Will thenew tomestone currency start during ea?

Was curious if the new currency will be available on the 19th and if it will reset on the 23rd.

I'd assume so, everything is going to open up on the 19th except for the 2nd tomestones and Alexander. Doubt they'd reset on the 23rd.

No, it won't be available until four weeks after Heavensward is released.

Check out the summary of the Live Letter XX here. The section you're looking for is under the "Release Schedule" heading on the second post.

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Release Schedule

Everything that we discussed today will be available at the start of Heavensward. However, as I discussed previously, if we were to release items and content that have weekly restrictions, we are worried that it would create situations where players would try to rush through everything as soon as possible and force others to skip cutscenes. This would also lead to situations where players would not be allowed to level up and enjoy the new content at their own pace.

As such, we will be introducing the Alexander raid two weeks after the release of Heavensward on June 23. Unlike the Coil of Bahamut, players will be able to re-enter a floor in Alexander even after clearing it (similar to the Crystal Tower). You won't be able to obtain another item once you've received an item, but you will still be able to help your friends. This version is intended for everyone to enjoy the scenario surrounding the new raid.

Alexander (Savage) and the Allagan tomestones of Esoterics will become available two weeks after the release of the normal mode of Alexander. We have removed content with weekly restrictions for the first four weeks of release. Also, unlike previous item level caps, we will have more phases and the range of item levels is much greater than before. We would like players to spend their first four weeks enjoying the game freely, and discuss with other players to plan and decide on what jobs they will be playing following this schedule.

Additionally, we’re planning to release the new Frontline map at the same time Alexander (Savage) is released. Honestly, we were not sure if we should release this at the beginning of Heavensward, but we assume most players will be focusing on the main story and leveling, and this may cause a situation where it’ll take longer to get into a match, therefore, we've moved the release timing to this point.

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

No, it won't be available until four weeks after Heavensward is released.

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Esoteric tomes (the weekly capped one) will come 4 weeks after release, but not the Law tomes

Pretty sure I read somewhere it would be available 2 weeks after release (at the same time as Alexander "Normal" mode).
But I cannot find this info anymore :(

It was confirmed early on that Tomestones and Alexander (both versions of each) would be rolled out post-launch, to give people time to play the early content at their own pace.

New capped tomestones (Esoteric) will not be in initially, new uncapped tomestones (Law) will be. Tomestones of Law will buy ilvl170 gear, which will be the standard to start out Alexander story mode.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Esoteric tomes (the weekly capped one) will come 4 weeks after release, but not the Law tomes

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Yes, this is true, my quote was specific for Esoteric tomes. I imagine the Law tomestone will be similar to Philosophy and be uncapped on launch - but this is just my own assumption and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Will the weekly cap remain at 900 or will it get reduced back to 450?

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Originally Posted by Felis

Will the weekly cap remain at 900 or will it get reduced back to 450?

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No one knows what the Esoteric cap will be. It could be something completely different. I'm pretty sure it won't be 900 however, they only increased Poetics cap to give people more to do before Heavensward.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Will the weekly cap remain at 900 or will it get reduced back to 450?

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Most likely reduced to 450, only reason we got 900 was because people kept asking for more poetics so that they coudl gear up for 3.0 and SE decided to increase the cap. At first they had no plans to increase the cap but I guess they figured since there would be gear that will easily trump the poetic gear as players leveled up, they decided to just offer a slight increase in cap to give players more of a chance to gear up before the expansion hit.

Tomestones of Law are gonna be like Tomestones of Philosophy (Tomestones of Soldiery I suppose if you didn't play back during 2.0's launch) and will be available at the start of EA. Tomestones of Esoterics will be released alongside Alexander Savage, 4 weeks after launch (which will be 2 weeks after Alexander Normal).

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Originally Posted by Felis

Will the weekly cap remain at 900 or will it get reduced back to 450?

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As others have posted, I'm also inclined to believe the Esoteric cap will be reduced to 450 (or they'll double the maximum limit and double the amount of tomestones one can acquire via dungeons/raids - effectively halving if as well).

We will see once they release it.

Thanks for the info. Nice to know that I won't have to rush to cap.

i wonder, will be able to exchange poetics for the law tombs or no?

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Originally Posted by Kyomagi

i wonder, will be able to exchange poetics for the law tombs or no?

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I'm guessing soldiery to poetics at 3.0, and maybe poetics to law around 3.1.

Gah.

Absolutely *hate* "1 item per run per week" caps.

Hate.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

I'm guessing soldiery to poetics at 3.0, and maybe poetics to law around 3.1.

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Doubtful.

Games with currency either give you the next down or money.

Like wow originally made tier 2 emblems/badges/points into tier 1 when a new set came out, and tier 1 to gold.

Then they got rid of them entirely.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Will the weekly cap remain at 900 or will it get reduced back to 450?

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most likely reduced back down to 450 it was only upped to 900 so people could gain equipment faster but not out blitz though before heavens ward, if it stays at 900 then the prices would be doubled to match. and none wants that

After servers come back up, regardless if you bought hs expansion or not:

Tomestones of Soldiery will not exist anymore. (You can trade your old ones for Poetics)
Tomestones of Poetics will not have any weekly cap anymore.
Tomestones of Law (probably) won't have any weekly cap as well, but it's very likely you have to reach lv60 before earning any.


Since the dozens of lv50 dungeons we have right now will not give exp (they have confirmed this), if you didn't buy the expansion you will not have access to level 51+ areas nor dungeons, so chances are you will have to level up to 60 by FATE grinding in Mohr Donna or by (god forbid) 1st room farm Aurum Vale.


