The purpose of this new guide is to show how the most current patch impacts you as a player – and changed you should be making to your daily gameplay to maximize it! Think of it like PATCH NOTES but boiled down to the most important in-game alterations.
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If I missed anything – feel free to let me know!
Pre-discussion notes: Hmm… I think I have a lot of work to do this patch, as well as improvements to overall guide structures so you guys can more easily find what you need. In any case 3.1 has been the most impactful patch in a while. This is the first iteration and I’ll be updating as I play this weekend.
New Duties & Other Activities
Diadem (Airship Exploratory Missions): Arguably the most important update. 210 gear with 4 substats can drop here…
Void Ark: 24 man raid which drops iLevel 200 gear. Some decent fillers can be gained here I guess.
Thordan EX: 8 man duty which drops 205 Weapons – pretty decent.
Vanu Beast Tribe: New beast tribe that eventually awards minions/mount.
Minion Battles: Starcraft like mini-game called “Lord of Verminion”. This is kinda legit!
2 New Dungeons: Required to unlock EXDR: St. Moraines Arboreum & Pharos Sirius Hard
My updates needed: Small guides for each, Void Ark, Minion Battles, Thordan EX, Vanu Vanu. I may not be making intense dungeon guides, maybe 1 page for both.
Combat Classes in General
Combat Class End-game:
Duties mentioned above: Diadem, Thordan, Void Ark, 2x Dungeons.
210 Mistbreak BiS: Every non-weapon BiS is now a 210 Mistbreak item (from Diadem) with 4 Sub-stats and decent amount of the stats you want. This is very “Diablo 3”, and while I don’t personally like it – it’s here anyway.
200 Fillers: From Void Ark. Isn’t is weird how this gear is invalidated the very same patch it’s implemented?
180 Fillers: Less reason to bother with crafted. Pink 180 is easier to obtain and cheaper. There’s so much filler in 3.1 that the expensive crafted gear is really a subpar option.
Gobcoat and Gobtwine: Now available weekly in Void Ark. Great to speed up 210 upgrades on ESO. You don’t need a quest to get the item (Mhachi Farthing), it automatically gets in to your inventory after doing your first weekly void ark.
Law for Materials: You can now use your Tomestones of Law to get crafting materials. 1800? A little steep, but law is pretty much worthless anyway.
My updates needed: A small update for BiS in each class, stating Mistbreak as BiS. Lol.
Combat Class Leveling up:
I haven’t noted down any significant changes in the pre-60 process. Please comment if you noticed any (I’ll be rechecking as well)
My updates needed: I actually haven’t finished all basic leveling guides for JOBS. Notably the three new ones.
DoL: Gatherers
DoL End-game:
NEW Red Scrip Items that are NOT UNSPOILED (Always up!): BUT DON’T APPEAR IN THE LIST ALWAYS. They don’t give a lot but, still! This is a legit “downtime maximization” update!
- Miner: Eventide Jade (A random spawn in MANY nodes, so you can choose which you’d rather grind).
- Botanist: Periwinkle (Same as above).
Unlike the “usual” method, you can save drinking Cordial until AFTER you’ve discovered them.
More yields for Red Scrip / Favor: Trading favor items for materials now gives three times the usual amount.
My updates needed: Make a scrip FARMING guide?
DoL leveling up:
NEW Blue Scrip items which are NOT UNSPOILED (Always up!): BUT DON’T APPEAR IN THE LIST ALWAYS. Like the red scrip counterpart, this is balanced by giving a smaller turn-in value.
- Miner
- Tektite (58+)
- Fossilized Dragon Bone (56+)
- Both in same node: Churning Mists – Landlord Colony.
- Botany:
- Cloud Mushroom (58+)
- Wind Widow (56+)
- Both in same node: Sea Of Clouds – Voor Sian Siran.
The main implication of this would be that these nodes would be the new go-to grinding nodes in 56+.
My updates needed: Update MIN BTN (FSH?) Leveling guides?
DoH: Crafters
DoH End-game:
NEW Red Scrip ‘tier’: They added a TINY red scrip turn-in for a “basic material”. This isn’t so bad, but you’d have to make a TON to cap. It’s cheap, but laborous.
New Crafting Recipes: Mainly consistent of glamour gear & Furniture. There’s also 185 Combat gear that… honestly… I don’t know who would use this. There’s so much filler gear in this patch…
Specialist Specific Recipes: Let me get back to you guys on this… But supposedly a few were implemented.
More yields for Red Scrip turn-ins, you now get more materials than we previously did for red scrips. Three times the amount, I think!
My updates needed: I don’t think these affect any existing guides. Again maybe I should make a scrip farming guide.
DoH leveling up:
New blue scrip tier that starts at 55 (maybe? I’m 60 on all DoH and wouldn’t know when these would initially show up). It’s an ok addition but the rewards are frickin SMALL.
My updates needed: Mention the above on the DoH Leveling guides. But I actually haven’t updated 3 of the DoH Leveling guides to 60. I may as well add that tiny blue scrip tier.
This guide will forever be updated, and it’s a great way for YOU to keep track of how to change your gameplay in each new patch, and a great way for ME to track what I have to update. Enjoy!
If I missed anything – feel free to let me know!
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