Please add all Poetics gear to all Sundry Splendors Vendors

[Hasrat]

So, you want sundry splendors to sell gear that you haven't yet unlocked at the respective endgame hub? You're asking them to allow you to purchase gear that you otherwise shouldn't have access to?

I mean, I could maybe be sorta for the idea if it was just "I'm tired of porting to [x] city just for [x0] gear, let us buy all the cap gear at any city."

If you want them to just unlock hub vendors at lower levels, then that's what you should ask for. Sundries aren't gonna sell you stuff you otherwise can't get where it is originally sold.

[Eriane_Elis]

lol this idea doesn't make any sense. Why would you want gear to be available when you haven't taken the time to unlock it yet? It's a progression game. You can always use crafted gear, it's not like you're forced to use poetic gear to progress. It just makes it slightly faster but you won't die because you don't have it.

[Xeronia]

I agree with this idea as it is really easy to out level the story if you play at a slower pace and do the daily roulettes. I often have alts that will hit the level cap of an expansion way before I am allowed to buy the tomestone gear that I just end up throwing the first crafted set from the next expansion at said alt and calling it a day ignoring the tomestone gear entirely as by the time I can usually buy it I am far past it being useful. The Sundry vendors are wonderful and I had hoped they would be the solution to hitting cap way before expected but they are all tied behind story completion. It isn't a ton of fun to finally be allowed to buy say Shire gear at level 68 when it is useless compared to what I could just craft/buy of the market board from Stormblood.

[SnowVix]

I agree with this idea as it is really easy to out level the story if you play at a slower pace and do the daily roulettes. I often have alts that will hit the level cap of an expansion way before I am allowed to buy the tomestone gear that I just end up throwing the first crafted set from the next expansion at said alt and calling it a day ignoring the tomestone gear entirely as by the time I can usually buy it I am far past it being useful. The Sundry vendors are wonderful and I had hoped they would be the solution to hitting cap way before expected but they are all tied behind story completion. It isn't a ton of fun to finally be allowed to buy say Shire gear at level 68 when it is useless compared to what I could just craft/buy of the market board from Stormblood.

the simple solution is to not waste daily roulette exp on a job that's at level with the MSQ. use that on a different job

[Xeronia]

the simple solution is to not waste daily roulette exp on a job that's at level with the MSQ. use that on a different job

If you care to play other jobs that is great, but generally even people I help the get through the story with tend to stick to one or two jobs. I don't much care for the melee jobs myself and have only leveled them for the amaro and to do all the role quests. I have a friend that only really likes Black mage. It just seems silly to me to lock tomestone gear behind story completion for past expansions.

[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}

[Iscah]

First of all, scrip exchange menu is awful and too complicated already. Last thing we need is more awful menus like it.

Agreed on that. Both the Rowena's Representatives and the new scrip exchange menu (same basic design) feel very awkward to navigate on controller. I counted the other day and it takes eight button presses to bring up the list I want versus four presses in a normal menu layout. And IIRC pressing Circle quits the whole thing instead of taking the pointer back to the drop-down list.

I feel like these newer menus (the glamour dresser too) only get tested for mouse, not controller. There are so many little ways that they are awkward to navigate.

[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)

[SnowVix]

If you care to play other jobs that is great, but generally even people I help the get through the story with tend to stick to one or two jobs. I don't much care for the melee jobs myself and have only leveled them for the amaro and to do all the role quests. I have a friend that only really likes Black mage. It just seems silly to me to lock tomestone gear behind story completion for past expansions.

then don't do roulettes. the purpose of the bonus exp is to catch up when you don't have MSQ exp available.