Why not separate Raid Lockouts and Tomestone Caps?

[Garotte14]

It's fine the way it is.

[Nofacekiller]

It's fine the way it is.

Great argument.

[hallena]

It's fine the way it is.

No it's not.
Right now gearing an alt is only possible after you're done gearing your main. Yet if you flat out create a new character you can gear both at the same time.
It would also give more stuff for people to do instead of running coil once a week then logout until next tuesday

[Lithera]

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It would give them stuff to do for a couple of extra weeks maybe...then back to the "do Coil for an hour and log out" routine. You can't build the game around the hardcore raiders because its impossible to generate enough content FAST enough for those people. Making an alt char is a choice. There's no need to be i130 on all classes in a month when it's fairly reasonable that i115 will get any Job through Coil viably. Pick a favorite or two and gear them to the teeth for optimal raiding and your alt Jobs will still be viable just not "perfect". This community has a bad case of "have my cake and eat it too" syndrome.

[Tsukino]

No it's not.
Right now gearing an alt is only possible after you're done gearing your main. Yet if you flat out create a new character you can gear both at the same time.
It would also give more stuff for people to do instead of running coil once a week then logout until next tuesday

This. One of the biggest advantages and unique systems FFXIV has going for it over other MMOs (except XI if you count it) is that you can play multiple classes all on one character. Except in practice you actually cannot do this. Due to weekly lockouts and caps every single player has a "main job" and then a bunch of secondary ones they sometimes screw around on.

[Lithera]

This. One of the biggest advantages and unique systems FFXIV has going for it over other MMOs (except XI if you count it) is that you can play multiple classes all on one character. Except in practice you actually cannot do this. Due to weekly lockouts and caps every single player has a "main job" and then a bunch of secondary ones they sometimes screw around on.

I MAIN DRG but I can perfectly viably tank AND heal end game content despite my tank and healer Jobs being below my DRG in ilevel. My SCH and WAR/PLD aren't just for "screwing around". You 'main" one class and if you handle your tomestones and Coil drops right you have multiple other classes you can viable bring to raid content if someone in your group is absent. Unless you have no life you can only reasonably carry one alt char or MAYBE two anyways if you're lucky with Coil statics.

[hallena]

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I don't even know why you're arguing against this. You can already have separate lockout for your alt. all you need to do is create a new character. All we want is to have the same benifit but without having to create a new character. There's no reason to be against this other than being jealous someone can gear their alt faster than you.
And even that would be a pretty stupid reason to be against it

[Lithera]

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I know almost NO ONE who actually runs an alt character and several of the ones I DO know don't do it for this reason at all but just for variety rather than burning Fantasias. The majority are quite happy. The only ones crying for this are the hardcore raiders and they are the same ones who will be whining on this forum 3 months earlier than normal because they've been running Coil 5+ times a week and have geared out all their Roles in a month. SE does this and the complaining about lack of content just increases despite the fact they're churning it out as quick as they can. If you want to have your cake and eat it too go play CoD.

[hallena]

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So you're against it because you're not interested into it?
In the 6 months between each coil tier you currently have enough time to full 110 about 2-3 class(login 1-2 hours a week) because of the lockout. After the first month, people are already complaining there's nothing to do because coil is already cleared on tuesday and you cannot do anything with your alt because everything is locked out until next tuesday. Allowing people to run 10 time a week if they have all 10 class at 50 will give everyone more content to play with no matter how you look at it.

do you know why people play alts in other games? because they are done with their main for the week. this game don't give you that option if you don't make a new character. The fact that you are against it and your only excuse is "hur dur people will burn through the content faster" is really stupid

[Felis]

This. One of the biggest advantages and unique systems FFXIV has going for it over other MMOs (except XI if you count it) is that you can play multiple classes all on one character. Except in practice you actually cannot do this. Due to weekly lockouts and caps every single player has a "main job" and then a bunch of secondary ones they sometimes screw around on.

Only the luckest guys had full darklight set and Garuda weapons for all their job at the end of 1.23