Do you play alt characters, if so why?

[storm]

I know some people have alts, and since you can do literally everything in this game with a single character, I was wondering what different reasons people have for playing them.

Like, do you run magic classes on a lalafell, and tanking classes on a roegadyn?

Or do you do DoW and DoM classes on your main and DoH, and DoL on your alt? And if so have the mailing restrictions been lifted, and if not how do you share between your main and alt?

Or any other reasons? I'm sure there's plenty.

Also if you are playing alts, are you playing different race/genders?

[Senn]

I have multiple alts because I like playing as different races. I don't like spending money on fantasias very often.

[Berret_Snowbear]

I'm an rper. Of course all my characters are male Roes but sometimes some classes just don't fit a certain character.

[Risvertasashi]

It's hard to explain exactly but... sometimes I just want to start fresh. Maybe part of that is... I'm afraid of limiting myself and who I interact with, and starting a new character is a way to 'get out there' a bit?

My current character is... 3 years old now, I think? So I've been sticking with it, relatively. But it's not my 1.0 character or even my 2.0 character. And I've had some others on the side.

It can also be a good way to try out a certain race/appearance/etc without needing to be comfortable enough to fantasia my main to it.

[MomomiMomi]

Different races. Different classes look better as certain races. More retainers. More dailies/weeklies. More houses (though I only have one now, I let the others go).

[floofuf]

I get bored easily, and am an indecisive person, so having an alt kind of solves that problem for me.

[JCharms]

I enjoy crafting and doing it wholly, ie, not using the MB, so for me it was more a case of necessity as its really not possible to do all facets on a single char.(I know technically you could, via getting the mats each time just before construction, but that's just.....)
Trading across chars is done via a small section in the guild bank set aside for this very purpose.
If the crafting mats were handled like Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls and some other games, then I would probably only have a single char.

[Pixiehawk]

I wanted to do all 3 city starts to the msq. Then I kinda got addicted.

[Rilasha]

I have two characters. They're both on different data centres entirely. I get to play on JP with my real life friends and fellow Australians, while I play on NA with my American friends.

I main Bard on my main and main Black Mage on my alt.
My main is a Miqo'te and my alt is an Au Ra. Yes, I chase tails all day.

The different servers have different peak times, therefore sometimes I log off my NA character (whose peak period is during my day) to jump on my JP character at night.

I play more on my alt at the moment since my classes are all 60 on my main and I'm leveling on my alt.

Getting Battle High/Fever in Frontlines are MUCH easier on NA than JP, so I casually have fun there. (Though I haven't played in ages since I heard about all the bots)

[Lunaxia]

I wish I had the patience to make alts and different "characters", but I don't. My main is the only with multiple classes at 60. I do have another character I made to experience the MSQ again, but they now sit as an undergeared 60 because I can't be bothered going through two lots of roulettes per day.

I've also got a couple of alts on different servers for when I get the "different race" itch, but none of them are past 20. I can't justify putting the time into it, and going through the MSQ and fetch quests all over again is painful. I won't even get started on DoH/ DoL.