Preparing for 4.0

Without giving away your strategy (of course) what are you hording, completing, putting aside in preparation for 4.0?
What type of goodies to you foresee going up in value in the MBs or what item are you making sure you attain (gear wise) in preparation? I gave up on the upgrade on my wep and got the POTD weps just to find out a day later that the elusive (to me) Illuminati Deep Gobdip was now easily attainable with a Farthing and a Penny, but, I had just used my V materia on the POTD weps.

got relic current, my only actual goal is to finish levelling battle jobs and hopefully get my crafters to 60 as well, nothing major outside of keeping story current(thing i look forward to most these days)

I'm just gonna go with the same panicked "5 days before version ends"-rush to suddenly do all kinds of pointless things I suddenly want to finish :rolleyes:

- definitely want all DoW and DoM at 60.
- first time bonus of wanting all DoL there as well.
- finish the last relic step we'll get on at least one weapon
- finish some more of the 2.x relics
- get a whole bunch of achievements done that I'll only think of 5 days before servers go down
- get/hold on to all glamour gear I like from 3.x, because with old currencies fading, droprates changing and no one doing said content anymore it will be horror to try and get them in 4.0
- get all the furniture for a new house in the dying but still lasting hope that at least 4.0 will FINALLY give us a new housing area >.> [FINISHED]

As for MB speculation - pretty much nothing. Everything will be outdated so fast so if anything, I assume everything will go DOWN in price a lot instead of up.
Maybe rare glamour mats from content that no one will do anymore at most^^

Not much to capitalize pre expansion besides consumables like food.

The cash is in the gathering crafting rush that will take place.

Get all classes to 50, then start HW.

The same thing I did to prepare for 3.0:

Nothing.

Still deciding between battle content rush or crafting/gathering rush. I went with the latter with HW.

But the most important prep work would be opening up retainer inventory space.

I want to get all classes to 60 before 4.0, but I'm pretty sure I'll just be too lazy and not bother. I think I don't want to prepare as much as I want to get done with current stuff so I can focus on the 4.0 stuff when it gets released. ("Current" as in currently easy so I finally get them done like get Kirin and do Odin. Yeah I'm far from completing 2.0.)

*Get Gandiva and maybe another Anima weapon to i230

*Unlock another Legendary gathering area or fishing hole.

*Upgrade a few more Keep tools to i200.

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Originally Posted by Renius

Without giving away your strategy (of course) what are you hording, completing, putting aside in preparation for 4.0?

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I thought about doing some of those things. But the wait has been so long I've actually switched games to ESO while waiting for 3.4 and 4.0
Getting close to cancelling my sub until these patches come around, and to be quite honest 3.4 better really have an engaging story and content to keep me entertained, otherwise i'll just wait for 4.0

And usually i am someone that can find reasons to play long past where other people have taken time off. Started playing June 2015
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So...yeah i've been quite bored lately to make me switch

Capping all kinds of currency, stockpiling materia, and doing beast tribes again to get unidentifieds and grade IVs because who knows.

This game is a little more fickle than normal games with its market, due to it following a similar resource requirement path that XI had with reusing old materials. Generally speaking though, you're well off stocking up on things we know are consumed and RNG dependent. Those being, obviously, crafting/gathering materia and shards/crystals/clusters (probably wind being the most expensive).

Honestly though, despite that, your profits are likely to be marginal compared to any new goods introduced through gathering and crafting. For any hoarders out there, like myself, we tend to have a supply of most commonly used goods or rarer stashed across multiple retainers, so it's business as usual. In other words, not much change in preparation.

It is not really worthwhile trying to stockpile anything for an expansion - just about everything you need in the expansion's content will be provided by the expansion.

That said, get all jobs to 60, and get as many jobs as possible in Scripture gear. That, of course, will depend upon SE uncapping Scriptures and the upgrade items. I've already got my crafting and gathering classes at i190, so they are set. Just need to take the last 3 jobs to 60 and then get them all geared up.

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/ptime
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- Finishing relic (6 more times to feed)
- leveling fisher to 60

Either this thread is about 10 months early, or the OP meant to title it for Patch 3.4.
Assuming no human error, the only few things I can think of worth doing to prep for 4.0 is getting a small stock of +3% xp foods (super easy, check NPCs) and
grabbing several of those fancy Engineering and Survival Manuals ahead of time to shave the edge off of leveling. Having Leves pre-completed, and stocking up on collectibles to turn in will probably be a waste, if handled the same way HW was, the exp reward for those will be DRASTICALLY nerfed as soon as the level cap is raised. Nerfed only for level 60+ that is.

Absolutely nothing, honestly gotten to the point I log in and kinda stare at the screen before I just log back off. Gonna wait till the 4.0 expansion (or at least more info on what exactly is coming) before I resub and catch up.

