Doing 50 content before moving onto HW, is 115 ilvl enough?

[Mkei]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/14282607/

As title says, I want to do ARR endgame stuff before moving on to HW.

I currently run a mix of 90 Job quest gear and 115 HW HQ whites. I dont have any melds, they might not be worth the investment pre-60, so how far can I get with this setup?

Edit: Apparently, my actual score is *98.

[Chiramu]

The first HW dungeon is Dusk Vigil and I think people like newbies in 115 gear, you should be able to buy NQ from the vendor maybe. Also the HQ quest rewards too.
I think you should be fine to go when you get to HW content.

[DragonSlayer45]

If you want to do the actual old endgame stuff before HW, like Extreme primals and Coil, you will need a minimum iLv of 123. If you're just doing story, i90 is the bare minimum to tackle all the required trials and dungeons.

[Chiramu]

If you want to do the actual endgame stuff before HW, like Extreme primals and Coil, you will need a minimum iLv of 123.

The DF tells you the minimum ilvl for those duties.

[Alistaire]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/14282607/

As title says, I want to do ARR endgame stuff before moving on to HW.

I currently run a mix of 90 Job quest gear and 115 HW HQ whites. I dont have any melds, they might not be worth the investment pre-60, so how far can I get with this setup?

Edit: Apparently, my actual score is *98.

If you can get your hands on a crafter you'll find making these 115's is dirt cheap. Sometimes you'll find stuff on market reasonably priced as well. Get what you can, then get what you can get made made, then spend poetics on 120's to fill the rest out. You'll get 120+ in lv 51+ dungeons so don't focus on poetics where you can get cheap crafted 115's.

And keeping your weapon up to date is 10x more important than any other slot.

And you'll often find it's hard to get people wanting to do "ARR endgame" without just plowing through it unsynched.

i98 average can get rough especially if your main class listed here is what you're playing. Tanks lacking gear is much more noticeable than other roles.

[AlphaFox]

Also if your doing dungeons you can always hit Mor Dhona and turn those tomes into ilv 120 gear.

[Mkei]

Seems like I can also save up for 220 greens. I'm close to 55 right now, and its been almost tragically easy for me to level up even without stepping into HW. Getting to 60 without leaving ARR doesnt sound so far-fetched atm.

[Belhi]

If your doing roulettes and so forth it really isn't that hard to hit 60 without entering HW.

That said, you won't have access to any of your new Job skills until you reach HW and start the new Job quests.

[Alistaire]

And if you aren't even getting HW why bother? You're limited to lv 50 in all the dungeons/raids/trials anyway. I don't get it.

[Evangela]

Enough, but at least get the i120 Magitek weapon in Mor Dhona.