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1. I'm not even 100% sure you need those. It said you have to have done 3 alliance raids to unlock roulette so theoretically you could just do the Heavensward series and skip ARR altogether. But I don' recommend it. Crystal Tower is still fun if extremely easy these days.
2. Duty Roulette: Normal Raids: An 8-man raid will be selected at random from among those you have unlocked. Please note that the category is unlocked upon completing at least two associated duties. Please note that an average item level requirement must be met to undertake these duties. Duty Roulette: Mentor: A mentor-oriented duty will be selected at random from among those you have unlocked.

If you aren’t at 305 just yet, the best ways to get new armor and raise your level is through the duty roulette and the Omega eight-player raid. Duty roulette will give you Tomestones of Verity.

Move over, Phantasmagoria. Tomestones of Allegory are the new endgame Tomestone you’ll be using to gear up your level 80 Jobs. In this post I’ll go over what you should prioritize buying, and how to efficiently earn your weekly Allegory. You’re limited to earning just 450 per week, and you can only hold up to 2,000 of these Tomestones at a time.

How to Get Tomestones of Allegory

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As mentioned, there is a cap on how much of the highest tier Tomestone you can earn per week. This is to prevent players from burning themselves out in the first week of release, doing everything as fast as they can and then putting the game down for 2 or 3 months.

The weekly cap will be removed in a future patch, at which time another type of Tomestone will come out and become the new time-gated currency. The previous Tomestone does still have some value, so if you’re sitting on a boatload of them, check out how to spend your Phantasmagoria.

First let’s talk about how you should be earning your Allegory. There are a few different activities that reward these Tomestones, but you need to be on a level 80 Job for each of them.

Roulettes

This is my preferred method to earn my weekly 450 Tomestones of Allegory. If you play FFXIV every day, or almost every day, it’s by far the most time efficient way to do it. Simply run an Expert Roulette (requires average item level 440) any five days of the week and you’re all set. That’s about 2.5 hours of play time per week, and you’ll also be earning some nice dungeon loot to Desynthesize or turn in for lots of Grand Company Seals.

For other Roulettes, you’ll need to make sure you’re on a level 80 Job to earn the Allegory bonus.

Let’s say you don’t play every day and need a quicker three day setup that will get you your Allegory. Do an Expert and Alliance Roulette, and any Eden’s Verse Normal fight. That should still only be about 1-1.5 hours each day for 3 days, and you can earn some tokens from the Eden’s Verse fights to gear up a secondary Job. Don’t forget about your weekly token from E8N (Eden’s Verse: Refulgence), too.

If you haven’t had a chance to play all week, or if you’re so gung ho you just need to get all your Allegory right away, here’s the best way to use Roulettes to get 450 Tomestones of Allegory in one day. It is not for the faint of heart. Run the Level 80 Dungeon, Levelling, Trials, Main Scenario, Alliance Raid, and Normal Raid Roulettes. Then run the Expert Roulette five times. You’ll only get the bonus the first time, but all of the Expert dungeons give you 50 Allegory on their own, so it’s still an easy way to queue for all of them and farm those Tomestones.

Raiding & Extreme Trials

The current tier of the Eden Raid is called Eden’s Verse, and the normal versions of the fights are run regularly by people trying to collect their tokens for i480 gear. You can always jump in a queue for any or all of them and earn 10 Allegory per clear. I usually queue for all of them and then drop whichever ones I’ve already earned loot on. This way I’m working simultaneously on gearing up my main Job and a second one.

If you’re able to clear the Savage versions of Eden’s Verse, that’s 30 Allegory per fight. Just getting your weekly clears will give you 120 which is a significant portion of your Allegory.

If you’ve got the most recent Trial, Cinder Drift (Extreme) on farm, then you can earn 13 Tomestones per clear. It’s not going to get you the full 450 unless you really sink a lot of time into it. However, If you know you’re going to be farming the fight that week for weapon tokens, you can skip one or two Roulettes and still make your weekly cap.

Other Extreme Trials besides the current High-End Duty will give slightly fewer Tomestones of Allegory: 10 for Hades Extreme and 8 for Titania and Innocence. At least they’re worth something if you’re still farming those Trials for their mounts.

Treasure Hunts

I haven’t seen a lot of Treasure Hunting parties in Party Finder, but if you can rustle up a few friends or strangers for a couple hours, you can rack up quite a lot of Tomestones (both Allegory and others). This is a pretty chill way to hang out with friends on a voice call since the content doesn’t require so much focus, and it’s fun to get those Treasure dungeon fakeouts and bonus games. Definitely worth considering if you’re tired of the Expert Roulette grind.

Elite Marks

Shadowbringers Hunt trains are fun and commonly done by trains. Join and keep an eye on your server’s Linkshells for Hunts, and help call out Elite Marks when you see them. You need a few more people than your small Treasure Hunting group, so it’s more popular among random players.

It’s still a pretty relaxed activity, maybe somewhere between an Expert dungeon and Treasure Hunting. This has definitely got more variety though because of all the different Elite Marks. That makes it yet another alternative to help break up the monotony if you’re getting bored of the same weekly routine.

