Soldiery/Poetics weapons for new classes?

[Zaft]

I should hope there's at least Ironworks Magitek weapons for DRK/AST/MCH, along with primal weapons.

Primal weapons have been confirmed. I doubt there will be Ironworks, but we'll see.

[Marxam]

I don't think anything will be added since DRK, along with the new jobs, can only be accessed in Heavensward meaning there will be content for them there already and little reason to make content for them in ARR. I just hope there's a Guts set as a nod to Berserk because how can you not put a reference to such an influential anime/manga.

[SDaemon]

I don't think anything will be added since DRK, along with the new jobs, can only be accessed in Heavensward meaning there will be content for them there already and little reason to make content for them in ARR. I just hope there's a Guts set as a nod to Berserk because how can you not put a reference to such an influential anime/manga.

And yet i70 primal weapns are being added for them. You may need Heavensward to gain the jobs, but they start at 30.

So far the only weapons we know for sure the new jobs are not getting are the 2.0 relics.

[hairpinlegs]

The Ironworks Star Globe and the High Allagan Machinist Gun can be briefly seen in the scene with the large gathering of players in the benchmark trailer, at around 4:44 and 4:51 respectively.


Ironworks Globe:

High Allagan Gun:

It's pretty hard to see both, sorry for the screenshot quality. You can see it a little better in the trailer itself.

You can probably assume from this that Level 50 vertical progression weapons will be added, starting at High Allagan at most.

[Kairobot]

The max ilevel will remain the same and not be increased at HW launch. I predict there will be ironworks weapons for the new jobs as well as ironworks gear. Not sure about soldiery stuff since a new tombstone will be introduced. I will definately save some poetics for the the new jobs.

[Nutz]

The max ilevel will remain the same and not be increased at HW launch. I predict there will be ironworks weapons for the new jobs as well as ironworks gear. Not sure about soldiery stuff since a new tombstone will be introduced. I will definately save some poetics for the the new jobs.

They may make new ironworks weapons (really can't make it out in that screenshot), though soldiery is a bit less certain since they'd require the same level (50) but one is definitely better than the other and by then both types of tomes will be old (Law will be the newest tome at launch, but will be unrestricted -- Esoterics will be capped but released 2 weeks later). The ilvl cap is most certainly increasing. I have no idea why you'd think i130 will be the best you can get at level 60 since that would make all new dungeon drops and crafted gear completely irrelevant before it's even introduced. Nevermind the fact that there will be tomes of Law from level 60 dungeons at release as well. Yoshi said that i130 will still be relevant while leveling up, but it will be outmoded by the time you hit 60, if not sooner.

[Erendis]

Since there are going to be two new tomestones, it is highly possible, that you will not be able to buy anything with old tomestones. And who knows what conversion rates will be...

[Felis]

Be ready to farm dungeons for current tome gear/weapons in 3.0

[Waeksyn]

I expect that the older tome weapons will be available for the new jobs.

Ilevel 140 gear will be a simple increase of stats similar to what has been done before (ie, +5 or so to main stats) so i130 will still be very good gear, used while grinding out your i140 stuff and leveling up to 60.

Level 60 will add stats to the character baseline. The increase in character level stats will, though, be much larger than the difference in gear with a +10 iLevel raise. At 60, the difference between i140 and i130 will be similar to what you have now between i130 and i120. If anything, it will seem smaller because it will be a smaller percentage increase (fixed amount).

[Alberel]

Why would the devs want to give you an easy option to instantly outgear half the expansion on the new jobs? It's bad enough that our current i130 jobs will already outgear everything up to level 55.

The primal weapons and possibly coil weapons will likely be the only exceptions to this simply because they're not exactly easy to get and you would have to wait until the expansion hits before you can start farming for them anyway.

Since there are going to be two new tomestones, it is highly possible, that you will not be able to buy anything with old tomestones. And who knows what conversion rates will be...

They likely won't remove Poetics as players that don't buy the expansion will still need to be provided for in acquiring gear up to i130.