Seeking Advice on Moogle Treasure Festival 2021

Greetings Everyone!

I'm pretty new to the game, still in the midst of leveling my first character on their first job (up to lvl.45 BLM, woohoo!), and I just learned about the Moogle Treasure Festival for this year...

All in all, the main site seems to be pretty clear on what's needed to get the currency needed for the trade-ins (tomestones of pageantry), so I think I'm good there.

However, considering that I'm only at lvl.45 on a single job, and it's a DPS job at that, AND the fact that the MTF.2021 is only going to be up until June 14th, I'm admittedly a smidge worried that I'm not going to have time to get to the necessary levels much less actually get into the content reasonably to get tombstones.

To clarify a little:
- I've been playing for literally 1 month as of today, so it's taken me this long to hit 45
- Gaining levels started fast, and of course has slowed down the higher I've gotten
- On top of that, I'm trying to do my best to practice rotations and learn dungeons / trials in advance so that I don't hinder the groups I play with (I'm coming from WoW so a bit paranoid of hurting runs)
- I'm wary of buying a boost for any jobs since it skips all of the story advancement for the job, and that's one of the things I'm looking forward to is leveling and learning all of the jobs
- Conversely, I may be open to the idea for a Job I likely won't play much of, like any of the melee DPS (I personally hate playing melee DPS, always prefer ranged, although ironically I love Tanking), so it may be helpful to know if any have lesser-than stories, lol

However, I'm also not looking to get a lot. I recognize the pricey items just simply aren't going to be feasible and I'm ok with that, time/opportunity being what they are. What I'm looking at is literally just 3 small items, totally 9 total tomestones, but one of the items requires completing the Orbonne Monastery Alliance Raid (which I've read is lvl.70).

So, with all of that laid out as a primer, what I'm interested in getting others' thoughts on:
- Is it feasible to hit a minimum of lvl.70 in 2 weeks with casual gameplay?
(I work a lot during the day normally and only get 2-3hrs a night, and whatever I can scrounge up during the weekend)

- How challenging is it to get into the lvl.70 Alliance Raids?
(I've seen mixed messages on the forums, lol)

- And possibly most importantly, am I massively over-thinking this? AKA, do the rewards cycle around again and/or are they potentially available via other means, like actual drops during content or other vendors, etc.?
(Also mixed results when trying to find into online, although that may be due to me not yet having enough time to investigate more thoroughly)

You don't need lvl 70 to get moogle tomes.
Praetorium gives 20 tomes, and Castrum Meridianum gives 14. Both are lvl 50 content and will become available if you continue following main storyline.
Also - most of the rewards are indeed accessible via other means, Event just makes them easy to obtain. Namely, the item that requires completion of Orbonne is available in Orbonne itself.

The minion from Orbonne Monastery also drops in the raid itself, so it's not going away if you don't make it in time. You'll have to roll against the rest of the party for it, but it's still available in game. The only items that aren't available elsewhere are the Great Serpent ring and the earrings (and arguably the Scarf of Wondrous Wit; it's a recurring award from SE's occasional contests, so it's available semi-regularly, but not directly in game).

If you only need a handful of tomes for the other items you want, they drop from the level 50 raids as well. Since those are mandatory now, you should have no problem getting them. Or just from Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium, which are also mandatory.

Ok, awesome! Sounds like I'm right on the cusp then of being able to start getting tomestones, plus the Ramza figure is at least still a drop from the raid so even if I miss it for the Festival, it's at least something I can work toward. I'm good with that.

Many thanks Angua and TheMightyMollusk, 'tis greatly appreciated!!!

I would advise trying to get all three Kamuys, because this content still requires a group and it's rarely done in Duty Finder, and "Ballroom Etiquette - Insufficient Petticoats" - this is a rare drop from content that is really not popular. "Scarf of Wondrous Wit" is generally not available in game too, and it looks nice.

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Originally Posted by Alxyzntlct

And possibly most importantly, am I massively over-thinking this? AKA, do the rewards cycle around again and/or are they potentially available via other means, like actual drops during content or other vendors, etc.?

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Pretty much, yeah. With the exception of the 100 tomestone glamour accessory and the 1 tomestone accessories/minion, all of the other rewards can be obtained in other ways in game. The kamuy mounts drop from bosses, the equipment come from dungeons or vendors, the furniture is crafted, etc. Don't worry too much about grinding. You'll still be able to get any of the items later on through the usual methods.

