To alt or not to alt?

[Alistaire]

Diminished? More like quite substantially increased.

Maps.
Anything on a weekly cap.
Roulette bonuses.
The lack of craptastically rare drops that would make you throw your keyboard getting them on the wrong character.

The only comparable thing in xi was dynamis but I never had the time to do even 2 runs a day when I was running 3 characters there. Well, crafting you needed alts for there I guess. But certainly it's a no-brainer here to run 2 characters if you play enough.

[Sho86]

Diminished? More like quite substantially increased.

Maps.
Anything on a weekly cap.
Roulette bonuses.
The lack of craptastically rare drops that would make you throw your keyboard getting them on the wrong character.

The only comparable thing in xi was dynamis but I never had the time to do even 2 runs a day when I was running 3 characters there. Well, crafting you needed alts for there I guess. But certainly it's a no-brainer here to run 2 characters if you play enough.

Don't get me wrong, if you read my full post you'll see I'm much in favor of having alts. Although they did make the quality of life easier to sit with one character in this game, thus in my eyes diminished. That said of course like I also said in my post agreeing with what your stating here, the ability to get more armor is there through alts.

[Estellios]

To be fair you need to have quite a substantial amount of available playtime for alts to be worth considering for all of that. Doing all your daily roulettes alone is probably in the realm of 2-3 hours daily. And don't get me started on needing a drop from Crystal Tower, it's time consuming enough when you are looking for a few pieces spread among a few jobs.