Point in gearing up?

Hello Everyone,

I recently just got back into the game, I'm sitting around 430 item level( It seems 530ish is max?). I was just wondering besides End game raiding what other reasons is there to gear up? I might dabble in a bit of raiding but beyond that I cant find a reason as to what being well geared will do for me? Dungeons are synced so I cant see that. Any feedback would help ( I guess I'm looking for a reason to grind this gear). Also besides Resistance weps and raiding what else is there to do Endgame? Is there something similar to mythic dungeons from wow?

Right now I'm gearing up for the next expansion. If it follows the normal gearing, that gear will be better than most of the gear in Endwalker for a good deal of 6.0.

Plus it gives something extra to do while waiting for it to launch. Mythic dungeons do not exist here and from what I've heard about them, I'm glad they don't.

At this point in the game gearing up is still mostly a thing for raids. The lack of high end combat content has been a recurrent issue, and there still is nothing similar to mythic dungeons.

I've personally been dabbling in hoh/potd solo as of late and you need a good deal of knowledge on mobs and pulls which might make it look like mythic dungeons. It's very fun but it's still solo and you don't have your full kit available.

Hopefully we get some fresh combat content with Endwalker.

There is a lot of content you can't do at 430. For example Tower of Paradigm's Breach is ilv 495. Pretty easy to gear doesn't take that long to cap. You could buy gear as well a crafted set isn't all that expensive and can let you upgrade to 520.

If you do not participate in savage or ultimate fights really there is no reason other than personal want to gear up all the way to ilvl 530 (the highest you can get right now until 6.0 launches). There is no mythic plus raiding equivalent in this game. "Endgame" here is what you make of it, whether it be gearing up or hunting for glamors, mount farming, crafting/gathering/fishing etc.

I'm just going for stuff that looks cool. I've got the tomes, so why not? I can turn it in for augmented versions once EW drops.

I'd gear at least one job in full i520, so that you can be a step ahead of the general crafted level 81 gear that quests will be handing to you next expansion. In general, the next expansions quest rewards will be 15 ilvls lower than the highest ilvl currently available. SE likes to stick to the trend, so far, so no harm in getting ready!

You'll need to be geared up to (from memory) i465 to complete the "second finale" of Shadowbringers in patch 5.3, and higher to access the dungeons for the patches after that. The highest you need to go for current non-raiding content, as mentioned earlier in the thread, is i495 for the newest alliance raid.

Beyond that, you can keep gearing up if you want a head start on gear in Endwalker, or you can leave it and just plan to pick up the free probably-i515 gear that the 6.0 MSQ will inevitably throw at you.

I would suggest either doing the first step of the Resistance Weapons questline for a free i485 weapon, or just buying an Exarchic one, and working on unlocking content - particularly MSQ, Eden and NieR - that will all give you some amount of free gear in addition to tomes so you can start purchasing the Crystarium and Cryptlurker tome sets.

No reason besides unlocking duty requirements, endgame raiding and contributing more to your team wherever there isn't an item level synch. Gearing for next expansion isn't too difficult, there are a range of easy options to grab 510-530 loot.

It has the advantage over WoW that gear is not an endless grind for tier pieces and legendries and artifact powers and what not to try and keep up with your friends and guild. It's more relaxed and you can gear an alt for Savage in reasonable time.

Sadly we don't have Mythic+ dungeons.

Hi there!

Just some general information for how the game has handled past expansions for your planning:

1) Kind of echoing what has been said but you never ever need to gear up unless you plan to engage in certain content.

2) As the expansion comes to a close, the final gear sets are typically the same power level as the first three dungeons of the expansion:
>Final Alliance Raid is typically equal to drops in the first dungeon of the new expansion. (1 level in)
>Final Augmented Tomestone series is typically equal to those of the second dungeon. (3 levels in)
>Final 8-man Raid is typically equal or near the third dungeon. (5 levels in)

3) As always, you can expect to get gear as you progress the MSQ, or alternatively worst case there will be NPC vendors that sell gear appropriate to get you into the first dungeon.



NOTE: Obviously I don't know if there will be adjustments, but this has been the pattern since 2.0 went to 3.0.