How is ilvl an issue while leveling?

[kikix12]

It's kind of a waste to buy vendor gear when you won't use it enough to do anything with it long term anyways. Especially if you don't have a good way of making gil.

High level set of gear costs how much?! ~120 000 gil in total?! Sorry, but how is that a lot when I don't even know from where I got two or three millions of gil since the time the houses were unlocked for private purchase, logging once every few days to finish a roulette or two and at best do Kojin and Ananta beast tribes?! And that doesn't even include whatever my retainer sells. I just sell whatever junk I get from those runs and do the beast tribes. And that's more than enough to get me enough gil to buy multiple sets lightly. Oh, and I have a retainer I sent on the 24h venture which I maybe actually accept twice or thrice a month. She brings some gil back with her in form of that purse or whatever that I can sell through her on the spot.

So yes. It's not a waste to have gear for those few runs before you reach the cap without causing issues to yourself and others in your party. Don't want to do it?! Go to a lower level dungeon and farm gear for free which you can pawn to the grand company once you're done.

Or level by beast tribes. It's 3-5 days per level using Ananta and Kojin from what I remember. No special gear required.

Or you can level exclusively through alliance, trials and 50/60 roulettes. These will never put you into a dungeon that your lvl60 augmented gear is too low for comfort until you are lvl70 and this becomes a non-issue with the class gear/hunt gear/tomestone gear etc.