Upside of having two characters?

[Mishini_Dracoto]

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.

Are we playing the same game? on ONE Character, you can play EVERY class.

Is there any great benefits to having two characters?

Some, which are fairly minor. it depends on how much time you have to invest. If you don't like the way your character looks, you can always buy Fantasia and change. I would recommend this instead of re rolling except in certain circumstances ; such as one character is capped ; you are bored and not enjoying it / want to start fresh / want to start on a new server for some reason.

[Makado]

I did another character so I can coil to help other groups that need a person. Also desynthing is limited so you can do more with that also. Really those are the only things you are limited on at the moment, so basically while you run your alt around your making some more gil on stuff while you play it. In the future I'm sure they will have more reasons why you would want to have an alt though, so please look forward to it.