I didn't have any issues with how gearing up worked back in 2.x (other than the painful RNG of clearing Coil turns and never seeing your loot for your job drop) so I'm quite content with the carrots provided. That might be because I'm somewhat liberated from a driving need for AF2 gear where glamour is concerned: the only aesthetic I'm interested in is the BRD AF2 and I don't even play BRD. All of my MNK glamour will be coming from crafted gear or older pieces from ARR.
...which basically means that I don't have to worry about the slow tomestone grind to outfit multiple classes. At most, I'll be gearing MNK in Esoterics while gearing WAR in Law, and then I'll be moving on to WAR in Esoterics once my MNK is done. Alexander Normal loot is just something to try for in the meantime while waiting. I'd love to have full sets of the stuff even if it's purely for OoC aesthetic and won't ever be used IC for RP.
If there's a carrot in this patch for me, it's the damned White Griffin set. I finally have a reason to level WHM to 60 and a reason to grind PvP like a madman.
...which basically means that I don't have to worry about the slow tomestone grind to outfit multiple classes. At most, I'll be gearing MNK in Esoterics while gearing WAR in Law, and then I'll be moving on to WAR in Esoterics once my MNK is done. Alexander Normal loot is just something to try for in the meantime while waiting. I'd love to have full sets of the stuff even if it's purely for OoC aesthetic and won't ever be used IC for RP.
If there's a carrot in this patch for me, it's the damned White Griffin set. I finally have a reason to level WHM to 60 and a reason to grind PvP like a madman.
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