Why not an alt instead of moving jobs?

[Mhaeric]

Other then if you use the same gear for a different job (which I’d rarely do, if I want a different job I want it DIFFERENT) and the msq being lengthy (but still the best non Duty exp it seems) no one has really said why alts aren’t better. One person said two character limit so there is that, although I thought I had eight spots available

I’ve just seem multiple posts asking how to get exp after the msq is over without doing duties and to think of doing an alt job off only hunts, fates and duty pugs I’d probably just quit. I think I’m just old school and the game is more new

The eight slot limit is for the full-tier account. Basic accounts have a limit of 2, iirc. It depends on how much you pay for your subscription. Legacy accounts get the perks of the full subscription with the price of the basic one, for example.

One thing you sound like you're not aware of is that there isn't multiple sets of gear to gear jobs differently with in terms of function. I.e. You will always want to choose the highest level piece of gear. Glamour exists for the reason you give, and even with glamour there are more benefits to sticking with one character rather than an alt. E.g. You only have to farm up your various glamour items once instead of for each alt you might want to use them on, mogstation glamours are mostly only for a single character so you only have to pay RL money for them once, you can't share the glamour dresser across characters, etc.

There's nothing wrong with playing an alt in this game, ot's just not going to be as effective or efficient as doing it on a single character whether you understand that or not.