Alt Champs

TairenSoul

I'm curious. What does everyone do with their alt Champs? Do you repeat every quest from the beginning? Just the main ones? No old quests? DLC's? Thanks all!

Syldras

Whatever fits their personal story.

shadyjane62

Since the AWA I don't do anything with them,as my main has done it all.

Cadbury

Since I've moved to PC, I only have a couple characters now (Stamden and Magplar)

Pretty much do most of my achievements on one, while the other is mostly a mule

Carcamongus

My main main (derp), a DK, did pretty much almost all quests and lost count how many times he saved Tamriel. I created my second main (derp) because I couldn't pass an opportunity to have a necro. I don't have much patience to repeat all those quests, so his story is that he's a grumpy recluse who doesn't care and would rather leave the world-saving to his DK cousin. The downside is he can't visit a major city without being accosted by a bunch of Stuga-like NPCs.

Someone: the [insert organization in trouble] has need of you!
Necro: shove off or I'll raise your grandma to spank you!

YstradClud

I only have 2 champs and they are both Templars. There was awhile after launch where they let some of us who had done beta transfer a copy of our character to console. I try and be a completionist on both though.

pklemming

Similar to above:

AWA meant that I pretty much do nothing beyond getting the bare skills needed on alts

There is no point me getting achievements again, this resulted in my logging in less and less often, mainly for groups with friends or prog.

Ingame time is well under 50% of what it was as I literally have nothing to do now.

Syldras

Carcamongus wrote: »

The downside is he can't visit a major city without being accosted by a bunch of Stuga-like NPCs.

I really don't understand why they have to approach you and, even worse, scream at you all the time. The latest annoying addition is an npc advertizing the card game in Davon's Watch (and probably all other starting zones). His voice is particularly unnerving.

EozZoe1989

u only play eu inpast now iam on one toon na. lol so-- iam starting from scrath and meeting new people ddue to i thought making friends in eu yet .. no one talks some times only in events more content and so on we need more events and more content lol

bmnoble

Most of them I just prioritized leveling up for daily writs, have made a point to get one of each class combat ready over the years though.

Don't really do many quests on my alts though at most a few have done their factions alliance zones main quest lines but not much more than that, I just don't find the story's compelling enough to go back through everything again and again on each character.

That all said I have pretty much gone back to just playing on my main, rarely log into my alts lately, with the AWA changes it makes it a real pain to figure out what you have done on each alt and what you have left to do.

phaneub17_ESO

Main character (Imperial) does everything. Dark Elves do Vvardenfell, Nords do Greymoor and The Reach, Orcs do Orsinium, Khajiit do Kitty Fun Land, etc. Still waiting on a large quest zone for Argonian (murkmire is small), Bosmer, and Redguard.

Xuhora

speedleveling to 50, then max out the skilllines i need and then hop into vet trials, because FOTM in this game is a real PITA

Jaraal

shadyjane62 wrote: »

Since the AWA I don't do anything with them,as my main has done it all.

This. ZOS killed any reason to replay content when they locked our alts out from getting achievements.

Syldras

Jaraal wrote: »

ZOS killed any reason to replay content when they locked our alts out from getting achievements.

Unless you play for the stories and not for achievements.

(I was against AwA, by the way, because I sometimes did like looking at achievements to see the progress of a character - for me, it's not a main reason for playing, though.)

Jaraal

Syldras wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

ZOS killed any reason to replay content when they locked our alts out from getting achievements.

Unless you play for the stories and not for achievements.

I liked getting the Emperor achievement on different classes and races, but ZOS killed it for me when my characters could no longer get the achievement, and instead could just select it from a drop down menu.

I guess you could replay content on a different character for nostalgia reasons, but it's not the same for people who consider each character to be a unique individual, and not just one player driving a different set of pixels around Tamriel, which is how ZOS wants us to view it. ZOS apparently doesn't see any reason for us to start from scratch on a new character any more, as they are only granting one time achievements. And that's not the game I signed up to play years ago.

captainwolfos

I have 15 characters, all Champs. I'm working through all the quests on all of them (free XP, right?). I'm done with... five? I think?

I'm currently working on one of my tank characters with the Oakensoul Ring (my first and so far only mythical item lmao) before the dreaded nerfs, because after those drop I'm fairly certain his damage output will be even more pathetic than it is now.

Syldras

Jaraal wrote: »

I guess you could replay content on a different character for nostalgia reasons, but it's not the same for people who consider each character to be a unique individual, and not just one player driving a different set of pixels around Tamriel, which is how ZOS wants us to view it.

I take roleplaying quite "seriously" and my characters tend to have much too elaborate backstories, but I don't really see how achievements matter that much in that regard. Of course it's awful that achievements are shared, and I think there are also a few encounters that can be completed only once for the whole account (unless that has been fixed meanwhile), and what especially annoys me is that delves show as completed already at arrival if you have already completed them with a different character. I find AwA completely awful and it is reducing the fun of it all, and of course I'd be happiest if they could just revert it to the way it was before (Although they said they couldn't for technical reasons, I think?) - but in the end, I, personally, still can enjoy playing with side characters. I just try to ignore the achievement list, the nonsensical accountwide titles (of course it makes no sense that a character can be proclaimed "Hero of..." whatever place when never having ever set a foot on that region) and all the other downsides AwA brought, so it won't spoil my fun; at least story quests still do work. And that's what matters most to me, no achievement or title lists. I just ignore them now. Even if I could assign a character the "Hero of Summerset" title, if I know he has never been there, well, he just isn't for me and I just ignore the title in his list.

