The Grumpy Elf: When I first started playing my idea of an alt was a character I had on another server. I had an alliance side hunter, a horde side hunter, a hunter on a role play realm, a hunter on a PvP realm. They were alts.
When one hunter took the lead as my “main” it was an alliance hunter on a PvE server and the others just disappeared, so to speak. Logged on to one of them last week and it still has arrows in its bag. Have to love that. I don’t think I will ever sell them. Put them in my bank.
As I started to level and look forward to the future I noticed there were things I would need. Gems, enchants, etc. So I started to make some alts to level some other professions. That was when alts, to me, entered their second incarnation. The profession alt. They exist just to serve my main. . . . read full article