Making the game alt/alt-job friendly

[Dyylan]

Just as the title says, and just as many others have said before me. I'm making a new thread to hopefully draw more attention to the subject and consequentially see some changes!

Making the game alt friendly: right now, unless you're masochistic or have way too much time on your hands, making an alt is just plain unrealistic due to MSQ restrictions on progression. There are many ways to fix this. Please do something!

Making the game alt-job friendly: OK, so you don't want to change the MSQ thing for real alts. Fine. Then maybe implement something where each job counts as an alt! (i.e., allow each job a separate lockout on raid bosses/daily roulettes, etc). The only reason I went on Omega server was for the road to 60 buff, which took *some* of the pain of leveling other jobs away. Now they've taken away that buff. It's not even fun anymore.

[KalinOrthos]

Making the game alt friendly: right now, unless you're masochistic or have way too much time on your hands, making an alt is just plain unrealistic due to MSQ restrictions on progression. There are many ways to fix this. Please do something!

As it stands, the game is based around not having multiple characters to switch between, as is the case with, say, World of Warcraft. We can take up any job at any time, and getting minimally geared doesn't take too much effort with some Verity and Omega farming.

Making the game alt-job friendly: OK, so you don't want to change the MSQ thing for real alts. Fine. Then maybe implement something where each job counts as an alt! (i.e., allow each job a separate lockout on raid bosses/daily roulettes, etc).

Pffffttttno.

[Croweyes]

Whats even the point of making the game "alt-friendly" when one character can be every class and crafter. Alt on another server? Sure, valid point, before it was a hassle. Now with Mogshop's new Story Skip and Level boost cash items that even further removes the need to make the game "alt-friendly", even if its for another server.

"But I don't want/"shouldn't need" to spend money to skip it even though that's what I basically want"
Well then either bite the bullet and endure the game's structure or suck it up and buy the item.

"But we can only buy one per account "
Patch 4.1 "Please look foreword to it"

[Dyylan]

Fair enough. I take both of your points, but I still stand by what I said. I still think the game would be overall more enjoyable if there was ***some*** sort of system in place to help ease the burden of leveling jobs/gearing. I get why it is the way it is, I just want to propose a minor change. Hell, at least leave the Road to 60 buff that I had on my server, and I'd be fine with that!

[Zfz]

MSQ restriction is the least of your concerns if you're into alts. I've done all ARR quests (i.e. MSQ and all side quests) 4 times and all HW quests 3 times over. If MSQ requirement is an obstacle for you, then what you really want is probably just parallel end-game progression, i.e. a way around raid lock-outs, and not really because you want to have alts.

[Pence]

Fair enough. I take both of your points, but I still stand by what I said. I still think the game would be overall more enjoyable if there was ***some*** sort of system in place to help ease the burden of leveling jobs/gearing. I get why it is the way it is, I just want to propose a minor change. Hell, at least leave the Road to 60 buff that I had on my server, and I'd be fine with that!

Do you raid V4S? If you don't then I don't understand the issue. You don't need higher tier gear for anything. Even then you'd probably trying to only specialise in a single job anyways.

[Tint]

this game IS alt-job friendly. the only content you actually need weekly-locked gear to enter is the savage-raid. everything else is designed around an ilvl you can reach without any lockouts.

[AkashiXI]

I wish they'd allow us to cap tomes on two separate jobs, or have the first 450 count for any job, and the second 450 count for a specific job. I know it'll never happen (I can't even think of a way they could implement in a concise manner), but for players like me who love raiding on two different jobs per raid cycle, it's extremely debilitating.

Yes, you can level up alts. Yes, I actually do have an alt 70. However I'd like to keep everything to one character, it's a personal preference.

[Sandpark]

Oh this one is a doozy and I don't do the endgame gear treadmill currently. I alt like a monster even when the game is mostly friendly to level on one character.

Alt friendly XIV:

• Unlimited Sprint everywhere but group dungeons, not faster just a toggle so duration is always on or off.
• Account wide mounts
• Account wide Mounts available at level 1 on different characters
• Road to 60 Buff on every new job/class after the first max leveled one per character
• Account wide emotes
• 2000 Free Poetics upon reaching level 50 on any new character first time after you max leveled one character
• 2000 Free middle tier tombstones upon reaching level 60 on any new character first time after you max leveled one character
• Higher tier free company bonuses for progression
• Account wide Glamour Book
• New/Additional Racial Origin Stories
• More classes or jobs that start at level 1
• New/Additional Starting Areas
• Increased Fate Experience, progressively higher for each new class/job leveled
• MGP buff for Gold Saucer after the first character reaches one million MGP
• Squadrons use-able in normal MSQ content, hard/extreme/savage/super savage still party only(this one can be done right off the back or restrict it to a second character after a max level character, up to SE if even done)

Yes, everything can be done on one character. But people are still making alts.

This game has good quality of life features for keeping the playing field somewhat even. But I think if someone like's doing the alt thing, they pay to play too, and SE should give you the painless option to play how you want.

[Zarabeth]

Since we can already lvl all classes on one character I see no reason to change it. Also with the jump potions I sincerely doubt SE will want to change it as they make a lot of money on those potions.