Some days, even the most stoic Guild Leaders (either Guild Masters, or the Officer team) need time off from responsibility. Though we grumble sometimes when someone wants to bring a fourth alt into a raid to gear it up, we do understand. Sometimes we do this in guild (like my second druid) or like so:
That would be Kurby’s Goblin, my Blood Elf Mage and also his Tauren. Though our real ID friends knew where we were playing, it is nice sometimes to just log off and go elsewhere. This is really important if you like to play a lot, but feel like you can’t have your own time to do what you feel like doing.
I don’t have this problem so much now as I used to, but I used to level altslike crazy (seriously I have 7 Characters at level 85, and 8 Characters that are above level 60, as of this writing!), because if I were online in the guild, people expected me to heal for them. It doesn’t matter that I needed to farm herbs for my raiding flasks! This was prior to the formation of my current guild, and is no reflection of my current guild mates! Many times I would level in secret until someone figured out my alt, then join the guild on it. Eluna was actually an escape character on a different server than my mains for a while.
About the only time Alternate Characters become an issue is when you spend more time working on them, while letting your main character show up to raids unprepared. That is a big no-no, whether you are in a leadership position or if you are just an altoholic like me, you should always make sure your raiding character is raid ready so that you aren’t handicapping the group! What do you like to do to get away from it all in game?
“Many times I would level in secret until someone figured out my alt, then join the guild on it. ”
That is so me. Whenever I went through periods of only showing up around raid time, my guild mates used to try and figure out what alt I was playing (they were normally on the same server). My GM got to the point where he’d offer a bounty of gold to the first person who figured out what I was up to. Instead of just calling all my alts various versions of “Erinys”, things like “Eri”, “Erina” and “Erin” I started having to get creative
I find levelling quite relaxing and less forced than doing say dailies which is one of the reasons why I like it. Herbing is something else I do to chill out, flying around in flightform picking flowers is just so calming.
omg yes! I LOVE leveling..when I feel like leveling..I do get burnt out when I try to go to fast too quick! I also enjoy farming, when it’s what I want to do. I tend to play the way I want lately (except for raid time of course), to the extent that I don’t even log in if I know all I’m going to do is fly around the pond behind the dwarf bank
Aside from secret alts (which keep me sane), one of my favorite ways to escape is to turn off chat and just fly around my favorite areas listening to music. Moonglade is my favorite zone and I’ve gone there to blow off a lot of steam over the years. It’s silly and time-wastey, but it works!
Sometimes, when I need to do a lot of fishing, I turn off all the sounds except that, and watch netflix while I fish
That is very relaxing to me!