Is there any good reason to not roll a new toon for each class?

[Alberel]

And maybe one day they'll just give everyone a character will fully geared level 50 everything. I can make ridiculously exaggerated statements about features that haven't been discussed and are probably only being brainstormed about if anything. It's beyond stupid to say don't do X because Y might happen before the game dies in a couple years.

What on earth does a new progression system have to do with giving away free loot? I do believe that's the most absurd attempt at a rebuttal I've seen on here.

How is it a ridiculously exaggerated statement anyway? There's a good chance that they'll introduce some form of alternative advancement system at some point (FFXI had one, most MMOs get one) and it may well be character-based and not job-based (see Rift). If this were to happen the OP would be screwed as he'd then have to do double the work in progressing each alt.

My point was the current situation may change and if it does he will have wasted his time. Given that possibility does he want to take the risk or settle for what he can get on one character (which is more than enough for all game content)?

I'm sorry if you were offended by my use of logic and reasoning.

[Teeko]

Eh, play the way you want in my opinion.

While it is probably less convenient in the long run to have things across multiple characters vs just one, sometimes it is nice to have different races/genders/etc for different classes to spice it up.

[Churchill]

Best way to do it is to roll a toon for MNK/DRG/BRD, WAR/PLD, WHM/SCH, and BLM/SMN.

[Roris]

The weekly Coil lockout, soon to be CT lockout and the myth cap are all really inconvenient and they really do hamper your progress no matter how people justify it, but it's even more inconvenient doing the storyline over and over plus you'll still need those cross class abilities, even if it technically doesn't take that long. Not like there's anything to do anyway, at least not until a couple of more days, so it's up to you.

Personally I like the convenience of having everything on a single character even if there's a lot of things that I don't like at all and could be done much better, like always being a gimped SMN or being limited in the amount of gear paths and places to obtain it so I can see why you'd want to make alts.

[Allyra]

Eh, play the way you want in my opinion.

While it is probably less convenient in the long run to have things across multiple characters vs just one, sometimes it is nice to have different races/genders/etc for different classes to spice it up.

^this

Best way to do it is to roll a toon for MNK/DRG/BRD, WAR/PLD, WHM/SCH, and BLM/SMN.

and this ^

It takes awhile, but having multiple toons (keep qqing you youngsters, toon goes all the way back to UO) can be nice, especially when you have more than 7 friends (shocking, I know.)

[Noata]

CT wont have a lockout, The Live Letter states that CT has no lockout, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...812-02-2013%29

They also mention possible adjustments to Tombstones, as well as a possible addition of a new set for 2.2

Just making sure people don't start spreading the wrong info about CT

[Ryios]

Just use the same last name for all your alts, makes you pretty easy to remember. Like all your alts are members of the same family.

[Zakalwe]

CT wont have a lockout, The Live Letter states that CT has no lockout, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...812-02-2013%29

They also mention possible adjustments to Tombstones, as well as a possible addition of a new set for 2.2

Just making sure people don't start spreading the wrong info about CT

CT will have a lockout, but a different kind. Run it as often as you want, but only 1 loot a week from it. A loot lockout, not a run lockout. Well, it's an improvement.

[Axidrain]

CT will have a lockout, but a different kind. Run it as often as you want, but only 1 loot a week from it. A loot lockout, not a run lockout. Well, it's an improvement.

is it one item per boss or one for the whole ct run?

[Allyra]

is it one item per boss or one for the whole ct run?

One the whole run. You can roll as much as you want, but once you win a piece of gear you can't roll on any other piece until the reset.