3.x MSQ iLvl block

[LunaFaye]

Uh, unless they, like, GIVE gear when I log in, the only other way I see is giving it through quests, which besides the ones I can't do right now because of lack of gear, I've done everything except for worthless side quests. So the catch up mechanics will most likely be useless for me. And I'm not cashing out 25$ to skip 30 quests... I'm not rich (And 25$ is actually a lot of money where I live).

I guess it's not fair that you have to "grind" for gear or that's gated behind MSQ's, specially if the new expansion was announced like 6+ months ago, also not fair that you get to run the tripple nerfed content already and the temporary increase of weekly scripture tomes. Making it even quicker to gain ilvl 270 pieces instead of having to wait as we all did prior. Guess next time we should just give out free gear everywhere just for people that are subscribed to their mailing list or something.

[Furious]

Do PVP and get Garo event gear and lore/scripture gear can get to the i230 needed for all the MSQ in a day or so

This is the fastest way to get ilvl needed for the MSQ besides buying gear. Just queue for The feast 8-8 matched party. The matches are 8 minutes at max, and if one side or the other gets demolished it's over in 2-3 mins. A loss gives you 250 currency, a win gives you 500. Jewellery costs 1000 per 235 piece, other stuff costs higher.

PvP gear doesn't have accuracy but you don't need accuracy to finish the story content.

I spent a lot of time farming dungeons for stones lore before I tried pvp and its much faster and definitely less hassle. People can't talk to you besides through platitude icons. Just go in, do your thing, try to damage people, and get your points. It's impossible to outright fail, if you lose badly you get 250 points more quickly. Not cool for the pvp people I'm sure,but it's the last day before stormblood!

[Pori_Dessu]

I'm on Faerie, too - just send me a /tell and I can get that stuff for you ^_^v

Thanks. I'm farming PvP now, so hopefully I'll be able to get the gear.

At this point just wait until early access...you have just over 24 hours of server uptime between now and then. 230+ gear rewards will almost surely be added (along with XP) to the 3.x MSQ come early access. Not to mention, the first vendors in SB will most likely be selling 240+ white gear - don't waste your time or gil until then.

I would do that, if I didn't have just about 20 quests to do, and I wouldn't have the necessary iLvl for the antitower by then anyway.

You can farm Aetherochemical Research Facility for Lore (150 Lore a pop), to give yourself a decent amount. You can then build up Scripture while you're at it (buy the ring for 375 scripture,, you get 10 scrip per ARF run). As well, get your i235 weapon from 30/30 aetherpool weapon/armor (beat floor 50 for it), in Palace of the Dead. That WILL push you over the i230 threshold, and quite possibly before maintenance too. Then you can enter into Stormblood. Unfortunately you're not on the Chaos datacentre so I cannot help with that by providing quicker queues for you, else I would jump on now and help you. Best of luck!

I'm farming the wolf marks from PvP, getting 1000 per frontline match, so I believe I can do it. Thanks anyway.

I guess it's not fair that you have to "grind" for gear or that's gated behind MSQ's, specially if the new expansion was announced like 6+ months ago, also not fair that you get to run the tripple nerfed content already and the temporary increase of weekly scripture tomes. Making it even quicker to gain ilvl 270 pieces instead of having to wait as we all did prior. Guess next time we should just give out free gear everywhere just for people that are subscribed to their mailing list or something.

I didn't start the thread as a way of complaining, tho I admit I sounded a bit negative, which is comprehensible since I was kinda annoyed by the sudden iLvl block, I started it to get advices on getting the gear. Nor have I said anything about something being unfair. I do find weird, as a business model (not as a player) to gate content that brings new players behind so many hours of older content, but not "unfair". My post that you quoted, is saying that catch up mechanics won't help me (Which is true), and not that they SHOULD give me the gear. But if they're gonna implement those catch up mechanics, it'd be smarter to do so a little bit before the expansion, so people coming for it can access at least the MSQ, jobs, and areas.
Also, I would never have stopped playing this game, if I had the money to keep paying for it back then, now my situation is a lot better, but I had to buy a PS4 and HW, and pay the sub fee. 6 months ago when the expansion was announced I had absolutely no money. Not everyone can afford all of that on a whim just because they announced SB. So sorry if I offended you, or whatever, but your point is completely out of place.

