Back from a few months break. Need a briefing please.

[Lethaltyrant]

I just came back from a few months break probably last time i played was in November. What all have i missed and what is the recommendation i should be working on. Im lvl 50 PLD i have relic armor when last on i was working on the sword trying to fight hydra. I have 1 piece of dark light armor and a few hoplite armor pieces. Can someone fill me in I feel like a lot has changed in a few months. When looking at character ilvl is 56. In case that helps with pointers.

[HumsterMKX]

Lalafells have taken over. Miqo'tes Males one are made into house pets.

The rest if us are either enslaved or went into hiding.

Please send help.

[Mirakell]

Lalafells have taken over. Miqo'tes Males one are made into house pets.

The rest if us are either enslaved or went into hiding.

Please send help.

There is no hope :3

To answer OP - The first step would be to get your darklight armour and getting to i70. This can be helped along a little as once you have one or two darklight peices you can jump into the lovely chaos that is CT, hope for no trolls, and get one i80 bit of armour a week :3 If your in a good FC or can find a good one who will help you to catch up, it'll help a lot ^.^

[Lethaltyrant]

Thank you for the pointers. Best way to get tomes for darklight at the moment still um CM i think it was. I cant exactly remember. Or something else

[Mordermi]

Thank you for the pointers. Best way to get tomes for darklight at the moment still um CM i think it was. I cant exactly remember. Or something else

I would run CT if I were you. You get 200 Tomestones of Philosophy, and you get 50 Tomestones of Mythology. On top of that, you have a chance to get ilvl80 loot. Best way to play catch up, in my opinion.

[Marael]

Thank you for the pointers. Best way to get tomes for darklight at the moment still um CM i think it was. I cant exactly remember. Or something else

The best way to get philosophy tomes now-a-days is:
1.) Storyline duty roulette - this will get you 300 tomes, and some gil by randomly putting you into either praetorium or CM, repeatable once per day.
2.) Crystal Tower - completion of the Crystal Tower (30-ish mins in a good group, 45-ish in a not so good one) rewards you with 200 philosophy tomes and 50 Mythology tomes, plus you have the added bonus of being able to lot on ilvl 80 gear pieces as well. You're allowed to win one piece per week, resetting monday mornings, though you can continue to run it for fun and tomes after you get your weekly piece.
3.) Low level duty roulette - this will randomly throw you into any of the instances below level 50, usually whichever one has someone already queued up for it in need of progression. It awards 100 Philosophy Tomes, 10 Mythology tomes, and a decent chunk of gil for completion on a level 50 job, or a huge xp bonus instead of the tomes on a job below level 50, repeatable daily.
4.) High Level duty roulette - this will randomly toss you into one of whichever level 50 dungeons you have unlocked. The roulette itself does not award philosophy tomes, but all of the level 50 instances do give 100ish for completion. I would probably recommend that you get a few more pieces of darklight and maybe an ifrit/garuda/crafted ilvl 70 weapon before doing this though.
5.) AK/WP/whatever spam - you get 100 philosophy tomes for AK/WP and 30 mythology tomes. Depending on the group, either of these dungeons is usually pretty easy to clear quickly, and gives the added bonus of accumulating mythology tomes for your lvl 90 gear while you're at it. AK was recently made a lot easier by removing some of the mobs and lowering the HP of the rest of them, and most DF groups can finish it up pretty quickly and easily.
6.) Beastman daily quests/treasure hunts - okay, these don't exactly give a ton of tomes for completion, especially before you rank up with the beastmen some and gain access to higher tiered quests with better rewards, but they do give tomes, gil, and a crapton of shards as rewards. I don't remember exactly, but I believe the quest to start the sylph dailies is in the twin adder HQ in gridania, and the one for the amal'jaa is in the immortal flames HQ in Ul'Dah, but don't quote me on that, it's been a long while. The treasure hunts can be completed I believe it's every 18 hours, correct me if I'm wrong, you can do solo hunts and party hunts, can buy maps or farm them yourself on a gathering job. there's a quest that gives the ability to dig for treasure and decipher maps but I don't remember where it was, I think maybe camp bronze lake somewhere? You dig up a treasure chest, kill some mobs guarding it and get gil, items, shards, and tomes. The most I got from one chest was 30 philo tomes.

the roulettes will be in your duty finder menu at the very top of the list. As you can see, there's a lot more variety now than there was on the game's release. I suggest doing a lot of different things to farm your tomes rather than spamming just one thing, it's a lot more fun that way, and you don't get driven insane by spamming the same instance over, and over, and over, and over again.

Hope this was helpful =)

[Lethaltyrant]

Thank you Marael for all that info and taking the time to type that all out lol i will take the advice and use it well im close to my body piece for dark light

[Lethaltyrant]

Lalafells have taken over. Miqo'tes Males one are made into house pets.

The rest if us are either enslaved or went into hiding.

Please send help.

i refuse to be a house pet lol

[HumsterMKX]

i refuse to be a house pet lol

Run while you still can. The others.... they are brainwashed and trying to lure you in. Run away!



Alternatively you can buy this safehouse pass for only 299,999.99 gil. If you call right now.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Lalafells have taken over. Miqo'tes Males one are made into house pets.

The rest if us are either enslaved or went into hiding.

Please send help.

Kneel before your adorable overlords and your resistance will be overlooked!

@OP - Welcome back for starters. You'll want to head to camp revnant's toll in mor dhona and flag the quest for Crystal Tower (Legacy of Allag or something I think) as well as Ultima's ballad and various other 2.1 quests. You have missed quite abit of changes and there are even more coming in the patch next month.

CT gives 200 Philo and 50 myth per run, You are allowed ONE DROP PER WEEK so pass on everything you don't want. The entry Ilvl is only 50 so you can enter as soon as you complete the quest.