Transferring items between alt characters

[Endorphinz]

Now, I already know what all of you are thinking, so let me address that first:

I know you can pretty much do everything and anything with a single character, and there's no need for alt accounts on the same world. I got no answer for that, other than I like to try different characters and settings.

Anyways, the main question of this topic:

Is there any way to transfer items between characters on the same account? You cannot send friend requests to your own characters while they're not online, and you can only send mail to those on your friend list. This has probably been asked before, so any information would be helpful, thank you.

[White_Wolf_X]

As far i know, nope you can't.

[surrel]

Have a friend help you. Send it to your friend and have your friend send it to you. It's a roundabout way of doing it but it's probably the only option.

[Endorphinz]

I was hoping not to involve third parties like other friends or a guild chest or something... I do hope they rectify this soon, for convenience's sake.

[Mezolitik]

Yeah, I'd love to have the option.

I made a new character for 2.0 and now all my 1.0 items are trapped with a legacy character's retainer. I don't really want to have to go through the whole quest line again to retrieve them.

[Jaminos]

At this time, third party is the only way you can do it. Usually a member of your FC will have no problem with being your middle man. But it depends on how much you feel like trusting them.

[HEC]

No direct options at all. The possible workarounds are:

1. Use a fried to send / trade the items and gill via (possible risk of loosing the stuff, hassle with bothering the friends everytime you need to transfer anything).
2. Use your own "private" FC (need friend one time to invite all your aliases to your FC, cost 15k, can't join another FC but much more flexible afterwards).
3. Use Market to sell the items to your alts (risk of someone else purchasing the item before you switch to alt, unable to transfer gill this way, if you use really high price to prevent someone from buying your items you'll loose gill on sale tax - up to 5% - but on other hand if you need to transfer only few items might be still cheaper than spending 15k on FC)

[Anders]

All these work-around solutions are nice. However, I'd really like SE to implement the most-obvious solution: enable us to send mail to our alts.

I don't want to make one super-toon. I like having a stable of different-looking toons, each with unique abilities.

Sure, I play my CNJ most of the time. And when I get her to 50 and she's maxed-out her crafting, I'll use her to shower gil and high-quality gear down on her "younger" sisters and brothers.

This adds a new dimension to playing the game - one that I enjoy a great deal.

So, come on SE! Give us the ability to send mail to our alts. We'll love you for it, man.

[Sanyani]

This needs to be addressed rather quickly. The argument that you only need one character to do everything has no meaning in a modern mmorpg. Especially since most players are probably going to be paying for the privilege of having up to 8 chars per server.

In my case, I'd like to have a specific gathering alt, who will do nothing but gather materials as Disciple of the Land. There are numerous reasons to want to do this, but it doesn't matter. I want to do it. But not being able to then mail mats or put them in an account wide retainer is literally going to KILL the possiblity of playing this game long term, and I can guarantee I'm by far not the only one. I do not want to just play one character.

[Leafcore]

Why would you guys even consider spreading out the classes when they all share skills? I'll just assume that you guys have no idea how considerably gimped you guys will be without cross classing skills, especially if you are a crafter or gatherer. Also not having essential 5 abilities from other classes will only hurt your raid members and bring down the team.

Especially since most players are probably going to be paying for the privilege of having up to 8 chars per server.

According to what statistics? No min-maxer will be making more than 1 account because of cross-class skills, and no casual is going to waste time redoing the entire main storyline quest and transfers all their work when they can switch out their gear/class with a click of a button. Are you actually claiming that RPers are the majority of the subscribers?

1 character = economic saving, ease of switching classes, and great for the lazy.