I actually have 10 accounts for the purpose of extending my storage space. I obtained these when ESO was at sale at one point so the cost were rather manageable.

In order to run my own guilds I played some of these to at least level 10 and only the second of my accounts was played to veteran levels, just to experience the difference in power level between my main account and the second one as in one of the guilds I'm in, which is a mixture of ambitious players but also for casual ones, one of the players claimed that without CPs he has problems dealing damage. While CPs do count up in your damage, the actual rotation and correct light attack weaving/animation canceling is way more important to up your damage.

That account also taught me that in order to reach at least CP 160 or 300 you don't really need that much of playtime actually as doing the first normal daily pledge after hitting vet status already bumped me up to CP 60+ and two days later and some side-leveling and running pledges I reached CP 160 without any issues.

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For me it's plain altoholism, 18 characters is not enough. I have 42 characters but admittedly I tend to play main account more.

Extra storage is a nice extra but not the main reason.

Khenarthi wrote: »

For me it's plain altoholism, 18 characters is not enough. I have 42 characters but admittedly I tend to play main account more.

Extra storage is a nice extra but not the main reason.

You create more characters mainly just to mess around with them?

Kessra wrote: »

I actually have 10 accounts for the purpose of extending my storage space. I obtained these when ESO was at sale at one point so the cost were rather manageable.

Now THAT is a good idea.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

pdblake wrote: »

I don't know how people do 18 characters, it takes me long enough to do writs on 5, though I am still feeding horses on four of them.

When I go on "break" I pre-craft in bulk on alts I don't plan on playing about 15 days worth of daily writs. Then all I got to do is login, grab all 7 dailies, and turn them in. When all 15 days are used up, I open all 105 boxes, empty them out, and do it again.

See, to me that's not a break, that's continuing to log in every single day.

Wow... I only play my main character. I didn't realize how much of a minority I'm in.

I have multiple accounts (more than I care to admit here). I will advise you that you need a unique e-mail for each account. You can use a single e-mail address for multiple Steam accounts, but you need a unique one for the purposes of ESO specifically. So get those e-mails set up before you do anything else.

It's a bit of a chore if you have a lot of them like I do. Also, friend your new accounts to your old ones. That will help you later if you come into some crowns on one of your alt accounts and you want to gift items to your main account. There are some cool downs built into the gifting system so you are just planning ahead by doing this.

I have 3 accounts, along with characters on both the NA and EU servers. I like the challenge of starting over with no money, stuff, or CP. I’ve also been here since beta, so there are some quests I did 8 years ago and don’t remember very well, so it’s fun to do them again. And there are still other quests that I’ve never done at all. There’s always something new to explore and experience.

The extra storage is great, too. As is the ability to mail and gifts things from one account to another. Two of my accounts have ESO+ and the other does not.

I did it because I was getting burned out with my main. So much money spent on that account over the years. So many things accomplished, but it stopped being "fun." It started to feel like a job.

Any time I logged in to that account, I felt like I HAD to do the daily crafting, even though my bank was full of surveys that I let build up for too long and no longer felt like dealing with but couldn't bring myself to delete. I felt like I HAD to work on antiquities to finish collecting everything I could. HAD to do this and HAD to do that and rushed from one thing to the next to get it all done in my limited playtime.

I had addons for writs, harvesting, finding surveys/maps, chests, etc. With those addons, I basically stopped playing the game. I was just mindlessly hitting buttons to craft writs or following the symbols to collect stuff, not really even paying attention or noticing anything around me.

I had too many houses that were storage only because I couldn't decorate the way I wanted, too many pieces of furniture spread all over the place in my "warehouses" and in my bank. Tons of collectibles/mounts/pets from back when I used to buy crown crates that I'll never use and can't stand trying to weed through to find the very few things I actually do want to use.

I bought a new account and started over. On my new account, I only have the mini map addon. I don't craft so I don't feel like I need to do crafting dailies, so I don't end up with tons of the surveys or writs from those. My bank is nice and empty. I have no CP and I wear what I find. I take my time, wander around, and I don't follow the quests one after the other but just do them as I run into NPCs as I wander around, in no particular order. I harvest as I find stuff but don't go out of my way to find anything. I've only bought one hairstyle and one outfit from the store that I currently have on my character and nothing else because from experience, I know I most likely won't use most of it. I bought one house, a smaller one, and I'm slowly decorating it with things I find or buying a piece of furniture here and there from the guild stores as I gain more gold. I use the brown horse that we get at level 10, but I find myself usually running around by foot because I no longer feel this pressure to be somewhere and to do certain stuff as quickly as I can. I can take a day or a week off and not feel like I'm missing out on anything.

While I haven't completely abandoned my main account, this more laid-back approach with the new account has been more enjoyable and healthier on my bank account, and I don't really feel any urge to go back to my stressful main account. I guess just knowing it's still there is enough for now.

I have 4 accounts for a few reasons.

1. More daily writs. I don't do all the writs every day but for days when I have time, I can do up to 44 characters so it's worth the time

2. More sales slots in guilds. Instead of 30 slots, I have access to 120 slots with one guild that all 4 are a part of

3. More progression. After hitting max cp on my main account, it's nice to have the ability to level up new characters

4. No waiting in queues for random normals. I solo them with 3 accounts that just sit at the front door.

5. More event rewards. Instead of 7 gold plunder skulls per day, I can get up to 28. It's especially useful during the anniversary event where writs tend to award extra rewards.

I grabbed a 2nd account basically to store motifs and gear I planned to eventually sell. The 2nd account was a great place to stick things while waiting for a better price.
With the sticker book and other stuff I don't need to do that as much now.

I did start a new character on that account though and am playing them through the content in the same order I did my first character. Has been fun. I forgot some of the side stories and some of the cool things you stumble across. I couldn't do that on my main account because I don't want to delete a character and they all have done random quests all over the place.

Elsonso wrote: »

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Cillion3117 wrote: »

Wow... I only play my main character. I didn't realize how much of a minority I'm in.

You are probably firmly in the majority. That said, join the crazy fringe and create a few alts...

Only on the forums. Over the general populace, most people would have only 1 account.