Comments on: The Warcraft Alt Dilemma: Alts yesterday, alts tomorrow, but never alts today

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:50:13 +0000

I remember only seeing that one time while leveling for the first time I was trying to turn a quest in and saw a huge dragon. I had no clue what it was about. I was in my thirty’s and ran like a little girl when they started fighting, my brother started fighting and took one shot to the face and died. Good times.

By: Tyra

Tyra — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:28:10 +0000

“I never had a lv 60 Priest, but I presume the staff is the Anathema?”

Yes, that’s Benediction/Anathema .

I remember farming in wintergrasp for that stupid eye of shadow thing for our priests…

By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:37:23 +0000

I started my alt up today, well an older alt (L65) who I’d had for a while on the shelf. Had to choose though, which of the many shelved toons would I invest time into? I considered levelling from 1, but it’d be a shame to do it now when I’d just want to do it again in Cataclysm. That was a factor.

By: Chastity

Chastity — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:19:32 +0000

I’m in almost the opposite situation. I’m frantically trying to level my alts *before* Cataclysm hits and (a) changes the old world entirely and (b) makes Northrend a desolate pointless wasteland. I’d like to go into Catactlysm with at least one more 80.

By: Kyff

Kyff — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:13:09 +0000

I think your position isn’t really a dilemma in the full meaning of the word. Just do what you enjoy. If you have fun levelling an alt now that time is not wasted if new classes and “levelling experience” are coming in a few months.

If you hate playing your alts now, just don’t do it. Not everything needs to be about efficiency.

By: vlad

*vlad* — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:06:44 +0000

It’s the end of the Ony quest chain in the picture.
I never had a lv 60 Priest, but I presume the staff is the Anathema?
Did you ever resist the temptation to join in that fight, or did you risk death by attacking one of the elites? I always attacked them! Where’s the fun in watching Fordragon kill them all and not try to help him?

By: Longasc

Longasc — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:52:08 +0000

this is a shame, at least in the beginning of TBC people were not overgeared and the instances more interesting than the WOTLK dungeons. :/

By: jeffo

jeffo — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:43:00 +0000

Ah, Duskwood was probably my favorite low-level zone of all time, though the ‘run to SW-Lakeshire-Duskwood-Westfall-Duskwood’ quests were a bit annoying when you couldn’t get a mount until 40!

By: Stabs

Stabs — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:15:12 +0000

Not for healers I don’t think. 98% of players queued for BC instances are Death Knights.

By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:26:11 +0000

My fiancee tried out the dungeon finder for her BC quests on her hunter, but never got any hits. Our server is pretty populated too. Guess people really hate BC that much. She made it to 68 quickly though and went to Northrend, so all is well. I just find it funny that there’s still a gap for the BC instances.