Account-wide Armoury Bonus please!

I know this game implicitly encourages playing one and only one character.

However, I for one LOVE to get into the fantasy of multiple cultures/genders/races, and the current system partially discourages it.

I've got my Mi'qote main whom I love... but I felt practically forced (from a semi-casual's perspective) to shelve lil Jephrys Whisperwind due to how inefficient it is.

I understand both sides (two characters, two sets of daily roulettes/tome-caps)... but I think this one simple change would sell me on dusting off lala Jephrys. As well, I don't have a lot of time in my week to double-cap/double-dailies/double-roulette, so this tiny differential in my secondary's 1-50 would really make a difference in my mind.

I don't think it's a lot to ask, and it would only truly affect each next characters' first 1-50.

So... please SE?

BONUS: also, account-wide Armoire plox!

@Hvinire

That makes absolutely no sense - they are different characters and should not influence each other.

If you want such game-breaking advantage, ask for a free character with lvl 50 on all classes and full ilvl90 equipment, then...

Game-breaking... laughable haha.

Sorry, but that's honestly really funny to me.

Honest reply, a bonus 50% experience to fates/monster kills on your secondarys' initial high-level class/job isn't asking a lot...

Like, much at all.

Yes, they are separate characters, so looking through that lens it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But this' more in regard to account-progression & MILDLY assisting casuals in experiencing/fulfilling other fantasies.

Heres how this would go.

Player: "My I'm having a tough time making money today. Oh I know. I'll start a second character and use that wonderful armory bonus to level up quicker. Considering it only took a week to do it the first time it won't take very long at all since it will be 50% faster this time. I'm going to make a mint off the quest rewards!"

RMT: "Cha-ching baby"

What's your account level?

There's no such thing as an "account-progression".

I'd much rather an account-shared retainer/chest for that armor I just dread to farm again >.<

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Originally Posted by cotti

What's your account level?

There's no such thing as an "account-progression".

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WoW has account level progression in that if you do stuff on one character all your other characters share the same mounts and pets. You max one character you unlock armor to level the others faster. They can add account level stuff if they wanted to for FFXIV since other games do it.

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Originally Posted by cotti

What's your account level?

There's no such thing as an "account-progression".

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Wow, you sure nit-picky aren't you? Lol.

I would describe account-progression as an idea or concept, not so much a 'thing'... if I have 2 50's, a 23, & a 10--I would say I've progressed "that much" on my account as a whole.

It works for other things too like achievements, gear, & so on (e.g. my 50's are all i90 or I've earned the "explored the entire world" achievement on this one toon).

Imo, if you have a class to level 15, it should be automatically 15 when you make a new character. That way you can focus leveling a class up and don't have to level all the cross class again except to 26 and 33 etc.

Leveling blm to 26 when I have one at 50 on my main, and arcanist to 33 is the only reason my Alt isn't 50 yet. I really dread leveling blm to 26 again lol and don't even want to think about eye for an eye. So I'll be a level 50 whm without eye for an eye for a long time.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

WoW has account level progression in that if you do stuff on one character all your other characters share the same mounts and pets. You max one character you unlock armor to level the others faster. They can add account level stuff if they wanted to for FFXIV since other games do it.

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WoW also limits you to one class per character, so it makes more sense in that system. With FFXIV letting you level every class with one character, this would be an entirely pointless addition.

Honestly though, if you're that determined to level an alt then just do it. Why do you care about armory bonuses, since creating a new character means having access to every quest anew. If you really want to level quickly, then just do what you're going to have to do anyway -- play the game. By the time you've finished the story (necessary to unlock 'endgame') you'll have your level 50 armory bonus anyway.

TBH though, the armory system would have been better implemented on this game as account wide. So you could level all jobs to 50 then just pick an alt. So you could raid BCB on tank on character A, and go healer on Character B.

Then they should have made them share the same 2 retainers and auction house listings. Make it based on last name and make last names unique.

E.g give everyone 5 bags of inventory and make it so bag 6 can only hold gear and bag 6 and the armory are account wide, same retainer storage for all characters.

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Originally Posted by Ryios

Imo, if you have a class to level 15, it should be automatically 15 when you make a new character. That way you can focus leveling a class up and don't have to level all the cross class again except to 26 and 33 etc.

Leveling blm to 26 when I have one at 50 on my main, and arcanist to 33 is the only reason my Alt isn't 50 yet. I really dread leveling blm to 26 again lol and don't even want to think about eye for an eye. So I'll be a level 50 whm without eye for an eye for a long time.

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That'd work!

they should let us mail stuff to other characters on our account.

With all the gear/time lockouts, SMN/SCH sharing additional stat points, and people maybe just wanting to play as a different race for funsies, I'm not surprised people might want to try out a second character. Or a third even. I don't see how this would affect anyone else drastically. Sure, why not.

I consider being able to walk around in a different face the ultimate advantage of having multiple characters, and the price to pay is having to level up everything you want from scratch.

I don't want account-wide experience bonuses; because otherwise everyone will be walking around with alts.

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Originally Posted by indira

they should let us mail stuff to other characters on our account.

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You can... might be a bug or an exploit though so do this at your own risk.

"Join a dungeon on your main, as soon as you get in, alt+f4 and close the game out"

Fire the game back up and log on your alt, your main will still be logged on and you can send your main a friend request.

Log back on your main and finish or leave the dungeon and accept the friend request. Now you can mail to yourself.

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Originally Posted by Ryios

You can... might be a bug or an exploit though so do this at your own risk.

"Join a dungeon on your main, as soon as you get in, alt+f4 and close the game out"

Fire the game back up and log on your alt, your main will still be logged on and you can send your main a friend request.

Log back on your main and finish or leave the dungeon and accept the friend request. Now you can mail to yourself.

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Not as of a recent patch. It was in the patch notes.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7af43f3c43828a

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Resolved Issues

* Added on December 16, 2013.

The following issues have been addressed.

An issue wherein a player was occasionally able to register a character on the same account to their friend list.

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Originally Posted by indira

they should let us mail stuff to other characters on our account.

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Now, my suggestion may not work for the big, devoted FCs, but I made a small one, and invited all my alternate characters in it, along with my two friends and their alts. that way we can use the FC chest to send stuff to our characters freely. I just wish there was a way to send Untradable stuff too!

Well, they might have fixed it so you can't do it anymore, but I still can, grandfather clause!

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Originally Posted by Zumi

WoW has account level progression in that if you do stuff on one character all your other characters share the same mounts and pets. You max one character you unlock armor to level the others faster. They can add account level stuff if they wanted to for FFXIV since other games do it.

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Because its not already stupid easy to level alt classes. Heirlooms were a bloody joke in WoW. Good luck trying to Tank as a fresh character in a group full of Heirlooms, even in solid dungeon blues, they don't match up to Heirloom gear. Especially when you hit the expansion level cutoffs.
Oh and level via PvP as a fresh player against all the twinks with PvP Heirlooms? Lol, my 19 Rogue with 2 shot backstabs + Shadowstep would like a word with you.

Leveling multiple characters is a choice, Just like leveling multiple Jobs. Its encouraged for you to play all on one character. As an altaholic, i plan to have one of every race with Jobs at 50. But theres no need nor benefit to doing it, Nor is there a need for SE to waste time making things to facilitate easing it.

Wait wait, we got a smart one.
Share the job levels between characters and can raid "lock out" raids multiple times, once for each char!
Why none thought about this already!?
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