Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
I find it a little astonishing that people make alts in this game. There is very little practical reason to do so and they take a ton of work to get up to speed (unless you drop a lot of extra cash on them anyway)
There doesn't need to be a plethora of reasons to make an alt, just one or two very good reasons. The most compelling reason being savage lockouts. Having a ton of alts means that you can do splits with a static for faster overall gearing. Taking it to the extreme, you can funnel loot to everyone's main by having 7 alts each. Most statics stick to one alt though. Having alts also allows you to get geared up on more than one gear category, allowing you to hop into more PFs as ilvl reqs go up.

It's also not that hard to level alts if you're skipping cutscenes. 80-90% of the MSQ is cutscenes, so if you don't stop to unlock trials and raids along the way you can burn through the MSQ fairly quickly.