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#1 Apr 17 2014 at 4:55 PM Rating: Decent
Hello, I just started leveling a new character and was thinking it might be more difficult to get her geared after Praetorium then it was for my other character. Any suggestions on the best route to take to get to a decent ilv efficiently now?

My other character got to ilv70 pretty easily with the main scenario roulette giving a decent amount of philo, that coupled with low level roulette and a few more runs through CM or Praetorium and it wasn't that hard to buy a piece or two of darklight a day. I don't see that happening with myth gear now, I don't think there are many good prospects for quickly farming myth for a character around ilv50. I'm thinking maybe going to the market board might be one of the better options now.
#2 Apr 17 2014 at 5:16 PM Rating: Excellent
If you just run the high-level roulette, you'll eventually get plenty of darklight gear plus myths for 90 gear... once you get above i60, you can also do the expert roulette and get myth + solidiery. In other words, you would be farming 70, 90 and 100 gear at the same time. You could also run Crystal Tower a couple times per week for a solid amount of myths and a shot at i80 gear.

I'm guessing you could be i80 with a zenith weapon in very little time, and that would let you jump into most endgame content while you continue raising your iLevel.
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#3 Apr 17 2014 at 6:44 PM Rating: Decent
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It's much easier now, actually, now that mythology tomes are the new baseline. You just wouldn't be suited for things like Brayflox speedruns at that particular level, but it's not like that prevents you from earning myths.
#4 Apr 17 2014 at 6:57 PM Rating: Good
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Sorry to be off topic, but... there are Brayflox speed runs?

I am both unsurprised and a bit disappointed. I've only run it a couple of times and I can't see how a speed run would work there, but I don't look for it either, so I'm limited in my perspective.
#5 Apr 17 2014 at 7:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sorry to be off topic, but... there are Brayflox speed runs?

I am both unsurprised and a bit disappointed. I've only run it a couple of times and I can't see how a speed run would work there, but I don't look for it either, so I'm limited in my perspective.


First stretch, tank grabs everything up until the first bridge. Nuke/Arrow them down to death, move on to the next two mobs, sleep and do the usual lockout trick. Next stretch, hug the right, grab the 3 goblin piles and nuke/arrow to death. Most people will stop here and repeat purely for the myth tomes, takes about 5 mins to complete if done right maybe 10 mins. If you need soldiery, you nuke/beat down the first 3 mobs at the gate, then proceed and try to again hug the left wall to avoid the Coeurl and repeat the blow em up process. The whole thing can be run damn fast if need be.
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Jjnnyrr wrote:
Sorry to be off topic, but... there are Brayflox speed runs?

I am both unsurprised and a bit disappointed. I've only run it a couple of times and I can't see how a speed run would work there, but I don't look for it either, so I'm limited in my perspective.


It's basically what one would imagine a speed run would be in there. Pull a ton of mobs, aoe, fight the boss and move on. You only need one pull per boss (I think it's two before the last boss if you're completing the dungeon, but fighting the first two bosses for myth and leaving is more common in my experience).
#7 Apr 17 2014 at 9:56 PM Rating: Good
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Susanoh wrote:
Jjnnyrr wrote:
Sorry to be off topic, but... there are Brayflox speed runs?

I am both unsurprised and a bit disappointed. I've only run it a couple of times and I can't see how a speed run would work there, but I don't look for it either, so I'm limited in my perspective.


It's basically what one would imagine a speed run would be in there. Pull a ton of mobs, aoe, fight the boss and move on. You only need one pull per boss (I think it's two before the last boss if you're completing the dungeon, but fighting the first two bosses for myth and leaving is more common in my experience).

Which is why I always flag in progress, always nice to be able to get an easy quick 45 soldiery tomes on my smn
#9 Apr 18 2014 at 11:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Midare wrote:
Hello, I just started leveling a new character and was thinking it might be more difficult to get her geared after Praetorium then it was for my other character. Any suggestions on the best route to take to get to a decent ilv efficiently now?

My other character got to ilv70 pretty easily with the main scenario roulette giving a decent amount of philo, that coupled with low level roulette and a few more runs through CM or Praetorium and it wasn't that hard to buy a piece or two of darklight a day. I don't see that happening with myth gear now, I don't think there are many good prospects for quickly farming myth for a character around ilv50. I'm thinking maybe going to the market board might be one of the better options now.


My suggestion would be to buy an HQ iLvl70 weapon as the first step. They're only slightly less powerful than an entry-level relic, so you'll be able to keep up with those you group with, at least until you can get your relic completed. Also, don't forget to pick up your iLvl55 ring from Gridania from your achievement reward for getting your job to 50.

I think the Crystal Tower is still a great place to get started. Most people are familiar with how it works so it's usually not a problem to coast through it for some easy iLvl80 gear drops, Myth, and Soldiery.

So, to sum up:
Weapon: HQ iLvl70 from market board (etc.) into Relic
Gear: iLvl80 from CT into Allagan from Coil and Myth from Brayflox HM
Accessories: I'd start with Myth purchases here until you're satisfied with CT gear

Eventually you'll pick up better things with Soldiery and premium endgame in the long run.
#10 Apr 18 2014 at 11:49 AM Rating: Good
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I have a similar question along these lines. Should I save GC Seals for pre-endgame gear? Or can I just blow them on promotions and moon pies?
#11 Apr 18 2014 at 11:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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I have a similar question along these lines. Should I save GC Seals for pre-endgame gear? Or can I just blow them on promotions and moon pies?


