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What are the benefits to rolling alts in other factions?
Tyzin
Soul Shriven
I am planning on creating alts, but I am unsure of whether to create them in the same faction as my main or not. The people I play with have all of their characters in Ebonheart, so by creating characters in other factions I am locking myself out of playing those characters with my friends. To my understanding you can play the storyline of the other factions after completing your own so I won't be missing content. Pvp aside, are there any reasons to branch out to the other factions?
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✭✭✭✭✭I made 3 main characters, one in each faction, because i want to be able to play each faction content from the bottom up while leveling a character.
The whole VR grind is just not the same ...
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What stops your friends from rolling alts on other alliances too?
Personally, I have alts in every alliance so that I can experience the storyline of those before I get on to VR questing with my main.
Other benefit is that if you didn't pre-order ESO you can play other races."Do you want the book or not? Then go whack some people with Wabbajack!!"1 -
Chili✭✭To play another class/build without repeating the same content and to see the other faction content in general.0 -
MasterSpatula✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭You know, I don't really know. It never occurred to me not too. I guess the benefit would be... fun?"A probable impossibility is preferable to an improbable possibility." - Aristotle0 -
I was wondering that myself. Think I will do the same, play all 3 factions before taking any to the veteran level.0
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Alyrn_Grey✭✭✭Wait you don't jump around between alliances? I figured it would be fun to be able to switch characters to the next alliance.0 -
tengri✭✭✭✭✭I am doing exactly this (3 "main chars", all around level 30-35 now).
Benefits:
* Getting tons of materials and items to deconstruct for leveling up my chosen professions (one main is a smith, a tailor/woodworker, an enchanter).
* I get to see all the content on a "sane" level.
Yeah, yeah I know. VR ranks and stuff are waiting lurking in the dark around the corner. A crude marketing/PR move, no more, no less.
And frankly speaking, I do not really want to be one of those high-level "tourists" grinding through VR levels on the wrong side of the map either... that's just... wrong.
Well, at least when it's time I know for sure which char/class I favor the most and push through the VR grinder. The other two will probably stop for good at 50.
And I am still angry that I have one class "missing" so to speak. 4 classes but only 3 factions. Brilliant. Not. I hate you TESO!
Drawbacks:
Doing main, fighter and mage guild quests all 3 times. Well, at least with 3 different classes... which can be interesting of sorts.0