Another tip for those struggling to gear up, once you have fully augmented iron gear I advise to save about 100k gil so that when you hit lvl60+ you can purchase gear from the market board at a really low price. For example I remember buying a SAM armor piece at item level 265 and it only cost 10k gil, with 100k gil you should easily be able to buy a full set of 265 gear including earings etc and basically set you up for the lvl70 grind. Saves all the tomestone grinding since you get the gil from doing MSQ.
Love the content. I'm semi-new and completed Shadow bringers a while ago as a BLM and started leveling a paladin once I got through patch content. I got pretty burnt out doing the roulettes, specifically main scenario. This video is starting to make me start to think about getting back into it again...
It can be a little tiring if you're doing roulettes every day, yeah - I can generally manage a few bursts of it but that's about it. At least the Wondrous Tails now gives you a huge amount of exp for handing in all 9 seals! I'm close to having every job at 80 now haha
Thanks! Although even my videos are usually out-dated by the time I make them haha, like I made one about poetics and then square immediately changed it and gave us augmented stuff /made rings non-unique etc
@@SilverMont I feel your pain man haha, alot of creators have that issue. For a viewer if you add outdated* in the description that helps a ton. In terms of the content its still handy watching i think and when you guys make updated stuff thats awesome too!
Great vid and explanation - just hit 50 and didnt know if i should just finish msq aar all the way to shadowbringers then worry about gear. Cleared it up especially if i needed to Worry about materia. Legend !!!
I always wanted to play FF14 but I get lost in MMO's and don't have time for them these days. So yeah, I'm just watching this to listen to you and give you views lol.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of MMOs and constantly updated games, parts of it became out of date almost immedaitely haha, so I tried to make it as general as possible
I never knew you could get the Ironworks/Shire/Scaevan Gear in the cities! I just go to Revenant's Toll/Idylshire/Rhalgr's Reach. All roads lead to Rome, I guess XD
Nice although I will always recommend upgrading armor from 65+ due to Stormblood having a more unforgiving damage increase in dungeons compared to HW. A HQ 64 is minuscule better for example so in case you are still missing some tome gear stock up with these. Obviously I speak to people that are progressing story/running msq dungeons because for example having a tank with shire gear at lv69 can be awful for healers . Always check MB if people sell for low pieces.
thanks, I didn't understand anything about 50+ gear. what is augmented gear, what is ironworks, what are sundry splendors? At least I know what to look up and figure out now
Augmented gear generally works like this Helmet of Sweet Horns: Item level 500 Augmented Helmet of Sweet Horns: Item Level 510 + Can be dyed. I'd say that's the easiest way to explain augmented ones! You spend something to upgrade them so they can be dyed, and have a bit more ilvl/stats
I ended up being super over leveled and I'm level 72 still doing Ishguards MSQ. I heard that Sundry spenders appears in Ishguard after beating hevensward. So I just been buying gear from the market every 10 levels.
*burnout brain noise So, essentially run dungeons and raids, hope RNGesus favors you and gives you gear you need, and just repeat? Being able to use Poetics to help catch up and buy gear is handy, but also kinda blind-sights you to how endgame wants you to do stuff i feel. Like i recently got to lv 80, and the MSQ hard stops cause it wants me to be at higher level gear, and aside from market board, i don't know what it expects me to do.
New to the game. I would consider myself early game as I am only level 21. I typically avoid buying gear unless its a better weapon only. Your advice was very helpful, except I was confused about the dungeons. What exactly are dungeon runs and how good can they be for early game players? I May have done one but I feel like there is so much to this game I have yet to learn I feel like I have not done a dungeon yet. If someone can explain a little bit more about dungeons and where/how to do them. Thanks.
If you are new, you don't need to worry about it too much, but once you get a little way into the game (I think after you beat the first two dungeons?) you'll unlock the duty roulette dungeon finder. Doing this once a day gets you bonus EXP and stuff. It can be worth doing as it's a LOT of exp, especially at lower levels. For the most part though, just focus on going through the MSQ and that should get you everything you need that's important. Dungeons are fairly frequent in the story. And the dungeon roulette/duty finder will just ensure that you have access to gear more frequently as you so desire.
As a new player the thing that confuses me is that, on guides, when people say stuff like, you can buy/gain access to that at level 45 for example, they don’t actually mean 45, they mean when your questing level hits 45, is that right? Atm I am WAY out levelling the content due to rested xp and the bonus on my server or whatever it’s called… my questing level is around 30 but my actual level is 45, so I still have to wait for the good gear right?
