What to prepare for Shadowbringers?

[Dualblade]

I am prepared for this due to my experience with SWTOR and WoW, however it's been many years since I played them so I cannot really remember how long it took for the servers to stabilize. Does it take about a week to stabilize?



Will it take reaching level 80 to be able to spend the new currency on gear?

You can't access new tomestones till lvl 80 (and Phantasmagoria won't be unlocked till Savage anyways) but your current tomestones can be converted to Poetics once EA starts, letting you use them for 50, 60, and 70 gear.

I'm not quite as sure how Crafter/Gatherer works with this but I know you can do conversions for that as well.

[Callinon]

I'm not quite as sure how Crafter/Gatherer works with this but I know you can do conversions for that as well.

They work the same way. Blue scrip will be removed from the game entirely. Then one of two things will happen:
1: Red scrip will convert to Yellow and be responsible for all scrip things pre-ShB.

OR

2: Yellow scrip will convert to Red in preparation for being replaced with White scrip.

Have to see which way it goes. Mine are both capped.

[Dalmacus]

I am prepared for this due to my experience with SWTOR and WoW, however it's been many years since I played them so I cannot really remember how long it took for the servers to stabilize. Does it take about a week to stabilize?

That's the scary part, we don't know. Every expansion brings it's bad stuffs like stormblood got raubahn savage, heavensward got area is too full please try again later and ARR got world/server too full try again later numpad 0 spam.

[DrWho2010]

all DoW/DoM jobs at ilevel 400

13/15 omega weapons

all DoH/DoL jobs have been ready since like 4.4 (or whenever the last gear update was for them)

Aug Shire/Alexandrian/Bardam's/Doma/Abanaia Fending/Aiming gear ready and waiting for use for Gunbreaker and Dancer

ready for GNB/DNC weapon glams too:
16 A4S pages
16 A8S pages
16 A12S pages
2 Genji Coffers
2 Diamond Coffers
16 O12S pages

Yellow/Red Scrip capped
Wolf Marks capped
Allied/Centurio seals capped
Poetics/Mendacity/Genesis capped (genesis will be on next tuesday's reset)
GC seals capped in all 3 factions

[Callinon]

That's the scary part, we don't know. Every expansion brings it's bad stuffs like stormblood got raubahn savage, heavensward got area is too full please try again later and ARR got world/server too full try again later numpad 0 spam.

The encouraging part is that none of those things happened twice.

After ARR's launch, SE fixed the server queue system so the numpad0 spam was no longer necessary. The server put you in a queue when it needed to and that worked properly after that.
After HW's nonsense, SE implemented zone sharding. So now if a zone instance was too full, the server would just make another one and on you went.
Yoshi P has already talked about what they learned from the Raubahn fiasco, and we've already seen that their instance queuing system works quite differently now.

So will there likely be something that stalls us out this time? Yeah probably. But it'll be something new.

[Reinha]

Cap tomes and use excess poetics on gear. Gear up GNB+DNC now and after launch you can buy gear for any level 70 jobs you are going to play first.

Meld your gear. Materia is cheap and you can keep putting it in your gear upgrades.

Craft a level 66 HQ armor set for DNC and GNB if you plan to level them. Left side should be enough, and remember to meld these too.

Gear up your retainers. Buy Retainer Fantasias now while they are cheap if you plan to change their race.

Use your squadron to get Priority Aetheryte Passes or other useful buff items. Cap GC seals.

Get some Ventures and Aetheryte Tickets with hunt seals.

[Edax]

Use your squadron to get Priority Aetheryte Passes or other useful buff items. Cap GC seals.

Get some Ventures and Aetheryte Tickets with hunt seals.

Can this be explained? I normally use GC seals for ventures. Is something happening with GC seals? Will they still be around in Shadowbringers or are Grand Companies getting overhauled?

[Reinha]

Can this be explained? I normally use GC seals for ventures. Is something happening with GC seals? Will they still be around in Shadowbringers or are Grand Companies getting overhauled?

There are no news about it. It's just useful to cap them in case new items are added. Hunting is a more efficient way to get Ventures IMO.

[Edax]

There are no news about it. It's just useful to cap them in case new items are added. Hunting is a more efficient way to get Ventures IMO.

Not in my experience. With the GC turn-ins, I just have my retainers fetch the mats at the cost of a venture or 2, then turn them into the GC Land turn-ins to get way more ventures. It's practically free afk currency whereas hunts take effort.

[Reinha]

Not in my experience. With the GC turn-ins, I just have my retainers fetch the mats at the cost of a venture or 2, then turn them into the GC Land turn-ins to get way more ventures. It's practically free afk currency whereas hunts take effort.

Each to their own. I just kill three B ranks to get 150 75 Ventures.