Fastest 230 ilevel

[Albinosmurfs]

So I'm 52 pushing for 60 for Stormblood but a friend told me the prequests require a 230 item level. Is there a short way to get it compared to just grinding days of dungeons?

[MistakeNot]

Some things you can do while leveling is:
Do the Heavensward hunts. Not only will you earn Exp, thus helping you level, but the Centurio Seals can be used to buy a full set of i200 gear and upgrade it to i210. Not quite the same as i230 gear, but a good starting point.
Run Palace of the Dead. This can give you an i235 weapon fairly easily, and if you keep running it you can upgrade that weapon to i255.
If you have some Silver Chochobo Feathers (gained as part of Recruit a Friend campaign - if you don't already have them it is too late to get them) you can exchange 5 of them for chest and leg pieces of i230 armour.

The rest will have to wait until you reach level 60.
Do daily roulettes and take advantage of first-time bonus of level 60 dungeons (and spam dungeons later on) to earn tomestones.
Participate in Rank A and Rank S hunts at levelcap for tomestones.
Do Palace of the Dead at level cap for tomestones (and getting a better weapon if you aren't already i255)

[Driavna]

Crafting but I doubt you can afford it next option is PvP (ILvL 235).

[Chiramu]

Crafting but I doubt you can afford it next option is PvP (ILvL 235).

The crafted gear gets you to 255ilvl. You can always ask your FC if there is anyone who can give you a discount from the MB as well though.

[Faliandra]

get to 60 and do PvP...you get wolf marks from it which you can exchange for il 235 gear including a weapon.

[RLofOBFL]

The easiest way is probably to wait until Stormblood. They'll most likely update the level 60 quests with gear just like they did with Heavensward. The ilvl 90 and 110 gear were added in 3.0. So most likely they're gonna patch in the 240 lore gear into the 3.4 or 3.5 quests for 4.0.

[Khalithar]

Right now? Pvp for about a day. Get a full makai/garo set and by the time you do get enough marks, you'll have enough scriptures for a 260 ring. That will get your item level high enough to do all of the hw main story.

[Felis]

PvP to get Garo gear.

Once you have a whole set you get a title. You need to be lv 60 for it, because you have to equip the set to get the title.

If you win, with the title activated, 10 more Frontline runs, you get a mount

[Aramina]

Something I want to mention that I haven't seen yet.... Gear won't be your only (and maybe not even the main) concern. Not sure where you are in the MSQ but be aware you must complete all of ARR and HW MSQ before being able to access SB content on the 16th/20th.

[Venjenz]

At level 60 (queuing in the DF, no premades or friends):

1) leveling roulette + level 50 roulette + trial roulette = 280 Lore, 15 Scripture

2) PotD floors 1-30 (easy, fast) = 120 Lore, 60 Scripture

After you run the three daily roulettes, how many Lore and Scripture you get that day is based on how many times you are willing to repeat PotD 1-30. If you do the above just once per day like me, then it's 14 days I think, minus weapon of course. But if you push through PotD 50, you get a 235 weapon for free.