Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
To be honest though, there are upsides to having to play alts to experience other jobs/downsides to one character for all jobs...

That is, with an alt, you get to level up easily with MSQ and sidequests.

Meanwhile, here in Duty Fantasy XIV, your best recourse for leveling the up to 16 other jobs is to spam the Duty Roulettes again and again and again and again and again and again...

(Another is that each alt comes with its own set of bags and bank space allowing you to spread your guff across multiple characters... Meanwhile, with so many jobs these days in XIV my armoury chest is stuffed to the brim with gear...)
Not with professions. In WoW your limited to just 2 and that's gathering and crafting combined. If your a Blacksmith and Engineer, you'll need to a high level miner alt to get the materials. It was a convoluted mess and there was no MSQ in WoW to bring up your level quickly. If you wanted high level ores, you'd need to grind a combat class for weeks. That or deal with the upside down economy where the mats were invariably more expensive than the crafted products.