Pixie Beast Tribe Quests

Assuming you don’t need to level any Jobs from 70 to 80, you may want to use the Pixie Quests for a few Tomestones of Allegory instead. These quests are actually worth 5 each for a daily total of 15. It’s not much, but it’s something to do while waiting for a queue.

You’ll still be earning the Pixie currency Fae Fancies that you can spend on VII and VIII Materia, or some cute cosmetics for your player housing. It’s always good to have a stock of these for when you need to meld or remeld you gear each tier.

How to Spend Tomestones of Allegory

Obviously you’re going to be spending your Allegory on equipment. Specifically, the i490 Crystarium set from Aymark <Tomestone Exchange> in Eulmore [10.3, 11.8]. Which pieces to buy first depends largely on what other equipment you already have, and how much, if any, of the Eden’s Verse Savage gear (Edenchoir set) you’re able to get.

Without Savage Gear

If you won’t be clearing the Savage fights this tier, then you’re going to want a complete set of Crystarium gear and work on augmenting that to i500. This takes a total of 12 weeks earning the full weekly amount of Allegory. Remember you can always craft or buy i480 HQ Neo-Ishgardian gear to fill in gaps while you wait for Tomestones.

The most important piece for all Jobs is the Weapon, since it has both your weapon damage stat and the highest individual amount of your main attribute stat. However, in addition to the required 1000 Tomestones of Allegory (which you exchange for Mowen’s Tokens through Aymark <Tomestone Exchange>), you also need seven Blades of Golden Antiquity, which drop from E8N once per week. This puts a timegate on buying your Weapon, so you will have time to buy a couple of other items first.

I recommend buying the Body and Legs equipment first, prioritizing them depending on which one is a bigger boost over what you’re already wearing. You should also be able to afford either the Head, Hands, or Feet slot before you need to start saving for your Weapon. After those pieces, you’ll need to save everything you earn in order to get your Weapon as soon as you have your seventh weekly Blade Token.

From there you can fill in the rest of your set with the rest of the left side and the Waist and Accessories. You’ll want to eventually grab two of the Crystarium Rings and wear one augmented (i500) and one un-augmented (i490), since they are unique items.

With Savage Gear

If you’ll be doing as much Savage as you can, your BiS (Best in-Slot) equipment will be a mix of the Crystarium set and the Edenchoir set. You can check the individual Job channels on The Balance Discord. They’ll be under the (job)_resources channel, and depending on those mentors’ preferred format, you may find a link to Ariyala, Etro, or an image such as the one below.

Since Edenchoir Weapons are a higher item level than Crystarium Weapons, they’re pretty much guaranteed to be part of your BiS, but I still recommend working towards the Crystarium Weapon on the way there. The reason is that you’re not guaranteed to get the Edenchoir Weapon until you’ve cleared E8S eight times. This could very easily take a lot longer depending on the speed of your progression.

If you’re working towards full BiS, you’ll be able to afford ‘wasting’ the 1000 Allegory since you won’t need to spend it on other slots anyway, which will be using Edenchoir gear. On top of that, you might get lucky and have your Edenchoir Weapon drop before you need to spend the Allegory on the Crystarium Weapon, in which case you haven’t wasted any Tomestones.

Obviously if you’ve got one of these handy BiS lists from the mentors at The Balance, you’ll only want to spend Allegory on those pieces that fit into your final equipment set goals, and work on filling the other slots with Savage gear bit by bit.

You should still prioritize Crystarium pieces in the order: Body/Legs > Head/Hands/Feet > Waist/Accessories in order to have the biggest impact on your stats. For the biggest impact on your average item level (if for some reason you’re too low to enter specific content), go in reverse order to fill as many cheap slots as you can with high ilvl gear.

Summary

Tomestones of Allegory follow pretty much the same routine you’re used to with endgame Tomestones. Don’t forget about doing Eden’s Verse: Refulgence each week so you can get your hands on that Crystarium Weapon.

There are lots of activities you can choose from to hit your weekly cap of Allegory, so I’m curious which ones do you typically prefer? Let me know in the comments.

There are a few different types of tomestones in FFXIV, including the valuable tomestones of Phantasmagoria and Goetia available once you reach the highest level. However, many players forget all about Poetics once they reach the level cap and start focusing on endgame tasks. This leads them to sit at their tomestone cap because they aren’t spending Poetics.

While they won’t help you out with any of your endgame goals such as crafting or gearing up, Poetics are great levelling other jobs, obtaining relic weapons and other glamour items, gardening, or even just turning a profit on the marketboard. Don’t let them sit maxed out in your inventory when they could be put to good use.

How to Get Tomestones of Poetics

First Time Bonuses

Any time you complete a duty where you or another party member have not previously cleared it, you get a bonus reward of Poetics. This gives you a steady income of the tomestones as you progress through the Main Scenario dungeons and trials, but it’s also a nice little reward for when you help new players through content.

Sometimes new players are advised to advertise in the Party Finder if they need help filling a duty queue, or clearing an old Extreme Trial to complete a quest. In order to attract high level players, they should advertise in their recruitment that they have the first time bonus. The extra Poetics that come along with that may incentivize more people to come help out.

