Many of us consider our “main” character to be the first character they started and nurtured to max level (whatever it may have been at the time). Some people may only have one character at max level, and some folk just pick one and stick with it.
I also know their main has changed for many people, too. Myself being one of them.
I started this game with a few failures but eventually took off with my mage. He was the only character I had at max level throughout Vanilla and BC. Sure, I had some alts, but they clearly took the back burner. Now, being part of a small guild, we were only running 5-mans, if anything. But eventually we rounded up enough folks to venture into Karazhan. This also happened to coinicide with me finally getting a second toon, my druid, up to max level. And because of the other main characters other people had, it basically worked out that my druid needed to be a tank. It worked out for the guild rather nicely, really. These characters and dynamics would also make up our 10-man raiding in Wrath.
So, that left me with two “mains”. My druid, to raid with the guild, and my mage, who was my “baby”. Both of which I fret over, although sometimes one more than the other. Right now, I’m pretty happy with my bear tank – he’s geared enough to progress with the rest of the guild. But I’m not quite satisfied with my mage. I fret over him and his gear a bit more (which has been made evident by a few of my posts). It’s all a bit silly, considering he does well enough when he needs to and it’s not like I’m trying to do Hardmode whatever.
Now with having a third toon higher in the leveling process, I’m kind of excited about trying him out in some of this endgame content; although I’m not really sure I’ll have the time or focus without completely neglecting the other toons.
So I’m wondering: If you have more than one “main”, how do you manage them? Do you have any difficulty finding a balance between them? Have you abandoned one out of necessity? If you do have balance, how do you do it?
DarthRegis
Brokentree
Chawa
I have had strategies for this but Blizzard keeps breaking them. {8^)
My first three 80s were my warrior tank, then my druid healer then my allegedly-main hunter, who was the first toon I rolled.
My warrior tanked when I was instancing with my partner and her resto shaman. I knew the druid would be who I would need to bring to raids so I worked on gearing him up when I wasn’t tanking. The hunter would come along if tanking and healing was covered.
Then dual-specs came along and I could DPS while still gearing up my healer and tank. Since they had a lot of unwanted DPS gear they were higher DPS than my hunter anyway.
So I came up with the plan of levelling another tank and a healer as my warrior and druid had all the level 200 gear they could possibly want. For hard stuff I’d bring the warrior or druid and otherwise I could hunter DPS or tank on my DK.
Then the first badge shake-up happened and suddenly my two primary toons could get a lot more gear out of heroics.
When they both got all the Emblem of Conquest gear they needed I could start bringing my second-string tank and healer along, though my DPS toons were still neglected. Especially my hunter.
However, with 3.3 coming soon I’ve changed strategy again. My druid is pretty decisively my main.
His 2nd spec has gone from laser-chicken to bear and while he should be good enough to tank any heroic. If I need to tank it will be him first in line rather than my warrior. If I’m needed for something that the druid is locked out of the warrior tank or pally healer can step in then.
My hunter may occasionally get to instance but he’ll probably be wearing most of his current gear when him and his cat go see what this Cataclysm thing is all about.
Well, I think we meet our guild requirements pretty well. I’m pretty happy to have leveled my druid and learn the tanking aspect of the game. And hell, it’s nice to feel wanted AND needed.
Pacheco and Ianto fight over my love and attention. I get as much out of them as I invest in them – be it gear, items or time in general.
My dps contribution as a hunter was considerably larger than my tanking contribution so Ianto fell behind gear/progression wise and as a result was abandoned (and because he sucked). But he’s slowly winning favour while I learn to heal. Now I would (again) consider them my two mains. They aren’t balanced at all in terms of how much I gear them but as long as I’m having fun playing them and they aren’t ticking me off they are my mains!
I generally have aspirations of making whatever toon I’m currently levelling my new number 1 – I imagine how I would handle high level dungeons and how powerful I’ll be when I’m wearing Tier “X” but only three have managed to get to 80.
