Do you play alt characters, if so why?

[Zojha]

I got a bunch of alt characters myself, for several reasons:

1. I got an alt on an EU server because NA latency makes ninja unfun to play for me.
2. I got several alts for RP (Different personas -> Different characters).
3. I like being able to switch appearance without buying a fantasia every time.
4. I sometimes want to be alone and outside my social circles.
5. I like being able to gear up multiple jobs with current tome gear, which lockouts usually prevent.
6. I actually quite like leveling sans MSQ

[Zarex]

I have 2 max level raid ready characters for being able to run with or help other groups without having to screw them over for 2 chests each week as well as makes gearing up quicker for both raid gear and tome gear.

the additional thing is being able to have 3 additional crafting Specialist.


have been bored so leveling a 3rd character waiting for Storm blood on a different server to play with irl friends on a different Data center

[AzraelX]

I have one alt- for two reasons I want to play a female and two I want to re-experience the story so I keep my alt one expac behind. Can't wait to be RD MAGE and start playing HW as my alt.

[Heybunny]

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

This, pretty much. I deal with mailing items between them via my partner. He likewise, uses my characters to mail stuff to his alts.

[MarcouQ]

He likewise, uses my characters to mail stuff to his alts.

I really really wish we could just mail our alts stuff. Could potentially work around the whole needing to pay for additional retainers thing. Guess that's why we can't :<

[LLSmoothJ]

I'm an admitted alt-holic and I have alts for various reasons (There's a story for each character I create). But when SB comes out I'll make another one. Just to see how certain quests are changed.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I'm in the EU region and used to play with a group of people on the NA servers, and made an alt on the EU server... When they stopped playing and they moved the EU server to Europe, I transferred the character over to the EU server and now I play two characters.

[Stormfur]

Around patch 3.5 or so, I found that I really liked different classes for different reasons, but didn't want to do the "gear grind" on my main for all the classes that I liked playing (see also: tomestone limitations). So I decided to pick three and stick with them. Currently, my classes will be:

- Dragoon
- Samurai (we'll see how this plays out...if I end up hating it, I will switch to ninja)
- Dark Knight

I'm in the process of leveling an alt, who is sort of the antithesis of my main character. Whereas I look at Stormfur as very cool, calculated and discerning, my alt is very brash, powerful and courageous (not in an RP sense). I chose the following classes for him:

- Monk
- Warrior
- Machinist

I also love to craft, and don't like to be constrained by specialist actions (I'm a proud omnicrafter #sorrynotsorry). So I am *very* casually working on leveling up crafting on the alt too.

[Dameron]

I have been thinking of making alt characters, but I'm not certain if I want to do it so close before Stormblood is coming out. I still have a lot of preparation to do with my main character, including gearing up my Paladin and getting a healing class up to level 60.

I might consider making an alt character once I'm maxed in Stormblood, however.

[Noshpan]

I have alts, and I try to play them (I haven't done much of that this expansion due to being preoccupied with another MMO's expansion while still remaining subbed to 14). The reason is two-fold: I enjoy playing new races and playing with the friends I have on other servers. Though the primary reason I have an alt on Cerberus was because the EU servers were up 1 day longer than the NA servers.