Useful Dawntrail Preparations You Might Have Missed - FFXIV Guide 

About the Tomestones, I may be wrong in the video about the exchange of Comedy to the next lower tier, because I forgot that expansions usually add two new tomestones instead of one. I think part of the confusion was also to the changes on when the raid tier is released, meaning the cappable tomestone release is delayed. Either way, you'll get a good exchange rate into poetics at the very least, which will let you buy in-demand tomestone materials instead, meaning you should still try to cap these to make gil. Regarding materia there are many people in the comments confused about why there would be any need for materia VII. Yes, you can meld materia IX into any slot that VII would go into, and it would provide higher stats. However, materia VII might be enough to hit certain breakpoints that crafters and gatherers are looking for. In those cases, the person melding won't care if the materia is VII or IX, they will go for the cheaper one. Therefore there will be a demand for VII materia.

Fun fact about bicolor gemstones: All the material goods you can buy are just the monster drops for that zone, the same things you can get by using a combat retainer on a Hunting Venture.

Just dropping in to mention Aetheryte Tickets can also be purchased with Centurio Seals, specifically at the Clan Centurio vendor in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard. (NOT the vendors in Stormblood areas, despite using the same currency.) This expands the number of hunt marks you can use to farm tickets quite a bit - up to StB, which many worlds still run hunt trains for :)

For peeps who want to farm an insane amount of GC seals: solo unsync A4N is one of the highest seals/hr activities you can do. There is no cap on how many times you can run it in a day (unlike the infamous 100 dungeons cap), and there is no cap on how many of the tokens you can farm from it. bank the tokens, and make sure to have a cheap way back and forth between idyllshire and your GC when dawntrail comes to quickly cash in several hundred thousand, or maybe even millions of seals.

You don't need to level trusts to use them to level anymore. You can use "Duty Support" which is the same thing but puts the trusts at the correct level already (They just won't get exp but you still do).

No one talking about the fact that the dye markets are going to go through the roof because of 2 dye channels?

Another tip for passive gil making. Level your Desynthesis. A higher level Desynthesis increases what you get when you break down gear.

People sleep on Squadrons but i have been sending them out with the Gil trait like 3 times a week for the past few years which has gotten me tens of millions of gil with pretty much zero effort or time spent. That's in addition to any buffs they bring back.

- Some side-quest do lock you in on the Job you started the quest with, so be mindful of those - MSQ trusts auto lvl to the required story dungeon, so as long as you have Viper/Picto up to the lvl you should still get exp from MSQ

Good video, I'd just like to add a few comments. Sidequests: I'd definitely include some beast tribe quests here, the level 80/90 ones provide a big chunk of xp. You can also save up to 16 levequests (2 per DoH job) which have a seperate counter to the standard quests. Tomestones: Will likely undergo a full reset and be largely useless to hoard for dawntrail purposes but still will give you lots of poetics for old relics if you don't need to spend them on any diadochos crafting mats, or hildebrand relics+ilvl 650 credendum gear to polish up your lv 90 sets. Khloe book: Important to note that Early Access comes out on a Friday 28th June, so you can actually can use 2 books in a row if you save the Khloe journal you pick up on June 18th if you have preordered the expansion. Trusts: As others have pointed out, this won't be needed in order to do solo duties in Dawntrail. Grand Company Seals: I don't think there is a good chance that new materials get added to this other than a new grade of dark matter for fully levelled crafters to self-repair. Nuts: Maybe will get replaced with a new hunt currency, maybe not. Crafting Materials for crafters: Early recipes Lv 91+92 for all DoH jobs will probably use some of Integral Lumber, Chondritic Ingot, Star Quartz, Ophiotauroskin Leather, AR-Caean Cloth. Eblan Alumen will also probably be used to synthesize the first 1 or 2 tiers of leather. The Alkahests have also used the same plant reagents for two expansions in a row, so it might be worth stockpiling Kudzu Roots, Light Gerbera, Sweet Alyssum, Tiger Lily, Fernleaf Lavender, and Lime Basil. Crafting collectible turn-ins: The current 71-80 collectables will probably give no experience on turn-in for any DoH character at level 90. Crafter/Gatherer Scrips: will have their tiers reset - obviously gatherers will want ethers+versatile lures ready, it may also be worthwhile grabbing some crafter delineations now if you don't have any. Adventurer Squadron: These will be useful, especially spiritbonding and experience manuals for both PvE jobs and crafter/gatherers. Co-ordinate with your Free Company leader about what level 3 buffs they are going to be running for the first few days because the FC buffs and these squadron buffs don't stack. Spiritbonding: In addition to the squadron buff, yes have superior spiritbond potions ready. If you don't need a job-specific buff you can also buy better crowned pies which are +spiritbond food from Talan in Mor Dhona. There is old +spiritbonding gear/accessory pieces from ARR but those pieces are so weak and you lose an actual slot you can spiritbond from, meaning that none of them are worth using to spiritbond with. I would recommend spiritbonding as the main gil maker for newbies, because it's entirely passive to whatever content you will be doing in Dawntrail. I'd also mention levelling up the Chocobo while doing FATEs. A bit pay-2-win but the SDS Fenrir cash shop mount uniquely has maximum land-speed unlocked as a default and will let you zoom around the new zones faster than everyone else until you have got all of an area's aether currents.

