I would comment that gear isn't quite so easy to obtain as you're making out. Yes you can make a (grand) obsidian set, but then your GS is only like 2.5k
And having a second character to play can't be entirely a bad idea. Some of us do like playing alts.
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If you are FULL INTENT on playing massively different classes properly Eg, Cloth Mage and swapping to or from Leather DR or whatever on the SAME OR DIFFERENT CHAR, you are
GOING TO INCUR THE COST OF NEEDING MULTIPLE GEAR SETS.
NO MATTER WHAT
And if you are acquiring multiple gear sets well then OF COURSE it's going to COST you more to get gear...
YOU have to get so much more than other people who are likely just focusing on one set
That applies, WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAY ON THE SAME CHARACTER OR DIFFERENT ONES.
AND EVEN THEN: the onus is on you to get those gear pieces, so you have to swallow that cost
So that's just something that doesn't matter in the argument of keeping the same char or leveling a new one...
And all in all, the Original Poster mentioned acquiring alternative gear by:...
just loaded up bonestalker and did the leveling over again, I'd have everything I need.
as in getting it from the Q-line or dungeons...
They'd have put all this effort into relevelling something anyways which would STILL be worse than the gear that they'd have to eventually obtain to be properly relevant in the diff class on their other... in your own words that gear being Obsidian... or if they want to the crafted gear.
To answer /THAT/ question ppl have helpfully said that it's easier to keep it all on one character,,,, even with multiple gear sets. Because you know things like dungeons exist that can be completed on a single character... So ie you dun have to waste time relevelling just go mindlessly PvE...
And they said they'd like to try... dun need new set of obsidian gear to tell if they like how a class plays or not...
Though your COMMENT on alt chars is a valid one, but, that's up to the person to decide on their own, and is an entirely different question.
(Heck I have alt chars to do the daily gilda q's over and over
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