Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

[Iscah]

Edit: Now that I think about it, if you start in a later tier in FF14 and don't have the money to dump on full crafted, how long does it take to get to a raid ready item level?

It might not be too bad if you start with buying a crafted weapon and scraping yourself into the first tier of eight-man raids, and work your way up with those tokens and tome sets to get into the second raid tier. After that it would get grindier and time-gated, but might not be too bad with a combination of raid and tome gear plus some crafted pieces to fill the gaps. Maybe two weeks of loot if you buy the chest and leg gear? Four pieces of jewellery from raids on the first week; any two of head/hands/feet from the second week; buy the remaining item and ring with tomes. Add an extra week or two if you need to buy the chest/legs with loot.

You can also potentially be earning tomes before you arrive at endgame by running roulettes or hunt marks with a max-level job.

If you're not aiming to go into raiding, it's even less of a big deal to get up to the standard for current dungeon content.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It might not be too bad if you start with buying a crafted weapon and scraping yourself into the first tier of eight-man raids, and work your way up with those tokens and tome sets to get into the second raid tier. After that it would get grindier and time-gated, but might not be too bad with a combination of raid and tome gear plus some crafted pieces to fill the gaps. Maybe two weeks of loot if you buy the chest and leg gear? Four pieces of jewellery from raids on the first week; any two of head/hands/feet from the second week; buy the remaining item and ring with tomes. Add an extra week or two if you need to buy the chest/legs with loot.

You can also potentially be earning tomes before you arrive at endgame by running roulettes or hunt marks with a max-level job.

If you're not aiming to go into raiding, it's even less of a big deal to get up to the standard for current dungeon content.

and with how easy it is to acquire tomes for purchasing one or two pieces in this game. Like I said, its far more manageable to start savage raiding. And about the PF issue, I also do realize myself that those whom have a hard time joining groups I mean....you can also create those groups yourself.

[Rolder50]

and with how easy it is to acquire tomes for purchasing one or two pieces in this game. Like I said, its far more manageable to start savage raiding. And about the PF issue, I also do realize myself that those whom have a hard time joining groups I mean....you can also create those groups yourself.

Meanwhile I'm gearing an alt right now in WoW and to do so I'm doing a combination of questing, with a side of mindless grinding in the primal storms they got going on. Probably a good 4-5 hours to get a reasonable level of gear, and not time gated at all like tomestones over in FF14