How are you prepping for Samurai/Redmage?

[KaerisKlyne]

Sending squadrons out, on whatever weekly mission rewards them with the "squadron battle manual" (changes every week). This item increases battle exp by 15% for 2 hours! They will certainly wear down some of the level grind! Not just for red mage but all your other Dow jobs!

I've been doing this, too! Be careful, though, to remember that the tooltip for it says that it ~does not~ stack with FC exp buffs!

[TheMagickHat77]

How am I preparing? By learning how to melee DPS, first and foremost.

I have SMN maxed at 60, but it occurs to me that I have never leveled a melee class much past 30. So far, I've tried Monk and Paladin and I've just unlocked Ninja. Honestly liking Ninja the most so far, though.

I've barely touched the HW extra classes, but RDM and SAM look a lot more interesting to me. I was excited about RDM at first, but SAM is tempting me heavily, too.

[Rongway]

learning how to melee DPS, first and foremost.

Just putting this here in case there are people who've never played melee jobs before, who don't know how to read the target circle yet.

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Just half-step back and forth over that boundary instead of doing literal 90º flanks and rears.

[finalfan]

Im not doing anything to get ready, I like the grind. I dont wanna be sitting there saying "well now I have to wait for end game content", gives me something to work for AS the content comes out. Next thing you see is lvl 70 people running around saying, "contact taking too long to come up"

[Aldejunior]

I've been doing this, too! Be careful, though, to remember that the tooltip for it says that it ~does not~ stack with FC exp buffs!

It does stack with the exp buff from your FC, tested yesterday and my bonus exp went up by 7% from +115% to +122%.

[AlphaFox]

Havn't really done too much prepping, got a Kinna weapon built up and ready for RDM, dunno if Shire weapons will be able to be done but also got one ready for SAM (or vice versa, depends how I feel) also gathered a few mats for Mog/Ifrit primal weapons for glamour. :3

[Okamimaru]

I'm getting ready in more ridiculous ways I suppose (like adjusting my houses and apartment for the housing item cap increase) as for gearing my main is ready to go... I'm now slowly gearing my SMN... I do have plans to play SAM so I've been picking up gear as I can...

[Rongway]

Havn't really done too much prepping, got a Kinna weapon built up and ready for RDM, dunno if Shire weapons will be able to be done but also got one ready for SAM (or vice versa, depends how I feel) also gathered a few mats for Mog/Ifrit primal weapons for glamour. :3

HW added ironworks and augmented ironworks for DRK AST MCH, so it's reasonable to expect Stormblood to include shire and augmented shire weapons. I've prepared the tomestone and gobdip, but holding off on Rowena's Tokens until they lower the price (or until I reach 2000 and don't have anything better to blow them on).

[PockyStyx]

Gonna prolly rewatch the RDM trailer for the 300th time and prep some glamour so I can keep my fancy hat for as long as I can

but for real; 99/99 kinna rapier and actually trying to learn to DPS for a change lol

[gumas]

Start attending kendo class in my nearest area, go to library and read a whole bunch of samurai culture book












Just kidding, cant wait for the in depth details of stormblood =D