Altitis

[Treesh]

If you're here chances are you've already got it.[right][snapback]71594[/snapback][/right]

*hides her sig*

I have no idea what you are talking about. Altitis? Sounds painful. ;)

The problem I'm having is with focus.  Arethor is finally getting pretty old at 42 but he's starting to lose his luster compared to the shiny new alts begging for attention.  He's sat more than he's adventured recently and I think it's due to a few hurdles.[right][snapback]71594[/snapback][/right]

Aleri is actually becoming more fun at 42, but that's because she and Gnolack are doing more things with these two silly mages along for the ride. ;) Anytime you are on with any of your alts, you give me a holler. I'm sure I've got something around just about any level character of yours. It really is a lot of fun to play with good people rather than soloing all the time. Soloing can be fun too though, but you don't always want to solo. You give me a holler and if I'm not in an instance or doing elite quests with people, I'll come running with someone.

1. Slow leveling/questing: Levels and quests are beginning to take a lot longer to complete.  Quest-time seems to be increasing exponentially while soloing for each consecutive quest.[right][snapback]71594[/snapback][/right]

This is part of the reason for my offer. Most quests go quicker in a group (except for the collection quests). Duoing is pretty darn efficient in terms of time and experience.

2. The world is becoming too large:  I'm one who's liked to hunker down in a zone for a number of levels trying to complete all the quests in the zone before moving on.  I've found this to become increasingly less efficient as quests are regularly ferrying me to somewhere on the opposite end of the world.[right][snapback]71594[/snapback][/right]

I hear you on this one. GG and I like to setup camp in one region for a while, but we've been forced to adjust this playstyle a bit the higher up we go. We usually still stay in one area for a good length of time and then spend a day doing the straggling quests that take us here, there, and everywhere. Yeah, that one day is a bit boring and tedious, but in the long run it's more fun for us to just have one day that's slow rather than every day.

5. Variety: I believe that variety is the spice of life and with how different each of the classes are I regularly find myself wanting to play "X" class because I feel like doing "Y"  Example: I want to play my Priest because I feel like being a healbot for a while.  or  I want to play my Rogue because I'm feeling like a DPS Monkey.  This causes me to swap characters fairly regularly too.[right][snapback]71594[/snapback][/right]

Yep. I know how this goes too. :D I'm really glad that Blizzard has managed to make the classes play distinctly differently. If I want to wail on things up close and personal and be pretty hard to take down? Play my Tauren warrior (she gets lots of presents from those higher up since we have no higher level characters on Terenas who can wear mail so she's pretty darn impressive). If I want to wail on things from far away and play reckless when I'm solo, time to break out the mage! Pepperi is amazingly gung-ho and fearless. She hit the 10 minute res sickness back in Loch Modan, iirc. Don't worry people, she's mainly just for solo play so I don't get anyone else killed with her. ;) If I want to wail on things from far away, but be safe, bring out the hunter! Any hunter. ;) I love having all the different choices so I can match my mood and almost always have a lot of fun playing. The only character that I don't really get is the pally. The names of the seals just don't match in my mind the things that they can do when on a party member or being judged so I get confused about what seal/judge for what situation. Something about it just doesn't click with me so that's my least played character (she's also part of the short squad who haven't gotten together in a long time).

Now that I've made at least one of all the classes and one of all the races, my altitis has simmered down a bit. The duplicates are there for when I want to play a class that's duoed with GG so I don't want to get ahead of him. And also, I wanted to have every class a Tauren can be and every class a Gnome can be. I ended up with quite a few warriors. :)