Gear Progression Guide for DoH and DoL in FFXIV Dawntrail patch 7.0

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.

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.

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 needs melding. Our endgame melding guides provide meld recommendations.