Yeah, most of these things are tied behind story factors - although if I'm not mistaken (it has been a long time) I think you have your class jobs which unlock on those levels, irrespective of where you are in the main story. Like if you're on the level 20 MSQ but hit level 40, you should be able to do your level 40 job quest, assuming you've done the ones that lead up to it. And then obvious exceptions if your level 60 job quest takes place in an an area you can't reach yet because it is locked behind MSQ etc
@@SilverMont I see but I also see it keeps the atma look when its sheathed so I think ill go for the nexus upgrade don't even want to know what I have to do for that the beginning of the Atman quest is ridiculous. 12 random fates in 12 different locations and that's just the beginning, sheesh.
Very good guide. I've been playing the game very casually for a few years, and this laid it out well for me. One question I've always had is where do I find old gear for transmog? Or glamour I mean. I want to look cool. Is it found by simply running through old content?
So, if you're level 80 you'll be able to "unsync" old content, that is to say, you go in at level 80, and you can annihilate enemies so you can obtain drops from them. Of course, it depends on what item you are looking for. Dungeon gear can usually be obtained easily enough - if you're 80, then 50/60 dungeons will be a breeze, and you might be able to manage some 70 dungeons by yourself or with a buddy. In a nutshell: Find the item you want -> look up where it drops -> solo that content (or maybe get a group if it's something that can't be solo'd) and then put it in your glamour box using a prism etc.
this might sound like a stupid question. but im gonna be starting the game in another month. will the story gear get me to where i need to get through in order to reach level cap or do i have to do all the raids and such as well in order to progress through the game to level cap? I want to enjoy the game but also make it to end game as soon as possible as a warrior tank. should i worry about all the other raids and such or should i just play the story to level cap and then start worrying about rading and such? ive played things like wow and ESO but you couldnt do raids and such until you had reached level cap and had certain gear. is that the same with ff 14 or do you have to go through everything to progress to end game like raids and such?
So, just playing the story should more or less give you everything you need. At level 50/60/70/80 and so on, or around there, you'll get class armour sets. And just playing through the MSQ will give you gear upgrades too. In addition to that, if you get any tomestones, you can use those to buy better "endgame" gear as well. So probably hold on to those until you hit max level
i finished the ninja questline after i hit lvl 50 and got the gear but it sucks in terms of defense and magic defense. should i still use it because i’m just confused
Hello. I've been playing just over 1mo, I'm a level 58 Paladin that just finished The Praetorium. I have since taken an MSQ break, and been dabbling in Crafting (Miner and Blacksmith), Squadrons, Retainers, Hunts, and Beast Quests, and other non-MSQ stuff, but I'm about ready to go back to the MSQ. I'm currently at a total iLvl of 107, wearing the Valor gear I got at L50. So my first question, should I expect more coffer sets of gear as I level up? And if so, at what levels? Next: I just got 10 Silver Chocobo Feathers. Should I spend those on L60 Augmented Shire gear or save for L70 Aug Scaevan gear? Thanks in advance for the answers. Great video, +1 Like and Subscribed.
Hi I just hit level 80, and my friend created exarchic gear for me (I 510). I recently started my relic quest but I’m wondering what dungeons to focus for armor and how it works overall. If you could shed some light on the situation for me, I’d greatly appreciate it
510 is quite high, you're only going to get better gear from tomes, (520, can be upgraded) the Nier alliance (520) or like, the savage raid. So, do some roulette or other things to get tomes, I'd say! That 510 will get you into pretty much all content though
When do i do a dungeon? Will I get dungeon quests or do i just start running them at a certain level? I just hit 18 last night and finished all my sprout/class quests. Im playing a gladiator as well if that matters.
@@SilverMont I wrote that this morning while my kids were being insane, so it might sound churlish. I didn’t mean to imply your video is unimportant, in case you got that perception. How to gear in FFXIV can be confusing, and many new players have wasted their limited gil on the MB because they didn’t realize they could get better (and longer lasting) gear from Mor Dhona or Idyllshire with their tomestones.
Fresh 80 cap. I'm trying to go into 5.1 dungeons but I need ILV 430 gear I have It from Grenoldt in the tempest but I still need belt and accessories. I assume Tomestone grinding but I'm still a bit confused
If you just hit 80 and got your free gear, you're either wanna exchange for tomestone items or buy some higher ilvl crafted stuff from the marketboard, or run the highest dungeon you're able to.
