Gear Progression Guide for DoH and DoL in FFXIV Dawntrail patch 7.1

This guide is focused on helping players catch up on their crafting and gathering gear for endgame content of Final Fantasy XIV as a fresh new level 100 player so that they can get to the latest endgame gear.

It is useful to know when new gear is added and therefore when you would upgrade your current gear. The following is based on trends with the last few expansions:

• 7.1 - Crafted left side gear
• 7.2 - Scrip gear
• 7.3 - Crafted full set (Final set for Dawntrail)
• 7.4 - Scrip gear
• 7.5 - Nothing

Scrip gear generally acts as "Catch-up" gear or for budgeted sets and is added along raid while crafted gear is added before raid giving you time to stockpile materia and meld the gear before it is needed.

Listed below is an overview of how exactly you can catch up to the current DoH DoL gear from a fresh level 100 player. While level 90 gear can be used to craft i690 level 100 gear, it can not be used to skip that tier entirely to craft i720 gear.

To provide a summary:

1. Use level 90 gear to make i690.
2. Meld i690 gear with enough stats to make i720 left side + tools.
3. Make i720 left side + tools.
4. Meld both i690 and i720 gear according to our meld guide.
5. Enjoy being caught up and get ready for savage crafts in 7.2.

Currently, the only worthwhile gear available at Lv100 is the i690 crafted gear. While i700 Scrip gear does exist, it is class specific, has poor stats and only a left side exists meaning you need a crafted right side regardless.

To catch up to the current DoH and DoL endgame you simply need to craft i690 gear. The macro below can accomplish that which is designed around lower stats but if you are using higher stats such as Indagator with some degree of melds or lv93 gear you may be able to make something faster.

Gathering classes can use level 90 gear to gather everything required at this point.

This macro needs HQ Tsai tou Vounou and HQ Cunning Craftsman's Draught. Some of the i690 pieces of gear are lv99 while some are lv100, using this macro you can 0-100% Lv99 Gear, but Lv100 gear will require 3 HQ materials.

Once you have the gear, it is time to move onto melding it.

For the moment, you simply want to meld your gear as cheap as possible just so that it will be enough to craft the final set of gear. This set will do just that for you. Alternatively, if you plan to barely meld your crafting/gathering gear you can keep this set and use it until patch 7.2 where scrip gear will become available and is the go-to budget gear.

Gathering classes simply want to meld enough perception to gather at the nodes so that you can obtain materials while avoiding the market board if you do not want to spend gil.

Now that you have melded your i690 set, it is time to get crafting! Here is a Garlandtools list of all the gear to craft split into a list for Crafting and a list for Gathering. You want to use the below macros for different materials.

There are 2 different 35 durability materials. This is because one is needed to craft items that are ilv710 such as Ipe Lumber while the second is needed for ilv720 items, Optical Nanofiber and Alexandrian Plates. While both are 2-star they have different progress and quality due to being different ilv/rlvs and therefore need different rotations.

Stat Requirements:4747/4398/592 + HQ Rroneek Steak. 684 CP Required After Buffs.

Stat Requirements:4780/4353/582 + Rroneek Steak HQ + Cunning Craftsman's Tisane HQ. 701 CP Required After Buffs.

Needs 5060 Starting quality. This is equivalent to:

• Tools - 3 HQ i720 + 1 HQ i710 material.
• Head/Gloves/Feet - Any 4 HQ materials.
• Chest/Legs - Any 5 HQ materials.

Stat Requirements:4780/4401/597 + Rroneek Steak HQ + Cunning Craftsman's Tisane HQ. 716 CP Required After Buffs.

At this point you now have your i690 right side and i720 left side + tools and can now meld according to your goals. Please check out our endgame melding guides for melding advice and recommendations which will continue to be supported for future crafts and gear upgrades.