DoL Endgame Rotations for Gathering in FFXIV
Having the best yield possible is important for endgame gathering. These rotations will help you know this information to get the most out of your items. Some gathering rotations will be also featured around our gathering meld sets.
Endgame Gathering Rotations
The latest expansion in Final Fantasy XIV, Endwalker, brought a major shift in the game's gathering system. The previous system of HQ gatherable items was replaced by the new 'Gatherer's Boon' mechanic. This new mechanic provides an increased yield while gathering, depending on the player's Boon chance, which can be influenced by the use of skills and stats.
Making The Most Of Your Gathering
In order to achieve the best possible results in gathering, it is important to understand the Gatherer's Boon system and to use your skills optimally. However it is not all there is to it, there are multiple mechanics that allow you to improve your yield without having better rotations.
Here are a few strategies that can help boost your yield, without relying solely on skills:
- Proper GP Management: Effective GP management is a vital aspect of gathering. Keep your cordials on cooldown, avoid idling with maximum GP, and prioritize gathering nodes that offer the largest bonuses. With practice, you will learn the placement of each bonus as you move around the node.
- Cordial Usage: Cordials play a big role in improving GP regeneration. Hi-Cordials offer the greatest benefits however other cordials also are effective if you can not easily obtain Hi-Cordials.You can obtain Hi-Cordials through scrips or Seafarers Cowries if you have your Island Sanctuary unlocked. Ocean fishing and custom delivery are generally easy passive options.
- Targeting Node Bonuses: To maximize your yield, make sure to focus on the bonuses offered by node breakpoints and skills. Our Endgame Melding Guide provides a comprehensive list of these bonuses, making it easier for players to understand how to meld.
Patch 6.4 Gathering Rotations
Below you will find several groups of rotations for different purposes such as spiritbonding, current legendary nodes, untimed nodes and older nodes. Depending on your stats and what breakpoints/node bonuses you hit your optimal yield can vary between nodes.
Due to this not all rotations may suit your stats perfectly depending on your meldsets so it is alwways worth checking breakpoints which have been listed in the 6.4 rotations section. You can also check out this gathering solver created by Rikyua#0413. This tool serves as a great reference for potential gathering rotations and can help you maximize your yield.
Rotations for High Tier Melds
The current endgame nodes feature 3 node bonuses and 1 skill breakpoint, these are:
- 30% Boon at 4000 Perception. This is guaranteed to be on each node.
- +1/+2/+3 Yield for having 3900/4000/4100 Gathering respectively. Anything over the 3900 breakpoint are hidden so you may see the node bonus give you +2/+3 for having over 3900 when in reality its actually the 4000/4100 breakpoints that allow you to hit the increased yield.
- +1/+2 Integrity at 900/950GP with the 950GP bonus also being hidden.
- Bountiful Yield/Harvest +2 at 3713 Gathering, +3 is impossible until 7.0.
High Tier melds recommend using 
Yakow Moussaka to reach the +3 yield
bonus and +2 attempts bonus. You otherwise only hit +2 yield and +1 attempts.
This rotation is for legendary nodes with only the 30% boon bonus or also with the +1 yield bonus or +1 attempts bonus as it changes nothing about whats optimal.
Mountaineer's Gift I
Mountaineer's Gift II
Nald'thal's Tidings
King's Yield II
Bountiful Yield II when you hit 100GP.
This rotation applies if you reach the breakpoints for +2 or +3 yield. If you only reach +1 then stick to the first rotation.
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
Solid Reason
Wise to the World- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
- Bountiful Yield II when you hit 100GP.
The rotation changes slightly if you get an 8 integrity node because of the ability to hit another bountiful at the end of a rotation.
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- Bountiful Yield II
- King's Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II before the final hit.
Rotations for Mid Tier Melds
The current endgame nodes feature 3 node bonuses and 1 skill breakpoint, these are:
- 30% Boon at 4000 Perception. This is guaranteed to be on each node.
- +1/+2/+3 Yield for having 3900/4000/4100 Gathering respectively. Anything over the 3900 breakpoint are hidden so you may see the node bonus give you +2/+3 for having over 3900 when in reality its actually the 4000/4100 breakpoints that allow you to hit the increased yield.
- +1/+2 Integrity at 900/950GP with the 950GP bonus also being hidden.
- Bountiful Yield/Harvest +2 at 3713 Gathering, +3 is impossible until 7.0.
The mid tier set can reach +1 attempts and +1 yield when using Yakow Moussaka
and always has the perception bonus. Because of this, the rotation never changes
but you instead simply gain extra yield when you have more bonuses.
- Mountaineer's Gift I
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- King's Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II when you hit 100GP.
Rotations for Scrip Gear
Scrip gear simply reaches the minimum stats required to be able
to gather the nodes and doesnt really reach any breakpoints not even
for +2 on Bountiful. Using 
Sideritis Cookie does allow you to hit
30% boon. The difference in yield is roughly 3 items.
This is the rotation for no food:
- Mountaineer's Gift I
- King's Yield II
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
This is the rotation with Sideritis Cookie:
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- King's Yield II
Spiritbond Rotations for Legendary Nodes
Rotations for spiritbonding are exclusively for spiritbonding to
easily farm grade IX and X gathering materia. It mainly centers around
taking advantage of 
Solid Reason and 
Wise to the World.
You generally want to use i560/i590 gear to spiritbond the legendary nodes that they can reach while ensuring all slots are melded with at least enough perception to be able to gather at the node and around 900GP.
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
With the correct spiritbonding setup this will allow you to hit 100% spiritbonding rate with 3 legendary nodes.
General Untimed Node Rotations
Untimed nodes are generally quite simple given you massively overgear them and don't need extensive rotations like timed nodes.
Your main focus is to ensure you never cap GP by using 
Bountiful Yield II and
then when good node bonuses appear use your stronger skills. If bountiful is
giving you +3 per use then you always want to be using bountiful regardless
of the node bonuses.
If bountiful only gives you +2 yield then you will want to use
King's Yield II / 
Blessed Harvest II on
nodes with increased integrity.
To know the breakpoints for a specific item not at endgame, Check out my gathering calculator.
General Legendary Node Rotations
Generally, older nodes will give you a much higher boon % chance leading to
an increased focus with skills such as 
Nald'thal's Tidings and
Mountaineer's Gift II as well as an increased focus on Bountiful Yield II
due to it giving 3 a hit.
This node rotation works as a general when Bountiful hits +3 or slightly increased yield..
- Mountaineer's Gift I
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- Bountiful Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II
If you have increased integrity, you may instead want this rotation.
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- Bountiful Yield II
- King's Yield II
- Bountiful Yield II before the final hit.
This rotation applies if you generally have largely increased yield bonuses.
- Mountaineer's Gift II
- Nald'thal's Tidings
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
- Solid Reason
- Wise to the World
- Bountiful Yield II when you hit 100GP.
Changelog
- 28 May 2023: Guide Updated to 6.4 with additional information.
- 13 Feb. 2023: Guide added.
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