Originally Posted by
Rotted
Just for anyone saying you can never have 50 characters / time to play them....
I've been playing on the same account for 12 years and heres my rough break down (we had a similar thread a few months ago and I posted the exact numbers)
Main server: I have 13 toons: the lowest of which is 55 my void elf mage. 5 of the others are 110, the rest are 90+
Switched server: I have 5 toons: When I left my original server for a bigger raid scene I started from scratch, I made a new raiding main, 3 alts 1 bank alt
Uni Server: I have 3 toons: When I went to uni, I joined the gaming society and again started from scratch.
That's 21 characters which at some point in time I've actually played properly.
Now the others,
I have multiple twinks on different servers, for example I've got 4 level 80 twinks all of them have heroic ICC gear and all of them play a different role, they also have a set of Herald of the Titans gear for a run.
I have 4 level 70's (Monk, Rogue, DK x2) which I don't religiously grind to get the glaives but I do a fair few times. One is also a RP'er (DK) who earned the netherwing and mana ray mounts before everything was account bound (pretty proud of that)
I have 3 level 60 twinks - Hardly use these ever, but back in TBC and Wrath I grinded my arse off to get enough honor for them to have the level 60 sets.
I have 1 85 in progress in twink
1 100 in progress twink
That makes 12 more,
So I'm up to 33.
I hit 38 from leveling projects which I've started randomly, then totally dropped - Push comes to shove these are the toons I'd delete if needed. But some of them have memories on them, for example one level 60 blood elf dk called rose did a fair bit of pvp on her and stopped 1% off leveling up. She has the level 60 pvp wep.
I also have 8 level 1 characters on our servers linked server. I use these for guild activities such as scavenger hunts.
So that brings me around the 45 mark. Now with the exception of the 8 level 1 toons and one allied race I've not created a new toon in over 2 years and I play very casually, usually just my two raid nights at 3 hours each + 1 hour somewhere for a mythic keystone.
Sure all my characters aren't currently active but they have all been used at some point in the past, 12 years is a long time to have an account and it's easy to amass a load of characters.
I don't need more than 50 personally because I know I have room to delete a few, but people who are more active than me and been playing the same amount of time? Sure I can see them needing more than 50 easily, especially with allied races and more incoming.