Tra_Lalan

Collecting skill points, starting from public dungeon events, then slowly traveling through zons and collecting other skyshards.
I mostly make them crafters and many SP are needed. (maxing out craft, reserching traits for better chances of master writs)

I also have some alts for fun, that have specific handicaps (rules).
- one is a beast and has never used any item (armor, weapon, jewlery),
- other is an old dude, who never runs and only walks the slowest way possible in ESO (playing with him is even harder
- one gets her XP and gear only from dungeons that she visits (doing them in a duo with a friends' alt with same rules),
- one doesn't kill but she steals and plays cards.

Danikat

It depends on the character.

I have 4 I'd broadly describe as general purpose PvE characters (although my main has done PvP as well) and they will eventually do all the open-world quests and exploration stuff, public dungeons and delves and other things like that. They're all at different points and going through it in different orders according to the stories I have in my head for them, so I don't end up doing the same things 4 times in a row, it's always been a while (sometimes a few years) between repetitions for me.

Two of them do dungeons as well, but the other two probably won't because I don't play my sorcerer enough to know the skills well and my nightblade has a weird build which I enjoy but wouldn't expect anyone else to deal with.

My other characters are more specialist. One is a crafter who mostly stays in town except for collecting surveys, he's done a little bit of PvE for skill points and because he was created before One Tamriel and I needed to level him up to get surveys.

One was created specifically for tanking in groups, but she's also become my main event/misc activity character because she's not doing any of the main stories and her backstory is that she's a mercenary and also wildly impulsive, so it's easy for me to justify her skipping around the world to do whatever I need doing.

One is my dedicated 'evil' character: a necromancer, vampire, Thief, Assassin, psychotic mass murderer who when he does complete quests picks the options I want to see the outcome from but wouldn't pick on any of my other characters because it sounds terrible.

And the last one is a bit of an experiment: he's not using any magic, not just skills which use magicka but anything which look like magic. (The one exception I'm allowing is when a quest tells you to destroy something and your character uses a spell animation to do it, because there's often no practical way to know which quests will do that and which have them pull a hammer or axe from no where or use a standard heavy attack or whatever.) So far he's just been doing starter island quests and exploration, I don't have any real plan for him yet, I'm just seeing what works.

AWA hasn't affected my plans for any of my characters because if I did something for the achievement it was to unlock the dye or a costume or whatever, and those were already account wide. I think I'm too used to games with no achievements or ones tied to the system they're on so they can only be done once per account anyway, until I saw people posting about it here it never occurred to me to use achievements to keep track of what a character had done and I rarely looked at the achievement menu.

etchedpixels

TairenSoul wrote: »

I'm curious. What does everyone do with their alt Champs? Do you repeat every quest from the beginning? Just the main ones? No old quests? DLC's? Thanks all!

Depends what they are for. The story much less now as AWA wrecked the tracking of what you've done per toon. No problem with AWA just the way they vandalised the existing tracking.

Often I just run the few min/maxed storylines for skill points, so speedrun clockwork city, the reach, the first half of southern elsweyr (quick skill points before the tedious stuff with the blocks), particularly for characters intended for PvP or particular roles.

My alt account they spend most of their time maxing out bag capacity so I can use them as a bank.

redlink1979

I only run the content which grants skill points, AWA killed the repeatability of most of the stuff I used to do with all my alts.

TairenSoul

Unfortunately, I'm one of those players that hates to see unfinished things on my map. I'm running into the issue where I have no patience to do everything all over again with a new toon. I want to keep leveling up, but that is leaving me with just doing the same boring dailies or grinding. I've tried making new characters with other classes, but I don't like they way they play. Maybe I just need a new game. Thanks for all your responses! Best community ever!

Ragnarok0130

I try to get them to level 50 as soon as possible so I can use them in end game content. But after that I do all of the story content at a leisurely pace so I can enjoy it.

Tesman85

I don't have alts or mains, as I see it, just a bunch of characters who have been created at different times. There are, however, something like two ranks to them. Most of the characters are "keepers" that I intend to play more or less extensively. Those I take through the main quest and their respective alliance quest lines. The reason for that is partly so that things unlocked by the main quest lines would become so (especially the enemy-infested towns of AD quest-line, which peeve me), partly because of the big experience and skill point haul.

To resolve the inherent problem with having different characters who presumably inhabit the same time-space (because they share the bank, collectibles etc.), I have this headcanon where the "canonical" hero of each storyline is the one who completed it first. Thus, my Altmer sorceress is the "true" Vestige on my account, a female Nord DK the "real" hero of the Pact etc. Even this mental ranking I do only because timeline problems tend to irk me in an overblown way if I think about them too much.

Then there are "experimental" characters and those who wouldn't really be fitted roleplay-wise to do those questlines. For instance, I think I'll let my assassin character remain a writ/daily quest drone and maybe PvP grunt after finishing the DB questline. That's because a heartless killer just isn't the heroic type the main and alliance quests assume the character be. So some characters only play through a chapter/DLC or two and those side quests which suit their theme.

As for chapter stories, I play those with characters with whom they make the most sense (like Summerset with magical types). For instance, I think I'll play Blackwood with all my Imperials just because it fits perfectly with that race. That chapter suited also my Breton sorceress because of the whole Oblivion and magical secrets thing.

Kalik_Gold

No quests now (unless need to unlock a skill line) except for Dungeon quests sure, as they are for skill points. Two have redone the main story prior to AwA.

Only Dungeons,Thieving, PvP or Trials now... I have 15 max level characters, still finishing the last 3.

I turn off quest tracker, and see quest icons, icons on compass now.

Carcamongus

I've always done everything on my DK, so AwA changed so little for me at first that it took me a while to grasp I no longer needed pursue certain achievements on my necro (I was slowly making him my second grand master crafter, for some reason...). It's nice that titles are shared account-wide, though I still find it hilarious that my level 4 mule can prance around with vet trial titles. I just wish achievement furnishings from Cyrodiil had been unlocked for all as well.