The first character I've created was a human Warlock and I've stuck with the class since then. Sure I've tried playing rogues, hunters, mages, paladins just to name a few classes but I've always came back to my warlock.

I even rolled a new character on another realm and it was another warlock.

I like the class so much I've played it twice.

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I started out with an warrior, played with him forever and ever. Later on I switched servers and made another warrior, I didn't get him up to 70 though, but he did get up to 40. After that I switched server one more time and made another warrior he's level 70 too, but now I play with lvl 55 rogue which is my current main.

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My first character was a human paladin. But then I finally got my boyfriend to sign up and my server was full so I re-rolled on his, a Draenei Paladin. Got it up to about the mid-levels, burned out, and then rolled a mage, she is now my main.

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I started with a hunter and leveled to the max and spent ages trying to get all my dungeon gear, one day I decided to roll a priest and the new character totally took over. I soon realised that hunters sucked and that way more fun could be had with a priest.

Since then I've rolled a mage and a rogue and have even tried going back to my hunter(which still sucks).

I think it's important for players to level other classes - it lets you see how they work and you learn lots more about them.

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"Melee unfriendly fights"... You mean all of them? We only get 1-2 rogues in most fights these days, and I often wonder if that's just for loot soaking.

Blizzard has definitely made this the World of Castercraft.

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I have four 70s, and another 65. All different classes.

My main was originally my Mage. That changed when I wanted to start raiding, I switched to my Priest because nobody wanted to take a Fire Mage to Molten Core, and for RP reasons I refused to respec Frost.

That was a very long time ago, and my Priest is my main now.

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I only played one character as my main since the start : a gnome mage

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My main was a hunter for almost a year, the main reason I went with a hunter was becasue the guide said it was the easiest to solo with and I was new to the game. But in the background I had a paladin alt that I loved playing. My hunter got to level 70, but my paladin was not far behind - I made the decision to level her from 50 to 70. Along the way I decided that she would be my new main character. At 67 I changed her to holy spec and brought her to level 70. She got attuned to Kara before my hunter did, my hunter still isn't, and she was part fo a team that downed the Prince and Illhoof the other night.

I guess there are days I miss using my hunter, but I'm not at all unhappy with my main character being my paladin.

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My first character was a NE Hunter (what? Don't look at me like that). It was my first to endgame, along with a human priest, but never got into any of the endgame content because real life ate the handful of friends I played with.

I had to roll a Horde toon (Troll priest), which now gets 98% of my playtime, because that's where everyone I know in the game is.

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I Started out with a hunter on a new server, I Ran him to 60 just do I could max out his Herbalism and alchemy. I then became aware of the fact that the guild I was in had a serious lack of healers, I rolled a druid and am now almost to 70 with that one.

Ther have been a few diversions along the way, the shaman that I may go back to, the warlock or maybe even the priest.

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I originally started on an orc hunter. After getting her to 60, I simply didn't enjoy raiding on her. My friends and I soon rerolled on another server where I started an undead lock. I -loved- her and kept playing her up until the xpac came out. During this time a friend had given me his priest and after taking a look at the classes my guild needed the most, I ended up trading in my warlock for the priest. Now, I'm a rockin 70 undead holy priest, and hating it.

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"I'm considering asking the officers if I can make my paladin my main and raid on her."

I will never understand the logic of that statement. I will never understand the need to have someone else grant me permission to play a game in the manner which I prefer to play. If you want to play your pally, you go right ahead and play your pally. It onbviously is making you happier, and if a game isn't fun why play it. (the reason I don't play sport sims...they aren't fun to me. I don't force myself to play so that I can hang with my friends who do.) If your guild gets upset because you're doing so, that is their problem. If they won't let you raid with them, leave. If they are a good bunch (like my sports sim playing friends) they will understand your desire and compensate accordingly to their roster so that you can join in on the raids, et-al.

I don't have any guild affiliation, obviously, and do not care for one unless it is completely open, which seem to be a rare breed. So I guess I don't have a "main", because to give a particular toon that title I would have to belong to a guild wherein that particular toon is in the main rotation. So what I have is "the toon I am playing predominantly now", which is much harder to write...so I guess I should just use main.(?)

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Along with getting permission as to what class you can play, do you also have to get permisson or take orders on how to spec all your toons?

I hope your guild is paying your subscription fee to justify them telling you what to do with your game time.

I started with a rogue at initial release and then switched to pally after hitting 60. Got her to 70 and a mage as well. Poor rogue is languishing in IF making me money at the AH. I play whatever toon I feel like or whichever has a goal to accomplish. Gets boring to do the same thing every day.

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When I started I rolled an Orc Hunter to 60 (pre-BC), problem was the guild I was in at the time had an mass of hunters. What they claimed they needed was more healers. So after looking at Priests, Shaman & Druids; I decide I wanted to try a Shaman (that and I always kept reading about how "overpowered" Shamans were). She is now my main at 70, and apparently I'm told I play her very well. So well that I was made "Class Leader" for Resto Shamans....didn't even know it either. I'm currently rolling a ELE/ENH Shaman at 48, but don't think that will take the place of my 70. BTW the Hunter is in limbo at 66.

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My first main was a resto druid. Shockingly, it took me 28 days played to hit 60. I gave him up in the outlands because I hated not having a rez. A healer with a 30 min rez is no fun when we are giving clothies tons of spell damage for the first time. So often I would lose a mage to a one or two shot, and they would have to run back.

