I’ve heard a few convo’s about Alt’s and there’s a portion of the community that likes to make a lot builds, test and experiment with many alts, but there’s a frustration with essentially the speed of progression for your alts.
With your faction system, you could have a great opportunity to create a “Tester” Faction. The level perks in this faction could give you things you need to progress alts faster (Alts start with X amount of passive points, increase starting level of corruption, alts start with skill slots unlocked faster, etc…I’m sure there’s better ideas out there). This could give the people that like to test a lot of different builds a faction…this would be powerful for them, but they would not get the benefits of trading or circle of fortune. You wouldn’t have to make changes to alt progression for the entire player base and its seems at least surface level like a fun option for players. Need a better name than Tester Faction but I think it could tie into the lore as well if that matters…could have an Experimental Faction - you get to test/experiment/tinker. There could be perks in this faction related to experimental items in the game. Point is there’s places to go with it.