How to Get the Best Weapon and Armor

[qaija]

Yesterday I reached level 80 and my most important goal now is to get the best (Samurai) weapon and armor that the game offers.

I have done some googling and "think" this may be by running Eden's Promise. But, as often happens to me in this game, google doesn't always give the best information.

Assuming Eden's Promise is where I should aim, my current IL is 430 and I believe the minimum IL you need to get in there is 485. What is the easiest way to get to overall IL of 485? I purchased a IL510 weapon and Body armor. That used up all my gil.

One of the players in my FC recommended soloing Sastasha unsynched. I have not tried to do this yet. Is this a good way to obtain the gil I need to buy the armor I need to get to IL485? What are some other ways that you recommend to get gil?

I also considered crafting. But it seems to me that for this to be a good source of gil requires one to reach level 80 in a craft. I have a lvl 39 goldsmith, but my guess is that to get him up to level 80 is a long and time consuming venture.

Any thoughts any of you have on how to eventually wind up with the best weapon and armor in the game will be appreciated!

Thank you!

[Provoke]

Emerald Ex or Relic questline for suitable weapon.
A mix of Cryptlurker and Eden Promise normal gear.

Then you can raid. They arent taking anyone below 510 in partyfinder right now.

I havent checked your class, but judging by your knowledge of the game in practice on a dummy for a little while and try to hit some numbers.

[Ralph2449]

Then you can raid. They arent taking anyone below 510 in partyfinder right now.

Yikes, of course tryhards will falsely inflate ilvl requirements because god forbid you have to do an encounter normally, let's hope there's some decent people around so new players can get into content they want to try without suffering such elitists.

Expecting new players who just have reached 80 in the game to have enough gil and know you can buy a full 510 set is silly.
And new players are not gonna have a month of tomes of revelation for those 520s either


Honestly since I learned how NA/EU players behave I feel happy I am in Australia and can play in JP where you even que with DF for extremes.

[Eclipse12187]

510 is a pretty reasonable requirement this late in the tier, I will agree it isn’t necessary to be 510 though but that’s what a lot of people started at with full crafted sets.

That aside as for the OP, you can run your roulettes for tomes, the uncapped tomes you can spend on 490 gear OR if there’s a crafter in your fc or have a crafter friend see what items they need to make you a set of 510 crafted gear. That would be the quickest way to hit 510 overall. Other options are run emerald weapon EX for the 515 weapon, run the edens promise normal raids for 510 gear (still limited on one drop a week from each turn), run puppets bunker for 490 left side pieces, or run the previous tiers savage for i500 pieces. Obviously the crafted set will be your quickest path to a higher ilvl.

To add to it, the bozjan southern front can also give you ilvl 495 left side pieces, and delubrum reginae will give coins for 510 left side pieces, but these are a major time investment and not quick options.

Finally yes your bis gear will be a mix of augmented tomestone gear and savage raid gear, relic weapon is an option to work on as well, it’s currently capped at 515ilvl so it’s not bis yet, it’s also a pretty big time investment.

[Vahlnir]

At the moment, the best weapon will probably come from Eden's Promise. In a couple months the relic will be slightly better and most likely BiS because the stats are customizable.

[Liam_Harper]

Honestly since I learned how NA/EU players behave I feel happy I am in Australia and can play in JP where you even que with DF for extremes.

You realize you're basically the embodiment of the NA/EU mindset and opposite of the JP mindset, who are only able to queue for endgame content in DF because it's their culture to do their best to contribute to the team before queuing, where NA/EU can't use the DF because it's our culture to feel entitled to carries and do nothing for the team if we find it fun, thus rendering many endgame DF runs impossible to clear. So JP are actually the "tryhards" as you like to put it and the people setting ilv requirements over here are the handful with the JP mindset of trying to ensure team contribution. JP won't be openly toxic, but actually keep public blacklists for players like yourself who join without preparation and drag a group down but don't care. Just saying

[KageTokage]

It's not unreasonable to ask that people bring the best gear available into stuff like extremes/savage with how insanely cheap the 510 crafted gear is these days.

Every bit of extra HP/DPS helps when you're fighting against an enrage timer and I've had way too many sub 1% enrages that could've been clears had a player or two in the group been using a better, but reasonably attainable weapon. I see an alarming amount of people in Eden savage without the Emerald EX weapons particularly, even in full reclear groups.

[Theodric]

At the end of the day, it's a group effort. It isn't unreasonable to expect each player to put in a certain amount of effort and preparation. This isn't a single player game, so the mentality of 'I DO WAT I WANT' is quite rightly dismissed by a lot of players. If we were talking about a game like Skyrim, then sure...people can play however they want without anybody ever claiming that they need to do things differently.

Yet we're talking about an MMO. If one player in a group is putting in the bare minimum amount of effort, they're making things needlessly harder for other members of their group. They're not getting paid to babysit and it isn't fair to expect them to bend over backwards and waste extra time and effort to carry someone who is not sufficiently prepared.

[Asari5]

your ilvl is 430? did you finish the story?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Loool the white knighting are sooo goood, it extends even here. I just can’t—
Anyway, fun aside....

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The short answer is to work your way slowly to get to said goal if you don’t want to invest gils to simply buy the cheap exarchic pieces off the MB.
Take note that while on your way to unlock Eden’s Promise, you will have to unlock Eden’s Gate & Eden’s Verse too. Assuming you’re not picking up stuffs from MB, you can start small by needing all the loots in these raids and trade them for straight upgrades for your Samurai. Eden’s Gate provides i450 pieces while Eden’s Verse provides i480 pieces.
There are also other pieces you can get from other contents as you work on your way, but I’ll just copy my old list for you:
• The 1st ShB alliance raid drops i460 ~ Copied Factory
• The most recent dungeon drops i485 ~ Matoya’s Relict
• The 2nd ShB alliance raid drops i490 - Puppets’ Bunker
• Allergy... err I mean, Allegories can get you alt i490 pieces, i500 if you augment them.
• Bozja content can win you i495 & i510 pieces, but these takes longer to get than Exarchic & Eden’s Promise loots
• Revelation tomes can get you i520 pieces, albeit timegated by weekly limit. Their augmented version (i530) exist but locked behind savage raid contents, just like any other non-tome i530 pieces.
• Special mention to... ShB relic weapon (Starts at i485) It’s fairly easy to bring them to i500. The max is i515 atm but it’s quite grindy and takes time.