Upside of having two characters?

[dinantes]

Heya! Returning after a long while away (just before 2.1) and daunted by ther prospect of jumping into the end-lvl content with my 50 warrior/Black mage. Considering starting a fresh character, but it seems wildly counterproductive.

Is there any great benefits to having two characters?

[Alukah]

'No weekly lookout' seems to be the only benefit.

[LilPhist]

I'm able to send mail between my alt and main, so double the bank space =)

Sadly, that "workaround" was removed from the game.

[Kos_Mos]

You can only cap 2-3 jobs to 100 in desynthesis per character so you could cap 4-6 using 2 characters.

[Thaliss]

getting treasure maps
Gardening when private housing comes Private housing

[Freyt]

Having both male and female exclusive gear.

[Krr]

Weekly lockouts is the big one, and one of the reasons I've seen raiding buddies with a lot of free time to burn make and level second characters.

[ServerCollaps]

You can only cap 2-3 jobs to 100 in desynthesis per character so you could cap 4-6 using 2 characters.

most profitable things to desynth are charbound, so you cant trade them between the chars, which makes it pointless

[Ooshima]

The most common reason why people run 2 characters is for coil.

Some players just want to do coil twice, with the same or different people.

Those who do it with the same people are usually going for the double loot method. 4 main accounts paired with 4 secondary accounts, two different teams. Loots per team goes to the 4 main accounts. In this way, gearing is speed up much faster.

Another scenario is for coil selling. One of the raids in our FC have a full alternate account just to sell coil carries, so that gearing for their main account jobs will not be affected.

[kuikui]

The only reason to play more than one class is simply to break up the monotony of one job. Once you get into the post 50 grind for virtually everything to progress, you'll begin to see just how tedious and time consuming it becomes to keep 2 or more characters on par.

I started out doing it on smn, pld, and drg. Then dropped to smn and pld. And now pretty much just keeping smn completely up to date and keeping pld up just enough to be competitive in order to get instant content queues.