Why is my damage so low?

[Bacent]

Also when you're sync'd below your level your materia doesn't work at all either.

[Amnmaat]

As others explained, potency doesn't translate to damage.

Not sure how far int he story you are but when you finish the "main" Main story you can start buying Ironworks gear at Mor dhona (merchants area). Ironworks is the best you can until you make it to Heavensward (unless you buy crafted gear at the market board). Also make sure you do your level 50 Paladin quest, they will give you really good level 50 gear (Ironworks is better though).

PS. Make sure to ask questions in Novice Network (ask in shout chat for someone to invite you if you're not in it yet).

[Hasrat]

As others explained, potency doesn't translate to damage.

Not sure how far int he story you are but when you finish the "main" Main story you can start buying Ironworks gear at Mor dhona (merchants area). Ironworks is the best you can until you make it to Heavensward (unless you buy crafted gear at the market board). Also make sure you do your level 50 Paladin quest, they will give you really good level 50 gear (Ironworks is better though).

PS. Make sure to ask questions in Novice Network (ask in shout chat for someone to invite you if you're not in it yet).

Can't remember if this is the case with Ironworks. You've likely been through more recently and may know better anyway, and it's been so long for me I could be remembering wrong. But seem to feel like you can walk up and buy whenever, or at least as soon as you're 50. Though I do know that changed with Shire in HW, so, might be that I'm wrong.

[Mhaeric]

Can't remember if this is the case with Ironworks. You've likely been through more recently and may know better anyway, and it's been so long for me I could be remembering wrong. But seem to feel like you can walk up and buy whenever, or at least as soon as you're 50. Though I do know that changed with Shire in HW, so, might be that I'm wrong.

You have to have completed the quest up to a certain point for the merchant to appear which I believe is completion of the quest that takes you through The Praetorium. The new Rowena's Representative NPCs you can find near major city aetherytes don't show up until you do at any rate, and I think they have the same requirement.

[Jojoya]

Can't remember if this is the case with Ironworks. You've likely been through more recently and may know better anyway, and it's been so long for me I could be remembering wrong. But seem to feel like you can walk up and buy whenever, or at least as soon as you're 50. Though I do know that changed with Shire in HW, so, might be that I'm wrong.

Unless they changed it in with the revamp, you don't unlocked the ability to earn tomestones until you've completed the 2.0 MSQ. You don't even get tomestones for your first runs through Castrum and Praetorium even though they're level 50 dungeons.

[Legion88]

Unless they changed it in with the revamp, you don't unlocked the ability to earn tomestones until you've completed the 2.0 MSQ. You don't even get tomestones for your first runs through Castrum and Praetorium even though they're level 50 dungeons.

You get tomestones as soon as you reach level 50 and do content that rewards tomestones like the roulettes, also your first cleares of Castrum and Praetorium. You just cant use them till you completed "The Ultimate Weapon" and unlock the vendors.

[Hasrat]

You get tomestones as soon as you reach level 50 and do content that rewards tomestones like the roulettes, also your first cleares of Castrum and Praetorium. You just cant use them till you completed "The Ultimate Weapon" and unlock the vendors.

I'm only slightly put out that y'all made me put this to the test. And I don't think this is new. I ran ARR back during 3.x, and I remember my slow ass getting poetics from beast tribes (yes, you also get them from beast tribes prior to 50), so I was fully decked out by the time I hit Castrum.

[LaughingBanana]

Also when you're sync'd below your level your materia doesn't work at all either.

Huh.

Is this only character level or itemlevel as well?

[ReiMakoto]

Huh.

Is this only character level or itemlevel as well?

Item sync as well, its why ultimate bis uses gear released at the time a lot of the time, because by equipping higher ilvl gear will lose the materia. An "advantage" of ilvl sync is that your substats get sync'd to the cap of that item level tier.

I.E. if you have boots with 120 crit and 80 det, if you're sync'd to a level where the substat cap is 60, your boots will have 60/60 crit/det, despite the boots having less det natively.
Sometimes this is better than having access to your materia, sometimes it is worse, back in SB it was demonstrably worse for tanks as they would lose the bonus strength materia. Its also more clearly worse in situations where you meld for stat tiers like with skillspeed, where if your gear has little SS natively and you meld to make up the difference, losing those melds with an item level sync sucks.