Is this the end of alt armys

[Hecow]

is legion the end of the alt army days?
with the new weapon system and leveling it up will there be a point to having alts or even off specs?
if you have to level different weapons for each spec and it takes months?
how could you have an army or even a few alts any more?

what do you guys think?

[Svad]

Misc
If you play for 1 - 2 hours you would get as much Artifact Power as you would from 10 - 12 hours of gameplay at a certain Artifact Knowledge level.

[Hecow]

Misc
If you play for 1 - 2 hours you would get as much Artifact Power as you would from 10 - 12 hours of gameplay at a certain Artifact Knowledge level.

i saw that on the main page not sure how that helps alts level there weapon? or are you talking about your off spec or??

[Nachtigal]

I hope so, honestly. Part of the problem is there's an abundance of classes in the game because now it is easy for everyone to play everything.

[Svad]

When you start getting to the point, where you "only" needto farm AP for the 1-2 hours, you can start on your Alts, thats what ill be doing anyways.

If you think its to much of a chore, dont lvl your alts.

[loktark]

I wish the poll had a "yes, thank you" option.

[SnowTang]

I wish the poll had a "yes, thank you" option.

Yeah i'm sick of having to play numerous alts.

[EzG]

Yeah i'm sick of having to play numerous alts.

Having to play? Not entirely sure it is mandatory unless of course you are profession farming or raiding or what have you. I for one usually keep 1-2 geared alts at a time. Artifact might drop that to just one dedicated alt. It's worth noting I'm incredibly lazy and wouldn't even level alts if I didn't get bored on my main during farm content or need a possible backup class for raids.

[Deleted]

Misc
If you play for 1 - 2 hours you would get as much Artifact Power as you would from 10 - 12 hours of gameplay at a certain Artifact Knowledge level.

Which means that if you want to max out your artifact on every alt, it's going to require you to play 24/7.

[ey b0ss]

Well, no, it won't stop me from leveling all 16 alts and max one spec because I know I won't be tanking or healing outside 5 mans.
Raiding? Dps only :>

[Seefer]

Which means that if you want to max out your artifact on every alt, it's going to require you to play 24/7.

No it isn't, jesus christ I wish you people would learn to read or listen to stuff people say..........Ion has stated SEVERAL times there are going to be catch up mechanics for artifacts and alts.

[Super Kami Dende]

I only raided with one toon in WoD and it was really disappointing. Once you clear heroic few times on the toon, it becomes a bit boring. Mythic is not that accessible for pugs, which I'm fine with but at least let us have some fun with different classes.

...WoD was the expansion with the most accessibility to top end raiding ever in WoW for Alts. With Baleful going to 685 and Mythic dungeons you could be mythic raiding on Alts pretty quickly if you already had a main raiding Mythic.

Also it won't kill Alt Armies, you can still get to max level and play Alts, just leveling 100-110 gets you a good 25% of your artifact complete and with World Quests/Mythic + gearing methods people will easily keep their gear to to date.

Will you be as strong as someone who focuses only on their Main? Nope.

Should you be? Hell no.

[Bohannon]

Nope, I'll get every class to max just like I've been doing since cata.

Don't care about their ilvl's all too much. It's not why I level them.

[Nurabashi]

There's going to be alt catch up mechanics, as well as general catch up mechanics as the expansion goes on, so whatever.

[Deleted]

No it isn't, jesus christ I wish you people would learn to read or listen to stuff people say..........Ion has stated SEVERAL times there are going to be catch up mechanics for artifacts and alts.

Yeah, and the example I saw recently was increasing the artifact power gain by 10% for alts. Great, you're only going to have to play 21 hours per day.

[Nevcairiel]

Which means that if you want to max out your artifact on every alt, it's going to require you to play 24/7.

If you want to have 12 characters equally geared and experienced, you also need to play 12 times as much. I don't see the problem in this.

If you start to play your alt months into legion, the Artifact Knowledge improvements will make your AP farming faster, and getting it up to par would go quicker then it would at launch, but if you plan to play your alts right at launch, its just going to require massive effort. They definitely want you to focus on one character at first.

[Tart]

No it isn't, jesus christ I wish you people would learn to read or listen to stuff people say..........Ion has stated SEVERAL times there are going to be catch up mechanics for artifacts and alts.

Yeah, like what Ion says and does are the same

[Deleted]

No it isn't, jesus christ I wish you people would learn to read or listen to stuff people say..........Ion has stated SEVERAL times there are going to be catch up mechanics for artifacts and alts.

No for alts. For other specs. Alts will not have boosted Artifact power leveling. And if they will then it will completly devalue any sor of work what have you dont on your main. Spending tons of hours on your main character weapoon then swap to alt and do same progression what will take less time will just destroy progression on your main. All that effort and work what you have done on your main completly useless becouse now your other chars for some ranrdom reason can do same thing much much faster.

[Rotted]

i saw that on the main page not sure how that helps alts level there weapon? or are you talking about your off spec or??

No he means other character, it's the same with levelling, let me use myself as an example,

It took me just under a year to level my first char to 70
Then my alt to 70 in 2 months,
Fast forward to wrath
First char to 80 in a month,
Second in about two weeks
Third and so on days,

You do it once, you do it right, but it's all time consuming as you don't know where your going, most efficient paths etc but once you've done it once, you can do it a second timer faster, so in and so forth

[Mirishka]

i saw that on the main page not sure how that helps alts level there weapon? or are you talking about your off spec or??

What it means is, once you level an artifact to a certain level, it'll be much easier to level others. Ergo, your alt concerns are largely unfounded.