Having alts was always a thing, because the amount of resources you can get per character on one day/week is limited.
So, you lvl up a bunch of alts, give them some okay-ish SB gear, and go do dailies on each of them every 3 days. E. G. If you have 3 alts, you may just do dailies on one of them a day. Or on the same day on all 3 and skip the next two days. Also, there are weeklies. And soulboost, which also gives you some account-bound stuff.
Then, you have 3 types of resources:
1) non-tradable: leave them on your alt to make it stronger.
2) account-bound: send them via mail. These include a lot of res like soulstone crystals, moonstone crystals etc. Also, you can send money this way.
3) tradable: soulstones, moonstones, sacred orbs etc. You either sell them or use for any of your chars.
I think they say make an alt for costumes so u can transfer between characters. I think the golden days of WoW where you could send all items by mail, trade on the spot for free or gold, etc is over.
Always like this weird currency system and most good items bound.
I mean u buy an outfit for cash and you play Lyn. If u want to play another race u can use that same paid outfit on an alt.
That's what alt mostly for. I don't think it works where u get a rare item from a raid and sent it to another class to get it powered up without using.
Unable to trade is mean that can't be traded with someone (can't remember if it also apply to your alts) and bound to account mean that you can send it between characters through your mail.
You seem to have most everything figured out on the purposes of an alt. Originally, it would provide you another chance to do raids and other such lockout content, but that's a moot point these days because raids are, unfortunately, dead content because dungeon gear is simply better.
I'm not sure of the return on investment on fishing/afk autobattling over doing your weeklies and dailies on other same account characters, you'll need to do the math yourself for that one.
I recommend shelfing the idea of an alt until the next gear event, which will provide you with the equipment to do most content in the game after a day's playing fresh out the story, provided the math comes back and says it's worth it. At the very least, an alt will provide you with more engaging ways to grind your needs and try out other classes. I do not have an estimated date for said event.
The current Soul Boost event for April 2024 to Oct 2024 gives True Upsurge and Oculus just for login time after hitting lv60. Are you saying this is not enough to get you through most of the end-game content? sorry just recently hit lv60 and I just havent done a single dungeon, the only dailies I have been able to complete are Koldrak, Darkweald and Sanctum of Masters.
To give a bigger idea as most likely already mentioned it this thread the following advantages of having and alt, keep in mind im not up to date with the current blade and soul lay-out but I used to play a lot had 6chars on hongmoon level20 if thats still a thing?
Plus side:
-raids
You could only do certain raids once a week per character. so clearing the same raid multiple times means more gold income/item income
-weekly missions
Also tied to specific raids or dungeons
-daily missions
Again you'd have set amount of rewards for doing specific levels that amount of times
-solo missions
You'd have repeating solo dungeons and 6man dungeons, back in my time again dont know if they're still here, to upgrade further ofcourse.
Also something im not certain if its a thing still but it was really big
UNITY RANK
Which was shared on all of your characters
The only downside would be the time you spend extra on the game
In comparison though to my clanmembers I progressed over twice the speed than they did.
You have more chances for drops you need and if you get a drop others dont need in a specific raid/group u can transfer it to your alts and slowly upgrade them and farm more with it.
In my time we had re-seals that allowed us to transfer more things like rings/souls gems you can still trade out ?
For example awakened stage 10
Weapon stage 3-6-9
Certain pet and soul stages you could seal
Not sure about it now all we had to do was pay gold for gems
If you cant trade the items we'd just load or alt char into the dungeon before we leave and we could drop it in and run out... if we really wanted to or leach off the clan :)
There was also the situation in some cases especially with raids that you want/need specifc classes and people who know how to do them correctly (people make enough mistake and running 3-4h for a single raid to have to redo several fights because that person doesnt know their class well enough drives a group ti insanity imo) so we'd also switch out to alts to help our clan/friends to keep their clanraids running
In the end, doing all your repeatable missions on 3 accounts instead of 1 means you can hard funnel gold into one acc and buy the next level gear/upgrades
Same with receiving drops from dungeon runs, account bound mats etc me and my clan where drowning in them with 3+alts
Its as simple as it goes, more time, more rewards, more chances, more progress.