It's not worth it to go out of your way just to get that, no. One MSQ roulette at 50 can take you straight to 52, at which point you can get vendor gear in HW that'd be similar, etc. Prioritise the story, but if you have tomestones anyway, you can spend 'em. If you hit a chokepoint where you can't proceed because things seem too tough, then your ilvl might be what is holding you back and you can increase that
Thanks for the video. I just started 3 weeks ago and I just made it to Stormblood. I'm level 66 atm what is the best gear I can get now. Also can I use Poetic to buy stormblood gear
There's probably a level 65/66 dungeon that would technically be the best, but you'd be fine with the Shire gear you can buy with poetics. Then when you hit 70 you can buy Scaevan gear in Rhalgr's Reach or Kugane etc. Depending on how long it takes you to hit 80, you might be able to do the same at 80, because Endwalker's release will move the tomes around again
I’m still stuck trying to get avg item level above 42 so I can access castrium dungeon (if I recall correctly) it’s only the accessories I need to get down the right hand side. Anyone know how I do this? I’m a casual and I’m not interested in running about hoping gear drops in dungeons. I play on the free trial so marketboard and things of that kind are off the table. The vendors in the towns dont sell accessories that are that high-a level. I stopped playing months ago solely because of this issue. VERY frustrated.
I do go back to WoW every now and then but... every time I feel like I lose interest faster than the last time, you know? I feel like they don't have a cohesive vision for that game.
@@SilverMont Yeah agree. Wow taught me that the share holders are the customer, players are just part of the product. I see so many game design decisions focused around player retention instead of player fun. I see corporate decisions like removing Q&A have such a direct negative result on the game.. The only small power I have is not to pay, encouraging their behaviour will just make gaming worse.
I don't remember how it was in GW2, but it's fine for the most part in FFXIV. My main issues with it would be how non-impactful gear feels. I prefer items having an individual impact - like using some axe you found at level 40, even at level 50, because of some special effect it has, etc. Rather than items being purely stat sticks, as they tend to be in XIV.
@@SilverMont Ah thank you for clarifying. And yea I agree on that used to play wow back in the days and gear felt fun to get when they had special effects and wasent just slap on the thing with the highest item level or whatever. If that system ever came back I would for sure love going back to gear treadmill system because some items you found at level 30 you could use even at endgame which was great.
Every time you die, it takes a hit, but as long as gear isn't broken, you don't really need to worry about it. I don't think it factors into gameplay at all, so long as it isn't at 0/broken.
I just started the game and was wanting to get gear for my crafting/gathering jobs so I'm not naked when doing work. How do you get gear for that stuff?
If you're at a lower level, then you can buy crafting/gathering gear from vendors - if you are higher level, then you can still grab vendor gear (or marketboard crafted gear from other players) but you'll also have the option of getting gear from special vendors, such as the "scrip exchange" vendors.
Im a level 69 dark knight still doing level 64 stormblood msq, i read that tanks above level 65 still using shire gear can be a heavy burden to the healers, do i have to search the marketboard for new gear or wait till the msq gives gear better than shire?
I wouldn't say it's a problem, frankly. I mean, if you were somehow in level 80 content using shire gear, yeah that might be a problem (but also virtually impossible to actually do) The shire gear will last you until 70 where you can replace it - and if you get any replacements in the mean time in dungeons, that helps all the more. If you're in a level 67-70 dungeon, you would have to probably pull one group at a time instead of multiple ones, because the healer might not be able to keep you alive otherwise.
The botanist, a gathering job, I suppose? For combat, you'll need to wait for Reaper, with Endwalker. For the time being, there are various scythe glamours for like BLM and DRG I think? But they are cash shop items these days I think
@@SilverMont oh well I’ll wait on the reaper job I should be caught up by time the 2 new jobs drop with end walker expansion. I’ll just power up my paladin for now, thanks for all the help.
So is this game still really active? I've been considering picking it up, but whenever I pick up online, mmo-like games, I usually end up picking em up at the end of its online "lifespan".