The best part of WoW is no matter how many times you fall in and out of love with your characters, leave them penniless or naked in the woods for months on end, they will always forgive and love you back.
Well, *I* still haven’t forgiven you and your husband for doing that to me, yet. I’m still in Alberta. Come claim me back!
I’m just a few levels shy of my epic goal of having one of every class at max level [warriors are sooo sloow to level]. It’s been my goal since I began playing 4.5 or so years ago.
My main is my dk – only she goes to 25 mans, only she goes to 10 man runs typically. The rest of the toons sorta range from my healer and kitty druid who are getting slowly geared through badges, to my mage who is my pvp toon, to my rogue whom I hate to play and might do Wintergrasp with once a week for the honor to buy gems. The alts occasionally get into an alt naxx run in guild but eh, I don’t fret too much over their gear.
My solution to balancing them is to not even try. Through crafted/badge gear I can make most of the toons decent enough to bring to a 10 man should one of the groups need an extra, but I don’t fret over it.
I’m not sure I really want to “not try”… mostly because with some of the bigger pugged stuff, I’m quite comfortable taking my mage. I can do reasonable DPS and be fine. But taking my druid as a tank, there’s less room for failure. (Heh, I hope I don’t turn this into some underlying fear of failure situation!
) That, and I also leave my druid open for 10-man stuff to do with the guild
So, I’m not really sure “not trying” is an option. Or maybe not trying past the mage and druid might be. I’ve done okay with two “mains” thus far.
Thanks for the input!
I`ve played trough the start of TBC on my priest. My first toon, my only toon in that time, but when I got to 70 with it, I started a druid. Dropped him at level 36 and got into some pretty serious raiding. And then, as always, real life starts to conflict and I tuned down to more relaxing play style. That also made me roll a paladin tank, wich I got to 80 relative quickly. Also got him into raiding wich was my goal for the end of burning crusade: Get my paladin to tank Kara.
Eventually I even got a hunter to see the insides of kara once. But when Wrath shipped, I was quite unsure what to do. The old feelings for my priest where far from gone, but the guild needed me to tank since I was one of the 3 tank players in the guild. That came to leveling my paladin first and give him the new status of “main” in Wrath of the Lich King. When I left that guild to go my own way many things changed. I found a new guild and it went sortof like this:
1. Found a new guild, joined with my drenai paladin as main char.
2. Got my priest to 80, and got asked to make her my main to heal with her for guild runs.
3. Got my druid to 80… Did nothing with him for raiding.
4. Left the guild behind due to some crap from members.
5. Made a Dwarf Paladin (same server, same faction) and made him my main.
6. Leveled him up all the way to 80, got him some gear and joined another guild.
7. My hunter dings 80 and stays an alt.
8. My hunter and Priest join up in the new guild as alts.
So in 2 expainsions I switched 3 times from main
And truth to be told. Leaving the old friends behind that I found when leveling with my priest during the low level content (anything below 58) was the hardest part in all of wow.
(they should make this input box bigger, this story almost gets to long for this)
Hibur,
Dwarf paladin
Emerald Dream – EU
(Also known as: Amoonsing (human priest), Andurin (drenai paladin), Celimir (Night elf druid), Jissy (Night elf hunter))
Yes, to many characters, I know… More comming when the Cataclysm arives.
Sweet sassy, that’s a lot of bouncing around! Although I can see that happening a lot with bigger, more serious guilds.
I’m pretty lucky that I’m in a small guild. It’s made up almost entirely of real-life friends and they are rather accommodating to what I want to do as well.
And I certainly have no intentions of leaving those friends for “bigger” or “better” things. As Pacheco said on her blog, “AWESOME GUILD IS AWESOME!!”
Thanks for the input!
Awsome guild is awsome indeed, untill people from outside of the guild / friends group start poking around and make it not that awsome
I`ll be putting more in from time to time, since I`ve got this blog bookmarked now ^^
Well, I hope we don’t bore the bajesus out of you.