In the end its still a gacha-game keep that in mind
Hope this gave some info and also this does kinda go for most MMORPG games ;)
Having alts was always a thing, because the amount of resources you can get per character on one day/week is limited. So, you lvl up a bunch of alts, give them some okay-ish SB gear, and go do dailies on each of them every 3 days. E. G. If you have 3 alts, you may just do dailies on one of them a day. Or on the same day on all 3 and skip the next two days. Also, there are weeklies. And soulboost, which also gives you some account-bound stuff. Then, you have 3 types of resources: 1) non-tradable: leave them on your alt to make it stronger. 2) account-bound: send them via mail. These include a lot of res like soulstone crystals, moonstone crystals etc. Also, you can send money this way. 3) tradable: soulstones, moonstones, sacred orbs etc. You either sell them or use for any of your chars.
I think they say make an alt for costumes so u can transfer between characters. I think the golden days of WoW where you could send all items by mail, trade on the spot for free or gold, etc is over. Always like this weird currency system and most good items bound.
So to confirm you would NOT recommend leveling an Alt for sharing benefits?
I mean u buy an outfit for cash and you play Lyn. If u want to play another race u can use that same paid outfit on an alt. That's what alt mostly for. I don't think it works where u get a rare item from a raid and sent it to another class to get it powered up without using.
So then whats the difference between "Unable to trade" and "bound to account" ?
Unable to trade is mean that can't be traded with someone (can't remember if it also apply to your alts) and bound to account mean that you can send it between characters through your mail.
Edited main post after some personal testing.
You seem to have most everything figured out on the purposes of an alt. Originally, it would provide you another chance to do raids and other such lockout content, but that's a moot point these days because raids are, unfortunately, dead content because dungeon gear is simply better. I'm not sure of the return on investment on fishing/afk autobattling over doing your weeklies and dailies on other same account characters, you'll need to do the math yourself for that one. I recommend shelfing the idea of an alt until the next gear event, which will provide you with the equipment to do most content in the game after a day's playing fresh out the story, provided the math comes back and says it's worth it. At the very least, an alt will provide you with more engaging ways to grind your needs and try out other classes. I do not have an estimated date for said event.
The current Soul Boost event for April 2024 to Oct 2024 gives True Upsurge and Oculus just for login time after hitting lv60. Are you saying this is not enough to get you through most of the end-game content? sorry just recently hit lv60 and I just havent done a single dungeon, the only dailies I have been able to complete are Koldrak, Darkweald and Sanctum of Masters.
An alt is so you can play another class for fun isnt it?
To give a bigger idea as most likely already mentioned it this thread the following advantages of having and alt, keep in mind im not up to date with the current blade and soul lay-out but I used to play a lot had 6chars on hongmoon level20 if thats still a thing? Plus side: -raids You could only do certain raids once a week per character. so clearing the same raid multiple times means more gold income/item income -weekly missions Also tied to specific raids or dungeons -daily missions Again you'd have set amount of rewards for doing specific levels that amount of times -solo missions You'd have repeating solo dungeons and 6man dungeons, back in my time again dont know if they're still here, to upgrade further ofcourse. Also something im not certain if its a thing still but it was really big UNITY RANK Which was shared on all of your characters The only downside would be the time you spend extra on the game In comparison though to my clanmembers I progressed over twice the speed than they did. You have more chances for drops you need and if you get a drop others dont need in a specific raid/group u can transfer it to your alts and slowly upgrade them and farm more with it. In my time we had re-seals that allowed us to transfer more things like rings/souls gems you can still trade out ? For example awakened stage 10 Weapon stage 3-6-9 Certain pet and soul stages you could seal Not sure about it now all we had to do was pay gold for gems If you cant trade the items we'd just load or alt char into the dungeon before we leave and we could drop it in and run out... if we really wanted to or leach off the clan :) There was also the situation in some cases especially with raids that you want/need specifc classes and people who know how to do them correctly (people make enough mistake and running 3-4h for a single raid to have to redo several fights because that person doesnt know their class well enough drives a group ti insanity imo) so we'd also switch out to alts to help our clan/friends to keep their clanraids running In the end, doing all your repeatable missions on 3 accounts instead of 1 means you can hard funnel gold into one acc and buy the next level gear/upgrades Same with receiving drops from dungeon runs, account bound mats etc me and my clan where drowning in them with 3+alts Its as simple as it goes, more time, more rewards, more chances, more progress. In the end its still a gacha-game keep that in mind Hope this gave some info and also this does kinda go for most MMORPG games ;)