Heavensward - jobs and end game

[Alipoprocks]

I am starting to feel worried and anxious about the expansion. With three new jobs being added, will there be enough endgame content to gear my main job, a couple of my other favorites and some of the new jobs?

Right now, in the current gear cycles, I feel like we must pick a main and if you want to gear up more jobs, you have to wait for the end of the cycle to be able to fully gear them.

To me, this is very frustrating. BLM is and always be my main favorite job. I was playing/gearing MNK and BRD also. But then I enjoyed SCH, so my BRD is neglected. NIN came out, and I am enjoying it. But I cannot fully enjoy it and be effective with it in end game unless I neglect the other jobs I enjoy.

So now with three more jobs coming out, I am worried that in order to enjoy any of them, I will be neglecting my old favorites.

I know there are tons of people that play alts and are used to doing that because in other MMO's you need alts to play other jobs. But I love focusing on my main character. I hate that in order to work around lockouts, you have to play alts.

My only hope is that there will be more end game other than just Alexander or less restrictive lockouts and/or longer content cycles.

[Wobble]

It would really help if they raised the weekly cap or removed the lockout on the secondary tomes as well.

[lololink]

I am starting to feel worried and anxious about the expansion. With three new jobs being added, will there be enough endgame content to gear my main job, a couple of my other favorites and some of the new jobs?

DRK is going to share gear with PLD and WAR, AST with SCH and WHM and MCH with BRD, so I don't see where is the issue.

[Alipoprocks]

DRK is going to share gear with PLD and WAR, AST with SCH and WHM and MCH with BRD, so I don't see where is the issue.

The issue for me is that I already cannot gear those three unless I abandon a job that I really enjoy.

[Ophie-Mio]

For me who mains SCH/WHM but also has a main DPS in BLM and just took to DRG and has BRD and a WAR who like to come out now and then... I had a problem with gearing them and figuring out the plan with the lockouts and such.

What I ended up doing was designing the jobs with the gear I wanted a head of time. I knew I was doing FCoB on SCH so all BiS Dreadwyrm parts for SCH, I didn't buy poetics for. I bought BiS poetics for the more WHM Dread pieces and used the i110 version of crafted until the Dreadwyrm stuff dropped.
My SCH, btw, wears 5 pieces of poetics.

After I was done was SCH, I moved onto BLM since that was my main DPS. I got four poetic pieces for BLM and when WoD came out, I filled in the i110 slots with that. My main healers didn't get any of that gear since they already had the better/dreadwyrm gear.

DRG came last and I only have one piece of poetics for it, but I have three WoD pieces. DRG/BRD is now the WoD dump bucket until poetics can take their places. I honestly have a lot of jobs...Cause my tank also took some WoD drops.

It's all about designing and planning out which job has which and which item is needed. I see healers entirely in i120 poetics or WoD and that's silly. That's so much time invested in one job and if you have multiple jobs, you have to determine which piece is best and then get it and then once all those pieces are done, you move on to the next job.

[Wobble]

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And that's a good idea if you do coil and that type of end game, but some of us strictly gear off tomes. I did coil but being so far behind my group never farmed and moved to the next turn instantly so even then I had to gear off tomes gear unless I got a lucky drop. I have since given up on raiding as it was more stress in my life than I need right now.

[Ophie-Mio]

And that's a good idea if you do coil and that type of end game, but some of us strictly gear off tomes. I did coil but being so far behind my group never farmed and moved to the next turn instantly so even then I had to gear off tomes gear unless I got a lucky drop. I have since given up on raiding as it was more stress in my life than I need right now.

Yeah, my group is also way behind (we haven't even beaten T13 yet). We only farm when we attempt to beat T13 as you can only do during the current loot lockouts.
But I've remained adamant in my BiS plan. If I am supposed to get it from FCoB, I will not upgrade. As an fyi for me too, I do not think ilevel is everything so I'm not an ilevel chaser. To me, sitting around i120 or i122 until I get the gear to drop isn't a deal at all.

Also, I'm not lucky at all with healer drops. I've only gotten the pants and waist to drop for me... The plan remains the same. You don't need Augmented i130 gear to do the things that are currently in this game. I'd rather gear my jobs the way I wish to. I'm luckier with SCH though that the head, feet, bracelet and technically hands are BiS for SCH in terms of poetics. Those are the ones I bought and augmented. After I had those pieces, I moved on to BLM.

The reason why I chimed in and mentioned raid situation style is the fact that the OP mentioned that they were concerned about the endgame content.

If I lived off of tomes gear like poetics, I would still pick a path that allows all my classes to have the relatively same ilevel in terms of gear before I would move on. I would just pick between poetics/WoD/crafted rather than what I currently do in Dreadwyrm/poetics/WoD/crafted.

As an example, I like to stack crit on my SCH with DET or Piety being secondary. Since I'm not doing FCoB now in this example, whichever piece has the most of either of those stats, whether it be poetics, WoD or crafted, I use that. Once I got the composition that I liked, I would use the same method and move to the next. If my SCH only used the WoD pants, I wouldn't lot on another healer piece for WoD. The next one in line would be a DPS since no other WoD piece caters to what I want exactly for my SCH. So it's a matter of which BiS you want and not getting the misc junk pieces just because you want ilevel or some such.

[Ryans]

Considering you don't need the highest ilvl gear to clear the highest ilvl content, this entire issue is moot. You can effectively play all the jobs in the hardest content by gearing the job in the previous hardest content that has already had it's gear limit removed. I realize people are on a gear treadmill and think they must have the highest ilvl, but all that does is make content easier. It doesn't mean you can't do the content with a lower ilvl.

[Wobble]

Considering you don't need the highest ilvl gear to clear the highest ilvl content, this entire issue is moot. You can effectively play all the jobs in the hardest content by gearing the job in the previous hardest content that has already had it's gear limit removed. I realize people are on a gear treadmill and think they must have the highest ilvl, but all that does is make content easier. It doesn't mean you can't do the content with a lower ilvl.

Not a matter of being needed as much as it is people want to have highest ilevel, it's a matter of choice.

[Alipoprocks]

Considering you don't need the highest ilvl gear to clear the highest ilvl content, this entire issue is moot. You can effectively play all the jobs in the hardest content by gearing the job in the previous hardest content that has already had it's gear limit removed. I realize people are on a gear treadmill and think they must have the highest ilvl, but all that does is make content easier. It doesn't mean you can't do the content with a lower ilvl.

It kinda does. Have you ever seen a pf for FCoB at iLVL 110 other than when it first comes out?