Level 50+ Dungeon Order

I'm a newly minted level 50, and after passing The Praetorium I've began to unlock the rest of the level 50 dungeons. I've seen a couple of non-forum discussions about what areas to attack, but I'm wondering if there is a consensus on what order I should run dungeons (on a scale of ilvl50 +).

I was thinking that this order may work:

The Praetorium>The Wanderer's Palace>The Crystal Tower>Amdapor Keep

I'm omitting all HM and EX primals and dungeons, as I've heard that those are both heavily item and skill dependent.

I would say dungeon-wise from easiest to hardest: WP-AK-HaukkeHM-MinesHM-CT(depending on competence of other aliances)-Pharos-Coil

Thanks for the input; it's interesting that you ranked AK before HaukkeHM and MinesHM. I've been using IGN's wiki for a lot (it's decently done), and their only real note of warning in regards to AK is that it's a huge gear check, so that's what has been moving me away from even attempting it any time soon.

AK got easier after 2.1 (I think) Even before that patch people used to speedrun it even with some undergeared people. It's really not difficult at all since people spammed this one for 4 months or so. If you get a pt with 4 new people for that dungeon it may be difficult however. The only real gear/dps check fight is the demon wall but thats really no issue anymore with alot of people ilvl 75+

As a fresh 50 your best bet for gearing up is:

Weapon : Grand Company Weapon -> Ifrit HM -> Moggle Mog -> Relic -> Zenith/Twintania/Extreme Modes
Armors: AF -> Darklight (CM/Praetorium runs) -> CT -> Coil
Belt/Jewelry: AK/WP stuff -> Darklight -> HQ Crafted (w Materia) -> CT/Ultima/Extreme Modes -> Coil

Basically your best bet is to chain run CM/Praetorium until full Darklight, maybe craft some jewelry or an armor piece if you're rich or just feel like it or depending on your class. You really don't need any gear from AK/WP/Hard Mode Dungeons at all anymore, people just run them for Mythology capping.

WP/AK now has ilvl 55 gear
Haukke Manor/Copperbell/Pharos Sirius have ilvl 60 gear
Darklight is ilvl 70.

HQ Crafted gear w full Melds is better than Darklight in most cases but the difference is miniscule and doesn't warrant the gil costs in my book, but don't let me stop you.

Order of difficulty:
CM/Praetorium -> HM Ifrit -> WP/AK/Copperbell -> Thornmarch -> CT -> Haukke Manor -> Pharos -> HM Garuda -> Ultima -> HM Titan -> Coil -> Extreme Modes

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Belt/Jewelry: AK/WP stuff -> Darklight -> HQ Crafted (w Materia) -> CT/Ultima/Extreme Modes -> Coil

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Belt/Jewelry: AK/WP stuff -> Darklight -> HQ Crafted (w Materia)/Ultima ->Extreme Modes/Coil

thats it, and dont forget mythology gear

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

Thanks for the input; it's interesting that you ranked AK before HaukkeHM and MinesHM. I've been using IGN's wiki for a lot (it's decently done), and their only real note of warning in regards to AK is that it's a huge gear check, so that's what has been moving me away from even attempting it any time soon.

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AK's demon wall can be a dps check but you are only in trouble is both dps are undergeared. Haukke's halicarnassus is more of a dps check. WP > AK > Haukke/Copperbell

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Originally Posted by Archona

As a fresh 50 your best bet for gearing up is:

Weapon : Grand Company Weapon -> Ifrit HM -> Moggle Mog -> Relic -> Zenith/Twintania/Extreme Modes
Armors: AF -> Darklight (CM/Praetorium runs) -> CT -> Coil
Belt/Jewelry: AK/WP stuff -> Darklight -> HQ Crafted (w Materia) -> CT/Ultima/Extreme Modes -> Coil

Basically your best bet is to chain run CM/Praetorium until full Darklight, maybe craft some jewelry or an armor piece if you're rich or just feel like it or depending on your class. You really don't need any gear from AK/WP/Hard Mode Dungeons at all anymore, people just run them for Mythology capping.

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why on earth spam CM and Praetorium??? just spam WP even at ilvl 55 this dungeon is crazy easy and nets you same tomes as CM/Prea. But much much faster. Just get a full set of ilvl 55 gear crafted its super cheap should cost you about 20k gil or 25k gil for a full set. Then you can start your WP farm till ful DL.

There is a good guide on reddit that gives a good idea what to do when if you don't know off hand: So You Just Hit Level 50 in Patch 2.1

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Originally Posted by Mailstrum

why on earth spam CM and Praetorium??? just spam WP even at ilvl 55 this dungeon is crazy easy and nets you same tomes as CM/Prea. But much much faster. Just get a full set of ilvl 55 gear crafted its super cheap should cost you about 20k gil or 25k gil for a full set. Then you can start your WP farm till ful DL.

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I'll check the auction houses later, unless this is something that I would need to contact a personal crafter regarding. I never really thought to replace my Artifact with ilvl55 gear… I was planning to grind to Darklight, but that makes sense.