Gotta prepare my build in Elden Ring before Dawntrail :D

On khloes journals and on leveling you can hold the one from the 18th of june to hang onto one then grab another on the following week, during early access and can slam out a second journal, also the Tuesday before early access, get your dungeon, roulette and comms checklist on your weekly log 1 step away, then hit a leveling roulette and give a single comm and the dungeon/roulette log filled and gain nearly 2 levels in one shot between journals and a single dungeon. You'll sail through the story without snagging on levels

Pvp actually gives REALLY good xp. Might be worth a try for leveling viper and picto

All I did for dawntrail is prep a set of augmented cryptlurker for viper with leftover tomestones for the weapon and I think that's all I'm gonna do.

First of all, shout out to Cunningham's Law and all the other commenters. I just want to add that in DT Purple Scrips will be come the new White Scrips. So anything you can craft now, if you turn it in during DT it will just give you Purple Scrips and reduced XP (1k). IMO you're better off not bothering with stocking up on collectables, just do your weekly custom deliveries and don't spend the scrips for a couple weeks leading up to DT. There will also be an exchange to turn old White scrips into Purple scips (not at a good rate). I would also suggest you make sure you have unlocked/completed all existing CDs so you can get the bonuses from all of them going into DT, if you haven't already (and the consumes/materia stuff he mentioned ofc).

Really good prep guide, thanks!

Don’t forget to pick up the leaves for gathering, the exp doesn’t cap unlike crafters. So if you were to pick up 16 (which is the max you can hold) you can turn it in as you log in and bam your gatherer of your choise is 91, also giving you a potential head start to start leveling your retainer

My tip, clear out your glamour dresser. Check if there is anything you don't like in there because we are about to get alot more stuff

If you want immediate cool glam weapons for the new classes gather up enough aetherpool grips in deep dungeons to trade in for a weapon, you can also while farming trusts gather all of the level 80-90 dungeon gear for casting and scouting for a guaranteed weapon drop from each dungeon if you complete it as viper or pictomancer. I also made a list of materials most likely needed to make the crafted weapons from 80-90 in case they look cool too! You can also use PVP currency to buy class specific gear for each class, so you could stock up on that for a potential early "level 100 class glam" for both viper and pictomancer. Small edit, there is another reason besides gil to gather bicolor gemstones... early riding maps. Last edit, have been told that dawntrail is gonna be kriles big adventure, might be worth doing eureka if you havent already for potential extra dialogue.

One thing to note with Wondrous Tails: You will not get Gold Certificates as an option for getting 3 lines if you don't have a job at max level. And while the chance of getting 3 lines is low (especially getting one during the Dawntrail launch window)... you may want to consider whether the EXP will be worth the very small chance of zero gold certificated from a 3 line.

