How do you level multiple characters?

TheLizardbones

When I'm playing WoW, I have two characters.  I know many people have several characters.  What I've been doing is mostly leveling them sequentially.  First getting one to max level in expansion content, then getting the other one to max level in expansion content.  It seems to take me two characters to actually find all of the leveling content in a particular area, at least in WoW.    The amount of content available is ridiculous.  But that's not the point.

 

How do you level your characters when you have more than one to level?  One at a time?  Play one an hour then another an hour through the same content?  What 'techniques' do you masters of the alt use?

 

OhhPaigey

I just play whatever I want to play at the time lol, if I want to play a certain class, I'll play it, for a month straight, I never want to switch between characters in an hour unless I'm just starting out in a game and trying to figure out what class I want to play.

Anyways, I'd just level 1 character to max, and then the other, the way you're doing is essentially playing the same content twice in what? A day or two, or less. That'd get boring for me, personally. Also after one, two, possibly three times of doing quests, I just level in dungeons.

Forgrimm

I usually level 1 at a time. Currently I have 5 level 90's, 1 level 88, and 2 level 85's in WoW. When WoD releases I'll probably do the same, level each 90 to 100, 1 at a time.

TheLizardbones

Originally posted by OhhPaigey

I just play whatever I want to play at the time lol, if I want to play a certain class, I'll play it, for a month straight, I never want to switch between characters in an hour unless I'm just starting out in a game and trying to figure out what class I want to play.

Anyways, I'd just level 1 character to max, and then the other, the way you're doing is essentially playing the same content twice in what? A day or two, or less. That'd get boring for me, personally. Also after one, two, possibly three times of doing quests, I just level in dungeons.

 

Oh, no, I am much, much slower than that.  Panderia on my first toon took nearly a month.  It's going much faster on my second toon because I can work out a 'most efficient' route, but I'm not doing anything in a couple days.  :-)

 

OhhPaigey

Originally posted by lizardbones

Originally posted by OhhPaigey

I just play whatever I want to play at the time lol, if I want to play a certain class, I'll play it, for a month straight, I never want to switch between characters in an hour unless I'm just starting out in a game and trying to figure out what class I want to play.

Anyways, I'd just level 1 character to max, and then the other, the way you're doing is essentially playing the same content twice in what? A day or two, or less. That'd get boring for me, personally. Also after one, two, possibly three times of doing quests, I just level in dungeons.

 

Oh, no, I am much, much slower than that.  Panderia on my first toon took nearly a month.  It's going much faster on my second toon because I can work out a 'most efficient' route, but I'm not doing anything in a couple days.  :-)

 

Ohh okay, I'm a nerd so I thought you're doing it pretty quickly XD. Idk then. ;o

TheLizardbones

Originally posted by Forgrimm
I usually level 1 at a time. Currently I have 5 level 90's, 1 level 88, and 2 level 85's in WoW. When WoD releases I'll probably do the same, level each 90 to 100, 1 at a time.

 

From what I've seen, this seems to be pretty standard.

 

I dunno, I might try leveling two toons in rough parallel in Warlords, just to see how it goes.

 

Hedeon

first of all, I dont really like alts, at all, since I like the idea of MMOs to be about teamplay.

but over time and lack of things to do, I have had alot of alts, which I usually have leveled by playing with guildies, who had a wish of replaying the " good old days"...which aint really possible in a game like EQ2 anyway - would expect it to be the same in WoW.

anyway as a "old timer" in EQ2 it is possible to power through to endgame in a weekend if cared to, ie playing it "HC" with pots and friends/boxed chars/other rewards, and ofc with more hours too than your casual gamer, would expect it to be the same in WoW....though not sure if WoW have the same veteran rewards and other items for xp gain as EQ2

 

Pepeq

Originally posted by Gorwe

Multiplexing characters by time is awesome! You should try it. Oh, ok, I'll explain:

You play one character, do everything you want with it, then go and play another game/do something else. When you feel the urge to play that game again, create another character of different class and different faction preferably, level it. Rinse and repeat until game runs out of classes/you run out of imagination.

Pretty simple I think. Works mostly everywhere.

Yeah, until you hit a certain level and it doesn't matter what race or class you play, you're doing the same exact quests no matter which faction or class you are.  WoW is known for it's oversimplification of everything... it's why alt leveling is so boring.

Forgrimm

Originally posted by Hedeon

first of all, I dont really like alts, at all, since I like the idea of MMOs to be about teamplay.

but over time and lack of things to do, I have had alot of alts, which I usually have leveled by playing with guildies, who had a wish of replaying the " good old days"...which aint really possible in a game like EQ2 anyway - would expect it to be the same in WoW.

anyway as a "old timer" in EQ2 it is possible to power through to endgame in a weekend if cared to, ie playing it "HC" with pots and friends/boxed chars/other rewards, and ofc with more hours too than your casual gamer, would expect it to be the same in WoW....though not sure if WoW have the same veteran rewards and other items for xp gain as EQ2

 

For $60 you can now have a max level character in WoW in an instant, literally lol. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/level-90-character-boost

TheLizardbones

Originally posted by Pepeq

Originally posted by Gorwe

Multiplexing characters by time is awesome! You should try it. Oh, ok, I'll explain:

You play one character, do everything you want with it, then go and play another game/do something else. When you feel the urge to play that game again, create another character of different class and different faction preferably, level it. Rinse and repeat until game runs out of classes/you run out of imagination.

Pretty simple I think. Works mostly everywhere.

Yeah, until you hit a certain level and it doesn't matter what race or class you play, you're doing the same exact quests no matter which faction or class you are.  WoW is known for it's oversimplification of everything... it's why alt leveling is so boring.

 

I'm not that worried about content.  WoW actually has an overabundance of content.  My second play through of Pandaria I found an entire quest line in the second zone that I missed the first time which added another level or two.  I may not even get to a third zone before my second character is maxed.