Preparing for Coil

[Versiroth]

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.

Good to know. I'm currently new myself, but I've been trying to research what I should be doing. Heck, I still haven't even ran WP or AK. Though I did just turn 50 yesterday. So far, I started the Relic quest (I'm up to the AK part) and I ran CM 2 times and bought DL boots. I'm planning on running AK and WP tonight.

Oh, I also beat Ifrit, but no weapon and I'll have to do it again once I get to that part of the Relic quest. Good times.

[Akuha]

Thanks for the replies and info. Currently I'm still grinding WP for tomes, I just wanted to get a ballpark estimate of how long I'd be doing it for before I could move on to Coil. Honestly speaking I wasn't going to attempt it until I had relic +1 and about half i90.

[zdub303]

I tanked through turn 4 with full darklight and relic +1. That is all you need until twintania, although of course gear always helps. Twintania is a hard gear check, requiring probably half i90 I would guess. At least a minimum of i80 average gear level.

I used rose gold jewelry, but you can also just use DL jewelry and be fine. Hope that helps. A good group can absolutely destroy coil, it's not that hard at all and probably serves as a good stepping stone for people new to endgame raid-like content.

[ufufu]

Gear is important, but for the love of god, watch some fight walkthroughs or kill videos before you head into coil. Knowing the fights is half the battle.

[Esrahadon]

Honestly speaking I wasn't going to attempt it until I had relic +1 and about half i90.

While I wouldnt call that "overkill" for turns 1-2, its more than necessary and you could be downing 1-2, possibly 4, and getting upgrades in the time that you are saving Myth for more 90 pieces.

[Lemon8or]

Yeah PLD can tank turn 4 in Darklight and Relic+1 but it puts strain on healer. Our group also uses War+Pld combo instead of 2 Plds so I'm gonna need some gears to tank turn 4 before the 2.1 patch. We still have 2 weeks to try it before people start taking off for vacations and holidays. It's not that big of a deal really since we're mostly casuals with jobs and schools, etc. and I'm not dead set on tanking turn 4 before the patch.

[SiinZ]

DL gear + relic.. have fun!

[Umo]

Note that Darklight gear you may acquire has a three-week shelf life stamped on every piece.

[Ulathskullsplitter]

As most have said, full DL and relic to get started. Or if you are patient or maybe dont want to farm the tomes for full DL you can wait 3 weeks for 2.1 and get crystal tower ilvl80 gear and be more than ready for coil then. Which is how it was meant to be anyways.

[zdub303]

As most have said, full DL and relic to get started. Or if you are patient or maybe dont want to farm the tomes for full DL you can wait 3 weeks for 2.1 and get crystal tower ilvl80 gear and be more than ready for coil then. Which is how it was meant to be anyways.

Pretty much this. CT gear + increased cap on myth tomes will trivialize turns 1-4 pretty quick if you're at all worried about it. If you have a static, get your darklight and just take a few stabs at it for fun. This game doesnt have a death penalty so nothing wrong with just giving it a few tries!