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

[Alhanelem]

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

It's one item from the dungeon per week, as far as we understand.

That being said, it's still better than the coil lockout:

Typically, unless you're a pretty elite group, you're getting 8 drops per week from coil. Sometimes you might get the same one and nobody needs it (or you get something for a job nobody has), if that happens, that's a wasted drop slot.
In CT, if you bring a set group of 8, you can keep running the dungeon until the people get the loot they want. Just pass the drop if nobody wants it, and keep running until all 8 people get something they want. So in terms of being able to get the loot you want, it's a lot more friendly than coil, because you can be assured that all 8 drops you're getting per week are something somebody wants/needs unlike coil where its the luck of the draw.

Of course, we could be wrong and it's one item per week *from each boss*, though I was under the impression there was just one loot chest at the end.

[Spy]

You cant mail things between characters...>.>......

[OrionInerghem]

I just got 3 drg drops on my BLM tues while in coil because I'm the only one in my static with it leveled.

And I have all relics.

I see no reason to role an alt unless you want to play a different race, alts for gear are silly

[Ptolemy]

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.)

a fairly tiny minority (almost non-existent) actually said that in UO, the phrase started becoming popular during EQ's era

[Allyra]

a fairly tiny minority (almost non-existent) actually said that in UO, the phrase started becoming popular during EQ's era

I said it when I played. As did the people I interacted with. So idk about being "almost non-existent". And I didn't state when it became popular, just that it was used even back then.

iirc There were people that even used it in Diabolo II, but I didn't play that one for very long because of constant PKs lol.

[Venos]

I say, go for it! I have 2 characters, 2 relics each. Leveling another character in this game isn't as annoying as it was in 11.

Some of us didn't level more than one character because of gear lockouts or because we're gear whores... Did someone really say because you have to logout?? LOL!!

[GilbertLapine]

It's pretty lame that Myth tomes/coil are locked out for your character instead of each class. Essentially you play on monday/tuesday and myth cap/clear coil then you have nothing to do for the rest of the week in FFXIV.


So is there any reason why people level multiple classes on the same character?

Yeah, since SE hasn't stayed true to the 'one character is enough' idea the game was supposedly based on, its probably a good idea.

Myth caps, coil lockouts, base-class stat allocation... rolling alts seems smarter and smarter with every passing day. That said, they still want to give lip service to the idea that you should only need to roll one character, so they still wont let you share bound items and such between your alts. Can't even friend your alts to send mail between them unless you sub multiple accounts.

Way to go SE!!

[FMElan]

Yeah, since SE hasn't stayed true to the 'one character is enough' idea the game was supposedly based on, its probably a good idea.

Myth caps, coil lockouts, base-class stat allocation... rolling alts seems smarter and smarter with every passing day. That said, they still want to give lip service to the idea that you should only need to roll one character, so they still wont let you share bound items and such between your alts. Can't even friend your alts to send mail between them unless you sub multiple accounts.

Way to go SE!!

Hmm...so there are pros and cons to each decision.

Interesting...

[DenzelTaru]

are people still saying toon?

yoshi-p himself said that the cross class system is important.. if you have a different job on 8 different characters you have no cross class

[Churchill]

Oh well if Yoshi said it.

The cross class system in 2.0 amounts to just about the worst skill tree in any MMO ever, past and future included.