A few friends and myself are returning to finish some of the content we wont be able to repeat again - and while we are catching up and diversifying our jobs to cover as many roles as possible, I've been left with a big question:

Is there a general progression of gear/events we should be farming to work towards the final content of the (current) game?

When we stopped - nobody had yet killed Ifrit, so there's a lot of new content.

Should we be use AF > Ifrit > Moogle > Insert Hamlet gear > Garuda > GC gear? You can't get GC gear without clearing the majority of the new/more difficult content - so I figured that would be close to last. We just want to be appropriately prepared - I think most Ifrit kills were first done with just materia-melded gear and Darkhold gear. Is Darkhold something that could be done... or done to just get extra GC seals?

Regards,