There's no evidence to support that people that did not buy the expansion will be locked out of leveling to 60 or won't be able to get new tomestones.
Granted it will be much more tedious for them to level up and earn tomestones, but I strongly believe they will be able to.

So even if you don't have early access, you'll probably be able to start leveling to 51+ during the early access period after servers have been updated.

"Although our timing was bad and we didn't run into any FATEs in Abalathia Sea of Clouds, hunt marks were scattered around so we were able to try one of those. The monster "Shishiutaur" [[guessing at name, I couldn't think of any obvious correspondence in English]] was too tough for us with four people so we tried it again when we had 16 people, almost all of us from the media tour, and we were able to beat it relatively easily. We obtained Allagan Tomestones of Law and Poetics as a reward. It was also exciting to think about flying around this field area and seeing groups of people hunting for monsters." - Credit goes to Slycer over at BlueGarter for Translations.

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Because of the above I personally assume that while it can be changed at anytime before EA, there's a high chance that tomes of Law will be available from EA/launch but I hope SE will confirm what will happen with Law tomes in the live. :)

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Originally Posted by aerolol

Since the dozens of lv50 dungeons we have right now will not give exp (they have confirmed this), if you didn't buy the expansion you will not have access to level 51+ areas nor dungeons, so chances are you will have to level up to 60 by FATE grinding in Mohr Donna or by (god forbid) 1st room farm Aurum Vale.

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Really? Ugh. That feels like a lost opportunity. There is going to be zero incentive to continue running these as a high level player aside from people still running their zodiac (and most of them will have moved onto Heavensward's new relic).

I hope they review that stance and make appropriate changes down the line. There's no reason why level 50 content shouldn't give experience points at all.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

There's no evidence to support that people that did not buy the expansion will be locked out of leveling to 60 or won't be able to get new tomestones.

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Well, I'm not sure about the tomestones, but as for leveling up from 50 to 60, there's this: (emphasis added)

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Originally Posted by Gildrein

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Q: Will there be any special quests or requirements in order to level up beyond 50?

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A: No, there will not. Once you register Heavensward, the level cap will be increased and you can start to earn experience points. You won't have to complete any special quests.

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Plus there's also the fact that the expansion lists "Increased level cap from 50 to 60" as one of the features you're buying.

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

There's no reason why level 50 content shouldn't give experience points at all.

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it was because they felt people would stay in lvl 50 content to hit lvl 60 fastest and they want people to level mostly in ishgard.

they did say they will add exp to the content eventually.


here's the quote and link for source http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/125...dia-Event-5-19)

With the way the hard and expert dungeons from A Realm Reborn will be kept separate [[from Heavensward content]], will it be possible to level up there?

Yoshida: It was a tough decision, but we decided to leave it so that you will not obtain experience there at the start of Heavensward. As a development team, we believe that moving on past level 50 should happen on the Ishgard side. Because the new dungeons have a different pacing than the ones from A Realm Reborn, we were also afraid that people would gravitate towards the older instanced dungeons for more efficient experience.

After the situation settles down from the release of Heavensward, we might change things around by assigning some experience value, but that remains to be seen.

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

Really? Ugh. That feels like a lost opportunity. There is going to be zero incentive to continue running these as a high level player aside from people still running their zodiac (and most of them will have moved onto Heavensward's new relic).

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Well, we have no idea what incentives they're going to have. Maybe the new Heavensward version of relics requires running those level 50 dungeons dozens of times each or something. SE has up through now put incentives in place to make sure people keep running the older content, and it seems doubtful they'd change that basic pattern when the current endgame stuff becomes the "older content".

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

Gah.

Absolutely *hate* "1 item per run per week" caps.

Hate.

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Well, you'll also have access to other gear options with Alexander (most of which will likely be BiS). So while you'll only be able to net several equips weekly, it's still noticeably more than 1... like it's always been since Coil.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

After servers come back up, regardless if you bought hs expansion or not:

Tomestones of Soldiery will not exist anymore. (You can trade your old ones for Poetics)
Tomestones of Poetics will not have any weekly cap anymore.
Tomestones of Law (probably) won't have any weekly cap as well, but it's very likely you have to reach lv60 before earning any.

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This would match the pattern they've used up through now, as we progressed from Philosophy to Mythology to Soldiery to Poetics, but they might do it a bit differently when an expansion is involved, to allow for both ARR by itself and HW to have their own Tomestones.

I'm hoping they keep Soldiery and Poetics pretty much unchanged, tradeable for the same gear they give now, but just add Law and (eventually) Esoterics in addition to them, tradeable for better HW gear. Those with just ARR would still be able to earn Soldiery and Poetics. Those with Heavensward would have access to any of the four (but are more likely to be interested in the Law & Esoterics unless they like the earlier tiers cosmetically).

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Originally Posted by aerolol

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There's nothing to suggest that players who do not buy the expansion can level past 50, obtain tomestones of law (or use them), or really do anything in game that you can't do already. Maybe they'd be able to participate in airship building, but even that will likely require 51+ crafting which will be locked without registering HW.

I don't personally understand why people would continue playing without the expansion, but I suppose there are people who will. I wouldn't expect more than very tiny updates to vanilla content from here on out.

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

Well, you'll also have access to other gear options with Alexander (most of which will likely be BiS). So while you'll only be able to net several equips weekly, it's still noticeably more than 1... like it's always been since Coil.

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One Alexander drop per week.

Or did you miss that.

Systems like that lead to gear rotting.