I've got some information to answer those burning questions for you folks stuck at work. I tagged spoilers in case you don't want to know about certain things.
Philosophy to Myth conversion rate: Approximately 4 philosophy per 1 myth
Zodiac Upgrade format: 12 FATEs each in a different area, where you need to kill an enemy to get an item, then you bring all 12 back to the new alchemist by Gerolt and he will give you the second half of the quest. I checked out a few areas, surprise surprise, the FATEs were not spawned
I got a lot done this morning. Unlocked all glamours, promptly spent 750k and bought up and cornered the market on items used to make glamours, and all the items used to make those items (velveteen cloth, steel ingot, silver ingot, growth formula gamma, toad leather walnut lumber, etc), plus I now own nearly every purified water in existance. I promptly made back 250k with about 2 or 3 million left for sale, leveled both retainers to 5, realized that to buy a ilvl 70 crafter tool in Mor Dhona is going to cost a damn fortune (5 hq vanya cloth? 5 HQ darksteel ingots? 5 HQ Hard Hyppogryff Leather? WTH?), listened to other people beat diabolos in ls chat (something about marking doors with waypoints so you can hide from one of his attacks), traded in my philosophy tomes, and stored all my crap in the armoire (finally).
Confirmed that equipping your retainer removes the item from your inventory (and your retianer's completely) so it effectively adds 10 or so slots to your total inventory. Equipping your retainer is a blast! They start at level 1 so you so have to either buy or figure out where to get a weathered level 1 weapon or they will not do out on a quest. They need the weapon equipped for that. Also said weapon or armor MUST be in your Armoury, the items will not equip onto your retainer from yoru inventory or theirs. I got lucky and found my weapon in the auction house, but there were not many left. I equipped then with standard level 1 clothing you start the game in and I am so happy about that becuase I hated that stupid maid and bulter red and blue crud they put them in originally. I just hit level 5 with both so finally I can equip them with something decent (when I get off of work). I set up arcanist and marauder and will be setting up a botanist on my third as soon as I can get over to the mog station (I need that inventory space and 20 ah slots!) - Edit - You can hire two extra retainers for $4 a month, for 4 total retainers. Did not know that. Will likely set up miner as my fourth.
And finally, I covered up my ugly quaker looking patrician's shoes with some raptor leather boot appearance. Beautiful.
Did not get my guy a haircut yet. Darn work schedule making me work on Thursdays =(. But I'm glad I woke up at 3:30, I needed to make gil this morning and take advantage of the situation, the rest can wait. We will see if it works =)
How did your morning go?
Edited, Mar 27th 2014 9:02am by Valkayree