Importance of Gear

[Oizen]

I did all of the Endwalker MSQ (until the free lv89 gear handout) using Nier raid gear so it cant matter that much

[Kaurhz]

When you're doing the story there is very little concern to be paid to the gear - For the most part, the MSQ will naturally take you through the gearing process to where it isn't really a concern - You may bump into some issues with accessories since those are typically awarded through side-quests and dungeons - But you can get tomestone gear once you reach the appropriate level caps for the expansion, which will last you long enough until the level cap of the next expansion (Plus whatever drops you get from doing the dungeons.

Just equip what you can when it awards you with gear, and you'll be fine.

[Iscah]

For each expansion, you will get free "base level endgame" gear from your job quests (so keep up with those) and then a second higher IL set from post-credits MSQ. on top of that you can buy the top-tier tomestone gear yourself, and levelling dungeons are guaranteed to drop at least one piece of gear that you need per run.

[Daniel103090]

For each expansion, you will get free "base level endgame" gear from your job quests (so keep up with those) and then a second higher IL set from post-credits MSQ. on top of that you can buy the top-tier tomestone gear yourself, and levelling dungeons are guaranteed to drop at least one piece of gear that you need per run.

Yea not gonna lie, I didn't find out until last night were a vendor was for those and by the time I even noticed that was a thing I was capped on tomestones lol

[Avatre]

Yea not gonna lie, I didn't find out until last night were a vendor was for those and by the time I even noticed that was a thing I was capped on tomestones lol

Pretty much, just buy the tomestone gear for each expansion as you unlock it, and that will carry you roughly to X5 for the next expansion. After that, upgrade what you get from dungeons, and you will basically be fine until you reach endgame. At that point, just spend the capped tomestones on your class of choice(if you decide to change from BRD), and just grab whatever to desynth/sell to GC/materials to sell on MB with the other currencies.

[Bsrking5]

It's not super important but you will have people complaining that your in 83lvl gear in a 85-86lvl dungeon. More so if you're tanking. About halfway or so between leveling in expansions is a good time to update your gear. Post lvl expansion item sync is more then enough for non savage+.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Each dungeon has a minimum item level. Sure, for EXs and savage you want to push your ilevel as high as possible, but for anything else, min ilevel is fine.

[Daniel103090]

It's not super important but you will have people complaining that your in 83lvl gear in a 85-86lvl dungeon. More so if you're tanking. About halfway or so between leveling in expansions is a good time to update your gear. Post lvl expansion item sync is more then enough for non savage+.

Yea, I was thinking about that actually, as far as tanking goes I fully plan on waiting until after I've made it through to endgame before going back to level up the tanking classes (or healing for that matter) and by that time and have even better gear understanding I will make sure to have the best Ilvl possible before attempting those, mostly becuase it doesn't bother me so much if I die, but If I cause the direct death of another player I actually feel bad.

[ZephyrMenodora]

It's not super important but you will have people complaining that your in 83lvl gear in a 85-86lvl dungeon. More so if you're tanking. About halfway or so between leveling in expansions is a good time to update your gear. Post lvl expansion item sync is more then enough for non savage+.

I have never seen anyone inspect a player who is met in the leveling roulette and care if their gear is from the prior dungeon and the highest level it can be before the dungeon being run. Lol. What hyperbole.

[Renalt]

If tanking/Healing I would say keep your gear around 5 levels of the dungeon. If level 75 dungeon the stuff at level 70 you get from poetics will be fine. Beyond that you might want to put on anything you pick up in current dungeon if you win anything. If not try to get at least 3 pieces before moving to the next.

If DPS...not as important but you will be slowing things down for the others. Poetics can do the job well enough till the next Poetic set but much like I said before...any pieces won you may as well chuck it on. However Poetic is stronger than the early set of dungeons and is roughly even in the 5s. Example being Poetic 50 gear is pretty much even with level 55 gear. Beyond that take the new stuff and wear it.