gear that levels with us like "heirloom" gear from WoW?

[boopadoop]

I'm gunna guess..... That 1.0 sphaghetti code jank would prevent that.

see, this i can understand, and eventually we just need a realm re-reborn imo lol
I would gladly forgo an entire expansion or two just for this kind of coding stuff to be redone, because this is the same issue as people asking for a glamour catalogue and being told it legit can't be done to our regret because of coding limitations

[Boblawblah]

I'm more confused how I've managed to level 4 characters through all of the game and never had to craft/buy a single piece of gear. Are you not drowning in poetics to the point that they're just collecting dust in your bag now? Like, yeah I'd be losing my mind a bit too if I was going about it that way. As much as you might dislike the tome grind, this gear you're asking for wouldn't be implemented for months off from now if not the next expansion after DT. Probably should figure out an alternative in the meantime to try to progress anyway unless you plan to take an extended break until then.

Pick class -> do roulettes -> exchange poetics-> every 10 levels go up tome tier

If you really want to do it the most braindead/low-effort way possible, just go unlock the combat beast tribes for each expansion and level your classes. Ilvl is irrelevant there and you can accept the quests on your leveling class and do them on your main.

Idk what to tell you about having everything at a bunch of different levels but probably should get everything on the low end to the same point and then level up from there while sharing gear and collecting your higher level classes as you go on.

You're assuming doing roulettes is part of everyone's regular schedule.

[TaleraRistain]

While it's true it would solve the issue of new players in ARR running around in dungeons in extremely underleveled gear, it would also likely teach those players to not care about their gear in general.

This is a decent point and while it doesn't apply to you, OP, it could be an effect of adding this sort of thing to the game. And as someone else mentioned, even if they did implement this, it would not be for some time. If you're getting frustrated now, then maybe there some suggestions we can give here to help so you don't lose your interest in the game because of it.

Something that helped me when I was working on leveling different roles was to take a night specifically for obtaining the next set of gear I would need or at lower levels sometimes the next couple of sets. Then I would store it and only have to retrieve it once I reached that point. This could have been crafted gear, tome gear, dungeon gear, etc. Whatever I was going to need at that next point. Then I could focus on the days where I played on playing. I'm not sure how much extra time you have for this or if you and your friend would want to dedicate a night for it. But it could ease some of the frustration since the nights that you want to progress, you can just progress. And it could be something fun to do together, either running dungeons together or crafting together with each of you making pieces for the crafts. If space is an issue, remember you can always stick things in your glamour chest and pull them out when you need them.

Oh, and since you mentioned some difficulty with figuring out what you need for crafting, I'm not sure if you've ever looked at this or were aware of it, but there's a option on items in your books called "Recipe Tree". This shows you exactly what you will need to craft a given item and can be very useful when gathering materials. There's a "Raw Materials" button on that screen, which will bring up a window with a nice list. And an option to only display materials with insufficient stock. And now that I'm looking there's also a "Raw Materials List" option on the item as well so you can just go directly to that.

[boopadoop]

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i edited my post to reflect why that concern wouldn't be an issue, which is what i had in mind the entire time but thinking of all the things to say hard asdfa. i never intended to ask for this kind of gear for people still new to the game or going to level cap for their first, probably even second or third due to the type of investment to acquire it, time.

i do appreciate your suggestions, though, and especially the tone of it. it's just that at the time we wanted to just pick up actually playing the game coming back into our sub after months of a break versus playing gear catch-up for more then 30 minutes, especially when some people do have limited time to play. i ended up wasting even more time by taking time to shuffle our crafting materials around to stack together and we have baby friends who want help too with their gear and asdgkdfsg.

the issue of this all also comes with his lack of armoury space, and pushing a bit towards my own, and i'll have to figure out what's going on there but it was a big "gee i wish i could keep this gear i crafted for the levels i'm replacing now for when the other alt jobs using the same type of gear catch up to that level but i cAn'T and will have to reacquire it later weoooo" mood

there are some classes we reeeeallly hate playing but want to level eventually because now the game rewards you for leveling *everything* to...80? so some are very much lacking - and also around 50+ the leveling does get slower but the need for that useful higher lvl gear remains, you know? it just sucks to have to acquire the same set of tomestone gear like 5 times if the gear space is an issue for the player, which happens :melting:

i'm able to cope, my friend can cope but with frustration, but...it'd be a nice feature to have at some point i think. for those who would use it. you know?

[Johners]

I think gearing is the problem, there's many easy ways to meet certain item level thresholds when playing the MSQ or levelling additional jobs. The only system I'd like to see taken from the heirloom system in WoW, at least before Blizzard changed it during WoW's levelling rework, was the increased XP gains. Levelling extra jobs is tiring and boring. There's only so many times I want to spam 5x of that levels dungeon before moving onto the next plus this problem will only get worse with each expansion as they're insistent on adding 2 new jobs.

