What to expect going into an expansion (SB) if you joined in HW, how to transition?

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How did the tomes work in the beginning was it just 450 a week of lore and you just had to only gear your main job?

There was no lore. This game uses tiered currency and removes old currency as it becomes obsolete. That's why there's still an esoterics category, even though you can't earn any. It will probably disappear when SB releases and scriptures become uncapped. But yes, the higher level currency is always capped to begin with. If I remember correctly, the original currency was justice and law, with law being the higher level one, which bought the Doman 170/180 stuff.

Mostly things were a bit more difficult out in the world and in dungeons, though none of it was terribly difficult, just slow. Gear for alt classes that do not share gear with your main job will be a bit hard to come by in the early goings because you'll mostly only be able to gear it in whatever extra stuff you can get from dungeons, but far more people will be needing the dungeon gear.