Roulettes

It’s no surprise that roulettes are the most efficient and reliable way to collect tomestones of Poetics. After all, roulettes were designed to incentivize high level players to continue running old content so newer players always have people to fill their parties. Poetics are rewards for running content that used to be endgame level-capped duties, so the two just naturally go hand in hand.

One of the nice things about Poetics is that you don’t have to run content on a level 80 character to earn them. You can collect these tomestones at the same time as levelling a lower job.

There are only a few roulettes that give Poetics as a daily reward, listed below. The amount in brackets is the minimum reward you can get from the duty it places you in. Some dungeons or raids may give more; Up to 50 for an old level capped dungeon.

Wondrous Tails

Khloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire will give you a Wondrous Tails journal each week full of duties to complete. Checking off nine of them will let you turn in the completed journal and receive rewards depending on how lucky you were with your stamp placement. Often one of the easiest rewards available is 500 tomestones of Poetics.

PvP

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I’ve been getting more and more into PvP lately, and the amount of tomestones of Poetics you get is actually pretty decent for the small time investment. Frontlines matches will give you 50, while The Feast matches give only 20, but the matches are usually short. The Feast is more intense and you have more responsibility, so Frontlines is best if you’re not as confident with your job’s PvP kit yet.

What to Buy With Poetics

Level 50, 60, and 70 Gear

If you still haven’t levelled all of your combat jobs, you can prepare for that by grabbing a set of gear for each stretch of the levelling process. Tomestones of Poetics are the currency used to obtain old endgame gear, so at level 50, 60, and 70, you’ll be ready with the best equipment available for your job. The equipment usually lasts until about the third dungeon of the following expansion (The Aery, Bardam’s Mettle, or The Qitana Ravel) after which dungeon drops start to have better stats.

Make sure to augment the gear with the appropriate upgrade items (twine, solvent, etc.) for an extra 10 item levels and the ability to dye the gear. This augmented equpment will usually last you until the fourth dungeon of the next expansion, at which time you should upgrade with dungeon drops or HQ crafted gear for best results in combat.

At level 50 you can pick up the Ironworks gear in Mor Dhona from Auriana (Aelina sells the weapon for an encryped tomestone and Rowena’s tokens of Poetics that you buy from Auriana). If you’re looking to upgrade these items you can buy the carbontwine and carboncoat here as well, but you’ll need to take them to Hyrstmill (North Shroud) for the NPC Drake to augment them to ilvl 130.

At level 60 you can buy Shire gear in Idyllshire from Hismena (Bertana will give you the weapon for Rowena’s Scripture tokens and a micro tomestone, avaiable from Hismena). Augment these items by buying Illuminati Deepest Gobdip, Tautest Gobtwine, or Darkest Gobcoat for weapons, armor, or accessories, respectively. Be careful to select the correct upgrade material to avoid wasing your tomestones of poetics. Once you have the items take them outside the building to Seika at Idyllshire (6.7, 7.4) who will give you the upgraded ilvl 270 versions.

At level 70 you’ll want to get yourself some Scaevan gear in Rhalgr’s Reach from Enna (weapons can be bought from Eschina for a military-grade tomestone and Rowena’s Genesis tokens, all bought from Enna). Augment all of this stuff through E’bolaff at the end of the counter with Scaevan Ester, Twine, or Shellac depending on the item type, and you’ve got yourself a set of ilvl 400 gear to begin Shadowbringers content with.

Other Gear for Glamour

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For the level 60 and 70 locations, there are several other sets of equipment that you might be interested in just for aesthetics. They’re lower ilvl than their counterparts above, but we all know glamour is the true endgame, so look through the vendors that were mentioned and see if you like any pieces.

They’re very cheap now because they’re bought with tomestones of Poetics, and many of them actually have cool designs. Remember to upgrade them if you want them to be dyed.

Relic Weapon Materials

Some of the relic weapons require materials that are bought with tomestones of Poetics. If you’re working towards a Zodiac (A Realm Reborn) or Anima (Heavensward) weapon, make sure you have all the items you need before dumping Poetics on something less important to you.

The level 80 Shadowbringers relic weapons also require 1000 Poetics each. Aside from your first one, which you get for free, the base relics require four Thavnairian Scalepowders, which are bought from Auriana in Revenant’s Toll for 250 Poetics apiece. These are found under the ‘Special Arms’ section of her menu.

Gardening Supplies

If you’re an avid gardener you probably want a good supply of soil. Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil is especially useful for maximizing plant crossbreeding, and is a good use of tomestones of Poetics. This item can be bought from Bertana using Unidentifiable Ore, which is bought for 150 Poetics from Hismena under the ‘Special Arms’ tab.

You can also buy Grade 3 Shroud Topsoil, which increases the yield on your crops. Keep in mind there are a select few plants whose yield is unaffected by this type of soil. This high grade topsoil is obtained in the same manner as above, but with the Unidentifiable Shell instead.

Conclusion

I hope you found something useful to do with all your tomestones of Poetics. Let me know in the comments what you’ve been spending them on, or if I’ve missed an alternate use for them.