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[Maeka]

Re: gearing as you go.

At a bare minimum, if someone wants to minimize the amount of gil they spend for gear to supplement whatever dungeon gear they manage to get, I recommend getting a full tomestone set at levels ending in zero and buying HQ crafted gear at levels ending in 5. Between the levels ending from 0-5 you won't even need dungeon gear since the tome gear is better than dungeon gear, and from 5-9 the 5 gear supplemented with dungeon drops as obtained is strong enough to get through content well enough even with minimal dungeon drops. The exception I would make to this rule of thumb is buying the HQ weapon for your level from 5-9 if you didn't get the dungeon drop from the previous tier since weapon has a huge impact on performance for any job.

I know not everybody is going to do it like this, but what I did... and this made it easy as pie to stay geared up, is I would level groups of classes, 2 levels at a time. For example I would have 3 of the tanks (Pld was already 70 when ShB released) and two of the healers (same for WHM) on, say, 63.

I'd level a healer through Shisui until 65. Then I'd level the other healer through Shisui until 65. Then I'd take 1 tank through Shisui until 65 and keep doing that. I got *plenty* of dungeon drops to equip all of my jobs, Almost. I fell slightly short on Doma Castle because doing Beast Tribe dailies caused me to out-pace the dungeon drops and now all 3 tanks are Lv71 with the exception of GNB which will ding 71 tomorrow and so they're all wearing Scaevan. I plan on doing the same with Don Mheg+.

And thanks to Trusts, and the fact I did the MSQ by taking my RDM through all the story dungeons with Trusts, I already have a decent spattering of gear to start with sitting on a retainer.

[Saefinn]

I know not everybody is going to do it like this, but what I did... and this made it easy as pie to stay geared up, is I would level groups of classes, 2 levels at a time. For example I would have 3 of the tanks (Pld was already 70 when ShB released) and two of the healers (same for WHM) on, say, 63.

I'd level a healer through Shisui until 65. Then I'd level the other healer through Shisui until 65. Then I'd take 1 tank through Shisui until 65 and keep doing that. I got *plenty* of dungeon drops to equip all of my jobs, Almost. I fell slightly short on Doma Castle because doing Beast Tribe dailies caused me to out-pace the dungeon drops and now all 3 tanks are Lv71 with the exception of GNB which will ding 71 tomorrow and so they're all wearing Scaevan. I plan on doing the same with Don Mheg+.

And thanks to Trusts, and the fact I did the MSQ by taking my RDM through all the story dungeons with Trusts, I already have a decent spattering of gear to start with sitting on a retainer.

Hey whatever method works for you. I'm generally the impatient sort, I wanna get my first job to level cap before I touch anything else lol, I'll max out the gear from the last level cap and stretch it until a reasonable level and let them MSQ gear me for the rest.

And hey, means you aren't working to gear yourself as it means you naturally get it as you go and the advantage of more glams when you are levelled, because that's the true endgame here.

[Maeka]

*nods* I did my WHM through Leveling Roulette well before I unlocked anything beyond Holminster Switch; so I never got into a Level 73+ dungeon until way near the end I did get a Don Mheg run once as WHM, but by then I had a hodge-podge of Lv73, 75, and 77 dungeon pieces that I had gotten from taking my RDM through those dungeons.

My RDM? I quested and did the Trust dungeons, easily enough with maybe a Leveling Roulette or two when the quests outpaced my level.