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

[Gemina]

I never found much use to have an alt. I see it as time I can be spending getting more stuff done on my main.

[TaleraRistain]

I have 7 currently, so 8 total characters. I have my main character (who was not my first character to create but became my main solo character) that I do everything on. But I would never fantasia her. She has a set look and personality. So I have alts to try different races, to redo MSQ at that newbie level instead of through NG+ (though all mine predate NG+), to play with my hubby who doesn't play nearly as much so I keep someone where he is at MSQ, to go all through crafting again because it's fun, because I always had alts in other MMOs so it feels weird not to have them, and before the amaro I only had certain classes on my main so they were a way to experience those other classes that fit them RP wise. I've since come up with an RP reason for my main to be a jack of all trades (and discovered how much I really love some classes I had ignored) but I still tend to let my alts specialize in their given professions.

When I start an alt, I give the alt some seed money to start with but then also challenge myself to test what tricks I've learned over the years for gaining gil and building that alt up. I'm thinking when the new NA servers go online, I may go make an alt over there and start completely fresh and meander my way through the MSQ like an almost total newbie (can't erase my knowledge of dungeons) just for something a little different to do from time to time.

[MikkoAkure]

Played since 1.0 beta. My main is an alt I created to "freshly experience ARR" and by the time I finished 2.0's story, I didn't feel like doing it again.

So now my 1.0 main sits there, still level 50, wearing what was at one time the best equipment in the game (DRG AF and Ifrit Harpoon) and has the tattoo, the goobbue, dated equipment, old totems, etc. but I've spent too long and too much mogstation money on my new ARR character to go back.

[Asako]

I have 7 alts across different servers and data centers to play with friends from different regions with 5 at max level. On my main server [Lich] I just have 3 for raiding. Unfortunately the game has a progression issue where it sets it self up to be alt job friendly but it's really not if you want to do endgame stuff as Tome lockouts severly restrict gearing. 7 weeks to tome gear a Tank BIS is a disgrace when you have so many jobs in this game now. 450 tomes a week was fine in ARR when there were so few jobs, but now it's a joke.

Then there is the entire issue with Ninja. Why in 2022 does it still use DEX gear as a melee DPS, only melee dps that you can't share accessories with. Why is this still a thing?

[SannaR]

I have one and they're sitting at the end of 2.0. Only made them to attend a wedding on another server. I was slowly leveling them and taking them through the story when I got bored or felt guilty for not touching them in forever and a day. I did for a time go and do the seasonal events on them so they wouldn't be missing out on glamors ect. But I've kind of dropped the ball on that. I blame the XV cross over that insisted that you have your character be lv 50 and post Praetorium in order to start it. So it soured my want to touch them.

[Rayne6665]

1 on spriggan . Never leveled it tho lol

[Sotaris]

6 alts. Actively playing on 3

[Picker]

I have 1 alt for raiding and loot funneling

[NekoMataMata]

I made a bun boy that I do levelling on daily and occasionally some story. He's mostly just there to be cute and redo the story again though. I play super casually on it and I've basically over leveled the character by doing levelling daily but nothing else most of the time(which is fine because at some point I'll get to rush through level 30-90 with a max class). Will probably glam him out at some point and just use him when I need to hear happy bun noises.

[Lieri]

Thinking of making one on EU or JP just to see how its like there