Hi, my name is Craig, and I’m an altoholic.

*droning* Hi, Craig…

Check em out. I wish they were all 70. (Big banners on the right near the top, assuming you’re reading from my main page.)

They suffer, however, because I am not necessarily a true altoholic. I still spend most of my time on my higher-level characters, popping out a level on the lower ones every once and a while. The thing is…

Well, I’m trying to avoid burnout. It’s nice to have those lower characters there, that alternative is always present. If I ever feel like playing a different class, I don’t have to start at level 1. I have one at 40-something already.

I would like for it to be something where I could eventually just say “Hey, this group could use a shaman, let me go get on that character instead.” I would need to try and get all of my characters to fill a certain niche in the great scheme of things though. And this is difficult when I don’t particularly enjoy tanking.

I have a pure healer, and that is my paladin. I enjoy healing as the paladin, I’d like to keep her that way. Moving down to my warrior, I’ve always enjoyed dpsing in a fury build. However, that makes my rogue kind of unnecessary, as I would have two melee dps characters. What I would have to do is hybrid Luth’s spec to be something like 0/30/31 so she coud off-tank and dps (as opposed to 0/41/20 as I hear Shield Slam is necessary for holding aggro sometimes).

So kind of have to break them up like that. Any class with a potential role that another class can’t fill anything but I have to hybridize. As it is, the lack of difference between the mage, hunter, and warlock is going to be difficult to reconcile, they are going to be around for their individual perks.

It also means that since I’ve decided the paladin will be the healer that the other healing classes will have to be something else. This is easy for the priest, as a shadow priest fills its own niche as both ranged dps and a utility class via Vampiric Embrace and Vampiric Touch. The shaman and druid, however…I was thinking I would make the shaman be a melee dps boost class with decent healing potential. Totem-centric. The druid would be more of a ranged dps/healer hybrid, balance/resto of some kind without the moonkin form. (I wanted to allow the druid to be able to fulfill all three roles, but it would be so diminished in each role that it wouldn’t be very effective.)

At any rate, something like this (yay fun with colors!):

• Paladin: Healer/Tank
• Warrior: Melee dps/Tank
• Priest: Ranged dps/Utility
• Mage: Ranged dps
• Warlock: Ranged dps
• Shaman: Melee dps/Healer
• Rogue: Melee dps
• Druid: Ranged dps/Healer
• Hunter: Ranged dps

Though in my experience, melee dps isn’t very useful and is generally accounted for already so I may not get to play the rogue…or the shaman/warrior in those roles. And in all reality, this is months away from happening given that I am leveling them all very slowly. Just stuff I’ve been mulling around.