So I have decided to go for the first speedrun of Shadowbringers and I have hit a huge dilemma.

Post game of Shadowbringers due to IL restrictions would require a huge time sink of grinding for tomestones/gear to be able to make it through postgame since you cannot buy gear to meet those requirements outside of tomestones crafting or eden and duty roulette. Assuming you get 1 piece of gear per run (which is absolutely nowhere near the actual chances of happening) you at minimum are doing 10 runs per dungeon in the expansion. And I assume on average that a party can go through each in 15 minutes. That makes it 2 hours per dungeon roughly not including wait time. And while yes you do get 50 tomestones per run of a Dungeon (outside of the chances of a new player) you can with the amount of tomestones you get up to the first PG dungeon buy exactly 1 accessory. Which for me was enough to finish the first dungeon.

In summary (tldr): I feel the market board will be necessary for shadowbringers post game content for the speedrun. As without it the run would be extended by an excessive amount just grinding for gear to meet IL restrictions.

I know that it would absolutely have to be set up to be multi-segment because the total runtime is multiple days long. I am currently 50 hrs in on a run and am planning on "speedrunning" Endwalker as well when I finish it on my main. Probably finishing Shadowbringers when Endwalker releases and any subsequent patches not touching the character I am speedrunning with unless speedrunning a new section of MSQ. I know it may be difficult as FFXIV is an ever shifting speedrun. Since it is likely that there will be a road to 80 instead of 70, which could make a huge difference in times for SB and ShB leading directly into EW but I want to have my run evolve with it. Don't know if that will work. But it is worth a shot to ask.

I mean a full game MSQ%