This helped out lots! Appreciate the guide, totally forgot about a lot of things that now I can focus on (like bicolor gemstones and materia)

In relation to the Khloe book, when he says 'the tuesday before the release' he means June 18th's book if you have early access, that way you can complete the June 18th book pre-release, then immediately turn it in for XP and then pick up June 25ths book, complete it and get ANOTHER huge chunk of XP.

i totally spaced about getting gear for viper and pictomancer. great video! i will be referring back to this in the coming months :)

@Jolsn do you have advice about which sidequests would be the best to stack for exp before dawntrail ? And what is the best way to level up while waiting in queues? spamming fates?

I was hoping to switch to dps for this expansion (black mage or ninja)but I think I’ll stick to healing since the queues for dps will be excruciating.

Wait, we can transmute materia? 😂

Regarding materia alot of people miss/ignore is weekly custom deliveries. Now yes granted you won't super stockpile in only a short time however if you do them weekly the materia adds up quite handsomely over time for only a small amount of effort/work per week.

9:50 - WHAT. good heavens, i've been sleeping on aetherite tickets because i didn't want to deal with a second prompt every single time i teleport to a nearby aetherite. i didn't know you could set automatic allowances. this belongs in a UI tips video if you ever do another.

An especially important thing about using Poetics to gear up Viper and Pictomancer is that I'm 99% sure they don't hand out accessories with the starter gear, which is probably something you'll want to have

If you have progress on your BLU, you can get a ton of allied seals in just 3 fights rqch week in the Masked Carnivale. Those 3 fights each week give me enough allied seals to buy over 100 aetheryte tickets.

There is an NPC for the tomestone gear for any old expac at the main AH zone aetheryte crystal, so going to Crystarium for 80 gear, and end when DT releases there will be a vendor in the aetheryte in Olf Dhstlsusn.

About the crystals, if you have gathering retainers they can get some for you every 40 mins with ventures. It may not seem like a ton. But it adds up quick over time when you need to be doing other things.

Just a note: Do NOT complete 30 quests and wait for turn in. You only want to do 29. Reason: Because you need to leave a quest for becoming a Viper/Pico. 29 quests + Class quests = 30. Just a heads up.

I always learn something new here

Wait, the tomestones can be exchanged for new ones in DT? They usually all just converted in poetics I thought.

squadron buffs do not stack with fc buffs but they will stack with food (and the normal crafters manual if crafting/gathering)

Another super important piece of prep: Clean out your Glamour Dresser!! We're going to be getting a whole slew of cool new pieces, it's time to toss out all the shit you've been storing but never used so that you actually have some space :P

at the end for the crystals you show a graph of dots for the crystals price fluctuations :o may i ask where to find that? It looks really useful!

My favorite way to farm company seals is to solo run dungeons unsynced for the gear. running the dungeons that generally have a lot of chests yields great rewards.

Will levequests be a good for leveling up gatherers/crafters too?

Gave me a few more things to work on before DT. Thanks! GLHF

I have been trying to get into joining a hunt trail and I am finding it a little confusing on how to do this. Would it be possible for you to make a video on this topic?

I already put together my Viper glamour!

I prepared myself for Dawntrail 6 month' ago, that means, I farmed tomes and Edenmorn Stuff for both 😃

I’ve grown attached to my squadron. I’d never abandon them

Where can I see price history like the graph for crystals ?

You only have to level Trust characters if you want to use any of them across all the dungeons in the respective expansion (some characters are unavailable for certain dungeons because of story reasons, like any of the Scions in Ktisis Hyperboreia, but become available when you level them up so they can enter). There is an option to use a party of story Trust NPCs, which are essentially the same characters that you originally had a choice of picking should you have chosen to do the dungeons with Trust NPCs as you go through the MSQ.

Fastest way to level from 80 to 90 will be bozja, and tons of people will be there to do it

Aren't quests locked as the job you started them with? Like if you started with PLD you have to complete with PLD?

