Not enough time to play - Deleting Alts?

[kamuimac]

I dont really play much anymore and one of the reasons is that its been impossible to keep my characters up to par, i have 12x 110 one of each class, and i play up until one point where i just gave up on the game because all my characters were behind.

I have slight OCD about having characters that i dont play and im thinking about deleting them, im just afraid im gonna regret it down the line because blizzard implements features that makes the game more alt friendly.

How do everyone else do it? i assume you dont all a bunch of characters that are fully geared etc.

What would you do? im just afraid ill regret it and i got my first kid on the way too and i definetly wont have time then for all those characters.

deleting alts could be one of many ways people can deal with their sever ocd

other can be visiting a specialist

but easiest would be simply stoping to play 12 toons at once if you dont have free 24/7 or arent twitch streamer as your primary proffesion

[anveena]

Just pick a character and play it. No need to delete them because you can't play them all.

[Deleted]

This thread is taking the piss.... never had I heard such nonsense.

1. I don't have time to play my alts. Meh I'll just delete em?
2. Has a kid underway

You realise that by asking the question if you should delete your alts (especially with the reasoning) people are going to ask questions:
- as to how you ever conceived a child in the first place
- as to how great of a parent you are going to be

And I would ask these questions myself if you told me this in person. But no it gets even worse as you posted this question on a public forum for a game.

Is it so hard to concieve that i powerleveled all characters like crazy when the expansion came out and got burned out after i was done?

Also why would i be a bad parent? what have i said to give you that impression?

[Ravingmad]

Alts are getting a tough time in Legion, because of all the grinding. I had almost all classes ready with Artefact Weapon pre-Legion. Oh boy did I get a slap in the face when I saw how much time I spent on my Main character, with little to no place for my Alt. (Grinding AP madness).

But theres no point to "delete" Alts, just wait until you get the opportunity to play one. Its a grind fest at first(when legion started, and right now at 7.2), but once you stabilize (usually 1-2 months depending on your gaming schedule), you'll have more time to spend. Pre-Legion I had my Elem Sham 885 (started pre-NightHold) and 875 Fury Warrior (started during NH MM progression). Since 7.2, I havent been able to play any of them.

[Arainie]

I've never understood the need to have a gazillion different alts. One, two or possibly three characters should be more than enough to keep you busy at least 4-5 hours a day unless you ignore the group end-game content in the form of dungeons, raids and PvP. I have 3 level 110 and I don't feel the need to play anything else than my main, but I usually do emissaries twice a week and a mythic+ or alt raid here or there on my alts just to keep them sort of up to date.

[Magnagarde]

I dont really play much anymore and one of the reasons is that its been impossible to keep my characters up to par, i have 12x 110 one of each class, and i play up until one point where i just gave up on the game because all my characters were behind.

I have slight OCD about having characters that i dont play and im thinking about deleting them, im just afraid im gonna regret it down the line because blizzard implements features that makes the game more alt friendly.

How do everyone else do it? i assume you dont all a bunch of characters that are fully geared etc.

What would you do? im just afraid ill regret it and i got my first kid on the way too and i definetly wont have time then for all those characters.

Keep them. If OCD makes a big impact, think about it from this angle; you've got a list full of tidied up 110s and wrapped up leveling arcs. Make the level the element which you base your judgement on, not the ilvl or progress of every single character. You've invested a lot of time into the characters and there is absolutely no reason for you to delete them.

Not having time for all characters is perfectly fine. You aknowledge you have other stuff to take care of and you don't need to look at it from a black or white point of view; either I'm all in or I'm not in at all.

[Adoxe]

Alts have never been easier to maintain, but ok.

[Deleted]

I just don't play them until they get leveled up.

this guy, I'm currently at 10 x 110 and couldn't hope to do them all

[-Joker-]

I had close to 40 characters 10 years ago when I started. Now that I have a wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, a mortgage, and 2 car payments, I am down to 3. One tank, one healer, and one DPS. My DPS and Heals are seldom touched. If real life doesn't precede WoW, especially after you become a parent, I think there are bigger concerns than deleting alts. I wish you luck.

[Deleted]

I've never understood people who delete characters just because they don't play them atm. You can just, you know, not play them for a while.

Where does this destructive mindset come from? "I don't need it now so I'll destroy it and get rid of it"?

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Alts have never been easier to maintain, but ok.

Absolute bullshit.

[Deleted]

I've never understood the need to have a gazillion different alts.

Only one reason for that: GOLD.
For gameplay purposes it is enough to have one main, and all the other classes leveled, just in case you want to switch your main.

[Vaelorian]

Is it so hard to concieve that i powerleveled all characters like crazy when the expansion came out and got burned out after i was done?

Also why would i be a bad parent? what have i said to give you that impression?