I don't know the behind-the-scenes numbers, but as far as I'm aware, XIV has been on an incline for several years now, and Shadowbringers was really popular amongst players and reviewers both. That, and I can tell you that my server at least is absolutely packed, there's usually a 15-20 person q to log-in whenever I do (which thankfully just takes a few seconds)
It’s really alive and booming man the problem you’ll get is that the massive amount of story ahead of you before catching up to the current expansion. I’m literally talking about 100+ hours and I’m not even exaggerating, burnout is your enemy.
It's worth getting 50 / 60 / 70 etc, you can generally skip the levels in-between if you want to. Just make sure you're getting the high ilvl stuff, like Ironworks at 50. The difference between minimum and maximum ilvl can be tens of thousands of HP
Are you going through the story? Because you might end up lacking stats and ilvl for story fights. Generally I'd say it's good to swap every 10 levels because of the huge ilvl gaps, and poetics are handed out like candy!
XIV's hud is quite customisable, so you could probably make a "minimalistic" version if you wanted. Hell, I think you can even turn the HUD off entirely and still use hotkeys.
To be fair, while I dont know about outher MMOs, you dont _actually_ have to have all that stuff on screen all times. Like, the things that I actually look at my hud are the skill hotbar at the bottom of the screen with the boss health/cast bars directly above them, and the party list on the top left IF I need to interact with other players (e.g. I need to heal them). So while I have other things on, like a minimalist inventory on the corner, minimap, quest list, enemy list, 80% of the time I'm looking at two specific zones of the screen, ao in practice the screen doesnt actually feel cluttered And besides that, you can actually turn off all that stuff, its just on for convenience
It has like ten years of systems, some of which have multiple layered versions. I imagine it can be a bit much for a new player. Fortunately, there's a lot of guides out there!
'Or you just like the sound of my voice' so meta, he's on to us.
Thank you. This was very helpful as a new player. "I must shoot or stab faster." I feel that. Skill speed is always my go to haha.
Will refer back to this later when I reach level 80, 'cause this is the best explanation I've seen about endgame gear.
Another tip for those struggling to gear up, once you have fully augmented iron gear I advise to save about 100k gil so that when you hit lvl60+ you can purchase gear from the market board at a really low price. For example I remember buying a SAM armor piece at item level 265 and it only cost 10k gil, with 100k gil you should easily be able to buy a full set of 265 gear including earings etc and basically set you up for the lvl70 grind. Saves all the tomestone grinding since you get the gil from doing MSQ.
Thank you so much for this. Just hit level 50 and was wondering how gear works and what to do
This helps lessen my anxiety as a new player who just hit lvl 50. Thanks!
Hey just a question, when you first got to ishguard did you bother buying new gear or was the main story quest giving you all the gear you needed?
@@tobic7230 I get my gear from the main quest or buying some from the market board
Love the content. I'm semi-new and completed Shadow bringers a while ago as a BLM and started leveling a paladin once I got through patch content. I got pretty burnt out doing the roulettes, specifically main scenario. This video is starting to make me start to think about getting back into it again...
It can be a little tiring if you're doing roulettes every day, yeah - I can generally manage a few bursts of it but that's about it. At least the Wondrous Tails now gives you a huge amount of exp for handing in all 9 seals! I'm close to having every job at 80 now haha
I already know how to do this, but lets see what he has to say
"... or you just like the sound of my voice"
N-no, I wanna know how to gear up...
By far the best gear progression guide for a new player. So many out there are outdated and they dont even tell you its out of date.
Thanks! Although even my videos are usually out-dated by the time I make them haha, like I made one about poetics and then square immediately changed it and gave us augmented stuff /made rings non-unique etc
@@SilverMont I feel your pain man haha, alot of creators have that issue. For a viewer if you add outdated* in the description that helps a ton. In terms of the content its still handy watching i think and when you guys make updated stuff thats awesome too!
I'm a new player, this helps out a lot. Thanks 👍👍👍👍👍
Great vid and explanation - just hit 50 and didnt know if i should just finish msq aar all
the way to shadowbringers then worry about gear. Cleared it up especially if i needed to
Worry about materia. Legend !!!
I'm glad it helped!
This clarifies a lot. Thanks for the info for all the levels!
