Alts. How many do you have and what do you do with them?

[Renalt]

Hint: you don't have enough fingers.

What if I'm one of those weirdos that collects fingers?

[LaylaTsarra]

What if I'm one of those weirdos that collects fingers?

You can but might need to use your toes too but won't say if you have enough of those.

[Renalt]

You can but might need to use your toes too but won't say if you have enough of those.

That's...a lot of alts. I too don't care to buy fantasias.

[Clover_Blake]

I make tons of alts because I love experimenting and designing different charismas. Since I'm an RPer, my characters have personalities and stories of their own. It's just fun!

I don't play all of them all the time, though. I just level whoever I feel like leveling, usually to get them any suitable glamour that I like.

[Caster-LB]

Just two alts atm, have a friend on NA DC and EU is my main so no other way to play with 'em

( well unless they expand from logical to physical one day )

The other was kinda made in a panic . . back when steam was dropping the legacy launcher support there was just that unknown period if using a linux distro would work since new launcher was broken so in that time spun up a alt just in case. but now it just sits in reserve for peace of mind.

[Omedon]

Until very recently, I thought alts were just an essentially insane and intentionally discouraged concept in FFXIV. Why would I try to crawl over the finish line of the sometimes frustrating steps of the MSQ multiple times, and not even have the ability to directly exchange items or gil? Coming from WoW, FFXIV's iteration of "you can make another character" seemed just unnecessary, and kind of crazy. I had 30+ alts in WoW, and yet I couldn't justify making a second character in a game where a) the right character concept can easily fit every job in this game where one character can do it all and b) the segregation of alts wasn't worth running the MSQ again.

Then duty support changed everything. I now have 7 multi-job characters. 6 of them are currently parked at in the early 50's waiting for duty support to advance.

I was converted to FFXIV by the very concept of the trust system. I have always loved dungeons, but my time in MMOs is almost parallel with my time having a job with a fluid, almost unpredictable schedule. I started in EverQuest, where simple inclusion in a dungeon group was a high honor, an honor I didn't get much... so now with trusts, the ability to run dungeons on my own time with some beloved NPCs is bliss!

My main is also necessarily restricted to a single job-agnostic glam, and so all the artifact sets and almost all the non-weapon fashion in the game goes to waste on him... so I needed alts to wear and enjoy those job fantasies and hot looks! Duty support literally gives me a leveling path that belongs to me, and job quests give me high fashion! My alts level via duty support/trust, wear sexy artifact gear that all you veterans take for granted, and have character concepts that bind the jobs each alt plays!

Alts are very doable in FFXIV if you know their ceiling and specialize them on reaching attainable goals and fun! FFXIV is still terribly alt-unfriendly, but the experience for each alt is so wonderful with duty support, that I tolerate it many times over!

[rainichan]

...you don't want to know how many alts I have. I do have one of just about every race though, save for roes, mainly to see their animations and such, but I also roleplay. Before DC travel I had a few alts on other servers to play with friends elsewhere as well. I only have two that are max (or close to max level) because I can only stomach the ARR-SB story so many times on characters before I go crazy lol... no use spending a bunch of money on skips.

The only exception to this rule is an alt I made in memory of my late dad - he carried me through video games when I was a kid, so it's my turn to carry him this time and adventure with him. I play on that character when I'm missing him a lot, so it's a bit infrequent.

[george357]

had two when i started a long time ago one English server and one Japanese server later dropped one.

[Mika_Zahard]

I have a male alt, which i dont enjoy much due how boring some male glams look like.

I have two shell fc alts for helping my big fc with their gil and crafting events.

And i have 2 other alts, one in ShB a midlander, and an Au'ra that sates my dragongirl addiction.

My main is this, and i'd rather play several characters instead of having to fantasia when i wanna try different stuff.

[Canadane]

None alts.
Left adventure.