Prepping for FFXIV Patch 7.4

For me this weekend will be nuts. I want to jump into EVE Online to partake in the Winter Nexus, EVE's end of year holiday event. I want to jump into EVE Frontier because a lot of the new content is in the starter areas and I really want to look at how unlike Online Frontier has become. I also am close to completing Ball x Pit. But I do have to spend a lot of time in Final Fantasy XIV preparing for patch 7.4.

Over the last month or so I've spent a lot of time in Cosmic Exploration, specifically on Phaenna. All data centers have completed the content with a little more than a month to go before patch 7.4.1 in January. Right now I've just leveled class points working towards the big mount for earning 500,000 points in all crafting and gathering jobs. But for this weekend the big thing is earning cosmocredits.

Cosmocredits are big for two reasons. First, a lot of the materials I need to make the new combat gear in patch 7.4 is available on Phaenna. But perhaps the biggest reason are the glamour changes coming next week. With the ability to wear any piece no matter class, job, or level restriction lots of people will need dye. And where is the biggest source of the new Dawntrail dyes? Phaenna. If I have a couple of hours to spare I'll finish leveling Culinarian to 100,000 class points.

Of course, continuing with crafting I need to make a lot of tacos. Specifically Tacos de Carne Asada. These tacos are collectables and give out the most Orange crafting scrips. I figure if I take a few hours I'll have enough crafting scrips to buy all the new materials I'll need. One thing I've learned is that one can never have enough orange scrips.

A source of materials I'm behind on is the Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics and Allagan Tomestones of Heliometry. Since these currencies mainly require running dungeons I usually don't have a lot. But I can top off at 1300 Tomestones of Matematics and get near 850 of the Tomestones of Heliometry before the patch hits.

I'm not hopeless where combat is concerned. I'm only one or two FATEs away from reaching the cap on bicolor gemstones of 1500. Also, with my free company probably changing the buff schedule so our crafting group can make the new combat gear for members, I won't need to worry about getting a food buff. But I will need to use more of my aetheryte tickets than normal. Thankfully I still have 375 tickets in my inventory or I'd have to go out and start killing things again.

If I have the time I also need to make up a list of items to gather. I hear I'll need to make a bunch of level 98 intermediate items. Something that shouldn't take too long with fully pentamelded crafting gear. But I do need to make sure they are high quality items.

Other high quality items I need to make is crafting food. My stack of All i Pebre is getting low so I need to do a little fishing to make another 30 portions of the eel and potato stew. Unless, of course, the developers are introducing even better food, in which case I need to figure out what I need to do on day one of the patch.

Not a lot to do but I do need to hurry. Not only do I need to finish the patch 7.4 MSQ before patch 7.41 introduces the next section of Cosmic Exploration, but I need to make a new set of combat gear as well. Because I'll probably need the gear to get through the new duties and trusts.