Please add all Poetics gear to all Sundry Splendors Vendors

[technole]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

[Iscah]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

Not at all. It's very easy to end up overlevelled and capped on poetics if you're doing side content and roulettes as you go.

I've played the game several times with alts and there is very often a point where you're getting close to the end of a main expansion (let's say level 79-80 quests in Shadowbringers), you have a full wallet of 2000 poetics and have already geared up all your classes with level 70 gear. Your main job has hit 80 and you're ready to start gearing it, but the vendor isn't open, and buying other gear in the interim feels like a waste of gil.

It's particularly bad for DNC and GNB at 70 because you don't even get the free job gear so you need to buy them something just to be on even footing with everyone else, and the gear that you actually want is out of reach until you get past the dungeon that you need gear for.


Edit to add: On further thought, it's definitely not about having paid for a level skip because those come with a complete set of augmented tome gear included in the purchase, so a skipper has no need at all for early access to the vendor.

[SnowVix]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

level skips give you a full set of tomestone plus one final dungeon ring for the level

[TaleraRistain]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

With the adjustments made to MSQ and experience gain, it's entirely possible to hit the max for an expansion before the final quest for that expansion. I ran into this recently on my alt in HW, hitting max a fair amount of time before I could get to Idyllshire.

[Jojoya]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

It's got nothing to do with level skips.

The "natural" way to play will have your character outpacing MSQ significantly. The game encourages exploration of side content as you go so there's more XP increasing your character level. You passively gain rested XP bonuses when you're not playing the character. If you join a FC (another natural thing to do in a MMO), you're likely to end up with the Heat of Battle buff. You can get a ring from a level 15 quest that gives you an XP bonus through level 30. If you've pre-ordered any of the expansion, you'll have earrings that grant XP bonuses to higher levels. It is "natural" to use those things available to you.

It's very easy to end up 10-15 levels (or more) past the MSQ level playing naturally. Even splitting XP between multiple jobs does not help much. I've got an alt right now with 3 jobs at level 70 and one at level 64. She just walked into Rhalgr's Reach for the first time - that's level 60 MSQ - and no way to buy the level 70 tomestone gear for her level 70 jobs.

It's easy to argue that since a character doesn't need the higher level gear to do lower level content that there isn't a need to make the tomestone gear available but that doesn't make it "natural". Character progression in MMOs tie gear to class/job level so it is "natural" to want your character to have the gear appropriate to their level regardless of what content they are doing.

It feels really awkward sitting on Poetics cap with nothing other than topsoil to buy when the main purpose of tomestones is to purchase gear upgrades but the only way to get an upgrade is to resort to the marketboard or a crafting friend.

[hagare]

"i bought a level skip, and the game should accommodate to my style of playing instead of how it works naturally"

*looks at my 85 RPR that isn't finished with SHB yet.*
{hmmm}

[Shibi]

*looks at my 85 RPR that isn't finished with SHB yet.*
{hmmm}

Heh. My RPR is only 82, but, looks at my 90 Sage that hasn't handed in "Will of the Moon" despite it having a green tick.

(one year I will hand it in, maybe after all my classes are 90)