Endgame progression

Endgame progression<br /><br />jump to contentmy subreddits<br /><br />limit my search to /r/ffxivuse the following search parameters to narrow your results:see the search faq for details. If you exceptionally skilled, then you can usually jump ahead as well. If you running stuff with a good group of people with voice communication, then you can generally jump WAY ahead. If you with a group who geared to the teeth, then you can get carried through pretty much everything before Coil.<br /><br />Do me one favor though. Please do more then just farm CM until you at full Darklight. CM is efficient and easy for Philo Tomes, and grinding it mindlessly will get you lots of ilvl70 gear fairly quickly, but it will NOT teach you how to play your job under pressure, and it will NOT challenge you to get better. A Fresh 50 could clear CM playing with their elbows. Darklight gear obtained through farming CM is merely a testament of your patience, not your skill, and not really even your progress.<br /><br />Fresh 50 I bought as much GC armors as I could that were available. Just to get that boost. No 50 GC weapon yet, still using the 44 one from questing.<br /><br />I then farmed Wanderers Palace. This was where I learned about the Relic quest and weapon it needs. I used that weapon with the 2 materia to get into AK and finish it for 50 GC weapon.<br /><br />I found the 50 GC weapon more than enough for either AK or Ifrit HM farmed them both for the Ifrit weapon and AK armors. I didn bother with Garuda yet until I was in at least AK armors and an Ifrit weapon.<br /><br />Completed that, so I moved on to Garuda while farming AK for Philo and DL armors. Did this until Garuda weapon dropped.<br /><br />Decided to try and start up the Relic quest kind of late, should have started as soon as possible to coincide with doing HM Primals.<br /><br />Finished up to Garuda HM again and only had Titan left. Since I couldn find a pre made yet which is the most probable way of completing it, I was trying my luck and learning the fight more through DF groups while still farming AK for Philo stones.<br /><br />Finally managed to finish titan, got my Relic, farmed Philo stones to complete it, and now waiting for another week to get it to +1.<br /><br />The way I view it and I may well be wrong here, Ifrit seems like the first gate of content; before Ifrit weapon you should probably stick to Castrum or Wanderer but you don really NEED to do much of either for Ifrit. I went in as a WHM with a level 43 GC weapon and healed that fight just fine though, I can understand why people would expect DPS to have something better.<br /><br />I HIGHLY advise people to be geared before HM Garuda/Titan. People in here will brag about how little gear they had before doing those fights, but these are mostly people who either 1 are extremely hardcore with tons of MMO experience, or 2 high quality groups to carry them. Remember, Garuda a DPS check, but it can be done with one tank and one healer, if they good, so six meh geared DPS should have no problem downing the fight. If you run a more traditional party, and all four DPS are strolling in with artifact gear, it probably not going to die unless you all amazing.<br /><br />HM Titan is, as a posted somewhere in the thread said, more about knowledge of the fight than gear that said, each setup is gear dependent for SOMEONE. If there are 3 healers, DPS needs to be relatively geared to make sure the heart phase is doable. If you run the slightly less common 2 healer setup, then you don need your DPS to be as geared, but those healers better be on their game and that tank should REALLY be in mostly full darklight / ilevel 70 crafted gear. Will they die without it? Probably not, but it definitely matters, ESPECIALLY for warrior tanks who will simply drop to a Tank buster if they not geared enough.