Starting my Traverse stone counter?Follow

Timer starts as soon as you get your first traverser stone. You're just unable to actually claim any more stones from Joachim until you enter Abyssea at least once, but he will start stocking them up as soon as you get the first one.

Edited, Aug 4th 2012 5:57am by Fynlar

When you hit level 75 (?) be sure to do the same thing for Voidwatch stones.

The Abyssite that reduces the timer works on your stored stones too though, so you don't need to be in a huge hurry to go out and get it.

Basically, it's more like hours banked rather than an actual stone count. For example, I have 8 stones, and no Abyssite to reduce the time needed to get a new stone, so my time to get a stone is 20 hours. This means I have 8 x 20 or 160 banked hours. I then get my first Abyssite that reduces my time from 20 hours to 16 hours. My stone count automatically becomes 10. I still have 160 hours banked, however 160 / 16 = 10 stones, whereas previously 160 / 20 = 8 stones.

So if you start now, and in a month or so when you start exploring, you might have let's say 720 hours banked. That'll be 36 stones. If the first thing you did was get all the Abyssite that reduced the wait time down to 8 hours, those 720 banked hours now become 90 stones. You don't lose out because you haven't gotten the Abyssite up front.