Preparing for Coil

[Akuha]

I'm curious, what would be the recommended gear layout for starting to get into Coil?

[Keyblade]

Its really easy to prep for coil. If your only at the point where your not even half mythology gear i90 . Just uninstall now. Your to behind the curve and no serious group will take you. You will need to lie your way in.

[Scribe]

just make sure you're wearing 80% darklight (ilvl70) or better and you're good to go

Edit: this isn't exact, just a rough recommendation if I had to give one.

[NeonC]

Full DL and relic is a nice start if you don't already have more. Our FC has pug'd all kinds of geared players from AK + primal to i80+ , though it does not always work out.

[Ri_ri]

Full DL, Relic and an additional ilvl 70/60 ring I suppose.

I've only done T1 though.

[Vezzian]

just make sure you're wearing 80% darklight (ilvl70) or better and you're good to go

Edit: this isn't exact, just a rough recommendation if I had to give one.

^this plus relic.

There are many people just getting to coil and many more on their way up so please ignore the troll.

[Versiroth]

I'm right there with you. From what I've seen...

- Buy the lvl 50 grand company weapon (ilvl 55)
- Finish your Job quest line.
- Finish the game to unlock the relic quest.
- Start your Relic Quest as a lot of the stuff you'll need will be gotten as you're doing the level 50 content.
- Do Amdapor Keep, Wonderer's Palace to max out on Myth Tomestones.
- Do Castrum Meridianum...a LOT, as it give you 100 Tomestone of Philosophy per run.
- Do Ifrit Hardmode to try out for the Ifrit weapon.
- Use the Phil Tomes to buy Darklight gear.
- Do Garuda Hardmode for relic quest and to try out for Garuda weapon
- Do Titan Hardmode (You'll need Garuda Weapon plus mostly Darklight I've been told).
- Spend 900 Phil tomes to finish up Relic weapon quest.
- Spend 900 Myth tomes to upgrade Relic to +1.
- Spend Myth on Artifact + 1 armor.


By this time, you'll have your Relic +1 and mostly full Darklight/Some Myth gear. You should be ready for Coil.... Jesus that's a lot of stuff, am I right?

[Luso]

Darklight and Myth is the recommended gear layout for Coil.
If you are still using wp/ak gear you will probably slow a coil group down.

Make sure you have enough accuracy to take on the monsters in coil. For turn 1-3 having darklight is recommended. Beyond turn 3, upgrading out of darklight is recommended.
Use foods, potions, and review strategies to help give you an upper-hand for the fights. With enough practice, an undergeared player can do coil, but will slow the party down.

[Esrahadon]

For turns 1-3 (really its 1-2, because 3 is a joke) you should look at being (like most of the other people in this thread have said) 90% or full darklight, with your relic (or relic+1, preferably, depending on class). For turn 4 if you want to pull your own weight you should have at the very least a few 90 pieces other than your relic, and if you're using any crafted gear, get at least 3 materia of your most efficient/desired stat into them.

For tanks I would also highly suggest food for all turns, even 1/2, if you are just starting out. Some strategies I've seen players do require you to have more gear to work effectively, it comes down to the individual groups at the point.

[Lemon8or]

- Do Castrum Meridianum...a LOT, as it give you 100 Tomestone of Philosophy per run.
- Spend 900 Myth tomes to upgrade Relic to +1.
- Spend Myth on Artifact + 1 armor.

Keep running Wanderer's Palace instead of Castrum as that is faster and not many people run Castrum nowadays, still gives 100 philosophy tomes. Also you don't need AF+1 armor or Relic+1. My FC group runs with people with full DL and Relic. Though we'll need major upgrade for turn 4 that we just got to see last weekend.