spending red Final Fantasy XIV scrip tokens
08/08/2015 00:01
My botanist and Miner are both at 60, but are still using lucis and level 55 gear since my crafters are a bit behind.
I've almost got 27 tokens and I already have a couple of each of the counterfoils. I heard that crafted gear can outperform the token equipment if properly melded, is that true of the tools too?
The new miner main hand would give me a massive boost over the lucis, so it's looking pretty appealing at the moment!
I have not been doing the Favor nodes, mainly because I wanted to get the Mining and Botany MH tools first, and those require dang near every Final Fantasy XIV RGT I can get my hands on (they have 1 spare RGT per tool, so 1 spare Final Fantasy XIV RGT every three weeks). Others, however, HAVE been doing the Favors already .. which means that no, you do not need the i180 gear to do them. Of course, that makes a lot of sense - you need the old BiS to get the stuff and craft the new BiS, you cannot need the new BiS to make the new BiS, or you'd be locked out of it.
Folklore nodes, however, do have a high stat requirement. I'm at 616 Gathering, 652 Perception, and it not only takes me two swings to reveal a Folklore node's stuff, I'm not at the point where I'm hitting the Collectabiltiy cap with that amount of Perception. That kind of puts Folklore nodes out of my reach for Final Fantasy XIV RGS without some i180 gear. Will have to try with the mining MH tool once I get ffxiv gil that.