Trading between alts

[Voltyblast]

No. I wouldn't. Retainers are not inefficient, well not comparatively. I would trade a few things between alts, but I would never give up my paid retainers. I don't went to spend the entirety of my playtime mailing stuff back and forth.

Well it's either that or keep your paid retainers in check, just like I did. I didn't spend a single dime on them since it's incredibly unfair and other games, most of which are f2p, offer better banking systems that can be expanded both with real money and in-game money. And they're also permanent.

But if I could I would, still saves me 2 bucks on an already underwhelming subscription that IN MY OPINION (gotta put that on caps because opinions are dangerous online) barely feels worth it nowadays: you don't get much out of it besides accessing the game and lots of customization features that should've and could've been easily ingame (Sleipnir is a cash shop items despite having an Odin trial AND Fate is a good example) are locked behind the overpriced cash shop.
I felt more rewarded subbing to SWTOR and the deceased Wildstar: they at least give you cash shop currency for your shopping - I'm probably sitting at 7k CC in SWTOR thanks to the key alone, and I haven't played that game in a while!

Sure 2 bucks are nothing but that's 24 euros saved in a year, almost 2 months of subs, up to 144 if you use all 6 of the available retainers, money that I can use for many better things than a flimsy, inefficient, lousy, clunky and overall underwhelming "banking" system, which at least we agree on that.

But you do you though!

[Aramina]

I play on my alts similarly to how I play on my my main (packrat), so they have storage issues of their own without me dumping extra crap on them. :P

Lol that too. My alts are pretty much their own people. I really only would be interested in trading crafted gear because not all of them are quite up to the crafting standards of my main.

[Aramina]

Well it's either that or keep your paid retainers in check, just like I did. I didn't spend a single dime on them since it's incredibly unfair and other games, most of which are f2p, offer better banking systems that can be expanded both with real money and in-game money. And they're also permanent.

But if I could I would, still saves me 2 bucks on an already underwhelming subscription that IN MY OPINION (gotta put that on caps because opinions are dangerous online) barely feels worth it nowadays: you don't get much out of it besides accessing the game and lots of customization features that should've and could've been easily ingame (Sleipnir is a cash shop items despite having an Odin trial AND Fate is a good example) are locked behind the overpriced cash shop.
I felt more rewarded subbing to SWTOR and the deceased Wildstar: they at least give you cash shop currency for your shopping - I'm probably sitting at 7k CC in SWTOR thanks to the key alone, and I haven't played that game in a while!

Sure 2 bucks are nothing but that's 24 euros saved in a year, almost 2 months of subs, up to 144 if you use all 6 of the available retainers, money that I can use for many better things than a flimsy, inefficient, lousy, clunky and overall underwhelming "banking" system, which at least we agree on that.

But you do you though!

Well yeah, it's all opinion. For me, I look at it as even sub + retainers is still one of my more cheap hobbies and one that I probably spend the most time doing, so it is still money well spent.

[Angelov-Mercy]

Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.

That is basically true, but sometimes the worlds are full so I keep a toon in 3 different worlds encase I can't get into one. Angel - Lily - Cyan

It's why i'm taking so long to level them.

[TaleraRistain]

It is very alt-unfriendly. And it's not entirely true that you can do everything on one character. With crafting specialists, you need 3 characters now to have all specialists available to you because of the limitation of having only 3 on a single character.

[braxberry]

Not to mention desynthesis, though, the higher levels are less distinct, iirc.

[TaleraRistain]

Yes, thank you for the reminder about the limit there as well.

[Zeonx]

Will we ever see a easy way to do this? Why is it not already in game? Game just seems alt unfriendly.

I would say no cause of GIL also retainers no reason to put retainers for sale on mog station.

you could say they could limit what could be traded but then what would be the point of having the trade option to begin with.

[Makeda]

Because you don’t need alts, ever? Every class can be done on one character.

The day I can play every race on a single character all at the same time this statement will be partially true. Until then it is just a jerk response that pops up everytime people speak about alts.

A character is more than a class.

[shiroxkatsuya]

Do you need alts? No. Does not mean that there is anything wrong with making some QoL improvements for alt characters. Some people like playing multiple characters. A big example i can think of would be rpers. Also hc crafters. Ect ect.