Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
As for Specialist crafting, that is no longer much of a circumvention. Soul of the Crafter tokens are sold for 480 Red Scrips. I can make five Chimerical Felt Alb of Healing right now, which are not even Stormblood items, and have enough to switch Specialists. The only benefit to alts beyond roleplaying is Savage loot drops.
There is however this one caveat:
Quote Originally Posted by 4.0 Patch notes
Players can change specialties up to three times a week.

This resets every Tuesday at 1:00 a.m. (PDT).
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Alts can still serve a purpose for bypassing that.