KaGaOri wrote: »

Only one. Seriously, you guys - how do you have time to play more than one character on regular bases, let alone eighteen of them? Since eso is 18+ game have to assume you work for living + take care of other life related stuff (shoping, cleaning, cooking, laundry ...) yourself and likely have families, SO, or a pet on top of it all. Is it time magic? Don't you sleep?

I think it comes down to different expectations. I have 7 characters and I split my time between each of them, but that doesn't mean I play 7x as much as someone who only has 1 character, it means it takes me longer to get through things.

I only play about an hour or two at a time, and not every day. When I log in I choose which character I want to play or which activity I want to do (that determines the character I'll use) and if I want to do something different then I'll switch. So some of them might not get played for a week or so, but then at other times I'll use them most and someone else will barely get played.

For me having those options is the benefit of multiple characters, even if it means it takes me longer to complete everything on one of them.

Lysette wrote: »

I guess, there you have your answer - about 85% having several and playing them at least once in a while. I'm actually surprised that not that many are using them as additional storage - guess, ESO+ is common among players then.

I almost never have ESO+ and also don't have any storage characters. I do have a dedicated crafter who holds some materials (blacksmithing, woodworking, tailoring and jewellery specifically) and holds stuff I'm going to sell but don't have space for yet. Other materials are split between the bank and a storage chest. Of course ESO+ free trials help by periodically dumping everything into the craft bag, but I think that only really makes a difference for things like rare style materials I don't pick up very often, everything else quickly returns to my inventory or bank once the trial is over.

But I think the main difference is I don't hold onto a lot of other stuff. Even before the new set collection was added I didn't keep spare equipment just in case it might one day be useful. Each of my characters holds their own equipment (mostly worn, but some have spares in their inventory) and if I don't have an immediate use for it I deconstruct or sell it.

Same idea with consumables, furniture, everything else. I currently have a lot of furniture in a storage chest, because I haven't gotten around to decorating the Alpine Gallery but once that's done anything I'm not using and could get back will be sold.

It might also help that all my characters have 170 inventory spaces (my crafter has 200), and I don't have time to do things like run multiple dungeons back-to-back so it's easy for me to clear out their inventories before they fill up completely.

34 (xbox EU and NA)

Half of them crafters, do daily writs when I am motivated to play, or use them on events for extra rewards.

My motivation lately had strong impact, more than 1/3 of them are sorcersers, and I don't enjoy playing that class any longer since crystal blast was destroyed.

So atm just log in to fill guildstore trader slots this week, farmed some transmutation crystals at weekend, did a zonequest on my main to obtain a dye.

No longer do daily delves or worldbosses (I used to do those with 10 characters minimum each day earlieron to farm shimmering sand and culanda laquer).

Might even quit some guilds that require dues, as I am disappointed that you cannot see which items you sold in which guild, so I must scroll through 500-600 pages of sold items to find mine filling up the slots each day. Bad game design for a RPG if there misses basic functionality to manage your sales.
So I will use my toons even less often. No sales, no need to farm mats.

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what I really loved though was to level them up. Did not grind, so it took months. I like to try out new things, and also use "non-meta" builds.
E.g. a wood elf cause they are so cute, but not as a stamina class, but a magplar, as this is currently what I prefer to play.
So some of these toons have a quite unique "character", and I can live with the loss of a little maximum damage in such a case.

I have 9 characters at the moment, but only regularly play about 4 of them. I'm a healer main, and when I'm not healing, I usually play tank, but I have a few DPS in the event support roles are already taken. But what DPS characters I play largely depends on the meta and how much effort I've had to spent re-working the character. Its impossible to keep them all up to date so I kind of rotate through based on what is considered good and not good. And my Petsorc is like my utility character. Can do a lot of things well, but not an elite-tier DPS character atm after the changes to pet damage scaling. But still good enough to get through lots of hard dungeons.

I have my main, and then a few to test how much I like playstyles and farm motifs.

I'll eventually make another, but I really want to get my main through the story first (assuming I could stop getting sidetracked and finish writing...). I do have a few other characters in planning and have mostly developed their backstories and planned their builds, but I am dragging my feet on getting them started until I can at least get done with one character. And hoping that ZOS will release certain cosmetics - I'd love to put my planned characters in certain unavailable hairstyles (Short Mussed Wave pls) if ZOS would ever make it available.

I also can't see my alts being super meta either. My main's a tank and I've gotten through a lot of higher-level content with him, but some of my other alts will be strictly for-fun, so they're not seeing dungeons at all.

18 toons~

•8 mag dps
—1 craftsman
•8 stam dps
—1 main (redguard stamplar)
—2 pvp only
•1 tank
•1 healer

I have 3 characters that I play on at least semi-regular basis.

Carthelion wrote: »

Solo Mag Sorc (achievements,crafter,story, antiqueties, farmer)

DK tank (dungeons)
Warden Healer (dungeons)

I like to separate my dungeon runners from my solo character. As they have specific skills/champion point alocations to fill those rolls and I have so much fun on my Sorceror soloing stuff.

I carry around different sets of gear for my sorc for precisely that reason. I also have a crafter that I do a lot of questing on too, my first character. And I made a stam dps with multiple gear sets that I'm trying to bring up to the level of my sorc. It's hard because I have played my Sorc so long that I get frustrated easy because I can't do things that I did before.

I have 5. Two are semi-retired since I've done everything with them, the solo-able stuff anyway, until something new comes out. The others are at various stages. All are CP1025.

I have 3 characters.

Only one of them I play regularly. (Imperial Dragonknight, Tank if in group, but I prefer solo play, and don't PvP)

The second one is a Khajiit. I just had to make one because they turned out to be so awesome in ESO (as a culture, don't care about stats). But I don't play her very often, because I'm essentially a single-player-RPG person, and prefer to experience everything with my one character.

The third character I made because I gifted the game to a friend, and she wanted to play the game together, so I had to start fresh as well. (The other 2 were at lvl 50 CP800 already.) I use the opportunity to experience all those wonderful quests again that my main already did up to three years ago. But I only play the char if she is online and wants company.

Oh, and I have a character that I only made and played through the tutorial so I could get to the Crown Store and buy the Imperial Edition, or whatever it is called, so I could make the Imperial I actually wanted to play. But that one doesn't count.

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That said, I probably should have chosen option 1 (I have several, but only play one. The others are there for utility purpose (mules, loot box farming during events and whatnot).), with "creating a Khajiit" and "accompanying a friend" being utility purposes...