So the following is what I have done right now guys. What should I be doing right now in terms of endgame for my Dragoon Lvl 50? Gear? Dungeons? Weapons? Etc etc.
- I have lvl 10 crafting and gathering.
- Lvl 50 Dragoon.
- Beat the story.
- Maxed out on Flames GC.
Beyond this I'm leveling other classes since I find the leveling aspect to be sometimes more fun than endgame.
Endgame progression is basically:
Complete your Grand Company log and get the mission for Amdapour Keep
Start your Relic weapon quest line. The first two steps involve killing Chimera and Hydra, both fights are 8 man fights that do
not use the Duty Finder, so you need to form or join a group to complete them. There's always people lfg in Coerthas for Chimera and outside Halatali for Hydra.
Run Wanderer's Palace for some gear
Run Amdapor Keep for more gear and to complete your GC mission (Rewards your l50 Grand Company weapon). It's also necessary to complete AK once for your Relic mission after killing Hydra, but you don't have to wait to do AK, the gear is always useful.
Defeat hard mode Ifrit, then Garuda, then Titan
Enter/wipe in Binding Coil of Bahamut
Amdapor Keep, Wanderer's Palace, Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium all reward Tomestones of Philosophy which are used to buy Darklight Armor and various other items, AK and the hard primals reward Tomestones of Mythology which have a weekly cap of 300 and are used for upgrading your Relic weapon and AF armor to Relic+1 and AF+1. You need 8 runs of AK to cap Mythology weekly if you care about that.
You can get up to Garuda without any ultra hardcore farming - a few pieces of AK armor (NOT darklight) and good execution is enough to beat them with the right party.
Titan is a more serious gear check, as it both requires good coordination and will outright kill party members who aren't sturdy enough, plus you need good dps to down his heart and kill him in a reasonable amount of time.
Everything up through HM Ifrit is puggable. Garuda could be done in theory, but the few DF attempts I've done on her have all gone badly - there are a lot of ways to wipe in that fight, and people seemingly don't have the patience to work as a team to iron out kinks. Forget pugging Titan, I don't see that happening till everyone is far more geared.
That's about it for the endgame progression right now, if you want to do it in a relaxed manner, I'd recommend just doing an AK run a day or so, two on a weekend day - that should easily get you enough of your AK armor to go up through Garuda, and will set you on the road to eventual AF+1
If you're absolutely deadset on grinding out a full suit of Darklight as fast as possible, you'll need to farm AK and probably Castrum Meridianum for more Philosophy stones to buy it faster.
