I rarely play on my main these days. Sure, I'll try to squeeze in the weekly raid, and of course I raid on the 2 nights a week that the guild attemps ICC (although attendance has been quite spotty of late). If WG happens to be going on I'll jump in on that too. But stuff like daily quests, daily heroics, getting achievements and titles just don't appeal to me anymore. I certainly don't need any more frost badges and with 20k gold saved up, I don't feel the need to spend an hour doing dailies for a measly 100g. Ah, yes, it's good to be rich.
Although I do enjoy doing classic/BC dungeons just for fun. Who doesn't like to solo those and feel totally OP?
But anyways, my playing time has been drastically reduced on my rogue. I don't even log into my paladin anymore now that she's finally hit 80. I had all these grand designs to pimp her out in awesome tanking gear and get insta-queues and invites left and right, but once I started the long and gruelling process of gearing up...*shudder*. The idea of running 100+ heroics and tanking raids with idiots was just too daunting. But hey she's at least all ready to go once Cata hits the market.
These days I play my shaman (lvl 49), and I have mixed feelings about it. I figured it would be a fun hybrid class to play but it gets so frustrating that the cast times seem so long. I guess if you want to be a caster long cast times are something you just have to get used to (at least until you can start stacking spell haste). And I suppose I could play enhancement shaman, but then you're really reliant on your totems and I find totems to be very, very annoying. I see shammies in raids who have to run to the front of the group, slap down 4 totems, run back to the rear to start dpsing, etc etc. It just seems like such a nuisance to be honest.
When I've had enough of my shammy I like to play my mage for a bit. She's only level 15, which is when levelling is still fun and not so much of a grind so I like it so far. Decked out in heirlooms she packs quite a wallop! And being a pure DPS class means I have to be a little more cautious about pulling a group of mobs which adds a little more challenge and excitement.
When my mage bores me, that's when I start new characters willy-nilly. I have like 5 alliance characters on a PVE realm that I've gotten to level 10 and lost interest in. Recently I started a night elf rogue which is kind of fun because the night elf starting zone is the only one I've never quested in before. In fact, I've never quested in any of the level 20ish alliance zones so maybe that's something to work on.
It's tough to focus on one character and level it all the way to 80. I have all these great ideas - I'll start a character and try out herbalism, thinking "this will be great, I can send all these herbs to my main and level up her alchemy when cata comes out". Or try Skinning, thinking, "this will be great, I'll save this leather and give it to my leatherworking alt and make money off the rest I can sell". Of course none of this has yet to come to fruition since all of these alts are nowhere near enough high level to be useful to my main or to make any significant money through gathering professions. My hope is to someday have a giant gathering system set up to where my mains can get whatever they need from the alts - but I fear that will be the day I become pimply and eat hot pockets all day in front of the computer.
Starting an alt is irresistably fun for me. I can't really explain why, but I just love creating a new character, customizing the look, giving her a name, then outfitting her in all the best heirlooms I can get my hands on. My new rogue I just started already has heirlooms shoulders, chest, two daggers, trinket, and a gun. It's pretty ridiculous how fast I can kill those level 5 tigers. And when you first start, the quests are so easy and you gain a new level every 5 minutes, and you get to start a new profession and watch the skill points go up quickly, and there's always something to look forward to with every level gain. And that sort of continues until 20-ish, and things start slowing down.
I think the biggest hurdle is the level 30-50 range. That's when it really feels like a grind and levelling is slow. Once you get past 50, you sort of feel "invested" in that toon. Plus you've got most of your talent tree mapped out by then and there's Outland to look forward to in just 8 levels, so things are not quite so tedious.
I have all these alts that I managed to get to level 25-30 ish and then just gave up - my druid, who's still sitting there in her heirlooms looking at me with sad cow-eyes. My belf hunter who got deleted because I just hated having to send my pet in before I could do anything. My warrior that was well, just plain old boring to play. I've tried every class except for a priest. Perhaps in cataclysm I'll make a goblin priest...
Everyone likes to start alts, right? Or is that just me?
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