How are you preparing for the release of RDM/SAM? Collective Tips and Suggestions

[Rawrz]

Hi OP! It sounds like you are having fun prepping - I think that is great!



In regards to the above - are you doing this because you are leveling an existing job first? If not, I feel like perhaps I should remind everyone that leves can only be completed (and turned in) on the job that accepted the leve quest. You can not, say, get a bunch of leve quests on your SCH, do them, and then turn them in on RDM.

It is easy to forget this limitation because it does not exist for DoH leves...which I would wager was the vast majority of leves that players did in HW!

Thank you! Its horrible and wonderful thinking of things to do. My last thing I'm doing is farming, Demimog materia. The downside is that I only have gsm/ltw desynth so i can only desynth MogFists and AST MogGlobes. DX At least its getting me closer to the parade chocobo. 30 more comms to go. ;-;

Also, you can accept leves on any class. A level 1 rogue if you wanted to. The class you activate the leve is the class that is going to get the exp. So, by accepting the leves now, and then later starting them on SAM or RDM, you'll have a bunch of easy exp available.

"RDM especially will have a great time in Palace of the dead, with its potent vercure and later verraise, in the 50+ floors at least."

Raise will not be available in PotD.


Also, it's important to have a full stock of rested EXP.

Because of rested EXP, by the way, lvl 50-60 via PotD is the only viable option to me. Doing dungeons or whatever wastes all of your rested EXP and then you have none for 60-70.

I didn't list rested EXP, because you either have it, or you don't. Really hoping they adjust the leveling of 50-100 to match level 60-70 skills, which would allow the use of skills like VerRaise.

[Ayerinn]

Also, you can accept leves on any class. A level 1 rogue if you wanted to. The class you activate the leve is the class that is going to get the exp. So, by accepting the leves now, and then later starting them on SAM or RDM, you'll have a bunch of easy exp available.

Oh I see I wrongly assumed when you said "easy" xp you were going to complete the quests ahead of time and just hand them in on RDM - rereading what I said I suppose I wasn't really clear what I meant by "accept" and "complete" either lol. I guess it is variety but unless HW FATES are buffed (as in, they get the bonus xp talked about for SB FATES in addition to the 100% armory) I imagine it will be so much slower than PoTD or maybe even the PvP leveling. I hope not though - I miss FATES

[OcieKo]

In regards to the above - are you doing this because you are leveling an existing job first? If not, I feel like perhaps I should remind everyone that leves can only be completed (and turned in) on the job that accepted the leve quest. You can not, say, get a bunch of leve quests on your SCH, do them, and then turn them in on RDM.

The point he was making here was to have the 100 leve count available AND having the max allowable on hand so it bump up to about 118 available levequests for day 1 or so. The newer beast tribes lock in on pick-up from quest giver but leves have always kindof locked in AFTER you activate them in the green circle.
Now if he actually went to the circle and did them, moot. But picking it up so the allowances can recover and do the levequest later, totally possible.

[Ayerinn]

The point he was making here was to have the 100 leve count available AND having the max allowable on hand so it bump up to about 118 available levequests for day 1 or so. The newer beast tribes lock in on pick-up from quest giver but leves have always kindof locked in AFTER you activate them in the green circle.
Now if he actually went to the circle and did them, moot. But picking it up so the allowances can recover and do the levequest later, totally possible.

Oh I know I did this with crafting quests *only* because you can do them ahead of time...battlecraft leves after the 30's are not worth it imo.

[Hyrist]

I'm not worried about gathering level 50 ilvl gear for my RDM, as I intend on pushing RDM to 60 through Palace and then using gear available for purchase in Stormblood to give initial ilvl gear to my RDM from my DRG character. I also have the advantage of having the entirety of Post Heavensward 3.xx content reward revisions to give to my RDM character as it will be on my secondary character.

This allows me to make more vain pursuits such as finding nice glamours for RDM to use during the awkward phase of generalized caster gear. My preparation consisted on pushing through Heavensard base storyline on Paladin.

Otherwise, catching up on some side stories I've been missing on my main character and just chilling out before Stormblood comes.

[Nexxus]

Do not forget about exp bonus:

Free Company Buff, food buff, Mercenaries buff (A mission in the Grand Company vault), leading you to an 28% exp increase.

[Souru]

Do not forget about exp bonus:

Free Company Buff, food buff, Mercenaries buff (A mission in the Grand Company vault), leading you to an 28% exp increase.

If you are talking about Squadron Battle Manual, I'm pretty sure they don't stack with FC buffs, because it works the same as tier 3 FC buff. If you are talking about something else, I have no idea what you are talking about "GC Vault"

[Ayerinn]

If you are talking about Squadron Battle Manual, I'm pretty sure they don't stack with FC buffs, because it works the same as tier 3 FC buff. If you are talking about something else, I have no idea what you are talking about "GC Vault"

That is correct - they do not stack. I'm not sure why people make such a big deal out of them for battle, specifically, as they *only* buff kill xp which is only a small percentage of xp earned unless you literally do nothing but grind dungeons (yuck) - especially when leveling your first job. They are useless in PotD and (probably though we don't know yet) useless in PvP. Now - the 20% xp buffs for DoL and DoH...*those* are pretty awesome unless leveling via collectibles is significantly easier this expansion (and they would still be very useful.)

[Selova]

I get people want variety, but the only realistic way to get to 60 on the new jobs is going to be running potd. You're better off farming 230+ gear from monk than wasting time gearing up in i130 gear. The queue times in 50-60 arent going to be worth it at all just for the sake of variety. Just put on your favorite music and grind out palace, gearing out SAM and RDM isn't worth it outside of glamour.

[Rawrz]

Spent 10 hours grinding mog hard. 8 hours using duty finder of which gave me ONE DEMIMOG MATERIA DX.... Then i finally had the bright idea to just solo SCH it. 4 minute runs. 2 hours for 5 more demimog. I had to level desynth to 75ish on crp/alc/bsm and that took a bit of time, but not really. Ready to be the supply to the demand that is moogle rapiers and katanas.