Thread: Patch 3.4 Notes (Full)

Originally Posted by aesteval

Presumably progression systems are in place to gear you up to start on the next tier of content. There is literally no point to the dungeon gear other than glamour. The dungeons throw tomes at you that provide higher ilvl gear - even the uncapped / previous tier tome. It's a bit of a shock that current dungeon gear drops do little to nothing to prepare a player to enter the next part of content.

Next part of which content? It is more than enough to prepare you for the 3.5 dungeons. If you planned to do Alexander anyway, chances are you did enough Mhach or tomestone farming or EX Sephi to get yourself properly geared.

Originally Posted by FinaSel

Doing some calculations to see how many items / grand company seals it will cost to make a full set of IL 250 gear for 2 jobs.
For WHM and NIN, to make the 250 gear and weapon it will take 114000 seals IF you get the items using Grand Company Seals and not from dungeons / the marketboard / ones you already have on hand.
Even if you have 50,000 seals coming back from the patch and do all supply missions and NO squadron missions (Because those will require seals), it will still take a few days to get them all.
Plus needing to get some mats (undoubtedly, but not yet proven) from tomestones, it will take a quite a while or a lot of money to get them all.

It seems like a lot of work for IL 250 gear, which will be obsolete quickly seeing as the gear goes to at least 270 (and weapons 275)

We also don't know if the items like "Teak Lumber" and "Scintillant Ingot" will be locked behind specialists or not.

The 250 gear had better be a guaranteed Materia V after converting it...

Crafters are guaranteed to make a lot of money if they really spend a LOT of time not only gathering / crafting / but also running dungeons for tomes.

There is actually so much to craft, with new housing items and lots of people getting apartments, it's hard to decide what to do exactly.
And whether it will be worth it to craft the "Hive" and "Round" items as well, seeing as they require 5 Battlecraft Demimateria III each, but they still just basically glamour.

Well squadron missions might require seals, but we don't exactly know what they give in return. Maybe it's a gamble and you can get a lot more company seals as a reward if your squadron is successful. Especially if they have a high chemistry.