Resuming play from 1.0Follow

OK I stopped 1.0 in 2011 as a 50 GLD with a few melee jobs in the 20s and 30s and a few craft jobs in the 20s and 30s. During the Beta I logged on as my old main and had a quick look at my inventory (lots of 'vintage' gear that I still think is awesome), a ton of gil (100,000+) and stacks and stacks of leftover crafted ***** on my retainers. Then I noticed no-one else was running around in high-level gear so I went back and read the Beta agreement, which said I agreed to run a new char and report errors. So that's what I did in Beta 3 and 4, made a mithra (I know) and got to 15 Archer before ... well, you know).

My question now is - what do I do when I log in as my main? Do I have to do all the low-level class and storyline quests so I have basic functions, or for any other reason?

As an aside, I read somewhere that a guy ran to Mor Dhona in the Beta 4 and bought Darklight tank armor from an NPC - which appears to be sold at insanely low price see http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Auriana - what am I missing here? Is this gear that easy to get?

Um, that's not gil, that's items to exchange for the gear. I'm assuming they are a high level reward for dungeons, or FATEs, or something. I'm guessing if someone was able to buy them it was because they had gear from 1.23 that was outdated, and got converted into that currency from the salvage NPC. Just a guess though. Regardless, I don't think it's cheap or easy to get.

OK, so add "sell old gear to salvage NPC" to list of things to do (I'm still saving a set of vintage gear for the July 4th parades)

What else do I need to do to have class privileges and abilities and airship and all that - everything from the beginning but as a lvl 50??

So ignore past achievements, pick a new class (Mauruder, if I haven't already), and level that to like 15 when I can switch back to Glad and get PLD?

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 10:53pm by Ivart

You can only get Allagan Philosopher Stone (no# 1, dang long name can't remember but there are two types) from exchanging Melded gear with cracked Materia. Nothing else will do, your Vintage is still Vintage, your Weathered/Dated gears are untradeable and has no use. Melded gear with 1 or 2 Materia is pretty cheap by Allagan Stone exchanging (like 10-50). It's also dependent on the level of the Materia used for melding, higher more exchange value. It's a pain in the butt to get Triple/Quad Meld lvl III/IV gears previously, because the rate was low and you fail = blowing up both gears and Materia. Gone. Pricey Materia could also worth millions gils PER Materia and imaging blowing up 50 of those to get a Triple/Quad meld.

You can also exchange Kupo Nut/Ifrit Token/Garuda Token each for 15 Allagan Stone. These were used to exchange for Primal Gears and has a chance (Garuda is 100%) to drop every time you kill Primal in HARD mode in 1.0.

You can also exchange Primal Charm which was used for Relic quest, each for 100 Stone.

They are not easy to get. Assuming in ARR they will be acquired from doing respective dungeons (Darkhold, Aurum Vale, Cutter Cry etc.) which used to drop Darklight (Darkhold not included) and was relatively high level (45-50) requiring FULL party of 8.