Did i join the game to lateFollow

everyone has these absurdly high item levels and I just got to 50 a day ago. I honestly don't even see the point in attempting to try endgame because most people refuse to work with new players. I went into ifrit hard mode and it was plain annoying because my health is like 2800 meaning I couldn't miss a single step while everyone else could just take the hits like they were nothing. hell even the unavoidable one wrecked me. should I just wait until the next expansion? I like the game but since no one really wants to deal with new players I might as well quit. No I don't want a carry I don't want to be in a group where everyone can say ***** the rules and stand in the red or blue area of death

well my gear score is 49 when and for some reason I cant unlock high level roulette and since iam in love with shadow flare and sacred soil low level not an option lol

Actually everyone goes through a gear change at 50. You are just hitting that first step now where you do need to start getting better armor if you want to continue. There are new dungeon armors now for i60 and i70, that once you start running those few (as mentioned already), you will start getting better gear for yourself.

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This again, is going to change when you start getting better gear. Even some or all of the Grand Company items should be i55 and get you a lot more health. A brand new 50 has no place really going into primals right away, unless maybe as dps. Even then. You Must Learn The Dance. Each boss has a set pattern of tactics to avoid and once you know the pattern, you can easily do Ifrit without getting hit once (expect maybe an unlucky eruption).



No. If you wait. You will just be farther behind. The expansion will likely add more story line, and if you dont have the base story line done, then there won't be much (if anything) for you do in the expansion, with the exception of a few side quests at best.

What class are you? If you are a tank, then it's going to be hard but you'll need to get geared up to progress. If you are a healer, it could just take better mana management, and learning to avoid aoe's. If you are a DPS, try to get a better weapon, and raise some of your stats so you have more damage and health to help you out a little bit.

Really there is not one 'best' way to gear once you hit 50, there are a few more options in the game now then there were at release so you just need to figure out an appropriate path, and how you want to set out on it.

I'm still running into low iLvl players that out play their heavily geared counterparts. So too late? No. But you just need to make sure you know the way the dungeons and the boss mechanics work. As previously mentioned, run those dungeons until you unlock the roulettes and you should bump up your gear while doing it. It will take a few weeks until you can max out iLvl 100 stuff. No big deal.

Gonna agree with the above.

If you have some gil, buy yourself the HQ i70 weapon for your job at the very least. It'll help immensely with everything else you need to do. If you have more gil, buy one or two pieces of the i70 armor to go with it. I also suggest using food. As a low ilvl 50, food, especially good VIT boosting food, can make a world of difference in your surviving.

If I were in your shoes, my next step after those things would be Crystal Tower. Each run takes 45mins to an hour, gets you 150 Myth tomes (you can trade these in amounts of 375, 495, and 825 to an NPC in Mor Dhona for ilvl 90 gear), and each run also drops random i80 armor pieces, some of which are very good gear.

Once you have a few pieces of Myth gear and the rest CT or i70 (and 4000+HP) then you should get your relic quest done and learn the primals. You can, in fact, beat them with a lot less than that (most of us did it around the i60-65 range back at the beginning), but I'm trying to save you some grief. I've learned lately via Trials roulette that people have utterly zero patience for anyone not overgearing the fights by at least a bit. If you don't, you might not get the chance to learn because they'll boot you out for being "undergeared scrub" the first time you die. It's them being stupid, but you pay the price.

With relic weapon in hand, you can use 900 Myth tomes to upgrade it to the +1 form, and you'll be ready for pretty much anything you want to do in the game.

I second this. It's gil well spent when you're just arriving at 50. And I'd also recommend the Crystal Tower to farm your "left hand side" gear as your character sheet displays it. You can collect a great deal of i80 pieces with ease while collecting Myth for your "right hand side" i90 accessories at the same time. It may take a few trips, but you'll be ready for the relic challenges and early endgame dungeons faster than slugging it out almost any other way.

You gotta find some cool people to play with.

One suggestion is to join some of the Party Finder content where it says, "Learning Party, please have TS." or some other voice chat perhaps.

Seems like the coolest group(s) of players I have found are just hanging out, casually learning new Coil content, and jumping on voice chat with them can easily result in new Friends List, Linkshell or even FC invites.



Edited, Jun 30th 2014 11:19am by Gnu