DON’T! It will make raiding a job and no longer will you play the game to (gasp) have fun. It can and will burn you out.
Now, if you find you enjoy playing the newly leveled alt, that’s entirely different. I find a lot of folks start to change their main character because they enjoy the new alt more. It makes progression a little difficult, but as long as your guild continues to run the “older” instances and gear up new-comers as well as alts, then you’ll have no trouble transitioning. This of course goes hand in hand with recruiting. When you help lowbies (non-70s and 70s that are undergeared can also be considered lowbies) they tend to grow attached to the guild and may pledge their loyalty. It all depends how much you can focus on “lowbies” and “old instances”.