People with Alts

[TitaniaZero]

I'm usually an Altoholic. I have a handful of lvl 1s scattered across 3-4 servers. And yet I have this chara only that I play. In other games, WoW especially, I have one chara per crafting specialization, usually with a small number of differing races. Yet I think FFXIV's Armory system kinda kills the need for a second chara.

I'm planning on alting with an Au Ra regardless, but I'm not sure I can endure the last parts of the ARR storyline a second time.

[KisaiTenshi]

I'm usually an Altoholic. I have a handful of lvl 1s scattered across 3-4 servers. And yet I have this chara only that I play. In other games, WoW especially, I have one chara per crafting specialization, usually with a small number of differing races. Yet I think FFXIV's Armory system kinda kills the need for a second chara.

I'm planning on alting with an Au Ra regardless, but I'm not sure I can endure the last parts of the ARR storyline a second time.

There's not much point in creating alternate characters in FFXIV because of both the Armory system and the unintended consequences of how the duty finder works. People will create alts primarily to launder gil or materials between characters because they are unable to figure out how to live with not being a (virtual item) hoarder.

But when the game has a lot of untradeables, the desire to actually repeat content to get -that- item you want to make your alternate character cute is so much more of a pain in the butt.

That said I did create a few alts of different races, but I find that I still prefer my Cat people. If we get a third Retainer I'll make an Au Ra then. During V1.0 I actually had different races for the retainers but I found something irritating about having the retainer a different race than the character I'm playing.