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I have a tendency to play the FOTM...

My main is my main. However, I have main hopped a bit in the last couple years. Played my mage as my main throughout most of Wrath, then gravitated towards my druid at the end of Wrath and the start of Cata. Eventually got fed up with the eclipse mechanic of Boomkins, and switched to my shadow priest. I do have my mage as my secondary main though.

I tend to be something of an altoholic, but one toon tends to be my focus for a particular expansion's end game. That focus may shift when a new expansion hits and changes play. This isn't always because of the expansion itself, but rather because some time around the time the expansion hits I end up changing servers as the English speaking players on my friends list move around.

Fortunately, I'm enough of an altoholic that it doesn't bother me to start over. I even find it somewhat helpful. Particular groups of toons tend to be a reminder of what I was doing during a particular period -- both in game and out. Playing my old Arms toon wouldn't feel the same without my quasi adoptive daughter, but that was also my main during Vanilla. Starting over is a mild annoyance, but it also lets me rethink things as I head into the next expansion's changes.

tl;dr Your categories suck, altoholic in denial describes me much better.

I was going to be a continual lurker, but somehow random questions and quizzes always draw me out. *sigh*

I shouldn't be here (here being Alla), as I'm really not at all a serious gamer, despite loving to learn new things and adoring the atmosphere of these forums. On the other hand I am definitely a serious character creator. My highest character is *STILL* stuck at level 42. She was 41 the last time I was posting here regularly, which I think was over a year ago (summer 2010, maybe if I'm lucky it was last winter). So, yeah. And what did I do when I started playing again this winter? Did I hop on to ANY of the characters I've leveled past 20? Any that made it past 10? Any that . . .

Nope. I, um, actually created 4 new characters on an entirely new server.

I really think I need help.

(Oh, and unrepentant altoholic, of course :).)

I'm a main-hopper.

Vanilla my main was my mage.
BC and WotLK my main was my pally tank.
Cata my main has been my resto druid.
MoP... my main will still be my resto druid, unless I revert back to my Pally, fall in love with Pandas, or decide to try my shadow priest at the helm.

This is sooo 4.2...

Since 4.3, the game is as accessible as never before. The new heroics are fast and easy. They drop a very much complete set for every class that can be easily optimized with JP pieces. A week of maybe running 2-3 dungeons a day - which just doesn't take more than maybe an hour and a half - takes everyone to a 378 gear average.

At 372 you can enter LFR and with that get access to the tuned-down version of the gear you'd otherwise enter the PuG-drama for.

Of course I can't speak about your specific server, but for me, the whole crap about people requesting certain ridiculous ilevels for their damn PuGs has completely disappeared.

I'm having a damn good time with all my alts, because suddenly all of them have access to tier tokens with awesome set bonuses or trinkets and weapons with fun procs. I do LFR and my 4 dungeons, and with that have VP capped on toons that would hardly see any action at all.

I'm getting to play my toons in specs that would cause nothing but nasty arguments in your typical PuG raid.

Atonement healer? Frost Mage? Assassination Rogue? Arms Warrior? All that is finally possible now.

I still have my 2 main toons that I do our guild raids with, but I can now play those without neglecting everything else. The only thing that makes those "main" is having access to slightly higer level gear from normal mode raids and having received a little boost through VP BoEs from alts I don't intend to "normal-raid" with anytime soon.

WoW has never been better for altohlics than it is right now. All that's missing is the removal of the character limit per server.

I always try to level up more than one char to levelcap. But somehow...
My second-highest char is a DK that hovers around 65-66. Next comes the level 11 warrior.
There is just so much to do on my main. Soon I will (finally) get the OVER9000 achievement. Not that bad for a character just shy of 13 months old. But it shows how much of my WoW-time I'm committing to him.

and dont forget the LFR system. granted i find it an annoying system but if you want to try and get even slightly better gear then heroics you can get the 384 stuff with the potential of actually getting your tier set. Again in my opinion LFR is a pain in the but for the possibility of getting gear since you have to roll against at least half the raid for stuff you want and only 250 vp at the end. where as you can run 2 heroics get 300 vp and do it in half the time lfr takes to do.

My main has been my Orc hunter since I started, sometime shortly before the first expansion came out. I changed servers a year or so ago, and now have 2 more 85's (orc shammy and a belf DK) that I play off and on, but I'm pretty bad at both of them and don't play them seriously.
I leveled a Tauren pally up to 70 so far, and have been working on a goblin priest to 65 so far. The priest has been more fun that expected, easy leveling with all the BOA gear, and lots of fast instances while q'n up as a discipline healer with a shadow dps spec. I was hoping to try tanking with the pally, but keep balking at that extra pressure of being responsible for everyone. I've had to jump in and save the group a few times when a tank has died, and that was always fun and exciting though.
Healing with the priest has been even easier, and more fun, since I found the healium addon. So far most instances have been uneventful healing wise, as most groups are overpowered with BOA, that and all the nerfs to old content. I've been getting by with basicly just keeping renew up and flash heals when required.
One of these days I might even get around to taking an Alliance toon to max level.

Last one. My main has been my main since... mid-TBC? But I've had three mains:
1. Paladin from vanilla, leveled to 60 playing protection before it had almost ANY redeeming quality.
2. Mage from Nax-era vanilla, played until TBC (although I took a break when TBC first came out). Loved that little gnome. He's still sitting at 67.
3. Druid that has been my main since then.

However, I also level some other characters; my current project is a death knight who is at 65. I also have a rogue at 80 and a Paladin at 85.

This. My main is a feral druid. She always comes first. Raiding, gear, PvP, achievements, etc. I have three other 85s (paladin, mage, warrior) and I'm working on another (lvl 71 hunter) and have some neglected lowbies waiting for attention. Alts are a must for me...I'm obsessive about professions, so I try to keep up on the alts for their professions. But, I typically only work on the alts when I don't have something to focus on with my main, or I'm just burned out a little. When push comes to shove, though, I'm on my main at raid time.

Like several others, I'm waiting for Blizz to expand the number of character slots.

My main is my main, my baby, a pixelized me. She gets all the mounts, all the pets, all the achievements, the titles. I have one other 85, and about 4 other toons ranging between 25-60. I always come back to my main, though, no matter what.

:P