Question about the most efficient way to increase ivll

[MistakeNot]

Each of your equipped items contribute equally to your average ilvl, so improving your accessories is generally the cheapest way if you are only interesed in increasing your ilvl - and assuming all your gear had the same ilvl at start.

The left-side gear is however the one contributing most to your actual combat ability, with your weapon the most important part, followed by chest and leg items.


Probably a bit too late for you now, but remember that you can use Centurio Clan seals to buy i330 gear and upgrade it to i340. If you have been doing hunts in advance you can thus easily get i340 gear the very moment you reach level 70 which should open up much of the level 70 content.

[MrThinker]

For items that take up more than one gear slot, they are counted by the number of slots they take up. For most jobs, this means that the weapon (taking both the main hand and offhand slots) contributes the most to avg ilvl. For Paladins, we equip gear to every slot, since sword and shield are separate.

Otherwise, as MistakeNot said, if you can't get the weapon, focus on getting the chest and leg pieces first, then the head, gloves, and shoe pieces, then the belt, and THEN the accessories.

Of course, this does not matter as much now, regardless of what content you are seeking to play, since we are at the end of the expansion. The gear treadmill has stopped, and there are plenty of gearing up options available.