Thank you so much I was trying so hard to get into this game and had no idea what the grind would be like thank you
I’m new to this game and this video helped me a lot good work!👍🏾
I always wanted to play FF14 but I get lost in MMO's and don't have time for them these days. So yeah, I'm just watching this to listen to you and give you views lol.
me who has spent around 10k on gear at lvl 30 :...... oh
This is the best gearing guide i have seen
Unfortunately, due to the nature of MMOs and constantly updated games, parts of it became out of date almost immedaitely haha, so I tried to make it as general as possible
I never knew you could get the Ironworks/Shire/Scaevan Gear in the cities! I just go to Revenant's Toll/Idylshire/Rhalgr's Reach. All roads lead to Rome, I guess XD
Nice although I will always recommend upgrading armor from 65+ due to Stormblood having a more unforgiving damage increase in dungeons compared to HW. A HQ 64 is minuscule better for example so in case you are still missing some tome gear stock up with these.
Obviously I speak to people that are progressing story/running msq dungeons because for example having a tank with shire gear at lv69 can be awful for healers . Always check MB if people sell for low pieces.
thanks, I didn't understand anything about 50+ gear. what is augmented gear, what is ironworks, what are sundry splendors? At least I know what to look up and figure out now
Augmented gear generally works like this
Helmet of Sweet Horns: Item level 500
Augmented Helmet of Sweet Horns: Item Level 510 + Can be dyed.
I'd say that's the easiest way to explain augmented ones! You spend something to upgrade them so they can be dyed, and have a bit more ilvl/stats
I ended up being super over leveled and I'm level 72 still doing Ishguards MSQ. I heard that Sundry spenders appears in Ishguard after beating hevensward. So I just been buying gear from the market every 10 levels.
*burnout brain noise
So, essentially run dungeons and raids, hope RNGesus favors you and gives you gear you need, and just repeat?
Being able to use Poetics to help catch up and buy gear is handy, but also kinda blind-sights you to how endgame wants you to do stuff i feel.
Like i recently got to lv 80, and the MSQ hard stops cause it wants me to be at higher level gear, and aside from market board, i don't know what it expects me to do.
I'm here cos I ❤ the sound of your voice, why I liked and subbed, no other reason. Just so you know 😆
That's fair!
@@SilverMont the content is great ty 😀
New to the game. I would consider myself early game as I am only level 21. I typically avoid buying gear unless its a better weapon only. Your advice was very helpful, except I was confused about the dungeons. What exactly are dungeon runs and how good can they be for early game players? I May have done one but I feel like there is so much to this game I have yet to learn I feel like I have not done a dungeon yet. If someone can explain a little bit more about dungeons and where/how to do them. Thanks.
If you are new, you don't need to worry about it too much, but once you get a little way into the game (I think after you beat the first two dungeons?) you'll unlock the duty roulette dungeon finder. Doing this once a day gets you bonus EXP and stuff. It can be worth doing as it's a LOT of exp, especially at lower levels.
For the most part though, just focus on going through the MSQ and that should get you everything you need that's important. Dungeons are fairly frequent in the story. And the dungeon roulette/duty finder will just ensure that you have access to gear more frequently as you so desire.
just started so this video helps a lot i did not know tombstone had 60 and 70 sets novice chat helped me with tombstone 50s
Asides from the gear you'll want to be using for stats, you can also get less powerful gear that you might want for glamours, using tomestones!
Great video. This is exactly what I’ve needed. 🍻
I am now maxed out lvl 70 gear working on lvling to 80 😊
As a new player the thing that confuses me is that, on guides, when people say stuff like, you can buy/gain access to that at level 45 for example, they don’t actually mean 45, they mean when your questing level hits 45, is that right? Atm I am WAY out levelling the content due to rested xp and the bonus on my server or whatever it’s called… my questing level is around 30 but my actual level is 45, so I still have to wait for the good gear right?
Yeah, most of these things are tied behind story factors - although if I'm not mistaken (it has been a long time) I think you have your class jobs which unlock on those levels, irrespective of where you are in the main story.
Like if you're on the level 20 MSQ but hit level 40, you should be able to do your level 40 job quest, assuming you've done the ones that lead up to it. And then obvious exceptions if your level 60 job quest takes place in an an area you can't reach yet because it is locked behind MSQ etc
happy new year silver mont
How do you put nexus, animus, atma on your relic weapons. Or is it upgrades for the weapon.
They are technically different weapons. Once you finish each step, you'll replace the weapon with the new version
@@SilverMont I see but I also see it keeps the atma look when its sheathed so I think ill go for the nexus upgrade don't even want to know what I have to do for that the beginning of the Atman quest is ridiculous. 12 random fates in 12 different locations and that's just the beginning, sheesh.
