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Best Garrison Buildings for Alts
Behind every great main there’s an army of alts being horribly neglected and abused.
Master Rokk here. Blizzard was kind enough to make the leveling process much less painful this time around. They also gave us little to do outside of raiding once we reached 100, other than knock the dust off an alt and start that ten level beating all over again. Sometimes, like a form of Stockholm Syndrome, the leveling abuse makes us more sympathetic to our secondary character. Next thing we know, that alt who used to be just a profession mule is suddenly kind of fun to play. Too bad our main is geared better, or has more garrison resources, or is just not ready to become an alt.
A proper garrison for an alt could alleviate a great deal of that.
SignsOfKelani created a video that outlines what he claims is the best garrison setup for alts. While there may be no right or wrong answer as far as garrisons go, this comes up with quite a few that seem right. So maybe there is a right answer. Let’s not get too in-depth into this. It’s for an alt. If the toon was worth that much forethought, they’d be a main.
If you’re going to have an army of second stringers, they don’t have to be geared as second stringers. Keep them ready, build their hopes up, and maybe one day they will be the character called up to run a heroic dungeon. Or raid. Or just be really geared for farming transmog gear and cloth from old content. But, like, do it really well.
The Culling
This brief conversation did two things for me. First, it saved me money because I was planning on getting all my heirlooms back on one server, which meant I had to give a damn about a character to the point where I’d justify the server transfer.
Second, it made me want to find all of my heirlooms. Damn, I had a lot of heirlooms.
I don’t have the time to play characters on multiple servers, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one heavy stone. I’d go through alts on other servers, and if they didn’t have some kind of serious meaning to me I’d delete them. It was also an easy way to find heirlooms, because I’d get an error message telling me the deletion wouldn’t be allowed because the character had something in their mailbox, or they had an heirloom somewhere.
Many alts were deleted. Many heirlooms collected.
Spring cleaning, a few months too late.
Rokk Talk 