Concerning A Realm Reborn former tomestone gear

One last quality-of-life suggestion here, this time concerning A Realm Reborn's former tomestone gear.

Beginning with Patch 3.2 in Heavensward, a pattern was established whereby the first two sets of tomestone gear in an expansion are relocated to The Hunt currency vendors when their respective tomestone was retired. This did not happen during A Realm Reborn because The Hunt was not introduced until Patch 2.3, after the very first tomestone rotation in Patch 2.2.

However, something strange was done during Patch 3.0 with the release of Heavensward. The IL 110 armor formerly bought with Soldiery was placed at Hunt Billmaster(s) following the later pattern, but the matching weapons were transferred to Aelina and bought with Poetics. This splits the set across two different currencies and vendors.

What I suggest is that we re-arrange the former tomestone gear. IL 70 "Darklight" gear and IL 90 "Hero's" gear should be moved to the Hunt Billmaster(s) for Allied Seals so as to match the pattern in later expansions. Then move the IL 110 Soldiery armor to Poetics.

This will bring A Realm Reborn tome gear in line with the pattern seen in all subsequent expansions and make acquiring old gear for glamours much easier.

For the dungeons currently dropping IL 70 former Philosophy gear you can simply remove the tomestone gear and leave the original dungeon set. For the IL 90 former Mythology gear, I would suggest reskinning an existing set into a new Dungeon-rarity IL 90 gearset as was done for several A Realm Reborn dungeons in Patch 5.3 (The Aurum Vale, for example).

The iLevel 90 Mythology gear is now given out to players after finishing the level 50 job quest.

It is much quicker to obtain iLevel 130 gear for level 50 jobs through Rowena's Representative for Poetics than to work for Allied Hunt seals.

At last check, both the iLevel 105 and 110 weapons are available for poetics. Rowena's Representative can be found near each of the starting city Aetherytes. The iLevel 130 gear (that is probably most desired while leveling up alternate jobs) is also available there, including the weapons.

Much of the Darklight gear is awarded while leveling through the post 2.0 ARR story line, as is the Hero gear. They also come up regularly for retainer 'quick' runs up through about mid-50s for the retainer.

It is fine that the iLevel 70 gear drops from other sources ... it encourages players to do the post-2.0 dungeon instances that cannot be unsync'd so that new players can also get through them.

Obtaining the earlier gear for Allied Hunt Seals may not be a problem for SE to implement, although I still prefer for the items to be purchased with Poetics as well.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

At last check, both the iLevel 105 and 110 weapons are available for poetics.

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This is not correct. Only 110 former soldiery weapons and 130 Augmented Ironworks are available for poetics. Sundry Splendors vendors stock all weapons available for (Extreme) totems from their respective expansion which is probably what you are thinking of.

It's about reducing RNG needed to acquire gear for looks and maintaining consistency in game design. The main scenario cannot be repeated, and items available from Ventures are millions of Gil due to enormous loot tables.

I wonder if the Mogstation cash shop has considered selling Darklight gear for those just looking for the glamour.

They'd still be found in Halitali, Lost City of Amdapor and Brayflox HM instances. That would certainly cut down on the RNG.

Two of those three instances (Halitali/Brayflox) provide Irregular Tomestones of Creation for the current Moogle Tomestone Treasure Hunt.