Guild Wars 2

Like 1 main for open pve, 1 for pvp, 1 for fractals dungeons raids, 1 for wvw, 1 for gathering, 1 for world bosses, 1 for parking jp chest etc?

3 crafters (they never leave LA).
One JP expert (literally the only time I use mesmer)
One Charged Quartz slave
3 other classes never really does anything, except occasionally seeing action in WvW.

And my main which does everything.

Dress up dolls for alternate armor combination ideas.

… that’s pretty much it.

Not really any role. They’re parked at a flax farm right now because I’m playing my Revenant but sooner or later I’ll get tired of that one and start playing a different one a day. Whichever one I play is the one that does everything.

Depends on the alt and what I feel like doing for the day. But I have a few niches.

Thief — SW rounds. Replacing him with another mostly due to his current lack of bag space.

Mesmer in Ascended — Fractals and Dungeons.

Sylvari Reaper — HoT metas and collection filling.

Norn Necromancer — world exploration to get mastery xp and advance her HP towards becoming a Reaper.

Human elementalist — pre-80 leveling when guildies are raising alts up. He’s 64 now, that won’t last much longer.

Then I have a lot of alts that exist for RP and I select from my “stable” to fit the desired scenario. Guild adventuring? Thief and human guardian are ICly in the guild. Sylvari angst? I have 3 rp’d sylvari at differing levels of Mordremoth vulnerability. Random encounter? Whichever would be most likely in the place the other players want to meet in, or most fits the tone they want, be it shady dealings, blithe merriment, quiet philosophy, urban adventure, etc.

When not otherwise in use, most are parked at the flax farm in VB.

I main a Guardian and mostly WvW, so pretty much all my alts also WvW. However, they sometimes do have specific duties which isn’t a problem since I just can enter the mists and come back out to wherever.

Engineer— When I don’t feel like Guardian. That pretty means most of PvP or instances
Ele— Teq/Cursed Shore Usually placed near a rich platinum in Sparkfly to wait for Teq.
Mesmer— Utility/scout whenever needed, Almost exclusively WvW
Thief— She’s parked at Bloodtide coast to gather for Kryta dailies, and as well as any other fetch quest. Also almost exclusively WvW
Ranger— Cook and whenever I want to solo a low fractal with low effort.
Necro— Guild Missions because she’s the only one with map compleition
Warrior—

I have 22 lv. 80 toons, and none of them is my ‘main’. They all have different builds and skills, and I play them all regularly. I guess you’d say their role is killing things (especially opposing players!).

to be there when i wanna play them

I basically choose each one depending on what I’m in the mood for staring at on the screen for hours.

Necromancer when I want to be “Death Incarnate” and dress up with skulls and dark robes.
Engineer for longcoats, pirate garb and amusing flamethrower times and silliness.
Guardian for smashing things with a hammer and the color teal.
Warrior for the black/green color scheme.
Charr elementalist when I want to burn everything and be a kitty.
Revenant, still testing it out to see how I like it.

Well, I do have a main, that is the most decked out gear-wise, but….

I play others depending on where I’ve left them and what the Daily might call for, or whatever I may feel like doing.

I also have a L60 for opening champ bags, etc., a L21 for Silver Doubloons at a JP, another L80 at a JP, just because I’m not fond of the profession, a couple of key-runners (different accounts), a L80 parked at the entrance to the Home Instance in the Grove, some other L20-somethings on another account parked at a JP, and a few empty character slots for a Revenant and whatever else may tickle my fancy.

That’s about it, I think.

Sylvari revenant- current main main, trying to get map completion, pvp, doing living world season 2 then HoT, also only toon i wvw on which is still rare. mostly just pve for story/crafting and pvp
Sylvari thief: first main and first toon, kinda kicked him to the curb when HoT came out since pvp has always been my main thing in mmos and hot wrecked thieves. originally started playing gw1 due to critically acclaimed pvp. but yeah i only log on to my thief since hot came out to just use his weaponsmithing :’(

human mesmer: strictly pvp atm, looove pvping on mes. pre hot and hot. once im done w living world and HoT story on rev, i’ll probably do it on mes next. unless maybe they make thieves not worthless, then my thief will go up in priority above my mes. i’m sure thieves are still decent at pve but i can’t play a class thats underpowered honestly. especially a thief whose role i feel best fits pvp and wvw and thats what got nerfed on em. sorry im rambling about muh thief

but i also have one of every other class at varying levels between 15 and 50. next one i’ll level to 80 will probably be my norn female ele and then my charr male necro. i dont see my warr, guard, rangwr or engi getting playtime within the next year or two lol (so, probably never)

Mules, mostly weighed down with account bound asc mats and stuff I will almost certainly never use.

I really don’t get the idea of having “alts” and “mains”… I have 19 characters and i don’t consider any of them my main… i do everything on all of them… its all a matter of “what do i feel like playing today?”…