Super Character vs Multiple

[Kincade]

Another consideration is that if you like following the stories, having just one character means you miss out on the two other city quest lines that are part of the main story quest. It's not a big deal (especially if you don't care about story), but that's why I'm playing 3 character, one from each town.

[Flowsharian]

Yeah uh there really is not reason to have multiple characters except for bag space for crafting mats. I wish they would give us a lot more space for the armoury as most of us plan on having all our jobs on one character, which means we won't be able to variate and be prepared for situational fights with offsets, except through moving said gear to the inventory, which makes it a hassle to organize, find, and possibly make mistakes vendoring or losing in some fashion. Having alts for bag space helps, but does cause a hinderance that's not necessary at all.

[Kincade]

Yeah uh there really is not reason to have multiple characters except for bag space for crafting mats. I wish they would give us a lot more space for the armoury as most of us plan on having all our jobs on one character, which means we won't be able to variate and be prepared for situational fights with offsets, except through moving said gear to the inventory, which makes it a hassle to organize, find, and possibly make mistakes vendoring or losing in some fashion. Having alts for bag space helps, but does cause a hinderance that's not necessary at all.

Have you tried hiring a retainer? The can hold several tabs worth of stuff as well as sell things on the Market. You need to summon him/her to access the storage, but it's easier than transferring items to an alt.

[Arriverderci]

They either need to nerf FATEs a bit or just buff up the EXP we get in other places.
Why do dungeons or leves when we can just FATE all day?
If you ever need extra space, you can hire a retainer. That's their way of sorting the whole
"Mule" accs. You can have up to 2 retainers. All good in the hood.

[Dalok]

1 Super Character is my plan.

[Avorniel]

I am an alt-a-Holic and I enjoy the various type of races and looks I get bored if I just stick to 1 character.Though it is annoying to not be able to mail items to my other characters there are a few ways round this:-

Use of FC bank ,sell items on the market at a silly price and then switch to other character to buy it,this is easy way to send gil to other characters and items,crystals this is the 2 methods I use.

But I wish SE would let us use the mail between characters just for your account and not having to be online.

[HEC]

sell items on the market at a silly price and then switch to other character to buy it,this is easy way to send gil to other characters and items,crystals this is the 2 methods I use.

That's not the most efficient method as you'll pay tax on each market sale and with silly high prices you'll loose some considerable amount of gill ...

[Kyarra]

I have always been an altaholic, so I have a 30 WHM and a 32 BRD at the moment. But I plan on going Dragoon with my BRD and BLM or Scholar (haven't decided yet) with my WHM. So many choices, so little time!

[XenabelleS]

I had originally planned on two characters.

One for DOM and Archer with BOT, FSH, WVR, ALC, CUL, and CRP (main - this one)
One for the DOWs with MIN, ARM, BSM, GSM, and LTW.

I did the Gridania storyline in phase 3 so this character was an archanist for LL and my other one would start as a gladiator in Ul'Dah.

Well with all the login issues and such my second character is on a JP world. So he can't do the BSM and MINing that I need for my main's professions. I also already picked up LTW on my main for Archer and crafting gear as I had so many damn skins.

So at this point I am reconsidering on the DOH profs. Problem is that my armory chest and retainers are already getting quite full. So not sure what I'm going to do. I can buy all the tools and gear that BSM and GSM would make.

[KhyaraBloodvayne]

Not sure why you would even consider creating a character per class when we're given the ability to level them all in one. As you said, there are many very important pros to this system, more than you mentioned.

Your only Con is that you don't get to repeat quests per class and you only get a certain amount of leve allowances per hour. I find that a bit ridiculous.
First, as others have mentioned, you get an exp bonus when leveling a class lower than your highest leveled class.
Second, there are far more quests than you need to level a single class. It's quite easy to level your first class simply by doing the main story combined with FATEs, leves, hests, and hunting logs. Doing it in this manner allows you to have plenty of side quests available to you when leveling other classes. Not only that, but you of course again have the ability to do FATEs, leves, hests, and hunting logs when leveling that other class.
You'll be missing the story quests and that's it.