Also Frontline PVP also gives Moogle tomes, I've been farming tomes on in for sometime now, it would also greatly help with leveling without pushing the story

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I would advise trying to get all three Kamuys, because this content still requires a group and it's rarely done in Duty Finder, and "Ballroom Etiquette - Insufficient Petticoats" - this is a rare drop from content that is really not popular. "Scarf of Wondrous Wit" is generally not available in game too, and it looks nice.

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Ooooooooh, thank you for the heads up on all of those; the scarf is one of the items I was looking at, but I completely overlooked the other items. I’ll see if I can squeeze those in!

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Pretty much, yeah. With the exception of the 100 tomestone glamour accessory and the 1 tomestone accessories/minion, all of the other rewards can be obtained in other ways in game. The kamuy mounts drop from bosses, the equipment come from dungeons or vendors, the furniture is crafted, etc. Don't worry too much about grinding. You'll still be able to get any of the items later on through the usual methods.

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Ha, thank you! I will admit I have a tendency over going OCD on details (I can thank my job for that, lol), so that’s super nice to know that there’s alternate routes. Makes working toward these items more “fun” than “work”, hehe

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Also Frontline PVP also gives Moogle tomes, I've been farming tomes on in for sometime now, it would also greatly help with leveling without pushing the story

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Hmmm… Thank you as well! Admittedly I’m wary of doing anything PvP related as I’ve had a loooooooot of bad experiences with it in other games. I’m not sure how it is in this game, but experiences elsewhere have resulted in me generally avoiding it. I might dip a toe in the pool though just to see how it is here.

One word of advice, if you go the PVP route: all jobs have a different set of skills in PVP content. There are training dummies on the Wolves' Den Pier you can use to familiarize yourself with it before you dive in.

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Hmmm… Thank you as well! Admittedly I’m wary of doing anything PvP related as I’ve had a loooooooot of bad experiences with it in other games. I’m not sure how it is in this game, but experiences elsewhere have resulted in me generally avoiding it. I might dip a toe in the pool though just to see how it is here.

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Trust me I understand lol, I was thinking the same thing before I started doing PVP, but my overall experience with it so far has been people were mostly quiet, no trash talking, mostly: "We go mid" or "Fall back!!", the thing about the PVP in FF14 as far as I've noticed has been all rewards (win or lose), and lost nothing doing it, but its just something to consider just in case.

Its been a good viable way to level up alt jobs as well as far as I've noticed.

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Originally Posted by Alxyzntlct

- And possibly most importantly, am I massively over-thinking this? AKA, do the rewards cycle around again and/or are they potentially available via other means, like actual drops during content or other vendors, etc.?
(Also mixed results when trying to find into online, although that may be due to me not yet having enough time to investigate more thoroughly)

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Since you are new to the game and only just reach level 45, then the only content available to you for the moogle tome is PVP (which is unlocked at level 30).
You can immediately do it now (to get 9 tomes you just need to do Frontline or Rival Wings PVP 2 times, 1 time if your GC wins) or wait until you reach level 50 (in which you can do the MSQ dungeons, 1 time is enough to get the 9 tomes you want).

Yep, 50 isn't far, and at 45 you should be able to get that working on MSQ as you can maybe bump it with any other dungeons you unlock. I agree with what others say above on the rewards to grab first.

Then spam the Castrum dungeon over and over, manually queue it and just follow along the first few times behind the other 7 players killing stuff until you feel confident. For the last boss canon fight, just stand to the side and attack adds until you can get a friend explain how to use the canons.

Castrum is a great tome:time ratio at about 14-18 minutes for a smooth run, and although the cutscenes interrupt, they don't last for seeming 5 hours of the other 50 dungeon (ok, maybe more like 45 minutes). For this event I personally feel much happier seeing a Castrum appear over a Prae, general reaction seems the same.

I'd like to do a quick shout-out to everyone who responded to this thread: THANK YOU!!!

Thanks to the helpful advice proffered previously, I've been able to hit a point where I'm already able to start accruing the tomestones of pageantry, and have already accrued 2 of the items I wanted and started collecting more for the additional recommendations folks have made.

To note, the Taoist Moogle is AMAZING. Especially as I just recently discovered that if other players have their own moogles out, theirs and mine will actually dance together in the air! Replete with rainbow music notes! SO ADORABLE!!!

Plus I've gotten 1 of the 3 Kamuy mounts... And my goodness, it's absolutely gorgeous. I'm a huge fan of Japanese mythology in general, so getting such a beautiful mount that's actually a solid representation of the wolf form of Amaterasu is divine! (pun intended, lol)

I'm going to keep plugging away at doing Castrum runs while also continuing the story and my leveling; I don't know if I'll be able to get to the end of Bloodsworn and the Ivalice storyline, but I'm a HUGE fan so I'm going to give it some gusto and hope!