I enjoyed reading this thread to see it's a mix of people sharing their 3.4 and 4.0 wishes both.... lol

Well as far as what to save for 3.4... It's so hard to say! I mean, if you want my humble opinion... I'd say don't throw away your old alex gear and/or tokens... You might be desynthing them soon for rare mats (That's what happened during the final crafting recipe patch of coil days). If you don't desynth, you might want to level it? However, is SE really going to do this exactly to formula? We already saw them switch it up with different things already (favor mats for instance). I really REALLY don't think we will see a return of the favor mats. I hope we don't at least.

I know everyone heard the dev team say the last recipe patch was supposed to be a catch up patch for everyone to get their crafted battle gear and etc... But all I can think about is so was the similarly timed patch during 2.0. I wouldn't doubt that the final patch is meant to keep us a bit busy as we probably aren't seeing any other major content patches before 4.0 (just please...no more gathering favors...pls!). I mean, I hope we see a few patches, maybe a new primal but nothing too crazy I'd think. They are already working on 4.0 after all (I read they are already doing the voice acting). Oh we get another 24man tower ...maybe before 4.0 besides the last part of alex?

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But the most important prep work would be opening up retainer inventory space.

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Give me inventory space or give me death.

Still doing 2.x so see you in about six months :p

Not much? After 3.0, I don't see much point in getting much done... Item levels were quickly made redundant, with the MSQ pretty much killing any desire to take advantage of crafting since everyone was handed HQ gear... Finish Anima weapon? Perhaps, but I wont rush it... Doubtful the Anima questline will age as well as the Zodiac one, but I've enjoyed the Zodiac questline now that I can effectively toggle its difficulty with the undersized party option, all the absolute awful sections (which is all Anima weapons have, awful grinds) became much more tolerable as they were nerfed. Undersized also made 2.xs Primals/Coil more entertaining IMO, I had a lot of fun duoing my Kirin, so I'll be waiting for 4.0 to farm those birds, not rushing to get them before 4.0...

Well for hoarding... Gil.. lots and lots of Gil. I'm a tad crazy when it comes to orchestrion rolls and unfortunately I wind up having to use the MB to get them sometimes. Having a poor clear rate on HW extremes will do that(still working on thordan ex and seph ex. Let's not talk about nid ex). I uh.. I also really don't like having to do t9 so that's gonna be one I need to purchase too. Farmed for one of the rolls from it, don't wanna farm it again.

Also aiming at getting my classes to 60. I've got 4 total, SMN, SCH, PLD, and ALC. I have 21 left to go for... This is going to take a long time. :P

I want to be able to clear all the extremes before 4.0 rolls out as well and luckily, I got a good chunk of time to do that as well. You shall not elude me forever Thordan EX! I shall have my victory!

My only goal is to level all my remaining classes (DoW and DoM are all level 60), for me this means that I am working on leveling my crafting and gathering classes. I guess making a plan right now would be too soon for me, but after 3.5/3.55 releases, I should have a plan for things that I need to do before the expansion releases.

How to prepare for 4.0:

Unsub and go play legion and don't come back unless 4.0 actually changes the end game meta.

Hunting the glamours, because I know the content will become outdated and it'll be tougher to get them ._.'

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Unsub and go play legion and don't come back unless 4.0 actually changes the end game meta.

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Lol...at least leave the game for something good if you are leaving :rolleyes:

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Lol...at least leave the game for something good if you are leaving :rolleyes:

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puuuuuhlease, at least Wow has a semblance of a rewarding endgame. Better than the participation ribbon etch-e-sketch character progression we have in this game.

Not to mention the legion story is on point.

Only thing I care about is finishing up leveling all classes to 60. The ones that aren't are at least 57.

Get all the HS ex mounts. Get the BIS 3.5 for my drk/pld. Take a deeper look to the scenario and take a breathe to be ready for 4.0 farming ^^

Too early to plan for 4.0. I already have everything at 60, so likely I'll just be getting all my jobs geared near patch max ilvl. I won't go out of my way to hoard mats - if I cared about gil, it'd be more profitable to run up my DoL/DoH and sell new items. Didn't feel the need to in HW, though. I prefer to be self sufficient over profitable.

I'm mostly doing extra content and story content before it's totally impossible to play certain instances for another four months or so again. Like, Ramuh, shiva, and Leviathan EX.

For 4.0 prep, I have several long-term goals: 1) have at least 100 million gil stockpiled; 2) finish at least four complete Anima weapons, potentially five (assuming they allow a head start on a hypothetical new quest at the new level cap); 3) have all gatherers and crafters leveled and geared; 4) have a complete set of i130 gear of each armor type for potential new jobs; and 5) have a set of max item level level 60 gear for a melee (NIN) and a tank and a healer, at the least.

Gill food to level getting my crafters to 60

Like I prepared for 3.0, my objetive will be get all the Anima (Currently I have 7 at 230 and 1 at 240) and the maximun level gear possible for all my jobs and clear all content aside PVP if the time let me do it. Will be harder. 2.0 had 10 jobs, now are 13 jobs. More work to do.

farming the highest tome gear, so I don't need new gear until next level cap.

Gonna get everything to 60. Even fishing which I abhor. Will probably make at least two complete relics. So far have one of those done. Going to finish my 2.x and HW sightseeing logs as well.