Importance of Gear

[Avatre]

Yea not gonna lie, I didn't find out until last night were a vendor was for those and by the time I even noticed that was a thing I was capped on tomestones lol

Pretty much, just buy the tomestone gear for each expansion as you unlock it, and that will carry you roughly to X5 for the next expansion. After that, upgrade what you get from dungeons, and you will basically be fine until you reach endgame. At that point, just spend the capped tomestones on your class of choice(if you decide to change from BRD), and just grab whatever to desynth/sell to GC/materials to sell on MB with the other currencies.

[Colt47]

You can clear the normal content by rolling your forehead over your keyboard.
No, it doesn't matter. Gear only matters in the content you actually get it from (Savage and extremes) Which usually boils down to the current 4 savage fights and an extreme.
You just have to roll your forehead over your keyboard a bit less in normal content once you get better gear.
FF's endgame is very shallow compared to that of some other MMO's unfortunately, and a lot more niche than in, say, World of Warcraft. Where the endgame is the main appeal, and where the game begins.

It is probably a good thing end-game in FFXIV is niche because it has all the elitism of MMOs like World of Warcraft, but likes to keep it bottled up instead of having it explode all over the place.

[Renalt]

If tanking/Healing I would say keep your gear around 5 levels of the dungeon. If level 75 dungeon the stuff at level 70 you get from poetics will be fine. Beyond that you might want to put on anything you pick up in current dungeon if you win anything. If not try to get at least 3 pieces before moving to the next.

If DPS...not as important but you will be slowing things down for the others. Poetics can do the job well enough till the next Poetic set but much like I said before...any pieces won you may as well chuck it on. However Poetic is stronger than the early set of dungeons and is roughly even in the 5s. Example being Poetic 50 gear is pretty much even with level 55 gear. Beyond that take the new stuff and wear it.

[GoatOfWar]

It is probably a good thing end-game in FFXIV is niche because it has all the elitism of MMOs like World of Warcraft, but likes to keep it bottled up instead of having it explode all over the place.

On the flip side, it also means there's very little to do for people who aren't into social or hypercasual faceroll content. There isn't even any midcore content in this game, and it's helping nobody.
There isn't really any reason to not be supportive of a healthy endgame environment.

[Ranaku]

You can clear the normal content by rolling your forehead over your keyboard.
No, it doesn't matter. Gear only matters in the content you actually get it from (Savage and extremes) Which usually boils down to the current 4 savage fights and an extreme.
You just have to roll your forehead over your keyboard a bit less in normal content once you get better gear.
FF's endgame is very shallow compared to that of some other MMO's unfortunately, and a lot more niche than in, say, World of Warcraft. Where the endgame is the main appeal, and where the game begins.

That is so SO wrong. I had a couple days ago a whitemage healing with a HW relic in a ShB dungeon. It mattered, very much so. When all of the sudden your heals are only half as potent.

[GoatOfWar]

That is so SO wrong. I had a couple days ago a whitemage healing with a HW relic in a ShB dungeon. It mattered, very much so. When all of the sudden your heals are only half as potent.

You don't even need healers in dungeons.

[ZephyrMenodora]

It's not super important but you will have people complaining that your in 83lvl gear in a 85-86lvl dungeon. More so if you're tanking. About halfway or so between leveling in expansions is a good time to update your gear. Post lvl expansion item sync is more then enough for non savage+.

I have never seen anyone inspect a player who is met in the leveling roulette and care if their gear is from the prior dungeon and the highest level it can be before the dungeon being run. Lol. What hyperbole.

[Bsrking5]

I have never seen anyone inspect a player who is met in the leveling roulette and care if their gear is from the prior dungeon and the highest level it can be before the dungeon being run. Lol. What hyperbole.

Congratulations?

[Iscah]

You don't even need healers in dungeons.

Maybe if you have a competent, well geared team and/or depending on the dungeon. Some dungeons hit remarkably hard.

[kaynide]

In the vaguest sense, as long as you have ilvl required to do a dungeon, you are qualified to do the dungeon. Generally people won’t care as long as you make some effort to keep gear relatively up to date.

If you are nervous about it, just do it with NPCs and re-equip with dungeon drops. All the drops for you, and no complaining players! Win win.

Final raid or tomestone gear from each expac will generally last until the 3rd dungeon (so 65/75/85), where you can replace with drops from said dungeon.