My new main is a fire mage. I like to be the one two shotted! I got to 70 in 13 days played. What a difference! My druid, much to the annoyance of my guild, sits languishing as a VERY high bank alt!

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We have more Caster DPS than you can shake a stick at - you'd need a whole tree really...so I'm contemplating my Paladin becoming my main once I get her up to outlands...only issue - I'm in love with ret...somehow I doubt I'll be getting any more raid slots than I am currently.

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My first character when I got the game 2 years ago was a warrior. I got him to about 40, played around with some alts to about level 15, then took a year long break from WoW. When I came back, I started fresh on a new realm with a new warrior, which made it to 70. About a month ago, I got bored and frustrated with tanking, and started experimenting with alts again. I now have a level 44 mage that I consider my new main. I only use my 70 to farm things I need for my mage now.

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Well, of course you need to talk to the guild officers if your in a raiding guild, and you want to change your main.

There will be a raid slot filled up, so they don't take in a new raider due to the change. Elizabeth will now be getting healing loot, instead of rogue loot, and I presume the raid does not want Elizabeth to give up on healing once she is fully geared up.

Raiding guilds is an agreement made between several people that they will all work toward a common goal under the leadership of a few people. If one person does a 180 on this agreement, officers have to take in new people to replace that person, gear him/her up and teach that person all the bosses they are working on and have worked on.

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For those of you who have never had to deal with a guild who doesn't appreciate you switching mains, I'll tell you why my old guild discouraged it.

Basically, we had quite a few players who would start out with one "main", then after they had gotten everything that they possibly could get from content we had on 'farm' status they would switch to playing a different character.

This caused us to stall out with our progress in new content, and caused *serious* bad feelings among other players who didn't have any other characters besides their mains. There was eventually a split in the guild where all of the "singles" left (those players who only played one character) and moved to a guild that was much more strict about the main vs. alt distinction.

The guild regressed from working on Nef in BWL to barely being able to take down Rag in MC. It wasn't a pretty picture. Thus, the guild leaders learned... If you want to keep your "single" players who concentrate on their *one* main, then you need to rein in the multi-alt folks so that you don't kill your progression.

Now, my personal experiences :)

My original main was a Priest. I wanted to switch to playing a warrior (for all of these experiences, my characters are all level 60). My guild at the time had an over-abundance of warriors and as such I wasn't allowed to bring my warrior to raids as they needed the healing from my priest a lot more. I waited for a while for them to open a slot for a warrior via recruiting, but watched them take outsiders who were playing a warrior instead of allowing me to move "You're just too valuable as a healer".

I ended up leaving the guild, moving to another guild where I played my warrior as my main.

When I decided to roll on another server (before the days of transfers) to play with a RL friend, I rolled a druid because his guild *really* needed druids (they had none). Raided as her for a long while. This was the guild that imploded as described above. While I was with them, I played my Druid about 90% of the time, and my warrior about 10%. After the guild exploded I moved to another guild.

This guild didn't need druids, warriors, or priests. But they did need my rogue. So I raided as her through AQ40.

So yeah, 4 mains. I've yet to be in a guild that allowed me to change mains unless it was something that the guild had a urgent need to fill, and even then it was only on a temporary basis until they recruited and I could go back to my old "main".

Currently I'm back to my Priest as my main, though now she's a shadow raiding build. Much more fun than being the healer, and I'm betting that it won't be nearly as hard to switch her out when I eventually decide to move on from playing her all the time. :)

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For those of you who have never had to deal with a guild who doesn't appreciate you switching mains, I'll tell you why my old guild discouraged it.

Basically, we had quite a few players who would start out with one "main", then after they had gotten everything that they possibly could get from content we had on 'farm' status they would switch to playing a different character.

This caused us to stall out with our progress in new content, and caused *serious* bad feelings among other players who didn't have any other characters besides their mains. There was eventually a split in the guild where all of the "singles" left (those players who only played one character) and moved to a guild that was much more strict about the main vs. alt distinction.

The guild regressed from working on Nef in BWL to barely being able to take down Rag in MC. It wasn't a pretty picture. Thus, the guild leaders learned... If you want to keep your "single" players who concentrate on their *one* main, then you need to rein in the multi-alt folks so that you don't kill your progression.

Now, my personal experiences :)

My original main was a Priest. I wanted to switch to playing a warrior (for all of these experiences, my characters are all level 60). My guild at the time had an over-abundance of warriors and as such I wasn't allowed to bring my warrior to raids as they needed the healing from my priest a lot more. I waited for a while for them to open a slot for a warrior via recruiting, but watched them take outsiders who were playing a warrior instead of allowing me to move "You're just too valuable as a healer".

I ended up leaving the guild, moving to another guild where I played my warrior as my main.

When I decided to roll on another server (before the days of transfers) to play with a RL friend, I rolled a druid because his guild *really* needed druids (they had none). Raided as her for a long while. This was the guild that imploded as described above. While I was with them, I played my Druid about 90% of the time, and my warrior about 10%. After the guild exploded I moved to another guild.

This guild didn't need druids, warriors, or priests. But they did need my rogue. So I raided as her through AQ40.

So yeah, 4 mains. I've yet to be in a guild that allowed me to change mains unless it was something that the guild had a urgent need to fill, and even then it was only on a temporary basis until they recruited and I could go back to my old "main".

Currently I'm back to my Priest as my main, though now she's a shadow raiding build. Much more fun than being the healer, and I'm betting that it won't be nearly as hard to switch her out when I eventually decide to move on from playing her all the time. :)

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