The fact you asked the original question and now this answer/question to my response... Dude seriously where did you go to school?
What does powerleveling alts like crazy have to do with ANYTHING at all?

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I'll bite:
Bad parent, why?
You clearly cannot make your own decisions. Well you made a decision when you rubbed your weewee against someone. Seems that was easy enough. Apparantly making the choice between deleting alts or just not playing them is beyond your abilities. Hence you asked the question. Because it is so hard for you to make this decision that your need to ask this on a public gaming forum, it is like a red flag to me. Decision making is something you need to get better at fast. Not for you but for your kid.

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You know what I expect next from you? Once the baby is there.... you'll ask some forum about what kind of diaper to use. You selected 2 and don't know which one. Now before everyone attacks me for this analogy as it is not bad perse to ask this question as a starting parent -> You should just make a decision to go with 1. If it does not work out with that 1 go with nr 2 and perhaps nr 3 if this option is available. Work with what feels best for you and your kid. Don't just hang on what a public forum says.

Look dude once you get that baby everyone and their grandma is going to give onsollicitated advice on "how to baby". Use your own brain. Feel free to make a mistake here and there and decide what works or what could work better.

[Mirishka]

I dont really play much anymore and one of the reasons is that its been impossible to keep my characters up to par, i have 12x 110 one of each class, and i play up until one point where i just gave up on the game because all my characters were behind.

I have slight OCD about having characters that i dont play and im thinking about deleting them, im just afraid im gonna regret it down the line because blizzard implements features that makes the game more alt friendly.

How do everyone else do it? i assume you dont all a bunch of characters that are fully geared etc.

What would you do? im just afraid ill regret it and i got my first kid on the way too and i definetly wont have time then for all those characters.

Deleting them is pointless. You'll have a chance to work on them, whether its next week/month/year.

[Deleted]

I had close to 40 characters 10 years ago when I started. Now that I have a wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, a mortgage, and 2 car payments, I am down to 3. One tank, one healer, and one DPS. My DPS and Heals are seldom touched. If real life doesn't precede WoW, especially after you become a parent, I think there are bigger concerns than deleting alts. I wish you luck.

Of course being a parent is more important than anything in life, thats one of the reasons i made this thread, i was hoping some people with kids would respond, im thinking deleting alts and keeping 2 characters that i can play when i have time is better then trying to play so many different classes.

[Vaelorian]

Of course being a parent is more important than anything in life, thats one of the reasons i made this thread, i was hoping some people with kids would respond, im thinking deleting alts and keeping 2 characters that i can play when i have time is better then trying to play so many different classes.

well I guess a decision is better then no decision

I am sorry for the harsh words mate. But really... I do hope you get a grand kid and prove me wrong!

[Deleted]

The fact you asked the original question and now this answer/question to my response... Dude seriously where did you go to school?
What does powerleveling alts like crazy have to do with ANYTHING at all?

Edit:
I'll bite:
Bad parent, why?
You clearly cannot make your own decisions. Well you made a decision when you rubbed your weewee against someone. Seems that was easy enough. Apparantly making the choice between deleting alts or just not playing them is beyond your abilities. Hence you asked the question. Because it is so hard for you to make this decision that your need to ask this on a public gaming forum, it is like a red flag to me. Decision making is something you need to get better at fast. Not for you but for your kid.

Edited again:
You know what I expect next from you? Once the baby is there.... you'll ask some forum about what kind of diaper to use. You selected 2 and don't know which one. Now before everyone attacks me for this analogy as it is not bad perse to ask this question as a starting parent -> You should just make a decision to go with 1. If it does not work out with that 1 go with nr 2 and perhaps nr 3 if this option is available. Work with what feels best for you and your kid. Don't just hang on what a public forum says.

Look dude once you get that baby everyone and their grandma is going to give onsollicitated advice on "how to baby". Use your own brain. Feel free to make a mistake here and there and decide what works or what could work better.

You remind me of one of those people who says "git gud" everytime you ask advice when you get stuck in a game.

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well I guess a decision is better then no decision

I am sorry for the harsh words mate. But really... I do hope you get a grand kid and prove me wrong!

Im surprised on the change of tone, thanks

[Deleted]

Please delete all alts and focus on one toon. When this one gets boring or not much more to do for stop playing and do the other things life has to offer.

[Paulosio]

Please delete all alts and focus on one toon. When this one gets boring or not much more to do for stop playing and do the other things life has to offer.

There is a button right next to the "Create new character" button on the character creation screen that instantly restores deleted characters. What does deleting a character achieve ? You can either choose to show some self control and just not play that character or stop playing all together or you can carry on as things are... Deleting does nothing if you don't have self control.

If you don't have the self control to not play those characters is the barrier of clicking a button that's right there in front of you going to be thing that stops you ?