Thank you to everyone who has replied thus far, your feedback is great and is helping me understand and craft a baseline plan of action moving forward. ^^

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Originally Posted by rabbitzero

There is a good guide on reddit that gives a good idea what to do when if you don't know off hand: So You Just Hit Level 50 in Patch 2.1

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I guess I finally found motivation to join Reddit-- thanks! :3

A piece of advice if you haven't unlocked all the dungeons already.

Only unlock WP to start with. Do Duty Roulette High Level, this will automatically put you in WP since Roulette only puts you in dungeons you have unlocked. 70 myth and 100 philo will make gearing for the harder stuff a LOT easier. Will have a lot of DL and myth within the week.

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Originally Posted by Nash20

A piece of advice if you haven't unlocked all the dungeons already.

Only unlock WP to start with. Do Duty Roulette High Level, this will automatically put you in WP since Roulette only puts you in dungeons you have unlocked. 70 myth and 100 philo will make gearing for the harder stuff a LOT easier. Will have a lot of DL and myth within the week.

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At the moment the only level 50 dungeons I have unlocked are WP, CM, and TP.

Man LET ME TELL YOU A SECRET. If you are a new tank you should def run CT. Some geared tank will take the main tank role and they will make you play off tank... wich could be made naked... its so easy. Almost no job and at the end you get 200 philo and 50 mytho wich is awesome. Also, you will get instat queues. Just pray you get an awesome team. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

I'll check the auction houses later, unless this is something that I would need to contact a personal crafter regarding. I never really thought to replace my Artifact with ilvl55 gear… I was planning to grind to Darklight, but that makes sense.

Thank you to everyone who has replied thus far, your feedback is great and is helping me understand and craft a baseline plan of action moving forward. ^^

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It did slip my mind last night that WP gives 100 Philos now, but I still personally wouldn't spend gil on ilvl55 crafted gear. It'll last you a couple of days at best before it is replaced. If you're going to spend gil, just spend it on the HQ ilvl70 stuff which will last you weeks if not months. You can run WP regularly as an alternative to CM/Praetorium but both runs will take about 20-30 minutes. Out of respect to others, I wouldn't consider "speedrunning" WP until you have your Darklight armors and a HM Primal weapon. Then again you can always form a premade via Party Finder and just farm with other players from your server. As someone mentioned above, you can also just get carried in CT for a piece of gear during your first week as a 50, its not hard to meet that ilvl requirement.

Either way, the runs are about the same time as a fresh 50, and you're gonna need 30-50 runs (depending on how much Darklight you want).

The ilvl55 crafted gear is an absolute waste of gil.

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Originally Posted by Ruri

I would say dungeon-wise from easiest to hardest: WP-AK-HaukkeHM-MinesHM-CT(depending on competence of other aliances)-Pharos-Coil

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Do NOT unlock Pharos if you are a fresh 50... The fact that its listed 2nd only to coils on this list means its something you want to avoid until the previous dungeons are on farm mode. (Heck I don't advise running Pharos until after you get relic... Which is sad because its gear drops won't be useful at that point).

PS: That list is pretty spot on for main tanks, but CT for off tanks is probably the easiest dungeon of them all since you don't really have o do anything but tank super weak mini-bosses or touching a pillar everyone now and then

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

Thanks for the input; it's interesting that you ranked AK before HaukkeHM and MinesHM. I've been using IGN's wiki for a lot (it's decently done), and their only real note of warning in regards to AK is that it's a huge gear check, so that's what has been moving me away from even attempting it any time soon.

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AK is not and never was hard. It was not much of a gear check and even before they nerfed it it was fairly easy to do in near fresh 50 gear.

Start off by getting some level 55 crafted gear to fill out your slots and then farm up WP. Once you get a couple pieces of darklight then if you want you can do some Ifrit or Garuda HM. You can do ifrit no problem at all without any darklight gear and for Garuda I would recommend you get two or three pieces but its not really needed.
As for difficulty I would rank them like this.

CM/Praetorium - WP - AK - HM Haukke - HM Ifrit - HM Copperbell - HM Garuda.

Thanks for the input! I've been bsing pretty hard these past couple days, and aside from doing my second Praetorium run (as off-tank) and some quests to unlock Crystal Tower, I haven't made much progress.

With all the feedback that I have been getting, I'm wondering… should I have some DL gear for WP? I have the DL plate belt, but that's about it right now.

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

With all the feedback that I have been getting, I'm wondering… should I have some DL gear for WP? I have the DL plate belt, but that's about it right now.

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My first few runs of wp I had no dl and my ilvl55 gc weapon...just ask the group to take it slow and you'll be fine :)

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

With all the feedback that I have been getting, I'm wondering… should I have some DL gear for WP? I have the DL plate belt, but that's about it right now.

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Take into consideration WP (and AK as well now) drops l55 gear, so it's supposed to be an upgrade to what you have. It's supposed to be run by a fresh 50 in AF, and honestly when I first ran it I was in such gear and never encountered any problem. :)