Tomestone Lockout

[JaneFoster]

I know this has been discussed forever, but I think we are at a point that the either the tomestone cap needs increased or the cost of equipment needs lowered. It takes too long to gear up jobs.

At the very least it should be higher in every odd patch. These are supposed to be catch up patches and it still takes so unbelievably long to gear a single job let alone several. There is no reason the 900 tomes cap should not be in place for every odd patch at least.

Anyone else have any thoughts or ideas? Especially with two new jobs coming in Dawntrail.

[Supersnow845]

I think it’s fine because you can get a relic (665) and full 650 gear without having to spend a single comedy tomestone within an hour from a new job reaching 90

650 is plenty for everything in the game, if you are doing savage prog this late 650 is plenty for entry and you’ll naturally accumulate more gear, if it’s casual 650 is way above the ilvl for everything anyway so the difference between 650 and 660 is mostly just where on the agro chart you sit

[Denji]

i wish they would make the low level junk cheaper.

we only have so many slots in our armoury chest, glamour chest, armorioerorororoeroror however you spell it and it's annoying that 2,000 tomes isn't enough to fully deck out a level 50 character when we're about to hit level 100 in the next expansion.

it's not like most of the tomestone gear are worth glamming to begin with. they're always a catastrophe of tacky overdesign.

[Avoidy]

As someone who likes a lot of those Anabaseios weapon glams, being told that I need 4 but can only get 1 blade a week sucks ass and it's obviously done to keep people around for 4 weeks aka 1 month aka 15 dollars of subtime. They won't remove the cap until we're so close to Dawntrail that most people will just stay subbed for that. It's a very cynical model but it obviously works for them.
I agree with you though, OP. In a perfect world where the video game model isn't dictated by appeasing greasy fat greedy shareholders who demand INFINITE UNENDING GROWTH, we'd just have this content unlocked so we could enjoy the game and grind to our heart's content in Yoshi P's maze. Instead the game forces you to slow to its preferred glacial pace and thinks you'll stay subscribed for that. Or, more realistically, they just hold your house that you painstakingly, lovingly, decorated hostage.

It's why when I bring up adding more events in the downtime and people shoot it down saying they don't want "manipulative events designed to keep them playing" in the game, I just laugh in their faces and stop talking to them. The game's already full of that crap.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

As someone who likes a lot of those Anabaseios weapon glams, being told that I can basically get 1 blade a week sucks ass and it's obviously done to keep people around for 4 weeks aka 1 month aka 15 dollars of subtime. They won't remove the cap until we're so close to Dawntrail that most people will just stay subbed for that. It's a very cynical model but it obviously works for them.
I agree with you though, OP. In a perfect world where the video game model isn't dictated by appeasing greasy fat greedy shareholders who demand INFINITE UNENDING GROWTH, we'd just have this content unlocked so we could enjoy the game and grind to our heart's content in Yoshi P's maze. Instead the game forces you to slow to its preferred glacial pace and thinks you'll stay subscribed for that. Or, more realistically, they just hold your house that you painstakingly, lovingly, decorated hostage.

It's why when I bring up adding more events in the downtime and people shoot it down saying they don't want "manipulative events designed to keep them playing" in the game, I just laugh in their faces and stop talking to them. The game's already full of that crap.

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

[Avoidy]

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

Fair, the arbitrary limit still sucks though, considering there's about to be nothing to do/look forward to until summer.

[Rongway]

You can get one weapon a week in savage.

You "can". It's unrealistic. The expected value is something like (1/19)(1)+(7/19)(0)+(11/19)(1/8)+1/8 weapon each week, which adds up to an expected value of 1 weapon every 4 weeks. This assumes that nobody already has the weapon for their job, that everyone will Need on any weapon they can, and that everyone will Greed on any weapon that they cannot Need. In practice this value will be slightly higher because some people will have the weapon already and some will be uninterested in off-job weapons; however it is still far less than 1 weapon a week.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

You're not supposed to get max level gear on everything. 650 is plenty for anything that's not a savage, and its completely unrealistic to be able to play every single job well enough to do savage with them.

[Troxbark]

You're not supposed to get max level gear on everything. 650 is plenty for anything that's not a savage, and its completely unrealistic to be able to play every single job well enough to do savage with them.

They'll argue it's "catch up gear" even tho they don't plan to run any high end content on their alts and just afk in limsa.

[Avoidy]

You're not supposed to get max level gear on everything. 650 is plenty for anything that's not a savage, and its completely unrealistic to be able to play every single job well enough to do savage with them.

They'll argue it's "catch up gear" even tho they don't plan to run any high end content on their alts and just afk in limsa.

Why does the reason matter? It's the end of the expansion. People should be allowed to just farm whatever the hell they want at this point. It's not like CBU3 is busting in here with better shit to do.