Honestly this just reminded me that I still need to get Cryptlurker for casters. I've already got the Scouting set and I'm capped on Shards and Crystals.

The Priority Seal Allowance, from the Grand Company Squadron - that says it boosts seals from “Grand Company Actions”, does that really mean turn-ins or is that referring only to payouts from FATES, Leves, etc?

Is there also not a chance that bi color gemstones will be kept just for ShB and EW, and we will get a new fate currency for DT?

Do you get more XP by playing with custom Trusts? Because you can just play the dungeons with the more-restrictive duty support teams.

Is there much reason to use trust over duty support? It has the hassle of levelling them, and a quick google said that the XP gain is the same, though they can be 1 level higher in trust (ie they are level synced rather than matching the dungeon level exactly). Still, seems like a lot of extra work if you don't want the achievements!

I did early access Endwalker and was able to get reaper from 70 to 80 in about 8 hours doing some of the stuff on this list, running dungeons b/c there was a GNB trying to get to 80 for the story

Question about the shards, how much do you get from ventures if your retainer is geared? Not at the point to find out myself yet.

Can you share your character creation attributes? I can't seem to get a Hyur to look this good. Thanks!

I wonder if they’re adding another tomestones vendor in the current newest city with the already upgraded 660 gear like in previous expansions

If you have blue mage at 80 you'll already have cryptlurker gear for picto. Viper is the only one you'd need to get more for

I used to run hunt trains on light usely we run them either as a Fast or Slow train, The difference being extra wait at the area aerthritis so everyone can teleport, pleas respect the conductors choose of the speed and don't pre pull, those scoutings for the trains take quite some time, and it's really rude to ignore the work investet in to it

Since poetics are so easy to cap, if you want to bank gear for GC Expert Delivery turn ins it's worth it to buy up rings in Eulmore. Rings are not unique items so you can buy as many as you want. And when it comes to crystals, those MIN/BTN gathering ventures in the 26-30 range will get you 120 crystals every 40 minutes if your retainers are level 90 with decent gear. A little bit of discipline over the next few months will net you thousands of crystals.

Tgye Trusts will match your level if you use the storyline characters as opposed to the swappable one.

will materia IX be useless for pentamelds come Dawntrail?

Crystals yes so many crystals. I have 2 characters and I'm currently in the process of maxing out the crystals on them in preparation mostly for whatever the Ishgard Resto of the xpac is gonna be but 200k of each type is still never enough.

it's so weird to me that Trusts > duty support, you'd think duty support would at least have more drops or only drop gear for the job you enter as, but once you unlock trusts, duty support is just there for the extra voicelines.

I call having to buy crystals "the bot tax" because I'm convinced no person actually goes out and gathers those to sell in bulk the way they are

Should I save all my tomes?

The materia one is very important. I'm too lazy for island sanctuary so I've just been crafting collectibles.

I see the name "Horstlichter" and the first thing that comes to my mind is "eine Messer Spitze Butter :D"

You might think about taking viper and pictomancer to bozja for leveling.

Maybe a bit too sweaty, but you can max out a 2nd Grand Company on company seals, and swap to that company for an extra 90k seals.

huh. I never realized that the little dots turn white when an equipped item is 100% spirit bond. Thanks.

I'm lost on the side quest thing. I thought the class u started the quest with has to complete the quest? Thanks for the Video!

Don't have to worry about lv80 pictomancer gear if you geared your BLU correctly

I spent all my post endwalker taking a break. Turns out I didn’t even unlock heavensward to endwalker raids and trials. I recently just unlocked eureka 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ I guess I have a lot of grinding to do while working on my finals assignments and studying . . . . I should be fine I’m mid 90% on all my classes lol. J/K I’ll catch up on the next expansion.

Me as a tank main: Your queue time is in my hands, now bow and beg for me.

