New Player: How do I gear for BLM and RDM?

[Frizze]

Yeah, youll be swimming in tomestones soon enough. Every level 50 dungeon raid and trial gives you some, the first time you do most of said dungeons trials and raids you get a bonus of a bunch extra, most of the roulettes give you more, then once you get to 60 the dungeons raids and trials will give more, the first time bonuses will be even more, and thats on top of other methods you could acquire them. As was mentioned, most beast tribes offer a small few of them for doing their daily quests, you can find them inside some chests if you get a map and go treasure hunting, and a couple other methods too.

To the original questions, dont worry too much about gear yet. The way the game is set up, gear levels slowly increase as you level up. Then when you get to a cap level(50, 60, 70 for ARR, HW, and SB respectively) they shoot up by a great deal(at the end of the HW story you likely have an ilvl approaching 150, by the beginning of the stormblood story its jumped all the way close to 260 - then going through the stormblood story gets you to roughly 290... we'll see how high we get before they get to 5.0). Safest course of action is to do your quests, and buy upgrades with tomes as you can afford them at the cap levels(tome gear will be basically the best at cap levels), and keep an eye on dungeon drops to see if its better or worse then what you already have. And if you feel like your gear is sub-par, the most important piece to upgrade is your weapon. It makes the biggest difference in your performance.

As for glamours, do the level 50 quest in Revenants Toll to unlock the system. Crafters can make glamour prisms at level 30(though you need to level one up to 50 to get the recipes), but you can also buy them from people off the market board. Either use the cast glamour ability from the menu, or right click the item you want to change and cast glamour. Itll show you the options you have on hand(it doesnt check retainer inventory), and what kind of prism is needed(for instance to make a robe appear to be a leather armor you probly need a leather prism). You can only apply glamours that can be equipped by the class on the gear(so no making your BLM robe look like a dragoon only set of mail), and you cant make something appear to be higher level then it is(no putting a level 300 glamour on a level 50 armor - the game has several sets of glamour only gear and all are level 1 and so can be applied to anything). Also, you can only use originals to make glamours(in other words, keep the good looking items stashed somewhere if you think you might want to use them again, a duplicate will not suffice). Once the glamour is cast, for all intents and purposes that is the new appearance of that gear, and every time you put it on it will appear as such. You can use a glamour dispeller to remove a glamour from an item, which is required if you decide you want to do a new glamour instead. So real world example. You find a robe you like the look of. You get an upgrade you dont like, and glamour the old robe on top of it. Now you have new stats with the old appearance. Later on you get another ugly upgrade, you can glamour the new one to look like the original too. Later you find a new look you like but with either bad or no stats, you can either replace the glamour on what youre already wearing(via a dispell and a new cast) or wait for your next upgrade to come along and put the new look on the new gear.

[KilimYolo]

Another *smart* question:
Gear I got by purchasing lvl 60 BLM i will be able to use on RDM when it reaches lvl 60, right?

[Niwashi]

now a level 44 Black Mage and was wondering how do I actually get good gear in this game or how do I progress my gear? My average item level right now is 34 but I see all sorts of things showing item levels at over 200 and 300. O.o

Item level 34 when you're 44 is getting a little behind. I'd suggest checking either the Market Board or your Grand Company quartermaster for something in the 40's. (You'll get significant upgrades to your hat, gloves, pants, and shoes from your level 45 job quest, so don't spend too much on those four slots, but you might have a little trouble completing that quest if all your gear is 10 levels below you. Upgrade other slots, but just upgrade those 4 if it's cheap.)

Up until you hit level 50, the level you need to equip gear and that gear's Item Level stay fairly close to the same thing. There are a few particularly good pieces where the Item Level is slightly higher, but never by much. That changes at level 50, since that was the game's first level cap.

At 50, SE not only started with multiple levels of gear to be rewarded by increasingly tough content, but they continued bringing in new and ever stronger gear with each patch that was added. But since level 50 was the level cap at that point, all that gear shares that same required level to equip it. Though players going through it at the time as each came out went through a series of upgrades, you can now skip most of them and jump right from the item level 90 gear you get for your class quests (originally, we just got item level 50 and one piece of 55 from those quests) to the level 130 gear you can get with tomestones of poetics. With ARR content taking item levels so far above equippable levels, Heavensward started out with a major difference between the two even for its leveling content, and at its level cap of 60 the same thing happened, with another long series of upgrades most of which you can skip over now.

The result is a pattern of huge jumps in item levels whenever you hit one of the (former or current) level caps.

You get them automatically the moment you hit level 50 from the daily roulette's, or the higher dungeons, that you will have to run anyways to unlock the roulette's. Some of the daily beast tribes give out tome stones as well, starting at level 43? already I think, and then continue all the way till end game, that's another method if you chose to do that. However roulette's and the higher dungeons give the most tomes in comparison to other things.

A and S rank Hunts are another good source (also at levels 50/60/70). If you join an active hunt linkshell or a hunt train party that goes after one hunt mark after another after another, you can rack up quite a lot of tomes pretty quickly.

You can use a glamour dispeller to remove a glamour from an item, which is required if you decide you want to do a new glamour instead.

The dispeller is only required if you want to remove the glamour to get the item's natural appearance back. You can replace one glamour with another using just the glamour prism and item whose appearance you want. (You cannot, however, use a glamoured item as the appearance to transfer onto something else.)

[AphraelAmarantha]

Ok yeah, I kind of thought I was getting behind. I just bought some new stuff but I am still only at item level 38. If you look here, this is what I have. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/18294391/