[Kosmos992k]

So, I'm a returning player, that have been away from the game since 2014. My character was level 50, with the 2.0 MSQ done.
I came back for stormblood and pre-ordered it ASAP to get into early access. I've been non stop doing the MSQ to finish all of it till then, but now I'm at the antitower quest, and I'm at ilvl 150 (Full ivl 145 from the MSQ armor and accessoreis, and a padjali weapon from the PotD leveling to get to 60).
My problem is, is there any way for me to get ilvl 180 for the antitower and eventually ilvl 230 before the maintenance?
Righ now I'm just regretting getting the pre-order for SB, and doing my HW MSQ before it, cause I know when SB comes, the HW MSQ will most likely get you gear with enough ilvl to finish all of 3.x quests, like HW did to ARR quests.

Do you hunts, buy the i200 AF gear set, then upgrade it to i210 with items bought with more seals. Run PoTD through floor 50, get the aetherpool arms at i235. After all of that, you can continue collecting tomes (which will change after SB arrives, and buy tome gear for i230 and i260 gear pieces. i230 comes along before too long, and you can substitute dungeon pieces as upgrades as you go as well.

[Katryn]

I used daily frontline roulettes and some lore / scripture to meet the requirement. Not sure I'm any good at the pvp, but it was fun and it'll do the job to get my msq complete so I can move forward. If you use the roulette option the que tends to pop quicker. Good luck!

[Altena]

Eh? Just wait for SB early access and buy the "white" crafted gear from NPCs for level 60 that will likely be released - just like what happened in HW.

They should be something like i240 or i250. Purchasable off an NPC.

[Belhi]

Will spam some PvP tonight (Probably pull an all-nighter). As for gil, I have like, 300k or less, can't remember at the top of my head, since I never got into crafting, and had to buy gear for leveling my DRK to 50.

My suggestion is to do enough to upgrade your worst items to allow you to continue with the MSQ. You will get lore and dungeon drops as you level which might help a bit too. Your end goal is ilvl 230. Keep in mind the Garo gear is 235 and all the lore stuff is 230. You should be able to bump up your ilvl pretty quickly.

Really right now PvP is fastest. Even if your team finishes last its 500 Wolf marks and accessories are 1000 marks each. A victory nets you 1000 marks and the roulette will give you another 1000 on top of that once a day. A frontline match goes for a max of 20 mins and usually go for about 15. If you go into the options of your duty finder and select Frontline Freelancer it will bypass Grand Company restrictions too which will help speed it up. Look for the little cog icon at the top left of the Duty Finder UI. Frontline Freelancer is towards the bottom of the options.

EDIT: Oh I see your already at it :P Well you should be able to get there pretty comfortably. The MSQ doesn't have too much filler in HW. About 40 or so story quests in total, 3 dungeons and a trial.

[Felis]

Fastest way is to do Frontier and buy garo gear with the wolf marks.
Do Frontier roulette before the today's daily reset and then after the reset again. This alone should give you a ilevel 235 gear.
A win give you around 1000 marks, a lose around 600 marks. Garo gear cost between 4000 and 1000 marks.

[Rasylia]

Fastest way is to do Frontier and buy garo gear with the wolf marks.
Do Frontier roulette before the today's daily reset and then after the reset again. This alone should give you a ilevel 235 gear.
A win give you around 1000 marks, a lose around 600 marks. Garo gear cost between 4000 and 1000 marks.

I heard a full set (for title) is around 17k marks total?

[Lithil]

Why not just wait for release? I imagine that they'll add gear to the msq quests in the same vein as ARR when HW released so you won't have to grind for tome or pvp gear to continue the story.

Then again it takes less than a day to grind frontlines enough for most of a Garo set. Regardless, there is probably not going to be a need to grind for tomestone gear unless you really need to. You can probably grind ARF for lore until you can do Gubal HM but frontlines also awards lore.