Vocabulary o wo

[Camalott]

1: You are correct. It refers to different stages for the Coil of Bahaumut, an endgame raid.

2: Again, correct. The SATA moniker is grandfathered from FFXI where THF had that combo.

3: Parsing is not authorized as far as I know, but it is a third party program installed on a PC that allows you to actively monitor target output. In most cases, damage. People use parsers to test rotations to see which is most effective.

4: It does mean Global Cooldown as you said. In a nutshell, there are two kinds of abilities. GCD and Off GCD. If you click an ability and a bunch of others become temporarily greyed out for about 2.5 seconds - it's a GCD move. Its a unified cooldown shared globally with several other abilities. Off GCD are moves that have their own cooldown and are usually much longer than 2.5 seconds or so.

5: Correct. These are usually in reference to your Off GCD (oGCD) abilities. These are important because people tend to weave these in between GCD abilities.

Example: As a MNK, Bootshine and Twin Snakes are GCD. I do one, wait 2 someodd seconds, then do the other. I have a 2 second dead period there. I have Internal Release as one of my CD's. I can use it even if my GCD is occupied. I can use it in that 2 second period.

6: Correct again. Once you hit 50, the logical way we level is with better gear, which is where iLvl comes into play. All equipment has a physical level (what level is required to equip it) and an iLvl which is sometimes higher than the required level. Your iLvl is an average of all of your gear currently equipped.

When you hit endgame you will start to get Tomes of Soldierly which can be used to purchase iLvl100 gear up in Revenant's Toll. You will also get higher iLvl gear drops in endgame dungeons. Where to go and what to do really depends on your class/job. I actually don't know what happened to the AF2 stuff that you used to buy with Tomes of Mythology. Assuming they are now dungeon drops too and went the way of Darklight (iLvl 70) gear.

I believe iLvl 135 is the new cap with 2.4. Also, you can start your relic weapon quests one you hit the endgame which are tons of (sarcastic) fun. You don't generally buy weapons once you hit the endgame. You earn them or you find them as loot.