How is ilvl an issue while leveling?

[AxlStream]

You don't have to grind dungeons?

The vendors sell gear you know. And by 70 it isn't hard to get the gil for them. Besides, most people will level via dungeons after 60, meaning they're constantly getting gear.

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.

[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.