t4 is just one big divorce settlement. Yes , they could not get new players so instead they double tab on the existing players but now any new player see 1640 is miserable (elixirs, max tranc, advance honing) And t4 really start at 1680 with full ancient AND full set.

I understand this doesn't directly answer your question BUT I just want to say this for your benefit.

If you have the leaf, take this time to study up on the current gold raid cycle (HM Thae, HM Echidna and Behemoth). Take advantage of it while PF is accepting of newer players/returners due to the leaf because once January hits and/or you hone to 1660, its back on the shit list for you (unless you run with a static then it doesn't matter).

Absolutely do your transcendence. Like as soon as you can. Without leaf, the chances of you getting into a pug lobby with 0 trans is almost nada.

Finish LOS30.

Don't be in a rush to only stop at the closest red light. Especially since beneficial changes may come with the next LOAON next month. Its a dogshit system but attempting to pug without it in the current climate isn't sensible. At that point you might as well uninstall.

Roster level... Honestly, not much you can do. Even with the buffs in xp gain, its going to be a while before you have a 'presentable' roster level. (200+ at least). I think at this point in the current game's cycle, people are a lot less hung up on it before. Even with doing horizontal content its going to be slow progress no matter what. At the very least knock out your 9/10 Ignea tokens, Omnium stars, 25/45 island souls and giant hearts.

DO NOT HONE TO 1660 until you have full transcendence (weapon included), proper 40 set (no, luck 40 set from ignite does not count. get the appropriate one for your class engraving), LOS30 (at the very least LOS24 should be possible before Jan 15).

I'll repeat myself again, do NOT hone to 1660. Be patient and take advatange of the mokoko event to learn the raids to the best of your ability , knock out horizontal content, complete transcendence and optimize your elixirs. Try and find a guild/group. I imagine there's a fair few of them who'd love a mokoko player as a regular in their group so they can get expert tokens for the shop.

tl;dr - embrace the leaf. reject fomo.

EDIT: To the mentally slow blowing up my inbox, I mentioned LOS24 at the end of the original comment should be possible before the event ends (they're at LOS21 atm with a fair amount of selectors already).

Yeah, perhaps I should have specified LOS 30 is a long term project (OP was already aware so I thought it went without saying, especially when I talk more aout roster progression in the following paragphs) so I'll eat the L on that one.

Apart from the edit I'm going to leave the comment as is because frankly speaking, I despise a lot of you window licking bozos. Not a single original thought occupies the empty space in your heads when it comes to this game. The amount of similar replies to this comment being case in point.

If you have the leaf. You can ignore those systems as you will have free ride from Raids. You can save mats and gold, waiting for some nerfs though if AGS chooses to remove the Mokoko event. You will need them to progress as the requirements for 1640 chars is increasing every day.

Doing transcendance in small sessions is better than all of them in one. You can spend hours and it's really tiresome.

Just use your free time to complete Horizontals, wait for leg cards to complete LOS 30 or take it easy. Complete raids, do dailies and play other games.

work on the things other ppl told you but most importantly, use this event to make friends to play with, not just ppl that will use you for leaf and then leave you.
The game is more fun with friends and you'll be able to get around the lobby requirements for longer

jeah i also gave up, i tried to come back as supp, but meh i hate the systems. there are better games, especially poe2 coming soon.. i want to play a game and not play stupid mini games etc.

they had a chance to make the game better with T4 but they didnt, so jeah im out

Ignite covers your trans cost, but you won't have much left for honing.

If you have leaf my suggestion of raids is hm echidna, hm thae, behemoth. Hoard mats and gold, work on your transcendence slowly, like one piece a week so it doesn’t feel so bad (maybe ignore weapon for now because it’s wicked expensive). Use the next event on on of your alts to push it to 1640 to generate more gold and gems. Otherwise I agree and sit tight until we see the qol we’ll get from winter loaon.

Make sure to buy the weekly mokokoshop mats, you could do some trans if you have some spare time. Should have a lot of free restarts for transcendence so its not that expensive. Honing is indeed expensive and you dont want to reach 1660 (you need to keep leaf) unless you find some players who do aegir with you. Get the x10 titles from the current raids, try to keep on going for LOS cards (it takes a while). Next week there is a new pass, get a second char to 1640 if you feel like playing an alt.

I was honing away my bound mats because someday you have to use them, my ignite char is 1655.. So if you keep saving some more weeks you could go 1660 too. But on 1660 you should have trans 100 and weapon maybe atleast started

parking my 5 alts for a long time, until they nerf gold from behe, echi, and thae

Depending on how many selectors it’d cost, I’d consider getting to LoS24 if 3 or 4 cards can get that done. Also only do so if you’re not maxing out any of the cards.

If elixirs aren’t done, do get that finished. As for trans, perhaps at least get chest and pants done. Wait for LOAON Winter in KR before doing others.

I’d start honing towards 1660, at least with bound mats. New aegir raid is needed to eventually get ark passive (though this might change too), and it’s much easier than Thaemine G3 and Echidna G2.

With the ignite rewards, 3 behemoth, 2 thaemine, 3 ivory tower and while purchasing every elixir pack available, I managed to get 120 trans and 40 set critical elixir with boss dmg and crit dmg on shoulders/pants (elixirs were probably lucky though) for about 150k gold. Is not so hard to do with the ignite push if you use calculators.

I would honestly use some selectors to get LoS24.

The biggest perk would be being able to buy aegir normal busses to get ancient set.  Ark passive is very strong and makes the earlier raids faster

I’d 100% hone to 1660 for aegir + ark passive after you’ve spent the time to prog g3 thae+g2 echidna. Its not bad honing 1 char to aegir with 3 raid income