Please allow us to exchange current-tier tomestones for previous-tier tomestones.
I believe we should be able to convert current-tier tomestones into the previous tier (In this case, Mathematics → Heliometry) at least at a 1:1 ratio, though a 1:2 rate would make even more sense in my opinion.
The main reason I’m requesting this feature is that the current best-in-slot gear (760) is largely irrelevant outside of the Cruiserweight Savage fights. As we know, current-tier tomes only use are for gearing (Historia Gear), which makes up about half of every role’s BiS setup — the rest being Savage drops. So if we don’t need the tome gear, why not let us convert current tomes into the previous tier instead, for things like phantom relics or crafting mats or actual useful BiS (730 / FRU / Chaotic)?
For last tier (730 BiS), we had tons of content that warranted getting the Savage BiS.
- LHW Tier (Savage)
- Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) (735 IL Sync)
- Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) (735 IL Sync)
- Sphene (Extreme) (Higher DPS check than M1S so actual incentive to get BiS)
- Recollection (Extreme)
Now let's look at this tier (760 BiS)
- CHW Tier (Savage)
- Necron (Extreme) (Dead in PF in under a month)
- Windward Wilds (Extreme) (Great fight, but the dps check is very lacking which I can understand since the fight is hard individually)
Clear rates for this Savage tier are way lower than LHW and Pandaemonium, and both extremes are on pace for record-low clears this expansion. Why is this? Because Cruiserweight Savage has no reclear value besides the 10-clear achievement and the mount, since the BiS gear is only useful for Extreme outside of Savage. Few players are bothering to get the BiS this tier, and many are skipping this content with little regret. Most likely after it was announced there was no Ultimate or Criterion or Chaotic for 7.3 people just checked out which I can't blame them. It doesn't help that the Extremes having very lenient DPS checks make it so there is zero point of even getting the BiS unless you care about parsing. Please don’t respond by saying “Extremes should have easy/casual DPS checks,” because in the past we’ve had Extreme fights with harder DPS checks than Savage floors, and that wasn’t what people complained about. We already have Sphene this expansion as an example.
The latest FFXIV encounter, The Final Verse (Quantum Difficulty), has a distinct gear system (which I like a lot because it means the fight will never be statcrept unlike every other fight in this game when they are synced down), but it also doesn't help the issue of Cruiserweight BIS being useless. By the way, the fight is very creative; I’m not criticizing it.
Additionally, the fact that they are not listening to the majority of the player base—which wants the Tome Cap gradually removed and the savage tier unlocked on catch-up patches—gives even more reason to add this feature.
My point is that if this becomes the standard pacing — where one tier receives a disproportionate amount of content while another is left behind — then there should at least be an option to convert current tomestones so we actually have a reason to spend them.
PS: This is my first post so sorry if it is messy. This issue has really annoyed me so I felt the need to post it urgently.