No time for alts?

I think it’s safe to say that Blizzard finally got the LFG tool right with the new Dungeon Finder in patch 3.3 to be paired with the new dungeon system that allows players to run random heroic dungeons to no end. For a lot of players, raiding the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeon isn’t really a possibility for them for whatever reason, so running heroics is what keeps them busy and the Dungeon Finder helps with this a lot. But what may be a great strength for the Dungeon Finder and the new Dungeon system could also prove to be a “bad” thing when looks at from the proper perspective.

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I’m not talking about anything serious and for some people it may not even be a problem. But it certainly has been something I’ve noticed especially within the group of people I play with. The allure for epic gear is always strong and with the bosses in heroics dropping Emblems of Triumph now, gear that was difficult to get for a lot of people suddenly becomes much easier especially with the unlimited potential to run heroics. Of course the Emblem of Frost gear is better but you can only get two of those a day if all you do is run heroics.

I’ve noticed quite a number of people, including myself, spend a lot of time running heroics on main characters while alts are neglected. Before the patch came out, the group of friends I run heroics with would do the heroic daily on one set of characters and switch for round two on a different set of characters. In this sense, the old system gave more time for us to pay more attention to alts. Nowadays it’s more a case of running on mains until we feel like running no more. I consider my mage my primary alt and I haven’t touched him since before the patch came out!

I see this as a “problem” that probably will resolve itself when the “mains” manage to get all the gear they can from Triumph gear unless of course people switch attention to the alts to gear them up. Depending on how many alts a person is willing to gear up, this problem might be here for a while though. How have you managed your characters? Have you noticed the same kind of thing happening to you and your friends?