Do you farm mounts/minions on alts?

I literally opted to fantasia and name change last night SPECIFICALLY for this reason. I have over 100 minions and titles I literally can never earn again.

Plus, all the cash shop stuff IS NOT account wide! So all the old goodies I use would need to be bought AGAIN if I wanted them!

I see nothing wrong with account wide. Leveled alts are not, I think, exactly a common practice in this game. So I don't think any fear of impacting the game has merit, should that ever be a concern. Alongside that, I do wish they would introduce a damn glamour system that is server stored (also ideally account wide). >:[ I promise I won't reduce the number of retainers I sub!

If it's something you buy in the Mogstation I think it should be account wide, all the time, but something we got from a quest/achievement/drop I think should stay as it is, per character. I have 2 main characters (on two accounts) and 6 other characters/alts I use from time to time. Why should an alt have the character just because my main got it on a drop. That makes no sense :S Alts are separate characters.

No, I don't go out of my way to farm anything on my alt. She's for relaxing with. I'm slow boating all the content, reading all the quests, chatting with all the NPCs and watching all the cut scenes! The only reason she has more than the chocobo mount is because it was either an account wide grant or it was easy to get (I have the first yo-kai mount, but won't get the second on my alt while my main suffered last year runnning all the Fates for the second mount and all the weapons.).

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Originally Posted by ErryK

I have a main character, and four alts.

I only farm on my main, and do whatever I can in events on my alts.

I don't focus on my alts as much as I do my main.

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I do the same, all on my main character, while my alts get the account-wide items and event items. I have limited time so i can't do things all over again for the alt. I created my alt so I can have a one-man FC that my main char can take over in the event Things get bad with my current FC, which so far is still doing good.

I guess then that it depends on what purpose you made your alt for and how much time you got to play.

New to the game, wife and I decided to make the switch a few weeks ago from our 12 years of World of Warcraft. So, mounts and pets are not account bound? So basically it's like the old days of Wow, where if you had an alt you had to farm everything all over again? OH BOY!!

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Originally Posted by SuperionG1

New to the game, wife and I decided to make the switch a few weeks ago from our 12 years of World of Warcraft. So, mounts and pets are not account bound? So basically it's like the old days of Wow, where if you had an alt you had to farm everything all over again? OH BOY!!

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Yup, pretty much. I still play WoW and am thankful I don't have to farm my 200+ mounts on my 40+ alts. Yes I'm an altoholic to the extreme.

Been trying to restrain myself from creating an army of alts on FFXIV too... but its a struggle. ._.

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Originally Posted by SuperionG1

New to the game, wife and I decided to make the switch a few weeks ago from our 12 years of World of Warcraft. So, mounts and pets are not account bound? So basically it's like the old days of Wow, where if you had an alt you had to farm everything all over again? OH BOY!!

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Yep. The only account wide items are veteran rewards and three cash shop mounts (Sleipnir, Bennu and Fat Moogle). On the plus side, you only need to level a second character if you want to get around tomestone, Savage and craft Specialist restrictions. Unlike WoW, you can play and level every class on a single character.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Yep. The only account wide items are veteran rewards and three cash shop mounts (Sleipnir, Bennu and Fat Moogle). On the plus side, you only need to level a second character if you want to get around tomestone, Savage and craft Specialist restrictions. Unlike WoW, you can play and level every class on a single character.

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I noticed this and think it is pretty awesome. I am a huge altoholic in World of Warcraft so being able to have one character with multiple jobs seems great.

I don't farm mounts or minions on my alt. It's too much work. The only exception is the gold saucer stuff because the cacpot takes barely any time. I'd like more things to be account-wide, personally.