World of Warcraft Dragonflight Makes Alts Easier

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I’ve never really been one to play alts in World of Warcraft because, in general, redoing everything I’ve already done doesn’t appeal to me very much. The only time I’ve actively played an alt has been during Wrath of the Lich King, and that was only because my guild was transitioning to be casual and I wasn’t ready for that yet. So, I made an alt to raid with another guild during my off nights. Aside from that one time, alts have pretty much been an end-of-expansion activity for me. So, it is with great surprise that I have a second max-level character, and I’m thinking about maybe leveling a third as well. What is it about Dragonflight that makes it so fun to do on alts?

My main is a Guardian Druid, as it has been ever since Legion. I’m still really enjoying it, and I do love tanking. But after hitting raiding and M+ hard since the season started, I noticed I was beginning to feel a little burnt out on tanking everything all the time. I also found myself pretty sick a few weeks ago, so I decided to get to play my dracthyr and see how that went. Until then, aside from doing the starting area and heading back to the Dragon Isles, all I had done with my dracthyr was run around mining and skinning some things. However, I decided it was time to actually work on gaining some levels with her.

The first thing I noticed that really set a positive vibe was, that I had the option to follow the story or not as I saw fit. Choosing to do side quests or world quests didn’t mean that I couldn’t go back to the storyline when I wanted to. After the way, Shadowlands alt leveling was structured this was a real breath of fresh air. After putting around doing dragonriding races and world quests, I decided to punt over to the Azure Span to