Save them for venture vouchers or fun housing stuff.

By the time you reach level 50, you'll complete your final job quests and get your AF armor, which blows GC gear out of the water. You could spend some seals on a level 55 (I think?) GW weapon, which would get you through your relic weapon quest (which is much, much easier now, thanks to overall gear progression of the playerbase and the echo buff). Otherwise, though, you don't need any of the gear from GCs.
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#12 Apr 18 2014 at 10:23 PM Rating: Good
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Thayos wrote:
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I have a similar question along these lines. Should I save GC Seals for pre-endgame gear? Or can I just blow them on promotions and moon pies?


Save them for venture vouchers or fun housing stuff.

By the time you reach level 50, you'll complete your final job quests and get your AF armor, which blows GC gear out of the water. You could spend some seals on a level 55 (I think?) GW weapon, which would get you through your relic weapon quest (which is much, much easier now, thanks to overall gear progression of the playerbase and the echo buff). Otherwise, though, you don't need any of the gear from GCs.


I suppose it depends on whether or not the player was doing lots of craft leveling using the GC Turn-ins.

I, myself, am sitting at 35,000 Flame Seals and I'm Lv39.

My cap is 40,000 and I gain 3-4k Seals per day; I only use 4 ventures per day (I do the 18h thing to level my Retainers, just started doing that). I have 30-some venture coins on me (I bought like 20 earlier, because I HQ'd a couple items for almost 1k seals per turn-in) already.

The problem I face, is I can't rank up until I do the Lv44 quest, and when I do rank up, I should have plenty of Seals for Rankups, and... nothing else to spend seals on. My FC has all the housing stuff covered, and at the rate I'm gaining seals (my crafts are Lv30-ish) and the fact I'm doing the whole list of crafts nearly every day...

I have......so.......many.....GC......seals.....

I don't know what to do with them all!

So I'll probably end up buying a few pieces because they are cheap as crap. At least the Sergeants' stuff is, anyways. Even the Captain's stuff is what, in the teen-Ks somewhere? At the rate I'm gaining seals now, that won't be no issue for me either; I wouldn't mind a few mid-40s pieces to help me push up to 50.
#13 Apr 19 2014 at 12:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Once you max out in rank you start becoming able to buy the "philosophy tome" mats with 2500 seals each, things like coke and animal fat and whatnot that are probably selling decently nowadays due to people needing them for the new crafty stuff. The problem of having too many seals doesn't really exist anymore. :P
#14 Apr 19 2014 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
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Well, that's good to know that there'll be something to use those seals on.

It is just between now&then, once I've got 100 or so ventures, I'll be scratching my head at what to do with them lol.

I think the issue is I tend to level my GLA fairly slowly and I'm always doing craft junk and amassing tons of seals. If it weren't for that stupid cap I could just let hundreds of thousands of seals build up or something and then use em on relevant stuff when I do get to Lv50 and get all those ranks unlocked...
#15 Apr 20 2014 at 4:23 AM Rating: Good
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I would just say CT now, unless it has a ilvl req to get in that you don't meet. I see people in there all the time (including myself presently) still rocking AF gear.

Other then the occasional ****** alliance, it's pretty much auto pilot the whole way through. I'll take it any day over running CM/Prae over and over again.
#16 Apr 20 2014 at 5:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well your goal is to reach the point where you can queue into Brayflox HM to farm easy mythology.

If you have some money on hand, it won't be too hard to purchase some ilevel 70 stuff from the MB. Like others have said, jumping in CT might not be a bad idea. However, it sometimes takes a long time. I think it's worth doing at least once a day but no more.

Queue for your high level roulette and do your story roulette for some easy mythology. Your goal is to up your ilevel by purchasing a lot of mythology gear. It depends on what job you play as well for which piece of mythology gear I would recommend. For now, pick the lowest level slot you have and upgrade that with myth.

Honestly not sure what the fastest route for a weapon is. You can do your relic quest but I am unsure what has changed since last patch. Do relics still require you to farm 900 philosophy (which is now mythology)? If they don't, it is worth it definitely. I know you need 900 myth to get your relic zenith now which is the upgraded version of the relic weapon.

Success rate on all hardmode primal groups has sky rocketed since last patch. None of them should really be an issue with the echo buff.

You could consider jumping in a Turn 1 or Turn 2 group for chance at coil loot. I would recommend watching a video before attempting either turn, though. It really depends on your class, again. If you are a tank/healer, I wouldn't really recommend you jumping into turn 1 immediately. Most PF groups will probably have ridiculous ilevel requirements for the coil groups, anyways.

Make sure you are capping your soldiery. Your goal is to not only unlock Brayflox HM but to unlock Duty Roulette: Expert. You get 450 soldiery per week and DR: Expert is a really nice way to cap it while playing casually.

Edited, Apr 20th 2014 7:04am by HitomeOfBismarck
#17 Apr 25 2014 at 7:36 AM Rating: Decent
Thanks for the input everyone

HitomeOfBismarck wrote:

If you have some money on hand, it won't be too hard to purchase some ilevel 70 stuff from the MB.

Edited, Apr 20th 2014 7:04am by HitomeOfBismarck


I think this seems like the way to go, It's much easier to get gil now. I have much more then I did at the same point in the game the first time through the main story.

I would prefer avoiding tome farming from brayflox or the other new dungeons at the minium ilv SE gives you, and while getting gear from coil is something I'm sure I will do, I still need to have a decent ilv for that as well. CT might be a good option as well, it's not that hard and I actually like going through it most of the time.

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