Need Mules for storage space because after buffing/adding more sets and items to ESO for 3 years and only addressing space once and that was doubling it for ESO subscribers, this situation is engineered to force you to sub for any sort of QoL and thats not even enough - i run 14 characters, a dead guild for 500 more spaces and that isnt enough for my account.

Reason i store many bound items is because of trait change and the game being overhauled every year changing everything instead of gradual tweeks. Glad i saved those infused and soon to be buffed decisive items because deleting them would have me re-farming so much and thats not fun with dirt RNG.

Coupled with alliance restrictions, you have to have different characters in different factions if you PvP to get the most out of game play. EP zerging the map, change to AD and vice versa nevermind counting on certain times EP have the map, or DC/AD have the map.


I should also add writs for Legendary writs to get vouchers which are mainly spent on furnishing plans to complete them and to complete the new recipes the writ vendor has, within any decent timeframe. Couldnt imagine trying to do all that with 1 character doing writs. Even though my main knows all motifs in the game/9 trait, he gets little in the way of legendary writs which over months shows it is not RNG, its a poor drop rate for them.

I created a Templar because I like their play style better than the Nightblade, it is what I should have rolled from day 1.
I also created another Nightblade to spec differently than the first, one for PvP, one for PvE.

Among others... really just to try different things. It isn't just about the class role, some classes play differently. Nightblade and Templar are quite different.

Why do people read books more than once?

Trying out different class/races. And some people will make a pvp toon and a pve toon (but same class) so they won't have to spend gold on respecs all the time.

Because I like to. Is that ok?

Got 8 chars at max lvl but have levelled more than that to lvl 50, why? Because of I wanted to try every class and stamina/magicka versions from them. It's quite hard to test out for example magicka dragonknight unless you own one lol.

Different playstyles, different purposes.

You can 'fill in the blanks' or roles required more with more options, and if you start to get bored with one or more characters, you can swap to the different experience of the other.

It's also a good safety net, since ZoS loves to switch things up on a regular basis, making some classes more viable than others from patch to patch.

You can also get multiple weekly rewards if you have multiple characters capable of completing them.

Necomis wrote: »

I'm never satisfied with what I create and always try new characters. I do this in every MMO. With 13 in ESO, 26 in SWTOR and many spread across multiple servers in WoW. Once I get to a certain level I don't delete.

I've lost count on the number of toons I've deleted in SWTOR, it is well over 50, and I currently have 14 active toons.
In WoW I have maybe 6 or 7 toons that ever get played, and a few others that have just sat there since creation, and I've deleted maybe 3 or 4 over the years.

My 1st toon in ESO was a Nord Sorcerer. But I just couldn't put up with those ugly pets, so I deleted it and started a Nord Magicka Templar, and it has been my main ever since, I have 3 other toons, but they pretty much never get played now; one was a "mess about" Nord Stam DK that I worked a very specific build around Bahara's Curse on so he could be a totally self-healing Stam Tank, but I haven't even logged in on that since Morrowind.

All The Best

Because the game gets a major balance update every 3 *** months that shifts the world upside down, as for that all classes can perform 3roles, the truth is even in casual playing a templer healer performs better than a other classes, a dk tank perform better as well,
Since you are comparing this game with wow in this aspect, you can choose from 3 classes(Druid, Paladin and Monk) in wow and still do 3 roles efficiently, however in eso this is not the case even in casual playing, some classes/races in eso will outperform the other in a particular role in a noticable way.

I like to level other characters. It's fine to make somebody new and see who they will become.

1. Mules/hirelings/writs.

2. Characters in fundamentally different roles, e.g.:

• Magicka DPS sorcerer
• Templar healer
• Stamblade thief
• Crafter extraordinaire

3. Alternate builds for similar roles. E.g. my original main is a Breton sorcerer. He's now my crafter. I have one Altmer sorcerer for generic endgame, and another I may use specifically for soloing (e.g. Clannfear rather than Volatile Familiar).

PvP is my Game and my story. Mine because I'm forced to level Alts I could say was due to balance. I could also say, I honestly don't know anymore and confused at times. To that extant, mostly due to. No alliance switch tokens.

vpy wrote: »

In WoW, we had classes which were designed for a particular role in the holy trinity (tank , heals, dps).

For example Shaman class cannot be a tank at all and Warrior class cannot be a heals at all.

But correct me if I am wrong , with the exception of high end PVE stuff like vet trails, all classes can perform any of the 3 roles efficiently in ESO.

Also ESO’s leveling is more story oriented than others as such once you experience the story/lore/content you do not need to do the same quest again.

So why folks level multiple alts ?

For me the main reason is to try different kinds of builds in PVP. All the different races, classes, stamina or magicka, heavy, light, medium armor and with so many gear sets and diverse abilities there is a lot of flexibility in PVP to come up with interesting builds, even some stuff nobody else has tried before.

Second reason is more inventory space / crafting writs.

I agree it's a bit boring to do the same quest over and over and grinding is even more boring. Here is my process for each new character

1. first get all the public dungeon skill points, takes a couple hours and by the time I'm done I'm around level 10 with 20 or so extra skill points.
2. level up in Cyrodiil until around level 30 or so
3. go get all the lorebooks to level up mages guild and/or fighter guild
4. return to Cyrodiil continue leveling up to 50
5. if need more skill points grab skyshards and do some of the main quest

Would be nice if we could level up at a reasonable pace in the lowbie battlegrounds, but currently it doesn't provide enough XP.

If I didn't have 14 toons who would ride all my mounts?

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

I prefer dedicated characters for roles. No gear swapping, no skill resets, no cp resets, and they can all do daily writs, missions, bounties, etc.

Six full sets of hireling mails isn't making me sad, either.

That feel when you log in and two toons got 2 Wax from hireling