Alt's why?

[Catwho]

Because Fantasia isn't something your local alchemist can produce nilly willy.

I love my Miqo'te, but sometimes, I want to be a Hyur. Or an Au Ra. On rare occasions when I'm angry even a Roe...for 5 minutes or so. So...I have such alts. I unfortunately can't equip them all with pretty glamours (Even when they reach the level, I'm poor and can barely afford a few glamour 'crystals' every now and again), but it's still nice to have them.

Yep, this is why. Katarh Mest is my tabby cat forever, but I have my Roe boy Body Count, my Au Ra Anzu Waterkeeper, and my Legacy Lala Taprara Rara. Sometimes you just want to see the world from a different perspective.

[StouterTaru]

I have 3 leveled up alts, and at one time or another they've been used for:

• retainer sale space
• retainer storage
• retainer ventures
• ixali oaknot farming
• red scrip farming
• gathering 4x grade 3 thanalan soil per game day

[Evilkitten]

So I can feel I can have everything I want...

My main is a healer/crafter/gather and is the race Miqote which means she is a very busy lady. Now I didn't want to do everything on one character as to me her role is caster whether that be healing or magick but it didn't feel right to have her do tank too. So one day, I decided to start an alt which eventually became Au ri as well as be a warrior. She is also an alt which I can use when I feel I need to escape and just chill without the distractions of crafting & gathering. Now I do feel like I can have everything I want ^^

[KMFDM_Kid2000]

So, was curious why so many people play or use alts. I play quite a bit and have hard enough time taking care of my main character lol.

Because my former raid group required it. Now they and their FC has all but broken up and I've long since moved on, but I still keep capping every week on my alt. I had wanted to maybe move it to another server and find a weekend raid group for it, but most groups want to run Tuesdays right at reset and few want to be "the other woman".

TBH, I thought it was stupid of my old raid group to require it as it created more work for very little benefit. I guess the rationale was if the loot system remained like FCoB, you'd go in 4 mains and 4 alts to focus drops to the mains, but even still, it's just dumb and not worth the time and effort. SE fixed the loot system, and although it was fun back in 2.55 going from level 1 to complete ARR BiS in exactly 32 days (!), every time I look at that character on a Friday after my main is capped, then realize I have to cram all that in before reset, I groan. I've stopped doing Alex normal on the alt. Only has one job anyway. I'm starting to see a small gap in difference as my main has some raid gear, and the alt has to rely on Esoterics. On my main, I'm already planning on spending Esos on another job. Because the alt doesn't raid, it's nowhere near the point where I can just stop, despite it only having the one job. Left side's still not done and since it's a tank, double accessory sets.

So I'll be double capping every week for a while. Or until it just burns me out as a futile endeavor. Probably should just scrap it so my weekends can be about crafting like they used to.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

If you are an endgame crafter/gatherer right now a good reason to have an alt is to supply yourself with the red gathering scrip favor materials so that your main doesn't have to sacrifice red scrip gear progression.

[File2ish]

I have alts, one of each race because why not? Most of them aren't past level 5.

I do have a main alt as well that I'm getting to level 60. I have my main character, whom I do everything on first. Then once I got him to a point where it's just a grind for tomes I start bringing my alt up through the main story and whatnot, mainly just doing a roulette and story quests for the EXP.

I initially made this alt as a "mule", as we called them in FFXI, in order to hold the excess of items I obtain and act as another market seller. But we can't send mail to anyone not on our friends list. So I ended up using her to get the female versions of the seasonal and exclusive gears. In order to do that I needed her leveled decently (Lightning event needed at least level 45 for the body if I recall), and it just progressed from there.

[Jacosta]

I have 2 or 3 alts because I wanted to try different servers and can never stay content with where I'm at. I also didnt want to pay the transfer fees because I'm cheap :/

[Stormfur]

I created an alt just to see what a support class would be like (machinist). My main is tank and DPS and I didnt feel like leveling up a third class for them. Really hoping I love MCH to be able to slog through finding all the aether currents again (*groan*)

[Naliee]

I have 2 alts. One on other server to talk with my NA XI friend there and 2nd on same server I mainly play for lols.

[Odd]

I've made alts on other servers just to see what the less populated ones are like. I've never levelled past 30 with them, though.