120673-account-wide-features-and-ease-of-alt-gameplay

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Hello Wildstar community, I am making this post today because I feel there are some features that should be implemented into the game sometime in the future and figured I would explain why. I have recently been wanting to really get into my warrior alt and put more time into playing and gearing the character (maybe even possibly beginning to main it); However, I feel put off from playing my character because there are so many simple quality of life things that I invested tons of time and platinum on to obtain on my main character that can't be used on my alt. Here is a list of suggestions I have for account wide items/features.
1) Rare Mounts/Riding Speed Upgrade: This obviously isn't game breaking, but simply the fact that I can't use my Luminous Equivar on my alt puts me off from playing him. I don't see any reason why Rare mount such as the Equivar, Savage War Pig, Bulldog Hoverboard, etc. shouldn't be account wide as well as mount flairs. If someone puts the time/money into getting that mount or 80p riding speed upgrade, It should be for all their characters.
2) Attunment: This again isn't a massive deal, but it is extremely unnecessary to make someone attune every character in my opinion. Some may argue that it is a different class and you have to learn it, but whether or not they are good enough to raid on that toon is something that should be left up to the group they are raiding with. There is no reason to make someone who has already gone through all the steps for one character go through them again.
3) Finally Ability/Amp Points OR Reputation: Pay close attention to that OR there, I am not saying people should be given full amp/ability point on all their characters. While it would be nice to automatically have the point your main does, that does seem a bit far fetched. My main point here is that I have put in a lot of time into getting my rep maxed with zones such as Blighthaven, The Defile, and the Northern Wastes, and feel that I should be able to reap the rewards from that on all my characters not just one. It is absurd to me that I am expected to repeat that same time gated routine again on another toon for that ability/amp point or gear upgrade. Again, I am not saying alts should have access to points obtained with elder gems or plat (That could ruin the market), but I think they should at least get something.
All of the things I talked about above are real annoyances in my opinion and keep me from playing the character that I want to play. I understand these aren't necessary or urgent changes that must be made to the game, but I would still really enjoy some adjustments like these being implemented in the future assuming that it is able to be done with ease. I know this post is a bit long, I appreciate you reading and hope these suggestions are found valid by others in the community.	
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There's a thread about it on Reddit. Wildstar is DEFINITELY NOT alt-friendly and I believe it is really detrimental to its popularity.
 
No matter the MMO I believe that all of the following should be made available account-wide:
-storage
-currencies (EG, Glory etc.)
-reputations (or a lot easier on alts)
-most achievements
-companions
-mounts
-dyes
-costumes
-Housing decors
 
To those who believe it would make the games easier, it would not. Right now playing an alt is nothing but tedious, which is a shame because so many classes are exciting to play. And tedious is tedious, not hard, or we have a different definition of what hard content is. To make a game less tedious actually makes it more enjoyable and less of a mindless, redundant timesink.
 
What makes a game easier however is when you lower the difficulty of combat/ dungeons/raids which is absolutely not what Carbine wants to do and they have said it multiple times already. So enough with that "you want everything handed out to you/ you're not willing to make any effort" nonsense.
 
To those who say this kind of grind is necessary to keep people from unsubscribing, I say that by making the game more alt-friendly Carbine would actually make people subscribe longer and play more, not the other wide around. And it would also greatly help with the lack of players and the ever empty PvP queues at lower levels.
 
It's not the only thing that desperatly needs fixing (PvP anyone?), but it would go a long way to help Wildstar get back on tracks and attaract more players. It's just a sensible thing that any MMO should offer.	
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