First Time Last Epoch player, Loving it BTW. I am an Alt-Lover by far. This has been a pain in POE2 because of the Long time it takes to finish the campaign. I am all for doing the campaign once every season. lets you experience changes etc. As for alts, I know there is the Dungeon route that cuts some of the campaign up, but when speedrunners can do the whole campaign Fresh in 2 hours, is this really cutting much?
An idea maybe, is an Alt Character Could start at Level 15, End of Time to pick a Mastery. All Campaign Passives and Idols unlocked on them. From here they could choose to continue in the campaign to get experience, just no passive rewards etc. Or continue into monoliths, with a little extra power because of the extra passives, and defenses from Idols. I think this is a happy middle ground. Work still has to be put into the character, but removes the feeling of, “oh I have to do it again”. Like this season I want to sample all the classes, but dreading doing campaign over and over, or at least chunks of it.
Just an idea to mull over.