How many characters do you play ?

Uryel

In a thread about global achievements that I recently read, some people were claiming "most people play more than 1 character", others expressed doubt about it, implying that most people don't.

Regardless of the question why this arose, I'm curious. How many characters do you actually play ?

Vevvev

I have several but only play one. The others are just.... There. Guess to justify my purchases on the other classes and the Imperial race. Still only play my Breton magDK.

CaffeinatedMayhem

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

Define "several" and "play them all"

I have 12.
11 do writs every day (12 is almost there)
I play them each according to their purpose (PvE, PvP, solo, etc)
Some I only play a few times a month, some I play every day,

relentless_turnip

I play 4 out of 13 regularly 👍

Nord_Raseri

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

13 characters. 2 pve mains, 2 tanks, 3 pvp mains, 1 grand master crafter. The other 5 were meant to be something, but they'll sit there until deleted and I grind new ones(lost count of how many alts I've leveled and eventually deleted and replaced over the past four years).

DTStormfox

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

I play 3 of my 12 characters regularly. One of these 12 characters I only use for crafting, & trading, and farming sets. The remaining 8 characters are just there...existing but not used.

zaria

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

Have 5 I play plenty Stamsorc main as in main crafter and do all the quests, also main pvp.
Magplar healer / DD, dungeons and trials. Stamblade, stealing and dungeons, two DK tanks for dungeons.
All 5 do writs daily.
6 more who are less active but all cp 160,

SirAndy

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

- 4 fully leveled mains (all skills and morphs for every category: class, weapons, guilds, world, crafting, pvp etc.)
- 2 In the works, not yet fully leveled
- 4 mules used for storage

I tend to play one character exclusively for a while, then switch to another to do the same.

PrimusNephilim

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

I have 3 accounts (2 PS4 - 1 PC) on my main account I have all 18 characters fully leveled up and I play them all, my 2nd account I have 3 characters, one is 50/280 and the others are somewhere around level 10 and my PC character is level 15.

PN

Gythral

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

Define 'play'
as 18 do writs most days...
none enter battlegrounds or Cyrodil by choice

& many find bugged content too often...

jaws343

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

I have all 18 slots filled. One main (A DPS), 1 tank, 1 healer, and the rest are different class PVP alts that I use intermittently for differing PVP experiences. Lets me jump to a stam DK one day and a Mag nightblade the next, whenever I feel like enjoying the playstyle. But all PVE and PVP achievements I intend to eventually obtain on my main, not so much the others.

Sephyr

0 right now. In this buggy mess? Nah.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

I have ten characters. I have two I regularly play; my PVE main and my PVP main. I have others that are situational; one for crafting and another for stealing. The others are old characters that are now storage.

josiahva

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

I play maybe 3 of them...and only 1 of them regularly, but I have all my slots filled...I would rather just play the one, but ESO is not yet to the point I can have effective loadout swapping unless I re-spec and re-do CP as well...so since I can only main tank and off-DPS or off-heal with my main I am still forced to run alts for when I want to main DPS or main heal...if it wasnt for that, I would delete them all except main and crafter.

Jaimeh

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

I'm an altoholic, and although I do play with some characters a lot more than others, they are all fully levelled, outfitted, and geared (though not always with the BiS gear of the moment), and I try to run various contents with each of them. At the moment I have 15 characters on NA and 9 on EU, covering all PvE specs/roles, and a couple for PvP. I do have *lowers voice* favourites, but I love all my alts, and I wish I had the time to play all of them, as well as the skill, since I'm not as good on some specs.

idk

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

The poll asks how many characters do I play but does not provide any numbers for an appropriate answer.

We already know that many players play more than one character. Zos sells additional character slots for a reason and that alone indicates many players play a great many alts.

Further, anyone who is a competitive raider knows most of those they raid with have multiple characters as we tend to do multiple score runs on different characters.

In the end, this is about account-wide achievements and I see nothing in the poll that offers any bearing on that subject.

rpa

I'm altholic but I tend to play one at time.

twev

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

I have 15.
14 are master crafters and craft writs every day, most are hunters of evil in the world.
The 15th is a lowbie with no writ abilities to help newbs acquire crafting skills and learn to do writs.

GrumpyDuckling

idk wrote: »

The poll asks how many characters do I play but does not provide any numbers for an appropriate answer.

We already know that many players play more than one character. Zos sells additional character slots for a reason and that alone indicates many players play a great many alts.

Further, anyone who is a competitive raider knows most of those they raid with have multiple characters as we tend to do multiple score runs on different characters.

