What's the best way to progress as Fresh 50 post patch? PLD

[GuardianX]

Except whenever you do DF if your not already in DL people leave making it hard to farm tomes of any kind. Making you dependent on your FC to even do it in any effective way.. unless you're lucky.

People leaving DF now have a 30 min penalty. I doubt many would leave so easy

[Lemon8or]

Yoshi-P stated in the Nov 22 live letter that AK is being nerfed to make it more in line with WP and specified that gear is being nerfed too. The patch notes mention this also but it's a bit more vague.

AK gear is still i60 and the stats are still the same. Not sure where you got the info about AK gear being nerfed...

[Ehayte]

Haukke HM and Copperbell HM also drop i60 gear thats pretty much the same as AK as far as I could tell. They give 100 philo/50 mytho each : D

And they are super fun. An average group in i48 would struggle in Copperbell imo, though.

And, yes, confirmed 100philo 10mytho for DF Roulette, although I think the in-demand bonus is just gil/seals/xp - I could be wrong.

[PetiteMalFleur]

^^From the live letter, as I stated before. AK gear is now iLevel 55. Just ran it myself. The hoplight gear now drops in copperbell

[Asdamine]

Some of the AK gear got pushed to Pharos Sirius, including hoplite accessories. Whereas the Darklight Shield that was supposed to drop in Tonberry King has been moved to the last boss in AK.

I would say... do AK first to get your shield, it is very important. Then do Pharos Sirius (and Ifirit/Garuda) for your weapon.

I am not sure if you can get the same gear from both dungeons (or others) or just one, exclusive, dungeon drop. Time will tell.

[Sunarine]

Maybe pick up a few crafted pieces. Then run a few dungeons with friends/people who aren't jerks, or use the party find and explain you're trying to get geared. All else fails farm philos/myth with an alt class.

[Hayward]

Getting your Hoplite gear's a good start. Darklight Shield's essential unless you got lucky against Titan in the past and have a Shield of Crags (don't buy the Darksteel shield. Tower shields really don't do much good when you can't block often). The array of Myth book options should allow you to focus on getting Relic Armor as well as some Darklight stuff.

[Githiun]

I got like 300 Philo's from a DR last night. It was Praetorium so took a lot longer than a speed run WP but got 3 times the tomes than a traditional WP run. If you're worried about not being up to snfuf you can always DR low level dungeons and get 100 per run. Nothing like getting 100 philo's for a lvl 18 dungeon lol

[Teleniel]

Newly gearing :
1: hit up the Story & Low-level dungeon queues for some easy tomes
2: hit up AK (most of the speed runners are in WP), this will help flesh you out into il55
3: purchase your first 1-2 pieces of darklight (3 AK runs + story + low level ~= 700ish Philo tomes... plus what you got leveling up)
4: Ifrit HM > Garuda HM... farm one or the other for your first primal weapon
5: go back and farm WP/AK. You want to be il55 all armor, il70 accessories at least... closer to 70+ all the better
6: Relic-Reborn quest, clear Titan HM (cry at the philo cost for the weapon after getting all your armor)
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