Preparing for Jump: Skills/books

I know this is pretty much off topic, but for jump, if Nexon decides to do the character event (the one where you get a magic ring at 1st job advance, the skillbooks at 70, etc.), would it be better to just karma over my zhelm and belt to a character now while they're cheap? Or wait till the specifics come out? Don't know if the event applies only to new characters created after the event start.

Trying to bandwagon F/P mages if that matters