31 characters currently although that will change with Elsweyr. That's across two accounts and mostly on PC EU but with 3 on PC NA. They're all active adventurers and crafters but some I play more than others, although I don't consider any of them a "main".
2-4 active raid ready toons for use in two raids groups.
DK Tank
Warden Tank
Sorc DD
Magblade DD
Probably will be making a necro support and necro DPS toon as well come Sunspire and I'd like to have an active templar healer at some point but the investment in learning healing seriously for all the raids, finding a group to let me do it, making the toon etc is too much atm.
William Thorne - EP Breton Sorcerer
Astrid Winterborn - EP Breton Warden
Erik Ironskin - EP Nord Dragonknight
Venasa Viri - EP Dunmer Nightblade
1 main and seven others which I have levelled to max CP and are using Alcast’s beginners builds for their class. Used mainly for crafting until I get better gear for them.
One of each class, always, in every MMORPG I ever play for more than a few months. I'll just login to whichever class I fancy that day.
I'll definitely roll a single Necromancer when it's released. And I've recently been considering rolling two new characters, one focused on each of the Vampire and Werewolf skill lines who would never build toward anything else. In that case I'd consider Vampire and Werewolf classes of their own.
24, soon to be 25. I log in on all of them every day, craft, then pick a few to do some leveling on in rotation. Right now, I have at least one of every level from 13 to 33, plus the "main" at CP 88. I don't stick to one race - I have several of all the races. I have several of each class, all three "versions".
I'm an altoholic, yes. I'm retired so I can play as much as I like.
All of my characters are playable. I have my main, which I do a liitle bit of everything on. My main crafter, who is also one of my primary normal trial characters. I have my dedicated tank, because there's always a need. I have 3 other sub-crafters rounding out my top 6, 2 per alliance, which handle secondary completions of content. I have one knuckle-headed Khajiit for various things. Then the remaining 8 slots fill out the remaining mag/stam versions of the classes under DC.
The active ones depend on what I'm focused on this week.
Circa 30 characters across 2 accounts (PC EU and PC NA x 2) - 6 completed the jesters festival.
But - the characters I am playing more than not did not take part in the jesters festival; so sat 10 active
I have 7 active characters at the moment: 5 on my main account EU, 1 on my main account NA, and 1 on my second account EU who I am leveling at the moment until she is level 50 CP 160. I have 4 more characters, 3 EU and 1 NA, that I'm either not actively playing at the moment or haven't really started leveling yet.
Effectively it's 1-2 out of 14, with the exception of event grinds.
My alts see very little action after are leveled and geared. There's plenty of room to improve them, but the thought of it is daunting. The remaining grind for that last few percent (to undaunted mettle 2/2) far exceeds the work already done.
Overall (adding /played totals on each) I've spent half of my time on my main, and the other half is divided almost equally between my 13 alts.