What is the "recommended" gear to enter each Turn of Binding Coil of Bahamut?

[AunaYuuki]

To be honest....my group did t1/t2 with a half AF geared warrior but we have all been friends a good while and we kept at it until like 6am est and everyone else was really geared. Most random groups or in general with all FC aside i'd say full DL (not including accessories) and a +1 relic (if you are DD). I have seen healers go through t1-t4 in pure AK gear but I wouldn't recommend it. Baseline in general speaking your gear should be fine. When we get crystal tower I am sure it will be easier for a good amount of players to get through with ilvl 80.

[Aedra]

As a healer, you need skill > gear in CoB.

If your avg Cure is 850+ it's enough. Full DL only give ~40 more avg heal, and hp, which doesn't need in CoB.

What you are lacking from full DL geared is mostly spell speed and MP Pool (which solved by your individual skill of MP management & Bard).

Though, if you want to do CoB, you should considering +1 first before AF Body.

[Kommunist]

It will depend on your learning curve, how geared are the rest of the group, and how smooth the fight goes. That being said, having more gear will allow more room for mistakes, if you run with a static group of people that you can rely upon especially the 2nd healer, then AK gear is more than sufficient. If you run with pick up groups, you would want as much gear as possible unless you start the raid group and this is also about respecting other people in the group who spent the effort in getting full DL.

From a PUG leader perspective, why would he/she take a lesser geared person claiming they are skilled than taking another geared person?

So to answer your question, your gear is more than sufficient to do BC.

[whiskeybravo]

It seems like you guys are recommending Relic +1 weapon over the AF2 chest piece and headgear. I'm just kinda curious why? I'm still working on relic, but saving up for AF2 head and body and skipping the DL robe of healing. There's only a 5pt boost from relic weapon to relic +1.. But almost 30pt boost for AF2 head and body gear (above AF1)

[Kommunist]

It seems like you guys are recommending Relic +1 weapon over the AF2 chest piece and headgear. I'm just kinda curious why? I'm still working on relic, but saving up for AF2 head and body and skipping the DL robe of healing. There's only a 5pt boost from relic weapon to relic +1.. But almost 30pt boost for AF2 head and body gear (above AF1)

Because weapon in this game is more than a stat stick, your heals is related to the 'Magic Damage' on the weapon and you get a much greater healing boost by getting the relic +1. Although I dont know the exact equation, but if you dig around you should be able to find it.

[Budi]

I beat the first 4 Turns in:
5 Strategos Gear (Belt, Hand, Feet, Ring, Necklace)
1 Vanya Gear (Body)
1 i55 Gear (Head)
4 Darklight Gear (Legs, Ring, Earrings, Wrist)
= Averaging an iLvl of 64.

I did the first 2 Turns with even worse gear though. (No Vanya Robe and no DL Legs).

[Taika]

As others have said, Coil isn't comparable to any other content in game at the moment. It's the first one where as a healer you have to actually focus on healing full time and manage your abilities and MP. Even though skill management is more important than gear, gear also helps a lot there. I would recommend getting at least AK gear in every slot, as much DL as possible and relic+1 weapon.

[HealBus]

Turn 1-4 isn't that gear intensive (double Bard lets you get away with undergeared healers) so DL with basic relic should get you through most of it. Memorizing when bosses are going to bend your tanks over is way way way more important.

[shauniquian]

it all depends on your group too... on my FC we have me(full dl & +1 relic) and another brd with AK gear and standard relic and we did t1-3 (maybe t4 swell but haven't checked how they progressed last night) but yeah it depends more on the group than yourself i think when it comes to heals...

[horaiyo]

Did turn 1 on my sch last week with a warlock helm, dl pants, dl wrist, 48 neck, strategos on everything else and a garuda wep. Granted, it took some furious key mashing to keep my tank alive after the split, but other than that it's pretty easy. I switched back to my smn for t2-4 after that, but I'm pretty sure I could do t2 in that setup as well. T4, definitely not though.