As a new player that just got to level 60. I forget how to get to ishgard and or also how to get to whatever sundry splendors is. ty.
If you didn't unlock the teleport point at Ishgard you'll need to run back there manually, you can enter it from Coerthas.
@@SilverMont thank yew
Very good guide. I've been playing the game very casually for a few years, and this laid it out well for me. One question I've always had is where do I find old gear for transmog? Or glamour I mean. I want to look cool. Is it found by simply running through old content?
So, if you're level 80 you'll be able to "unsync" old content, that is to say, you go in at level 80, and you can annihilate enemies so you can obtain drops from them. Of course, it depends on what item you are looking for. Dungeon gear can usually be obtained easily enough - if you're 80, then 50/60 dungeons will be a breeze, and you might be able to manage some 70 dungeons by yourself or with a buddy.
In a nutshell: Find the item you want -> look up where it drops -> solo that content (or maybe get a group if it's something that can't be solo'd) and then put it in your glamour box using a prism etc.
@@SilverMont sweet, makes sense and thank you for answering!
this might sound like a stupid question. but im gonna be starting the game in another month. will the story gear get me to where i need to get through in order to reach level cap or do i have to do all the raids and such as well in order to progress through the game to level cap? I want to enjoy the game but also make it to end game as soon as possible as a warrior tank. should i worry about all the other raids and such or should i just play the story to level cap and then start worrying about rading and such? ive played things like wow and ESO but you couldnt do raids and such until you had reached level cap and had certain gear. is that the same with ff 14 or do you have to go through everything to progress to end game like raids and such?
So, just playing the story should more or less give you everything you need. At level 50/60/70/80 and so on, or around there, you'll get class armour sets. And just playing through the MSQ will give you gear upgrades too. In addition to that, if you get any tomestones, you can use those to buy better "endgame" gear as well. So probably hold on to those until you hit max level
Thank you for this video!
i finished the ninja questline after i hit lvl 50 and got the gear but it sucks in terms of defense and magic defense. should i still use it because i’m just confused
At level 50? You'll probably want to use Ironworks gear from tomestones. So forr NIN it'd be like "Ironworks X of Scouting"
Hello. I've been playing just over 1mo, I'm a level 58 Paladin that just finished The Praetorium. I have since taken an MSQ break, and been dabbling in Crafting (Miner and Blacksmith), Squadrons, Retainers, Hunts, and Beast Quests, and other non-MSQ stuff, but I'm about ready to go back to the MSQ. I'm currently at a total iLvl of 107, wearing the Valor gear I got at L50. So my first question, should I expect more coffer sets of gear as I level up? And if so, at what levels? Next: I just got 10 Silver Chocobo Feathers. Should I spend those on L60 Augmented Shire gear or save for L70 Aug Scaevan gear? Thanks in advance for the answers. Great video, +1 Like and Subscribed.
You'll get class armour from doing the quests at level 60/70/80 etc but they are much weaker than the Shire, Scaevan gear from poetics.
I can't see the vendors :( and I am level 50
Perfect explanation , Thank you. Sub'd & liked.
I’m level 57 white mage. Where should I go for gear. All my gear is low level
Grab the Ironworks stuff, for starters! Or at that point you could get some level 54-56 vendor gear in HW areas
Thank you for this, but I’m New !!! And I would love to play and maybe get in game help??? Show me the ways of the force !!! Please
Thankfully there's a novice network where you can also ask for help in-game, along with all the videos and what-not
Hi I just hit level 80, and my friend created exarchic gear for me (I 510). I recently started my relic quest but I’m wondering what dungeons to focus for armor and how it works overall. If you could shed some light on the situation for me, I’d greatly appreciate it
510 is quite high, you're only going to get better gear from tomes, (520, can be upgraded) the Nier alliance (520) or like, the savage raid. So, do some roulette or other things to get tomes, I'd say! That 510 will get you into pretty much all content though
When do i do a dungeon? Will I get dungeon quests or do i just start running them at a certain level? I just hit 18 last night and finished all my sprout/class quests. Im playing a gladiator as well if that matters.
The majority of dungeons will unlock through the story
ty
You can go through all this, but as any veteran will tell you: Glam is the only concern for gear.
This is accurate
@@SilverMont I wrote that this morning while my kids were being insane, so it might sound churlish. I didn’t mean to imply your video is unimportant, in case you got that perception. How to gear in FFXIV can be confusing, and many new players have wasted their limited gil on the MB because they didn’t realize they could get better (and longer lasting) gear from Mor Dhona or Idyllshire with their tomestones.
