I believe we should be able to convert current-tier tomestones into the previous tier (in this case, Mathematics → Heliometry) at least at a 1:1 ratio, though a 1:2 rate would make even more sense in my opinion.
The main reason I’m requesting this feature is that the current best-in-slot gear (760) is largely irrelevant outside of Savage raids and daily content, where item level makes little difference. As we know, current-tier tomes only use are for gearing (Historia Gear), which makes up about half of every role’s BiS setup — the rest being Savage drops. So if we don’t need the tome gear, why not let us convert current tomes into the previous tier instead, for things like phantom relics or crafting mats or actual useful BiS (730 / FRU / Chaotic)?
For last tier (730 BiS), we had tons of content that warranted getting the Savage BiS.
- LHW Tier (Savage)
- Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) (735 IL Sync)
- Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) (735 IL Sync)
- Sphene (Extreme) (Higher DPS check than M1S so actual incentive to get BiS)
- Recollection (Extreme) (Very fun fight btw)
Now let's look at this tier (760 BiS)
- CHW Tier (Savage)
- Necron (Extreme) (Very boring fight btw and dead in PF in under a month + joke dps check)
- Windward Wilds (Extreme) (Very good fight but the dps check is very much a joke which I can understand since the fight is hard individually)
Clear rates for this Savage tier are way lower than LHW and Pandaemonium, and both extremes look like they’re on pace for record-low clears this expansion. Why is this do you wonder? Because there is Zero incentive to get the BiS!!! Most likely after it was announced there was no Ultimate or Criterion or Chaotic for 7.3 people just checked out which I can't blame them. It doesn't help that the Extremes having very very lenient DPS checks make it so there is zero point of even getting the BiS unless you care about parsing. Please don’t respond by saying “Extremes should have easy/casual DPS checks,” because in the past we’ve had Extreme fights with harder DPS checks than Savage floors, and that wasn’t what people complained about. We already have Sphene this expansion as an example.
The latest FFXIV encounter, The Final Verse (Quantum Difficulty), has a distinct gear system (which I actually like a lot because it means the fight will never be statcrept like every other fight in this game unless MinIL), but it also doesn't help the issue of the BIS being useless. Sidenote: The fight is very creative not criticizing that.
My point is that if this becomes the standard pacing — where one tier receives a disproportionate amount of content while another is left behind — then there should at least be an option to convert tomestones so we actually have a reason to spend them.
PS: This is my first post so sorry if it is messy. This issue has really annoyed me so I felt the need to post it urgently.
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The main reason I’m requesting this feature is that the current best-in-slot gear (760) is largely irrelevant outside of Savage raids and daily content, where item level makes little difference. As we know, current-tier tomes only use are for gearing (Historia Gear), which makes up about half of every role’s BiS setup — the rest being Savage drops. So if we don’t need the tome gear, why not let us convert current tomes into the previous tier instead, for things like phantom relics or crafting mats or actual useful BiS (730 / FRU / Chaotic)?
For last tier (730 BiS), we had tons of content that warranted getting the Savage BiS.
- LHW Tier (Savage)
- Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) (735 IL Sync)
- Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) (735 IL Sync)
- Sphene (Extreme) (Higher DPS check than M1S so actual incentive to get BiS)
- Recollection (Extreme) (Very fun fight btw)
Now let's look at this tier (760 BiS)
- CHW Tier (Savage)
- Necron (Extreme) (Very boring fight btw and dead in PF in under a month + joke dps check)
- Windward Wilds (Extreme) (Very good fight but the dps check is very much a joke which I can understand since the fight is hard individually)
Clear rates for this Savage tier are way lower than LHW and Pandaemonium, and both extremes look like they’re on pace for record-low clears this expansion. Why is this do you wonder? Because there is Zero incentive to get the BiS!!! Most likely after it was announced there was no Ultimate or Criterion or Chaotic for 7.3 people just checked out which I can't blame them. It doesn't help that the Extremes having very very lenient DPS checks make it so there is zero point of even getting the BiS unless you care about parsing. Please don’t respond by saying “Extremes should have easy/casual DPS checks,” because in the past we’ve had Extreme fights with harder DPS checks than Savage floors, and that wasn’t what people complained about. We already have Sphene this expansion as an example.
The latest FFXIV encounter, The Final Verse (Quantum Difficulty), has a distinct gear system (which I actually like a lot because it means the fight will never be statcrept like every other fight in this game unless MinIL), but it also doesn't help the issue of the BIS being useless. Sidenote: The fight is very creative not criticizing that.
My point is that if this becomes the standard pacing — where one tier receives a disproportionate amount of content while another is left behind — then there should at least be an option to convert tomestones so we actually have a reason to spend them.
PS: This is my first post so sorry if it is messy. This issue has really annoyed me so I felt the need to post it urgently.
Continue reading...