Allagan Tomestones

[OUTIILAW]

If you're to level up desyn skills, it's pretty useful to purchase ilv70/80 for grinding, and ilv100 class pvp gears looks awesome.

Desyn skills?

[Wysteria]

Desyn skills?

Desynthesis is, an action to breakdown items in order to gain its components, which may only be able to obtain through the desyn process.
for example, demimateria, which is used for making "master" recipe crafting. Or elemental core from primal weapons, which is used to make new primal weapon (you can go search for moogle weapons on marketboard)
so, basically, if you want to obtain special items, you'll need to breakdown (mostly) high level items, and this has chances to fail, so you'll need to breakdown low lv stuffs until you're good enough to breakdown big stuffs (max at lv 100)

[OUTIILAW]

So after spending the whole weekend in the Borderland Ruins. I was able to cap out my poetic and purchase a weathered body piece with soldiery. Also used the wolf marks to get the i70 accessories.

Does this seem like a good strat for now till I finish my main story quest and start doing HM dungeons?
Capping poetics every week then purchase a Ironwork piece when I can, purchasing weathered armor with soldiery till I get my Ironwork armor, and use wolf marks to upgrade accessories?

[Garlyle]

So after spending the whole weekend in the Borderland Ruins. I was able to cap out my poetic and purchase a weathered body piece with soldiery. Also used the wolf marks to get the i70 accessories.

Does this seem like a good strat for now till I finish my main story quest and start doing HM dungeons?
Capping poetics every week then purchase a Ironwork piece when I can, purchasing weathered armor with soldiery till I get my Ironwork armor, and use wolf marks to upgrade accessories?

Yup. You can get accessories with Soldiery as well, don't forget!

Either way yes, Frontlines (Borderland Ruins) and Hunting are the best way to get tomestones before you're done the main game. Once you are done the main game and have all the expert dungeons finished, you can score like 70 Poetics and a chunk of soldiery once per day via Expert Roulette and start racking up tons of soldiery just by playing other things of course.

[OUTIILAW]

Yup. You can get accessories with Soldiery as well, don't forget!

Either way yes, Frontlines (Borderland Ruins) and Hunting are the best way to get tomestones before you're done the main game. Once you are done the main game and have all the expert dungeons finished, you can score like 70 Poetics and a chunk of soldiery once per day via Expert Roulette and start racking up tons of soldiery just by playing other things of course.

Oh wow. Awesome. Thanks. One last thing I guess to wrap this up. Let's just say I got all my weathered/ Ironwork armor pieces and accessories. Is there anything else I should be saving up for and spending my soldiery and poetics on?

[Maero]

Once you do have all ironworks gear only other thing would be a weapon if you don't want to go the long and very boring atma route.
As for the PVP gear i myself am not into PVP much but thought of that gear more so as glamour
Do also note that the ST gear is not all that bad for now either if you are just hitting level 50 for the first time. Some of the gear is even better the the soldiery gear, depending on class of course and what sort of stats you prefer

[Garlyle]

Oh wow. Awesome. Thanks. One last thing I guess to wrap this up. Let's just say I got all my weathered/ Ironwork armor pieces and accessories. Is there anything else I should be saving up for and spending my soldiery and poetics on?

You can spend them to gear up alternate classes. You'll also be able before long to start purchasing various soldiery-obtained items that are used in your relic quest, which is a pretty good sink for them... or if worst comes to worst I think you can blow them on materials still (they sell for pretty decent money on the market board, or at least should).