Quote Originally Posted by manickitty View Post
Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.
Depends on what your goals are.

Alts do allow you to circumvent some daily/weekly lockouts, but this mostly relevant to crafting/gathering.
The primary activities are BST tribes and Custom Deliveries.

BST tribes mostly for the one time per expansion when they add a component of BiS crafting/gathering gear to the "crafting BST tribe." Each alt you have will increase your daily yield of the item so that you can either expedite your own gear or have plenty of extras to sell on the market board. A lot of gil can be made in the first week on these items (Storm Sap this expansion for example).

Custom Deliveries are an incredibly fast/easy way to make roughly 3k - 4k red/yellow scrips, requiring a minimal amount of crafting/gathering. Yellow crafting was relevant multiple times in SB for Gyr Abanian Alchemiks and Kingcraft Demimateria.

Lastly, having at least enough alts to cover all the specialists means no more scrip waste on Soul of the Crafters.