Fresh 80 cap. I'm trying to go into 5.1 dungeons but I need ILV 430 gear I have It from Grenoldt in the tempest but I still need belt and accessories. I assume Tomestone grinding but I'm still a bit confused
If you just hit 80 and got your free gear, you're either wanna exchange for tomestone items or buy some higher ilvl crafted stuff from the marketboard, or run the highest dungeon you're able to.
@@SilverMont Ok thanks
At this point at level 50, should I bother grinding tomestones for augmented Ironworks gear?
It's not worth it to go out of your way just to get that, no. One MSQ roulette at 50 can take you straight to 52, at which point you can get vendor gear in HW that'd be similar, etc. Prioritise the story, but if you have tomestones anyway, you can spend 'em. If you hit a chokepoint where you can't proceed because things seem too tough, then your ilvl might be what is holding you back and you can increase that
What armor set are you using in the thumbnail?
The skallic fending chest
Thanks for the video. I just started 3 weeks ago and I just made it to Stormblood. I'm level 66 atm what is the best gear I can get now. Also can I use Poetic to buy stormblood gear
There's probably a level 65/66 dungeon that would technically be the best, but you'd be fine with the Shire gear you can buy with poetics. Then when you hit 70 you can buy Scaevan gear in Rhalgr's Reach or Kugane etc. Depending on how long it takes you to hit 80, you might be able to do the same at 80, because Endwalker's release will move the tomes around again
Hey I’m level 50 AST what’s the best gear for my character
(Augmented) Ironworks set of Healing
I’m still stuck trying to get avg item level above 42 so I can access castrium dungeon (if I recall correctly) it’s only the accessories I need to get down the right hand side. Anyone know how I do this? I’m a casual and I’m not interested in running about hoping gear drops in dungeons. I play on the free trial so marketboard and things of that kind are off the table. The vendors in the towns dont sell accessories that are that high-a level.
I stopped playing months ago solely because of this issue. VERY frustrated.
What level are you? If you are 50 you should be able to get ironworks gear
Thank you very helpful! Thinking about jumping the sinking wow ship..
I do go back to WoW every now and then but... every time I feel like I lose interest faster than the last time, you know? I feel like they don't have a cohesive vision for that game.
@@SilverMont Yeah agree. Wow taught me that the share holders are the customer, players are just part of the product. I see so many game design decisions focused around player retention instead of player fun. I see corporate decisions like removing Q&A have such a direct negative result on the game.. The only small power I have is not to pay, encouraging their behaviour will just make gaming worse.
This makes me glad to play gw2 the gear treadmill just looks horrible...
I don't remember how it was in GW2, but it's fine for the most part in FFXIV. My main issues with it would be how non-impactful gear feels. I prefer items having an individual impact - like using some axe you found at level 40, even at level 50, because of some special effect it has, etc. Rather than items being purely stat sticks, as they tend to be in XIV.
@@SilverMont Ah thank you for clarifying. And yea I agree on that used to play wow back in the days and gear felt fun to get when they had special effects and wasent just slap on the thing with the highest item level or whatever. If that system ever came back I would for sure love going back to gear treadmill system because some items you found at level 30 you could use even at endgame which was great.
but what does gear condition do? I cannot seem to find an answer other than it reaching zero renders gear basically statless
Every time you die, it takes a hit, but as long as gear isn't broken, you don't really need to worry about it. I don't think it factors into gameplay at all, so long as it isn't at 0/broken.
level 60 shire gear and lvl 70 scaevan gear (sam) no longer available ingame to players what do i get now
You can still get the augmented versions of those things
I just started the game and was wanting to get gear for my crafting/gathering jobs so I'm not naked when doing work. How do you get gear for that stuff?
If you're at a lower level, then you can buy crafting/gathering gear from vendors - if you are higher level, then you can still grab vendor gear (or marketboard crafted gear from other players) but you'll also have the option of getting gear from special vendors, such as the "scrip exchange" vendors.
Im a level 69 dark knight still doing level 64 stormblood msq, i read that tanks above level 65 still using shire gear can be a heavy burden to the healers, do i have to search the marketboard for new gear or wait till the msq gives gear better than shire?