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Materia transmuting made me over 10M in profit over the first month, half of which I made the first week I was regularly selling red materia for 50k+ and blue materia for 100k+ Double transmuting by buying up materia 10s right now isn't worth it though. Imo the better option is to buy up the new yellow and purple materia 11s once they start selling for less than 2k each and transmute those into reds and blues, hoping for as many materia 12s as possible Even if you don't want to bother with transmuting, you can still take advantage of the surge pricing by doing your leveling and alliance roulette for clusters. Trade those clusters for red materia 12 and that's an easy 50k-100k gil per day (you might still need at least one job at level 100 to gain access to the cluster vendor though)

where i can find the npc for the level thumbstone

I precrafted 3 full retainer with white scrips and 3 full retainer with pruple ones to make sure i wont miss anything. xD

The time investemnt getting trusts from 71 to 81, to then level jobs with them to 90 is so huge. I'm just going to put up eureka orthos pfs when pvp isn't popping and let full dps groups come for levelling.

why use trusts when you can use duty support? they give the same exp and you can do duty support immediately without any hassle of leveling them up!

How i've been preparing for dawntrail: Making beach wear glamour for my WoLs vacation.

Do i need to finish endwalker for C'intana to open her shop?

Bear in mind that you can use Materia 9 anywhere you'd need Materia 7. 9 for crafters and gatherers is especially easy to acquire thanks to Island Sanctuary.

Bozja will be much faster for leveling dps than trust or dungeons. At level 80 the skirmishes and critical engagements start giving more xp to scale with the higher level. I leveled many jobs to 90 with Bozja in a very short amount of time. Getting to 90 in a day won't be hard with a mid of the things you mentioned but also then going to Bozja. I would start with Bozja then near level 90 leave and turn in side quest, turn in the wondrous tails, do Trial, normal raid, frontline, leveling, msq. Leveling frontline, and msq should give about a level and a half on their combined. Wondrous tails another half a level, side quest turn ins was somewhere around a quarter to half a level. So all in all I'd leave Bozja around level 86-87. If you still don't have enough xp after turning and doing those roulettes just hop back in to Bozja. Also important to remember we have a new Deep Dungeon that can help with leveling too. Deep dungeons normally give about a dungeons worth of xp but take a little less time and you can queue with any other role. So you don't need to have a group of tanks or healers. It can be all dps. One more method will be Tribal quest from Endwalker, The Arkasodara tribe in Thavnair is for combat jobs it will give around 1/3-1/2 a level in only a few minutes of work. These quest are designed specifically to level level 80 and up jobs to 90 and are made to take a very short amount of time.

Pictomancer is a caster, you mean you don't have a level 80 blue mage?

Don't the jobs come "close enough" to the gear at level? I don't remember, but I am pretty sure the difference between SGE starter gear and Cryptlurker wasn't THAT big. 90 set I would 100% get (since there's a giant like 100 il leap), but 80 is probably "whatever".

don't use trust use duty support instead they smarter

You can level up to 90 with pictomancer or viper in Bozja without any gear upgrades, and without tanks or healers before the story quests.

11:13 how did you get all those Clusters?!?!

I literally started playing for the first time 5 days ago and this is my first MMO. I’m seriously worried about how much further behind I’m gonna be when this releases, I still haven’t managed to beat ARR.

Obviously the proper way level new jobs it to do the unlock quest and immediately queue into 75+ dungeons. /s

No one even knows if bicolored gems are going to be used in DT or another currency since it's been used the last two expansions so unless you're so free on time that there's nothing else to do then sure farm bicolor's.

why level trust over just using duty support? i've never really leveled trust i thought all it did was give the trusted friend title

4:45 why materia 7 and not 9?

7:18 I see Sabea :P

fucking..... first tip.... i have everything at lvl max, i leveled everything, and i still forget about preparing those gears, like i always forget about preparing the tomestones before a new crafted gear set hits the game 10 YEARS i'm playing this game, TEN, since the beta of ARR..... and i do dungeons daily just for fun, and to level up the desynth of my professions....

Unfortunately don’t some side quests require you to be the job you started as?

Bozja leveling is still good for 80+ last i checked.