All deleting a character does is free up a space on your server for another new character.

What happens if at some point in the future you decide you'd prefer to play 1 of the classes you'd deleted rather than the 2 you kept ? You'd just restore the deleted character right ? If that wasn't possible (it is) would you just accept it and move on or would you end up levelling a fresh character of that class or pay for a character boost ? Seems a lose lose situation to me if lack of time is the issue.

The best option is to just show some self control, decide on 2 characters and stick with them while totally ignoring the others. Or just plain quit altogether. If you can't do that then there's not a lot else anyone can say or do to help you (beyond giving links to gaming addiction services).

[Deleted]

I've never understood the need to have a gazillion different alts. One, two or possibly three characters should be more than enough to keep you busy at least 4-5 hours a day unless you ignore the group end-game content in the form of dungeons, raids and PvP. I have 3 level 110 and I don't feel the need to play anything else than my main, but I usually do emissaries twice a week and a mythic+ or alt raid here or there on my alts just to keep them sort of up to date.

First, to play something different than your main. Second, to have access to story / lore of other classes and races and/or other faction. Third, RP reasons - yes, you need max level characters for any serious RP, not everyone is into Goldshire porn and tavern chats / city life as their main source of RP - I had a ZG RP-raid back then in Classic, for example. Also, some concepts only work with specific tier sets as your regalia, and then you need a character which can use such a set.

So, it's a mix of gameplay, lore and RP reasons. I prefer such a broad approach to the content in comparison to the deep one where you only play one character and try to get into the hardest content there is - because I play to relax now (have enough of raiding etc.). I am not a slacker, but I don't want to have the stress of being a somewhat competitive raider anymore. Thus, I am an altoholic now.

[Marrilaife]

I got about 10 pairs of shoes I rarely ever touch. That doesn't mean I need to throw them in the bin...

I like the way you think.

Try to play some of that game called "World of Reality" and level up your follower (child) to PhD or something.

Please don't, we already have too many parents that think the child is something they can shape and mold the way they wish. You can set goals for your in-game character to reach x level and x gear, but if you set goals your child is gonna be a doctor / lawyer / get a phd the moment it gets born... just stop. (Yea I know the quoted person was probably kidding, but just sayin')

It's the same about OP and him saying "I have slight OCD" about something, well a kid is gonna give you trouble because kids are always messy, unpredictable and don't follow neat planning, ordering or expectations, so better start dealing with small nuisances like extra alts so you can be prepared for bigger deals the kid is gonna serve you. Not going crazy about meaningless details is really necessary when you have a kid. Better start practicing now. Even parents without inherent OCD / anxiety issues often go mental about health and hygiene around their children, often to ridiculous amounts. Sometimes you just have to chill and let some things slide.

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I've never understood the need to have a gazillion different alts. One, two or possibly three characters should be more than enough to keep you busy at least 4-5 hours a day unless you ignore the group end-game content in the form of dungeons, raids and PvP. I have 3 level 110 and I don't feel the need to play anything else than my main, but I usually do emissaries twice a week and a mythic+ or alt raid here or there on my alts just to keep them sort of up to date.

First of all, gazillion alts doesn't mean you raid, pvp, or play a lot on them.

Reasons for gazillion alts:
1. Finishing the class campaign on all classes for the achievement and collecting all class mounts.
2. Professions.
3. Gold from mission table.
4. Targeting specific mounts from old raids that can be farmed, let's say to farm a mimiron's head you don't even need to be max level, just high enough to trivialize the instance. Same can be said about transmogs since the wardrobe, let's say I wanted this cloth robe for my mage from an old raid, if it didn't drop, I can go there on my priest and warlock and have extra tries (assuming it's not a class set).
5. Experiencing different races, factions and classes. For example in different expansion I had different "mains" they're still with me but they aren't played, still I rather have them at hand for the next expansion so I can see how the classes shape and what I enjoy playing. I mostly mained my prot pala, but there were times when I played resto druid (tbc / start of wotlk), ele shaman (second half of mop) and mm hunter (big part of wod). They have a history behind them, I wouldn't get rid of them even if I don't want to main them currently. Hunter isn't even levelled yet, still waits for its turn.

I wouldn't want to have to level a class from scratch if I want to test it out, so I made use of wod content drought, free boost and pre-Legion invasions to get every class ready to go. 7 of them are levelled, doesn't mean I play them every day, sometimes I log them only to send the missions when I'm busy on my main.

The only times when I actually raided on multiple chars was during ICC in wotlk (6) and HFC in wod (5), I think I raided on 3 chars in Dragon Soul in cata too. See the pattern? I only had time to raid on multiple alts in the last patch of expac during content droughts. Otherwise they just kinda sit there.