[Eastwall]

the problem with just buying stuff over and over again is all the gil it costs, esp at higher levels even the normal gear gets pretty expensive to just keep buying whenever you need it
we're not rolling in gil enough for that just yet to keep buying and dumping and buying which is why this is a frustrating problem lol that and the normal gear blehh
tomestones sure but it's still kinda you know....just...a lot of resources and time spent just so you can pick up where you left off and start leveling again only for so long before having to do it all over again, and thats just for the one alt job
the point is it'd be nice to not have to spent ~2hrs just to get a set of gear to level one job for the next 5-10 levels during the time of playing until you take a break for the next time and come back feeling frazzled again because oh no i gotta do all that nonsense for gear that i forgot what i was planning for the next 10 lvls and do i have mats for the next what do i have to go fstm again

Take off your gear so you only get arr dungeons in roulette? Then you don't have to upgrade your gears. It doesn't work anymore on alliance raid, but still works on leveling roulette and 50607080

[Genbe197]

This would be an absolutely AWFUL idea. If you level via POTD/HoH your gear does not matter, if you level via dungeons you are guanteed a drop every dungeon at the end to complete a set, if you level via FATEs the gear is capped to the fate so you can simply go from tome set to tome set, if that isn't enough crafted gear is VERY VERY easy to get and even craft yourself. Heirloom gear is in wow because wow gearing is awful and you level so fast your old gear is pointless very quickly. FF14 does not have that problem. Them x0 tome gear is fine until x5 in dungeons and fine in open world content until the next tome set.

[boopadoop]

This would be an absolutely AWFUL idea. If you level via POTD/HoH your gear does not matter, if you level via dungeons you are guanteed a drop every dungeon at the end to complete a set, if you level via FATEs the gear is capped to the fate so you can simply go from tome set to tome set, if that isn't enough crafted gear is VERY VERY easy to get and even craft yourself. Heirloom gear is in wow because wow gearing is awful and you level so fast your old gear is pointless very quickly. FF14 does not have that problem. Them x0 tome gear is fine until x5 in dungeons and fine in open world content until the next tome set.

sorry, this is not my experience at all. you may not have had the issue and that's honestly fucking great for you, but i have, repeatedly, as well as others i've talked to. potd/hoh is great when you have the patience for it and have the time. but it's also time-consuming and monotonous and i don't always want to resort to that method of leveling for every level and class. if your gear sucks ass too hard doing FATEs you'll probably struggle, especially if no one else comes to help and you're trying to solo it. chocobos can help, yes, but accidents can also happen and dying because you didn't update your gear is frustrating. doing dungeons at the bare minimum is a burden on your party, especially if you're tanking or healing and can't keep up because of it, and you may only get one or two pieces of gear from that run to use until the next time, and by then maybe those four pieces aren't enough for the next set of levels because yes you can level pretty quickly and what drops is entirely based on RNG so maybe your best piece is what gets replaced whereas the worst is still there. crafting your own gear, in my experience which i have already explained, has NOT been "very very easy" as it's time-consuming to get the materials which take up a lot of space and time, not to mention teleporting everywhere to gather things, some of which are on timed nodes. buying gear either from vendors or the market board adds up a lot gil very quickly which some people may not have when you have to keep buying it because you can't keep it because hoarding it for when you can use it later on other jobs takes up limited space, and the same applies to buying tomestone gear, which is in a similar but different boat; you can get more pieces with the tomestone assuming you start with some and don't have to stop and spend *more* time than it feels worth farming just for a few levels worth of gear.

yes, it can be done. it is literally what's being done now, a variety of these options regardless. HOWEVER, it is not fun gameplay either way, adds nothing to the experience you've already done, and you constantly have to stop to address your gear for leveling alt jobs. it's just time consuming. and yes, playing a game, period, is time consuming, but there's ways to take out the tedium of certain aspects of it. i am trying to level all classes, both war and magic and land and hand. armoury space is not *that* constrained if i'm careful, but it is still limited and may be an issue for others. you can also disagree without devaluing or trying to invalidate other peoples' experience.

and honestly, even though the gear would remain on one character due to the nature of FFXIV unlike WoW mailing your heirloom gear to alts, it would help for the weirdos who do make actual alt characters for their own reasons and want to once more level alt jobs after the first one. like, severely. some people do that. they're weird. but they shouldn't have to suffer for it if that's how they wanna play.

[Rongway]

I'm gunna guess..... That 1.0 sphaghetti code jank would prevent that.

Irrelevant. There are already working Aetheryte Earrings and Menphina's Earrings in the game. There is no question of technical viability, only philosophical and economic concerns.

[TaleraRistain]

the issue of this all also comes with his lack of armoury space, and pushing a bit towards my own, and i'll have to figure out what's going on there but it was a big "gee i wish i could keep this gear i crafted for the levels i'm replacing now for when the other alt jobs using the same type of gear catch up to that level but i cAn'T and will have to reacquire it later weoooo" mood

there are some classes we reeeeallly hate playing but want to level eventually because now the game rewards you for leveling *everything* to...80? so some are very much lacking - and also around 50+ the leveling does get slower but the need for that useful higher lvl gear remains, you know? it just sucks to have to acquire the same set of tomestone gear like 5 times if the gear space is an issue for the player, which happens :melting:

I would definitely use your glamour chest for that gear. Repair it and pitch it in there and you can keep it handy for when you need it. They recently expanded it to 800 slots.

I getcha on wanting to level everything. The 90 reward isn't so awesome but the 80 reward is a pretty nice mount with unique music. I love mine and it caused me to level things that had a lot of dust on them.

There are a decent amount of non-dungeon things for leveling. There's PotD and FATES as someone mentioned. I would always do my daily tribal quests and daily hunts from HW onward (ARR daily hunts kinda suck and your hunting and GC logs work better). Don't sleep on guildhests, too. There's a challenge log entry if you do 10 for the week that can give you a decent chunk if exp. Also the challenge log itself can give you some good boosts. I had some classes I didn't really want to do in roulettes (mostly tanks before I became a GNB main) so I would level them in other ways.