How to Obtain the Best Equipment in FFXIV: Shadowbringers

With Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion available to play for players, they will want to start the expansion with the best gear that can be obtained from the Endwalker expansion. Before getting started with Endwalker, players can complete quests and gather different currencies to buy the best equipment for the new expansion. However, getting the best gear from Shadowbringers can be time-consuming; but there are efficient ways to get them.

New FFXIV players on older PCs should also test out the new benchmark software before purchasing the game. While the game doesn’t have high hardware requirements for Shadowbringers and Endwalker, it is still recommended to go through these tests as the game gets regular updates and overhauls. 

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Those that have reached level 80 will find a huge variety of endgame options. Some may choose to battle through FFXIV‘s challenging raids, while others may prefer more casual but farmable content. By intermixing all of these options, one will quickly become unstoppable.

Getting The Best Gear in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers

Most endgame equipment will be found in dungeons, raids, and trials.

Paglth’an Dungeon

Players who have completed FFXIV‘s Shadowbringers main storyline and advanced through all update patches will be able to enter the final dungeon, Paglth’an. This is the home of the Amalj’aa beast tribe. By defeating the three bosses of Amhuluk, Magitek Fortress, and Lunar Bahamut parties can receive chests containing item level 505 armor and accessories.

Diamond Zeta Weapons

Shadowbringers’ trial series reimagines the iconic Final Fantasy VII Weapons as Imperial war machines. Players who head back to The Lochs in Stromblood zones can speak to the Resistance Officer for the quest Ruby Doomsday. This will set off a quest chain where players will have to destroy a Ruby Weapon in FFXIV, Sapphire Weapon, and Emerald Weapon. The final encounter will be against Diamond Weapon aboard the Cloud Deck. Beating it on the Extreme difficulty will drop a random item level 525 Diamond Zeta weapon. Clearing the battle will also reward a Diamond Totem, 10 of which can be traded in for specific Diamond Zetas.

Eden Raid

Those looking to further research The Empty region within The First can embark on the Eden raid series. This area can be unlocked via the quest In the Middle of Nowhere from the Anxious Crystarium Guard within the Crystarium. This questline will involve enemies and themes from Final Fantasy VIII across three tiers: Eden’s Gate, Eden’s Verse, and Eden’s Promise. Normal level fights will yield various Lost Antiquity currencies that can be exchanged for item level 510 Edenmete armor. Completing the fights under Savage difficulty will instead reward item level 530 Edenmorn armor and 535 Edenmorn weapons.

Nier Raid

Another option is the 24-man raid series based on Nier Automata. This starts with the level 70 quest Word About Komra from the Gossipy Dwarf in Kholusia. This will lead to level 80 quests that introduce several raids including The Copied Factory, The Puppet’s Bunker, and The Tower of Paradigm’s Breach. The bosses in that final raid will drop item level 520 Obsolete Android or YoRHa Type-55 armor, dependent on job. Additionally, this raid series drops coins that can be turned in to upgrade Cryptlurker equipment.

Resistance Relics

Those that want to gain a “free” ultimate powered weapon can forge the expansion’s Relic. They may be the overall best weapons due to customized sub-stats. Players will need to have cleared the past Return to Ivalice story from Stormblood and entered the Bozjan Southern Front. In total players will need to gather the following per weapon:

• 4 Thavnairian Scalepowders: 1,000 Tomestone of Poetics
• 20 each of Tortured, Sorrowful, and Harrowing Memories of the Dying: Heavensward FATES or inside Bozjan
• 6 Bitter Memories of the Dying: Level 60 dungeons, Duty Roulette Leveling, or Bozjan
• 15 Loathsome Memories of the Dying: Crystal Tower Raids, Castrum Lacus Litore, or Bozjan Critical Engagements
• 15 Timeworn Artifacts: Delubrum Reginae or The Palace of the Dead
• 15 Raw Emotions: The Dariada, Delubrum Reginae, Heaven-on-High, or level 70 dungeons

Additionally, the following will be needed one time, but are not needed for all future Resistance Relics:

• 18 each of Haunting and Vexatious Memories of the Dying: Stormblood FATES, Shadow of Mhach Raids (Haunting), or Return to Ivalice Raids (Vexatious)
• 30 each of Compact Axles, Compact Springs, Battles of the Realm, Beyond the Rift, Bleak Memories of the Dying, and Lurid Memories of the Dying: Alexander Raids, Omega Raids, Eden Raids, respectively. Also, all can be found from Zadnor content (Skirmishes for the first item, Critical Engagements for the second type).

Purchasing The Best Gear in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers

Other equipment options can be bought via various currencies or directly with Gil.

Law’s Order Armor

While pursuing Resistance Weapons, players can also reap rewards from the instanced dungeons. Delubrum Reginae will drop Bozjan Silver Coins, which can be traded to the Resistance Supplier for Bozjan Gold Coins. These can then been used to buy item level 510 Law’s Order armor. This might not seem impressive at first, but all armor pieces contain five Materia slots without the need for over-melding. This armor can also be upgraded with FFXIV‘s Augmented Bozjan armor to make Augmented Law’s Order. These have the special Haste sub-stat, making them superior to even Eden gear while within Bozjan content.

Blade’s Armor

Similar to Law’s Order equipment, The Dalriada raid inside Zadnor will reward Bozjan Mythril and Bozjan Platinum Coins. These can be traded in further for item-level 525 Blade’s Armor. This makes them better than Nier Automated-related gear, but they lack the superior Materia slots or Haste of Augmented Law’s Order.

Cryptlurker Armor

By completing any level 80 content players will receive Allagan Tomestones of Revelation in FFXIV. Presently, players can gain 900 a week and 2,000 total; with Revelation being folded into Poetics. For now, Tomestones of Revelation can be used to buy item level 520 Cryptlurker Armor. By clearing Eden’s Promise players can also receive Blades of Lost Antiquity, four of which can be turned into Defragmented Tomestones. With one of these along with 1,000 Revelations (700 for Paladins), one can purchase item level 520 Cryptlurker weapons.

Upon beating either all three Nier raids, or the final parts of Eden, players can gain Crypt Ester, Crypt Twine, Crypt Dusting to further upgrade weapons, armor, and accessories to item level 530, respectively.

Exarchic Crafting

High-level crafters can use exotic materials to forge item level 510 Exarchic gear, including weapons (however, it is unlikely that Square Enix will add such weapons for Sage or Reaper). These items have lower base stats, but can be over-melded in FFXIV with five Materia.

This gear can then be brought to Hillicen for Eulmoran Certificates of Grandeur. With enough certificates and Tomestone of Allegory, players can gain item level 520 Augmented Exarchic gear (however, further melding is forbidden). The nice thing is that a specific item slot costs a fixed amount of certificates. This means one can craft or buy the cheapest item, convert them to currency, then receive the real intended gear.

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Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers are available now on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

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