I wouldn't say it's a problem, frankly. I mean, if you were somehow in level 80 content using shire gear, yeah that might be a problem (but also virtually impossible to actually do) The shire gear will last you until 70 where you can replace it - and if you get any replacements in the mean time in dungeons, that helps all the more.
If you're in a level 67-70 dungeon, you would have to probably pull one group at a time instead of multiple ones, because the healer might not be able to keep you alive otherwise.
oh no baby what is you doin
I'm confused what tombstone used for
I have another video all about tomestones, but in essence you use them to buy better gear
I just started realm reborn is there any jobs available in the free trial that uses a scythe as a weapon.
The botanist, a gathering job, I suppose? For combat, you'll need to wait for Reaper, with Endwalker. For the time being, there are various scythe glamours for like BLM and DRG I think? But they are cash shop items these days I think
@@SilverMont oh well I’ll wait on the reaper job I should be caught up by time the 2 new jobs drop with end walker expansion. I’ll just power up my paladin for now, thanks for all the help.
I'm level 70 Samurai where do I find skaven gear
Rhalgrs Reach, or Kugane, right by the crystal in the latter. You may need to have cleared the lvl 70 quest, "Stormblood" too
I'll take the second option for 200 please.
So is this game still really active? I've been considering picking it up, but whenever I pick up online, mmo-like games, I usually end up picking em up at the end of its online "lifespan".
I don't know the behind-the-scenes numbers, but as far as I'm aware, XIV has been on an incline for several years now, and Shadowbringers was really popular amongst players and reviewers both.
That, and I can tell you that my server at least is absolutely packed, there's usually a 15-20 person q to log-in whenever I do (which thankfully just takes a few seconds)
@@SilverMont that is awesome to hear! I think I'm definitely gonna pick that game up then
It’s really alive and booming man the problem you’ll get is that the massive amount of story ahead of you before catching up to the current expansion. I’m literally talking about 100+ hours and I’m not even exaggerating, burnout is your enemy.
Silvermont, not related to this video but I was wondering if you had tried Risk of Rain 2. I highly recommend it!
I have indeed, I got a review of it up on the channel somewhere
is it even worth getting lvl 50 items or wait till 60 or 70 as a samurai
It's worth getting 50 / 60 / 70 etc, you can generally skip the levels in-between if you want to. Just make sure you're getting the high ilvl stuff, like Ironworks at 50. The difference between minimum and maximum ilvl can be tens of thousands of HP
@@SilverMont thank you sir
@@SilverMont since im leveling so fast shouldn't i just save tomes for the 70 set? instead of restarting every 10 levels?
Are you going through the story? Because you might end up lacking stats and ilvl for story fights. Generally I'd say it's good to swap every 10 levels because of the huge ilvl gaps, and poetics are handed out like candy!
i just saw ur 7 year old video from gta!!
Which one? I had a bunch of those haha
it’s the one where Michael gets stuck in Franklin’s house
Ah that one!
You kinda sound like Daniel Radcliffe.
Oh dear
Man, I wish MMOs would tone down their HUD. Too much clutter...
XIV's hud is quite customisable, so you could probably make a "minimalistic" version if you wanted. Hell, I think you can even turn the HUD off entirely and still use hotkeys.
To be fair, while I dont know about outher MMOs, you dont _actually_ have to have all that stuff on screen all times. Like, the things that I actually look at my hud are the skill hotbar at the bottom of the screen with the boss health/cast bars directly above them, and the party list on the top left IF I need to interact with other players (e.g. I need to heal them). So while I have other things on, like a minimalist inventory on the corner, minimap, quest list, enemy list, 80% of the time I'm looking at two specific zones of the screen, ao in practice the screen doesnt actually feel cluttered
And besides that, you can actually turn off all that stuff, its just on for convenience
@@SilverMont but wouldn't you be less efficient if you did so?
Hmm... Depends on how much you took off. You'd have less info like health bars and the like, but I think it's doable if you were so inclined
@@SilverMont Hmmm, I suppose I just want an mmo without arcadey combat and have been spoiled by the Souls games' combat/hud for so long.
Time for u to buy some newer games to make videos
I bought Cyberpunk but it kinda sucks. I'll get around to reviewing it eventually, probably.
Literally no builds in this game lmaoo
Yeah, builds aren't really a thing in XIV
This game is so fucking confusing for no reason
It has like ten years of systems, some of which have multiple layered versions. I imagine it can be a bit much for a new player. Fortunately, there's a lot of guides out there!