Is there any advantage to leveling more than one character of the same class in Diablo 3?

Solution 1:

With the advent of the new skills system that allows such easy respeccing, the only strict advantages are purely cosmetic ones:

  1. you can then have max levels of both male and female character models, and
  2. you get the achievement.

Other than that, any other differences would all be self set, i.e. attempting to level by only shooting Magic Missile at the darkness, etc.

Solution 2:

Another advantage is that it's also a way to experience normal and hardcore mode with the same class