FFXIV endgame gameplay loop

[EaMett]

Your goal is essentially to raise your item level so that you can enter higher level content. But it's not that hard.

Usually things go like this:

- dungeon gear as you level/unlock roulettes and new dungeons
- clear normal mode primals and unlock ex primals (at max level at this point)
- farm ex primals and/or normal raids for your gear
- farm savage raids and/or tomestones for your gear

That sums up your pattern for each of the three tiers as they come out. There are a few things to add in there, every now and then new primals are introduced, new 24 man raids are introduced, new crafted gear is introduced. Each tier gets these as optional means of gearing up.

Since we're currently on the third tier of SB that means that a lot of ex primals and raids are obsolete for gearing. You want to go strait to the most recent content (which will often require you to at least clear the previous stuff)

It's worth noting that you can skip any of the points above and go straight to the end if you manage to get sufficient ilvl to do so. So for example you could hit 70, take 5mn to buy all the ilvl380 crafted gear off of the marketboard and go straight to savage raids.