What would you do first on Dawntrail?

[Tersi82]

I believe the first thing I will do is use my free Fantasia to play with the new updates next I’ll redo my glamorous with the new second dye channel then hopefully try out some of the new hairstyles from the contest once my glam is set off to the new world

[RavLandslide]

I hope I will be rejoicing about job changes.

[CidHeiral]

My main concern on release is if they've ruined DRG with the rework. Beyond that, I typically do MSQ and then level all the combat jobs to cap as my first two items. Somewhere in there I'll check out Hrothgals as well.

[Bun_Vivant]

First thing will be going to Sharlayan and handing in my 300 HQ Manganese Ingots for the Blacksmith levequest there to see how far into the 90-100 grind 100 levequests will get me.

After that, grind out 90-100 Miner, then use the gathered items to hopefully finish up Blacksmith.

Then off to the MSQ.

You probably won't get far using those levequests: historically, levequest XP gets reduced to a trivial amount (10000 IIRC) when your classes' level hits the previous expansions cap. So I expect level 88 levequests to do very little for a level 90 class. Collectables are the same way, BTW.

And grinding Miner without unlocking the relevant regions via the MSQ may be a bit tedious.

I'll be spending all of my time in the character creator making a bunch of Hrothgals till I find the look I like probably won't see the MSQ for days haha.

Or you could download the Dawntrail benchmark program when they release it and play with that. In the past, the benchmark character creator included the ability to create the races/sexes released in the corresponding update, so the Dawntrail benchmark will probably let you create fem-Hroth, and (if the pattern holds) save your created model for use in the game. The benchmark will probably be available two months before Dawntrail.


Me, when Dawntrail launches, I'll Fantasia selected alts -- Kiitara Kaish and maybe Ebon Sky -- into fem-Hroth using the models I created on the DT benchmark -- changing Ebon would give me a she-Hroth/he-Hroth pair (primary account/secondary account) on Marilith.

Then for each of my 7-or-8 (by then) End-of-Content characters I'll be turning in the Wondrous Tails books I did the week before for all that XP, then probably do another WT book real quick, then Custom Deliveries on my crafters. With the Custom Delivery I might do a different crafter or two for each character, since I'll have at least 7 EOC characters with fully-geared-and-melded L90 Land+Hand by then -- hurray for seafarer's cowrie materia!

After that, I'll concentrate on my primary account main on Hali, advancing the MSQ as SGE to open up gathering resources, gather the stuff, do GC turn-ins to level my crafters and gatherers more, and so on until I get weary of it or hit a roadblock.

To relax, I'll start messing with glams under the new 2-die system.

I may alternate doing the MSQ and all that with my secondary account main on Hali, also on SGE, so I can pair them together for gathering. (Note you can use a macro of "ridepillion <2>" to quickly get on the other person's mount.)

And odds are I'll being doing all of this with my spouse who also has two accounts and multiple EoC characters, so we may be getting a lot of use from the 4-person Regalia mounts we recently acquired.

[Pip_Chick]

question for all as the title says, what would you do first when dawntrail comes? Leveling your classes or do msq first? For me ima be leveling (reaper and viper . Might switch to Viper for dawntrail and see how that class plays out ) then onto new msq taking my time enjoying the sceneries and exploring not rushing to endgame! Also ima be leveling Trusts too if they gonna get a level cap raised to 100 cus no queue waiting time XD

For me, it's been decided years ago. The first thing I will do is race change to Female Hrothgar, then get the racial gear for her and put it as a permanent glamour for my plates! (PSA: DO NOT BUY THE RACIAL GEAR FROM THE MARKET BOARD! You can get it for very cheap in all the beginning city-states from a vendor, save your gill, please!)
The next thing will be to check out Pictomancer. I am in no rush to start the story, but might go hug Wuk every now and then. And take tons of Gpose screenshots as well!

[LuciaMirain]

I will probably look at what they did to AST and see if I find it playable now. If I do I will take it through msq. If not playable then I will take sage/whm for a spin as per usual. I will go pick up beasstribes and chloe, try the new unreal asap. I will look at the twodyes and see whatever new gear has been added so I can start planning glams. I will check MB to see what new fun things have been added as well. After sage/whm/ast I will get dancer up and THEN check out pictomancer. Hopefully by then someone will have come up with some good noobguides for the job. I am looking forward to this tbh. I hope benchmark comes soon as well I really want to make a hrothgal for fun.

[Pip_Chick]

I'll be spending all of my time in the character creator making a bunch of Hrothgals till I find the look I like probably won't see the MSQ for days haha.

I can save you from that. Use the Benchmark when it becomes available. It will have the Hrothgal CC available and you can use it to your hearths content. Then save your perfect gal and load it in the game when DT comes (that is if you play on PC, if you are on console, then just take a picture of the CC options from the benchmark and recreate your gal in the game's CC), you can also chug a fantasia before logging off for the pre-expansion maintenance and when entering back in the game you can change the appearance directly (this will save you from being in the Que twice).