Level 50+ Dungeon Order

[Mailstrum]

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.

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.

[CosmicOwl]

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.

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. ^^

[Archona]

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. ^^

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.