Regarding Esoterics.

[Adire]

Actually, no, Tomestones is correct. Next time you log in, take a careful look and you'll see that's how they are spelled. This is because they are not grave markers at all: they are Allagan data records. Stones containing tomes. They are highly valued because Allagan stuff in general is highly valued, and these happen to be books detailing how the Allagans lived, thought, and taught.

The current Tomestones that are in vogue are Tomestones recording selections of poetry (Poetics), laws and regulations (Law), and odd bits of info not covered under other Tomestone categories (Esoterics). Previous Tomestones no longer so highly valued included those recording philosophical musings (Philosophy), myths and legends (Mythology), and military matters (Soldiery).

This post should be a mandatory read with a pop quiz every so often that forces you to spell Tomestone correctly, or else you get locked out of the forums.

[Underlord]

Yup. I don't run savage... I have Eso weapons for my blm n war... next is chest for blm this week, then next is chest on war and so on alternating. Until I hit 60 on my nin.

[sirDarts]

relic will likely not come until 3.15 which is about 6 weeks after 3.1 release. plenty of time to grab an eso weapon in the meantime. also the new primal with 3.1 will likely drop i205 weapons which are a nice gap filler till the relic and weapon upgrade get added in 3.15 outside of savage a4s. and yes. weapon upgrade wont come till then not even trough hunts. its unlikely. and i think this may the reason they hold the relic back till 3.15 since relic will be i210 for sure otherwise it wouldnt be worth the horrendus grind+rng that itll likely be. prepare for atma 3.0 now with heavensward fates AND heavensward tt card dropchances

Is it confirmed that Relic will be pushed to 3.15? Only thing I have found is that they said in the liveletter that it will happen EITHER 3.1 or 3.15.

[Averax]

I ran into a similar problem. I started out gearing my AST, but now i feel like doing a different class, but out of OCD i feel the need to complete that set before starting another. I only need the shoes at this point to complete the visible parts of the right side. I might work on the left side, but i may want to start gearing my casters.

I hope they make sets easier to obtain as we progress, because i'm not a one job person.

Right now i'm stuck between wanting to gear my SMN, my WHM, and my BLM.

[Felis]

So, I've been trying to decide what I should do with these tombstones. My main, Warrior, has the weapon, body, and pants pieces, and lately I've been really enjoying my MCH and NIN. My question is, should I continue to gear up my Warrior, despite not using it for roulettes and the like, or should I at least buy the eso weapon for my two dps jobs?

I love tanking, but I also love pew pew pewing. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Do you want to do Alex S? if yes, with what job?
for every else content law gear is all what you need.

[Obysuca]

Do you want to do Alex S? if yes, with what job?
for every else content law gear is all what you need.

Thing is, while that's true, would you rather do a bismarck/ravana ex / expert/alex with people in i180 or i200? 4 people in i180 makes an expert run take about 35 mins. 4 people in i200 makes it take 15-20. If more than half the pt don't know their rotation/play how they want, then you can wipe horribly if everyone is in law gear in alex/ex primals, while if more than half are in i200, it can make up for it. "X gear is all you need" should never be an option imo. Just because it can be cleared in law gear, doesn't mean that should be all you need.

XIV allows us to play multiple jobs, but forces us to pick a main, which defeats the purpose of multiple jobs. You can't really go "I think I might come X today, instead of my main." unless its faceroll content, because then you'd be about 10-20 ilvl lower, gimping yourself and hurting the overall party performance. Theres no reason why we shouldn't be able to gear up as many jobs as we want in the current top gear. No, people aren't going to up and unsub because of that, plenty of mmos have had uncapped stuff and people continued to play it for years. People are already unsubbing because we can't gear up more than 1 job, not to mention lack of variety. They can keep the cap, but it should have been per job (and only able to spend the tomes earned on that job, for that job), so we can gear multiple jobs.

[Probably_Nice]

This post should be a mandatory read with a pop quiz every so often that forces you to spell Tomestone correctly, or else you get locked out of the forums.

I like to protect my tombstones with turrents.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I'll echo what the others have said, if you aren't in Savage buy whatever makes you happy.

If they follow the old pattern in a future patch Eso will take the place that Law is now with no weekly cap and we will be able to gear everything pretty quickly.

For now though yeah it can be a hard choice. One of my statics tanks bought the war weapon it it is now the 'wrong' weapon since she has changed her main to DKN so she feels behind in gearing out.

[Windklinge]

Is it confirmed that Relic will be pushed to 3.15? Only thing I have found is that they said in the liveletter that it will happen EITHER 3.1 or 3.15.

no not confirmed what you read was latest info on it. but 3.15 is likely because theyll problay delay the weapon upgrade from a4s on new tower aswell until then so the new primal can give i205 weapons making it worth running for this time beeing. if relic came with 3.1 and would be i210 it would be bismarck bullshit all over again were they screwed rewards badly in terms of ilvl. and if relic wouldnt be i210 it would become useless from the get go basicly since everyone already got free i200 eso wep. and relic would not be worth the effort to handle with its insane RNG and grind that itll have again for sure.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

snip .

I'm well aware. I was just making a joke because of my phone's auto correct changing what I was typing, admittedly not the best place in a thread where I am asking for advice.

As far as the tomes go, I honestly love playing Warrior most, it's my main, and some fc mates tell me I'm a very good tank... I just feel slightly bad because I tend to run most 4 man content as DPS with the law weapon.