Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Leveling, Alts

The Waaagh blog, despite technically being about some other dirty little game, keeps churning out some pretty good posts. The latest is Syp’s 10 Commandments of Altitis. I’m a recent convert to altitis myself. I pretty much stuck with one character on all my previous MMOs, with perhaps one additional alt I played once a month. However, on WoW, I’ve been bit hard. With 3 70s, 2 60s, and 61, and various random characters in the 20-60 range, I know how the alt game goes.

A lot of the commandments are things that I myself have discovered and follow unknowingly in my day to day play, but Syp lays them out in an understandable and easy to follow format. Some of my favorite points, in no convinced order:

• 6. Go Off the Beaten Path. Seriously, just considering you really want to reach level 70 ASAP does not mean that doing the STV grind for the 7th day is the awesome thing to do. I mean, I guess whether your only goal is to get to 70, that’s doable, but for me, trying out new quests and new zones, or at least quests and zones I haven’t done in a while, is one of the joys of an alt.
• 9. Alts can cause Burnout. that is definitely true whether you think you can get away with doing dailies every day on all of your 70s. As much as you want the exalted SSO necklaces for your Hunter, your Warlock, and your Druid, don’t try to grind up the rep for all of them all at once, every day. That way lies madness. I have found that focusing on one at a day, or at least alternating days, is a much better way to go about it.
• 3. Alts deserve real names too. Honestly, you aren’t intelligent for naming your Druid Lolferal. Sorry.

But all of the points are nice and handy, so whether you’re a fellow altitis sufferer, or even whether you just want to catch the bug, go check the commentary out. It’s a fun read.

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Original post by Daniel Whitcomb