Returning player worried about progress gaps

[Kajidourden]

Hey all,

So I've recently come back from a hiatus and was thinking about the fact that I just hit 50 with my ninja, which is planned to be my new main class. As i started to look at my inventory I realized im about between 1/2 and 3/4 done with my atma-animus upgrade on my previous main job BRDs weapon. I started to think that I REALY don't want to re-do ALL of that just to end up with what is now still considered a sub-par weapon (atma).
I then looked on the auction house and I see ilvl 110 weapons for sale. So I guess my question is, should I even bother doing all that work when I can just buy an ilvl 110 weapon?

[krazyrs]

1300 poetics
a twine and a tomb from Labrynth weeklys = i130 weapon

if your just wanting something to be good until heavensward drops

[seekified]

Yeah, I agree with krazyrs - if you don't have Novus or higher at this point, I wouldn't bother. Get some poetics and do the weekly Crystal Tower quest twice and you're all set.

[Kajidourden]

Huh, really? I haven't gone back and read all the patch notes, but wow, that easy huh? What about armor/accessories? I'm just curious what the best way to go about it is since Heavensward drops so soon

[EpicCid]

WoD no longer has loot restrictions so go all out and get as much ninja gear as you want. You can also get poetics gear that can be upgraded.

[Garotte14]

Don't stress about it too much. I recently created an alt to play with some friends on another server. Within about 3 weeks I'm ilvl 113. I have an i110 weapon and I've already cleared T10 and T11. This is with only playing 3 hours or so a night except on my days off. Point being, you're never too far behind if you know what you're doing. I wouldn't worry about your relic weapon. As others have said, you can get the i100/110 weapon with soldiery, i120/130 weapon with poetics, you can even get an i115 weapon from Shiva extreme and T9. There are so many options which really allows you to do what works best for you

[Kajidourden]

what about the "true" zodiac weapons that are basically the top of the crop? Are those part of relic upgrade?

[StouterTaru]

I use a 110 crafted weapon on my mules, and it's enough to get you through the main story line without being a dead weight for your party.

The 135 Zeta weapons are the current end to the relic quest line.

[Kajidourden]

I use a 110 crafted weapon on my mules, and it's enough to get you through the main story line without being a dead weight for your party.

The 135 Zeta weapons are the current end to the relic quest line.

Ah, so if you want the best of the best you still need to do the relic quest then, got it

[MrCookTM]

Ah, so if you want the best of the best you still need to do the relic quest then, got it

Yes you have to, but you're looking at a crapton of work and in order to make the weapon "BiS" you also have to spend millions and millions of gil for the novus melds (31 determination gg). The point is, Zeta is only 5 ilvl higher than the poetic tome weapon and come heavensward everything will change drastically anyway.

My advice for your general progression would be to finish the current MSQ and Crystal Tower questlines and do every of the new dungeons you didn't do yet once. This way you will unlock daily expert roulette for poetics and soldierey, high level roulette for soldiery and the CT weekly for upgrade items (carboncoat uprgrades poetic accessories from 120 to 130, carbontwine upgrades poetic left side pieces from 120 to 130, and the encrypted tomestone +1300 poetics is needed to buy the 120 poetic weapon which can also be upgraded to 130 via carbontwine).


Gear progression:

- get a relic zenit for your nin in order to have a wep that doesn't completely suck.

- do dungeons/high level dr for soldiery and drops to gear up. Soldiery isn't capped. Buy soldiery pieces until you are i90 which is the ilvl req for the expert dungeons and Wolrd of Darkness.

- do expert dr to cap poetics (450/week). save up 3 weeks/1300 poetics.

- run WoD for i120 left side gear, get i100 accessories from mor dhona with soldiery.

- run Syrcus Tower to get some Oil's of Time to upgrade right side to i110.

- do CT weekly and get one encrypted tomestone as a reward and one carbontwine the week after (and twines/coats the weeks after that ofc, depending on your poetic purchases).

- once you have 1300 poetics, get 10 Rowena's Token (Poetic) and change them together with the tomestone for your i120 ironworks daggers. Grab one of your carbontwines, go to Drake (the guy left of Gerolt in north shroud) and upgrade it to i130.

- you can then start to use your 150 poetics/week for gear purchases and use twines/coats to upgrade to i130. I'd suggest prioritizing the chest piece and pants (biggest impact on your overall damage and both BiS for nin).

- if you're into raiding, you might also get gear from second coil of bahamut. T6 and T7 are hella outgeared by now, have 20% echo and are nerfed to the ground in terms of mechanics. It drops i110 gear. If you haven't cleared T5 yet, it's easily pug'able by now.

Hope this helps.