Pros/Cons of leveling all classes on one char ...Follow

3) is the reason to never make an alt. You can not transfer stuff to yourself easily. It can be done but why?

2) exp is easy to get in the game. Questing is just another form of grinding.

1) I made an alt before and took it to 50 in FFXI. I wish I had spent that time taking the same class on my main. I don't know of any cons. Pros is you don't have to get gear over again on each alt. Also cross class abilities.

The Con is that you are limited to run through all 5 turns of Coil per week and 450 myth per week for all 9 jobs (yep, 9 jobs, since Arcanist leads to both Scholar and Summoner, and they don't share relic). And I suppose you could add the limit of 1 Crystal Tower loot per week.

If you had those 9 jobs spread between 2 chars, you could do gear them up twice as quickly at end game since you can do Coil twice, farm 450x2 myths per week, etc.

That's pretty hardcore though. I know at least a couple of people in my FC who have multiple chars. And one of them did it at least partially so that they could run Coil every week with two different groups of people.

Just had a though. What if in the future they remove the lockout and caps? would that be an appropriate time for /facepalm? I mean, they raised the cap on ToM who knows what else they may do.

I'm currently using a 4 character "strategy" myself. One has all the DoM classes, one has both melee classes, one is a Bard (and will take any future range classes), and the last has both tank classes. There are distinct advantages to using alts, but it does take some extra work in places.

Main Story
This is a double-edged sword. The con is you'll have to redo the main story on each character. The pro is, you get to collect all the generous rewards from the main story on each character, something you couldn't do if you stuck to just one.

Achievements
I'm not sure if this is a pro or con, but for unlocking achievements that require a great deal of effort, you may reach them faster (if it all) by sticking to one character. On the other hand, it might be more efficient points-wise to tag all the easy achievements on multiple characters. Since we don't know yet what the points can be used for, it's tough to say which is better.

Dailies / Weeklies
A solid pro in favor of multiple characters is the extra helpings of dailies and weeklies you'll get, especially the Crystal Tower and collecting Myth Tomes. A single character will have a hard time gearing all 8 classes with CT and Myth Tome gear. For example, you're limited to 450 Myth per week on a single character and one drop from CT. But if you had 4 level 50 characters, you could collect up to 1800 Myth and 4 CT drops per week.

Cross-class
Because of cross-class abilities, you do end up covering the same ground leveling up extra classes on each character, so that's one annoyance against multiple characters. However, if you know which class or classes your character will specialize in, it often isn't too much of a bother since most abilities are obtained at low levels and you can stick with leveling only what's necessary, and once finished, you never have to worry about it again (at least until they raise the level cap).

Suitable Racial Bonus
Racial bonuses are minor, but if you level multiple characters, it's practical to tailor this bonus to that character's specialized classes. Every bit helps!

I'd stay stick with one character to start out with and then branch out to another alt if you feel like the time to put into it is worth it to you. EXP was super easy to get back in the day with fate grinding and apparently dungeons are even better now. Having all of your cross class abilities for a given job is essential and you are really gimping yourself and your group if you don't have them all. If you have enough time to put into grinding the same sub jobs up to 34 for cross class abilities twice then you have more than enough time to just spam dungeons and get multiple sets of darklight gear. To be honest there isn't really much content int his game that requires more than the ilvl 70 darklight gear. Play around with different jobs and gear them up in darklight. Figure out what job or two you would like to main and then start getting CT gear for them each week. Keep saving your mythology tomestones until you get a few pieces of CT/BC gear and then use them to supplement those pieces. Or you could also use CT/BC to gear out one job while saving your myth tomes for another. Some sets of myth armor are better for the job than boss drops (Scholar for instance).

The achievement system really rewards you for sticking to one character, if you are into that sort of thing. There are rewards for leveling up all of the jobs in a certain group on one character. However if you like crafting you might want to make an alt or two for storage. while it would be a pain in the *** to transfer items to the alt there are workarounds (such as having your own FC).

You don't want to go to the extremes on either, TBQH. If you do them all on one character and seriously plan to play them all at high level, it will take forever for you to gear. If you have one character per one job, it will also take you forever to level.

Ideally level a couple of jobs on 2-3 characters (I'd just do two). Make classes that have cross class skills for all your others. So, if it were me, I'd level BLM, SMN/SCH, WHM, and possibly PLD while having to level BRD for quelling/raging/etc. The other would be WAR, MNK, DRG, and maybe BRD again.

I would have actually done this if I had known, beforehand, what awaited me at the end.



You only have enough quests to maybe get 3 characters to 50. The rest is FATEs/leves/duty roulette/dungeon grinding.



You cannot transfer between characters. To be more accurate: you could do this with a bug prior to a recent patch but can no longer.

How is that any worse than someone with one character with all 9 jobs leveled? We're not talking about dual/triple boxing just to drag along your alts to lot on stuff. We're talking about people doing twice the work for potentially twice the loot, or three times the work to get potentially three times the loot.

In fact, you're less likely to run into loot conflict with someone who spreads 9 jobs across 2 to 3 characters than you would with someone that has them all on one character. The guy who uses one char for only mage jobs isn't going to want tank gear on that char, etc.

I...don't even understand this. A person who has leveled all jobs on one character will want all the gear: not one that has them spread across multiple characters.



How is this different from the way people normally play? lol You ever hunt for a drop for a long time and never see it on your main?

You also make the assumption that a person would use their main character and alt character to run with you. You can only take one of those per week due to lockouts.

Instead, try thinking about it like this:

Once upon a time, you were in a social FC leveling your main character. You made a bunch of friends but when you all reached level cap, you decided to leave the social FC and go join a raiding FC. However, your friends decided to go join another raiding FC.

Now, the only content you can do with your friends in another FC is things like primals. You can't raid or help them with coil due to lockouts and possible rules in your FC forbidding raiding with another FC. With an alt character, you can join them if they are looking for your specific job or you can choose to level a job they need. Also, if you have a FC that has groups that aren't completely solidified, you can use your alt character to fill in gaps. My FC took it a step further and now has an alt group. They leveled a class they normally don't play on their main. I think it looks quite fun but definitely isn't for everyone.

One con with having multiple characters that i forgot about: each character has its own friends list. So if you have a friend's list of a decent size, I can imagine it would be a nightmare to try and keep them all the same on multiple characters.