In the end, this is about account-wide achievements and I see nothing in the poll that offers any bearing on that subject.

It's not about account-wide achievements "in the end." The OP was pretty clear that they were curious about how many characters people play. I know this because they said in the very first post of the thread, "I'm curious. How many characters do you actually play?"

And it's okay that there aren't exact numbers listed in the poll because the poll still has a wide enough representation of options for the OP to get a sufficient answer to the question they asked.

kojou

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

I tend to just rotate in the ones that are the best on a given patch (e.g. the combat team ruins Nightblades, then I go play on my Templar, or if Stamina Necromancers are what is needed for a trial then I go play on my Stamina Necromancer).

Sarannah

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

Have 18 level 50 characters. Which one I play depends on inventory and current mood/events. As some characters are better for some situations, like PvP/PvE/events/dungeons/overland/etc. I keep all researchables I find with a character on that character. Then after a few weeks, they have researched all they could, and I can play them again.

There isn't enough time in a day. As I want to get all my characters through all overland and DLC zones. So far I have overall done ALL content, except for markarth. Which I didn't get to yet. (and not doing trials)

Did/do have one main, but he had a full inventory for a long time, and only recently did I get rid of most stuff he carried(400+ master writs take up alot of space). He is missing Western Skyrim and Markarth completion still.

PS: I really hope ZOS will one day allow us to choose a main parent character on our account(unchangeable), one which gets shared ALL achievements you complete on any character on the account.

zaria

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

idk wrote: »

The poll asks how many characters do I play but does not provide any numbers for an appropriate answer.

We already know that many players play more than one character. Zos sells additional character slots for a reason and that alone indicates many players play a great many alts.

Further, anyone who is a competitive raider knows most of those they raid with have multiple characters as we tend to do multiple score runs on different characters.

In the end, this is about account-wide achievements and I see nothing in the poll that offers any bearing on that subject.

It's not about account-wide achievements "in the end." The OP was pretty clear that they were curious about how many characters people play. I know this because they said in the very first post of the thread, "I'm curious. How many characters do you actually play?"

And it's okay that there aren't exact numbers listed in the poll because the poll still has a wide enough representation of options for the OP to get a sufficient answer to the question they asked.

Myself I don't care much about account wide achievements but kind of regret I did so much on my main like master angler some other could have that title.
I say clanmother still is among the top for an female Khajiit and one I tend to get questions about
And they only have to enter my main home at serenity falls to pick it up.

newtinmpls

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

On my "main" account (I have 3) I have currently 17 characters, only one which I never/rarely play. I like her backstory so I'm not deleting her (it's been about 4 years and she is still level 20 or so).

The rest I play; I have no "main" character. I tend to play according to what they are interested in (got a few that are doing theives guild stuff. No one has done assassin's stuff.

I'm pretty terrible about zone quests.

josiahva

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

idk wrote: »

The poll asks how many characters do I play but does not provide any numbers for an appropriate answer.

We already know that many players play more than one character. Zos sells additional character slots for a reason and that alone indicates many players play a great many alts.

Further, anyone who is a competitive raider knows most of those they raid with have multiple characters as we tend to do multiple score runs on different characters.

In the end, this is about account-wide achievements and I see nothing in the poll that offers any bearing on that subject.

To be fair...I have bought additional character slots with crowns from my sub...but that doesn't mean I actually use them as anything other than mules...I can't even be bothered to finish leveling my necro or warden...its not that a lot of people WANT to play more characters, its that they find having that extra slot useful in some way....I would much prefer just one character...but there arent enough skill points in the game to unlock every skill you could have....and I would give up most of those additional characters in a heartbeat if my main character could gain their inventory slots.

iamkeebler

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

Depending on the task at hand I’ll play whoever fits my needs best. I’ve got some for PvE and some for PvP, healers and DPS, achievement focused toons and roleplay focused toons.

Dojohoda

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

...and they are all magblades on all of my accounts on both na and eu.

Sometimes the other classes get some attention, but they are all mostly the doers of writ.

CrashTest

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

I have 11.

I play 1 tank, 2 healers, 2 DPS regularly. But the other characters (mostly tanks) are getting some play recently bc 10 transmute crystals for a daily random dungeon.

Rehdaun

Where's the "a lot less now because zos can't fix their crap!!" option?

Gythral

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

Rehdaun wrote: »

Where's the "a lot less now because zos can't fix their crap!!" option?

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Kalik_Gold

I'm an altoholic, I have several characters and play them all.

I play them all because they have different roles.

Gilvoth

I have several characters but only play a few of them on a regular basis.

one only crafter
one only pvp
and recently - one only pve