What's the point of starting a new character vs leveling up a champion?

[JamesL]

I'm a Nightblade who is champion 138. And I've completed my faction's mission, but now I wonder---should I just go through the rest of the game leveling up my champion or start a new character? Beyond trying a new class- is there any value to starting a new character?

[Psyringe]

Well, a new character can provide you an experience that your old character can not, due to having access to different class skills and racial passives.

There is a bit of an incentive to keep playing with one character though. For one, after finishing the game's main story, you get access to the quest lines "Cadwell's Silver" and "Cadwell's Gold", which let you experience the other factions with the same character. Also, and perhaps more important, your Champion Points are available to all your characters, even at level 1. So the more CP you earn with your first character before starting another one, the more bonuses the second character can get _when_ you eventually play it.

[brenelael]

The point is to have more variety in your gameplay. There are an almost unlimited amount of different builds you can do. You will have a completely different leveling experience with a different character. I actually have 2 Templar characters for example. One is a Stamplar Tank and the other is a Mageplar Healer. They are about as different as you can get in their respective playstyles even though they are the same class!

Starting a new character allows you to mix it up a bit.

[Ficelle]

As others have said, mostly for a different experience
Can be for specialized builds too or to avoid respeccing too much between different roles
Learning different classes if you are seriously into PvP can also be very useful
RP

Now, nothing says you have to make another character
If you really enjoy the one you platy, so be it


Because your character is close to CP 160, i would focus on him and bring him to 160 first anyway (or more)

He will be a maxed lvl50 CP160+ able to loot and get rewards with max stats
This would also make all other characters you could make be 'maxed' as soon as they hit 50

No more wasted loot or drop or reward with worthless CPunder160

[Cpt. Stern]

There is a pretty big difference between a 138 cp toon and a 750 (soon to be 780 i read). 100 cp can add 20% to some stats. The high cp passives allow you to cut through mobs like butter, get better chest drops, farm nodes faster, etc. It's the same game just very fast and intense. Having almost 350 skill points to get all the passives, change play styles, craft anything, etc. I highly recommend getting one toon maxed. Then all that follow are maxed as well.

[Commancho]

There are plenty of reasons to have multiple characters:
1. Bank account / houses / deposits/ guilds are shared.
2. You get multiply daily bonuses / reward boxes / rescources.
3. Since CP are shared you level up faster (each character gets 4 milion CP enlightment, multiple daily challanges).
4. Increased storage, free mule/trader characters.
5. You can have one crafting oriented character without wasting pts on your PVP character.
6. Diffrent playstyles, starting locations and main quests.

[Carallia]

Originally posted by Commancho:

There are plenty of reasons to have multiple characters:
6. Diffrent playstyles, starting locations and main quests.

Every character I've created across different factions has started in Vvardenfell. Is that not supposed to be the case?

[Yurrson]

Originally posted by Riamaijin:

Every character I've created across different factions has started in Vvardenfell. Is that not supposed to be the case?

That is because of DLC Morrowind activated?

[MR.hyde]

Originally posted by Commancho:

3. Since CP are shared you level up faster (each character gets 4 milion CP enlightment, multiple daily challanges).
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no, u get 400k enleightment xp per account, not character and u can accumulate up to 4 million if you dont use up ur 400k

nightblade is a fun class to play there r only a few reasons to level another character:

u wanna switch form mag to stam or vice versa

or if u get recked in pvp, then it can be helpful to play the class that recked u to see what it struggles against

or the master crafter argument, i hv to stam sorcs 1 pve/crafter and the other for pvp and i think that was the right move

however i also level a few other chars to understand them better to kill them better :D and there i saw that nighblade is alot of fun! the cloaking ♥♥♥♥♥ gamestyle that annoyed me to play against is very fun if u do it urself, its like teabagging xD

[737]

I made one of each once I realized I had no idea what other classes did. I remember being in a dungeon and people asking the healer to use certain skills and I had no idea what they were saying. So I decided to create at least one toon of each class. You'll get a better grasp of the game if you understand what other classes can do, specially in pvp.

[Trigger]

CP is account wide, meaning: start new character and as soon as he/she spawns into game open Champion points and you can apply those 138 cp your 1st character got.

[JamesL]

Good to know. Thanks guys!