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    SamSmoot's Avatar
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    Fugu Barr
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    Exodus
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    Ninja Lv 100

    Tomestone weekly cap?

    I'll hit the Astronomy tomestone weekly cap tomorrow (5 more). What's the purpose of this limit? All it seems to do is limit time played. If I run a lot of hunt trains, I can reach 450 in 2-3 days.
    (I won't have much reason to log on until next Tuesday after I've collected 450.)
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    Last edited by SamSmoot; 07-08-2022 at 02:42 AM.

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    Autumn Stardust
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    Sage Lv 100
    It’s literally just a time gate so you can’t gear all your jobs too fast.
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    Raogrimm Ironfist
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    Coeurl
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    Fisher Lv 90
    A timegate. At least it's not a set of weekly quests. Now if you excuse me, that book won't finish itself! lol
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    It encourages people to run Savage as well to gear I guess
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    Deveryn Ev'liarsh
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    Excalibur
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    Because the gear you can buy is equivalent to what's available in Savage, it would be wrong to allow you to just casually farm it up while other people work through harder content.
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    Leon Keyh
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    Cactuar
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    Dragoon Lv 90
    Yeah, that's basically it. It's a time gate mechanism, just like weekly lock outs for raids. The idea is to make it so you can't log in and "complete" gearing up everything in a week and then unsub until the next major patch. It also sets a reasonable "speed limit" to ensure that a majority of the community doesn't fall behind the "hardcore" playerbase.


    Personally, I enjoy it because it makes me feel like I'm actually keeping up despite being a casual player. HOWEVER, I think that gearing up alternate jobs should be much easier than it is. Like, the first piece of gear that you purchase with the limited tomestones would "unlock" that type of gear for purchase with non-capped Tomestones.

    e.g., I purchase a chest piece for my healer with Astronomy tomes; Now I can buy Maiming, Fending, Aiming, Casting, and Striking with Aphorism tomestones. It continues to limit everyone's main job so nobody flies ahead, but makes it so I don't have to pick 2-3 jobs to seriously gear up.
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    Oscarlet Oirellain
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    Jenova
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    Warrior Lv 100
    It effectively means you can only get one piece of gear a week. If you could get it all at once, you wouldn't need to login once a week, you would only need to login for the first week and then not login for months until the next patch. The effect of that is people who do the content late in the weeks after have less people to queue with.
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    In other news, there is no technical debt from 1.0.
    "We don't have ... a technological issue that was carried over from 1.0, because ARR was meant to kind of discard what we had from 1.0 and rebuild it from the engine."
    https://youtu.be/ge32wNPaJKk?t=560

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
    Want to know why new content will never last more than 20 minutes? Full breakdown:

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    Ivtrix Impreria
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    Goblin
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    tomestone cap should be 900 baseline

    then when the raid gets unlocked it should become unlimited

    they should also halve the cost of buying gear with books

    theres too many damn jobs to timegate people in 2022
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    Liam Harper
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    All it really does is lock your alt jobs out from obtaining BiS until a raid tier is dead and irrelevant.
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    Sage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
    Because the gear you can buy is equivalent to what's available in Savage, it would be wrong to allow you to just casually farm it up while other people work through harder content.
    Because people doing HaRdEr content are doing it for the gear. Please.
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