The Removal of Item Level 90 Gear

[Tiggy]

OK so I'm a brand new player. I just dinged 50 and I walk up fresh to dungeons with my AF set. My intention is to run all content at least once. At any point along the way if I get caught by an iLv limit use the existing soldiery obtained to buy something to help buff iLvl.

Step 1: Buy inexpensive accessories to fill out my ride side. Using cash obtained selling allagan coins from quest rewards
Step 2: Buy GC weapon.

At this point you're going to be right around iLv50.

Step 3: Run all the dunegeons.
- The Wanderer's Palace (Level 50) (50)
- Amdapor Keep (Level 50)
- Copperbell Mines (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 48)
- Haukke Manor (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 48)
- Pharos Sirius (Level 50) (iLvl 48)
- Halatali (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 55)
- Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 55)
- The Lost City of Amdapor (Level 50) (iLvl 55)


-- At this point your gear from random drops should have you at least in the 60's and possibly early 70's. --

Step 4: Upgrade relic weapon. You are now geared enough this shouldn't be a problem. Possible temporary weapon upgrades along the way. You can probably mix and match this and step 3 together as you see fit.

-- At this point you have an i90 weapon and assorted gear above i50. You're probably in the i70s by now easily, and probably ready for the expert dungeons. --

Step 5: Unlock the Labyrinth of the Ancients (Level 50) (iLvl 55). Obtain i80 piece.

Step 6: Run Syrcus Tower (Level 50) (iLvl 70). Obtain i100 piece.

Step 7: Run new Expert dungeons and possibly obtain some i90 gear tokens for turn in.
- Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 70)
- Stone Vigil (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 70)
- Hullbreaker Isle (Level 50) (iLvl 70)
- Sastasha (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 80)
- The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) (Level 50) (iLvl 80)
- Snowcloak (Level 50) (iLvl 80)

-- At this point you're probably in the i90s. Maybe even further than that based on your luck. --
Step 8: Ultima for possible accessories.

Step 9: Run Ex primals ifrit, garuda, and Titan. This get's you both experience in tougher fights and good accessories to upgrade your right side. Also your first completion gives you another weapon giving you an option to skip the relic step if you're gutsy.

Step 10: Run First Coil through once.

Step 11: Use Soldiery and Poetics gained from doing each dungeon once to fill out holes in gear. You'll likely have a bunch of points by now.

Step 12: Start practicing and looting Second coil and running weekly dungeons. This will get you your baseline i110 gear and start moving you to i120.

Step 13: Full on end game.

The only way this is a grind is if you consider doing all level 50 content at least once a grind. I consider that to be part of experiencing the game. As far as I see it you'll easily have good gear by the time your run everything at least once, and likely you'll have i100+ before you even start trying to play with coil 2. There are so many ways to double dip to loot up multiple slots very quickly, and in my above list I didn't even touch hunts or sand/oil farming.

This isn't a big deal.