This game is great. I have taken the approach now of simply leveling two mains. That may not be an option for some sufferers as I know people that have alts even on OTHER servers, which is an extreme not even I have sunk to. It is too much like leading a double life when I try that and I cannot keep my online friends straight. I figure if I have one character I play when I am not duo’ing with my wife, then I have the freedom to go as far ahead and get as much XP as I want and I learn the content for the other set of characters so I know how those quests are done. I even craft now on my secondary character and have condensed that. The other key thing one person can try is to make, at least in WoW or EQ2, a good and evil character and experience the game on both sides since it can be so much more different. This keeps you occupied and your alt numbers down to a respectable level, and at the same time you are advancing characters that will allow you to switch sides and pick at the end of their level cap which one you want to raid with. This is especially true in WoW where it seemed that the Horde had the majority of the mature player base (if any WoW player aspect could be called that) and if you leveled both alliance and horde at the same time you could easily be set up to raid on both sides. If I could hell I would have 5 – 6 level 70’s in EQ2 and not because of boredom with the game like some people do already, but because I want to experience every type of play style and class performance. Boredom can be a huge factor, as the rep grind in WoW will show. Many people simply never even raider in that game or stepped foot in a BC Heroic because it was too much like a job, and simply rerolled. I know that for me, part of the challenge in ANY alt (even my little EQ2 Halfling ranger) is learning the class so that you know what the hell other people are talking about, and seeing how much you can twink him out and how fast he levels. To me that is one of the greatest challenges in these games and I really love the alt leveling experience. EQ2 makes it even more enjoyable with all the micro starting areas like Baubbleshire, Longshadow Alley and the like. When you add all those places up, you have about 10+ different places with all sorts of quests and lore to catch up on. Now you tell me, how is ANY player going to resist the temptation to roll multiple characters and experience all that?
Yet some people do. I still see people that rerolled evil Fae the day Neriak came out playing the same character over and over, while I’m sitting here hitting 20 on two characters one in GFAY and one in Neriak. Now I have abandoned GFAY and gone 1-30 on two evil Neriak characters without ever seeing the new Crushbone, and this kinda bums me out. So I have decided to probably just take my level 30 over there and explore it anyway not caring if I get XP or not. Besides I have a Rallos Zek Deity quest I need to do in there anyway. So I have to say I am stumped. I do not know how to solve this problem, but I blame Sony for making a damn fine and enjoyable game with such a multitude of options. Besides in the end, is it REALLY a problem, or just the fact that I find it hella fun to play the game that way? I know I will get to 70 soon, at least before Rise of Kunark, so maybe I just shouldn’t sweat it and for once enjoy the ride. I felt so much stress to level in WoW that it really killed the fun for me, because the game became a long series of yellow exclamation points and maximizing XP that I never even once read the quests. EQ2 with its cool voice overs and fantastic lore has me reading all the things the NPC’s say (even the books I find) because for once I want to know what is going on and what has happened in Norrath. It is the very depth of the game itself that is fueling my alt-itis and really it takes a good damn game to bring that out in people.
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