Why is my hp low

[Little Songbird]

I am white mage in level 49, I only got about 2.3k hp and when doing full party, I saw the other healer got 6k hp.
I only have about 260 vitality.
As for my equipments, I usually just use the recommend equipment settings.
I heard there is something like raising equipment level or did I miss something?

[Mudpony]

The other healer is most likely 50+. At 50, you gain access to the tomestone gear. It has a lot better stats than what you are currently wearing, because it is designed to catch people up. So you're wearing gear from when the game first came out, doing the 1-50 thing, and the moment you hit 50, you get easy access to gear to set you up for the first expansion, to make it as if you'd done a lot of level 50 then end game content.

To give you some idea of what it'll be like, I went from nuking for 250-300ish on my White Mage to doing 3 or 4x that. And my HP now sits at around 6k, with that 120 rated tomestone gear (plus a crafted level 50 staff and ring). That's what happens when all your gear gives stats in the 20-30s instead of 8 range ;)

You can get some of the idea of the progression you'll be skipping from the post ARR MSQ quests. Watch the stats climb as the item rating goes up on the rewards with each batch (each one tied to a content patch). Of course, you won't use most of that gear, because you'll have better.

[DarkFenix]

Level 50, 60, 70, and 80 are all either endgame or former endgame levels. That means gear level makes a large jump up at that point while your class level stays the same.

For the old endgame levels, there's no longer any gradual progression through those gear levels, you can just go straight for the best available, so if you have the gear available to use your stats get a huge increase.

[Little Songbird]

so do they just eventually give u some endgame gears or do they introduce a new mechanics to improve your gear?

[Mudpony]

You buy it with tomestones, but you make a lot of those pretty easily, especially when you first do the 8 man missions at the end of the ARR MSQ line... the first time completion bonuses are big. So pretty darn near given to you, but technically, new mechanics to let you buy gear (though you can get your first tomestones in the 40s, with the treasure maps and beastman tribe quests both giving a small amount as rewards). But the gear is all for level 50.

Basically done this way so that the devs can assume all players start at a given power level (that 6k hp) rather than having to design content in mind for both people with 2k and 6k hp.

[DarkFenix]

Once you complete the MSQ for ARR and each expansion in turn, an NPC vendor will be unlocked where you can simply buy the former BiS gear for tomestones of poetics. You'll be able to acquire said tomestones by doing daily roulettes on any class level 50 or higher.

I don't think you have access to many roulettes yet, but trial, MSQ, 50/60/70, and alliance roulettes can all be unlocked at level 50.

[Unholy Eve]

Originally posted by wangyat:

so do they just eventually give u some endgame gears or do they introduce a new mechanics to improve your gear?

When you finish the 2 level 50 Main Story Dungeons you'll have enough poetics to buy a ilvl110-120 weapon for you're class.

Progressing through the Main Story will grant much stronger ilvl gear.

You don't need to farm or buy any other gear outside of what the story gives you.

[Seera1024]

Originally posted by Unholy Eve:

Originally posted by wangyat:

so do they just eventually give u some endgame gears or do they introduce a new mechanics to improve your gear?

When you finish the 2 level 50 Main Story Dungeons you'll have enough poetics to buy a ilvl110-120 weapon for you're class.

Progressing through the Main Story will grant much stronger ilvl gear.

You don't need to farm or buy any other gear outside of what the story gives you.

This isn't necessarily true.

I don't recall if I had issues with needing ilvl for MSQ for level 50 content, but I know I needed to get gear with higher ilvl for the last part of Shadowbringers.

Which if you do the daily roulettes at least with some regularity, shouldn't be an issue. And it typically only takes a day or two if you don't.

[Mudpony]

Originally posted by Unholy Eve:

When you finish the 2 level 50 Main Story Dungeons you'll have enough poetics to buy a ilvl110-120 weapon for you're class.

I haven't seen any ilevel 120 weapons for sale for poetics (beyond the shield, which is sold in the weapon category, but not a weapon). Who sells those?

The level 50 between ARR and first expansion quests do provide some 110ish ones (with nice particle effects), but you won't be able to get them for all the classes (since there are like 3 quests that provide weapons, each one with a subset of the jobs). And crafters can make 110-115 iLevel ones for level 50 as well. I'm currently using a 115 HQ staff I crafted as a white mage, and 110s for Dragoon, Summoner, and Scholar.

[Unholy Eve]

Originally posted by Mudpony:

Originally posted by Unholy Eve:

When you finish the 2 level 50 Main Story Dungeons you'll have enough poetics to buy a ilvl110-120 weapon for you're class.

I haven't seen any ilevel 120 weapons for sale for poetics (beyond the shield, which is sold in the weapon category, but not a weapon). Who sells those?

The level 50 between ARR and first expansion quests do provide some 110ish ones (with nice particle effects), but you won't be able to get them for all the classes (since there are like 3 quests that provide weapons, each one with a subset of the jobs). And crafters can make 110-115 iLevel ones for level 50 as well. I'm currently using a 115 HQ staff I crafted as a white mage, and 110s for Dragoon, Summoner, and Scholar.

Ironworks gear in Mor Dhona
1x Encrypted Tomestone
10x Rowena's Token (Poetics)

All for 500 Poetics

You can grab it as soon as you finish 2.0 or wait until the MSQ takes you there after a few quests.

As for the rest of the gear you can just use what the MSQ gives you, you don't NEED to grind/farm or buy gear but you can if you decide to.

[Jin-]

Originally posted by Seera1024:

Originally posted by Unholy Eve:

When you finish the 2 level 50 Main Story Dungeons you'll have enough poetics to buy a ilvl110-120 weapon for you're class.

Progressing through the Main Story will grant much stronger ilvl gear.

You don't need to farm or buy any other gear outside of what the story gives you.

This isn't necessarily true.

I don't recall if I had issues with needing ilvl for MSQ for level 50 content, but I know I needed to get gear with higher ilvl for the last part of Shadowbringers.

Which if you do the daily roulettes at least with some regularity, shouldn't be an issue. And it typically only takes a day or two if you don't.

You can do whole Shadowbringers pretty much with ilvl 400 from Stormblood. Think there is some specific places you cant enter like the Nier raid

[Mudpony]

Originally posted by Unholy Eve:

Ironworks gear in Mor Dhona
1x Encrypted Tomestone
10x Rowena's Token (Poetics)

All for 500 Poetics

Those look to be iLevel 100. So worse than both the ones from the post ARR MSQ missions and the level 50 usable stuff crafters can make using stuff from the first expansion.

Edit: Oops, nope, they're 120. It's the soldiery ones that are 100. Groovy.

[Seera1024]

Originally posted by Jin-:

Originally posted by Seera1024:

This isn't necessarily true.

I don't recall if I had issues with needing ilvl for MSQ for level 50 content, but I know I needed to get gear with higher ilvl for the last part of Shadowbringers.

Which if you do the daily roulettes at least with some regularity, shouldn't be an issue. And it typically only takes a day or two if you don't.

You can do whole Shadowbringers pretty much with ilvl 400 from Stormblood. Think there is some specific places you cant enter like the Nier raid

I had to do some roulettes to get gear in order to get to the ilvl required for the end dungeons and trials. I haven't unlocked any raids for Shadowbringers.

Amaurot & Dying Gasp requires 410
Grand Cosmos requires 430
Anamnesis Anyder requires 440

It's not a huge grind to get to 440 ilvl. I really only did Level 50/60/70 dungeons, leveling, trials, and MSQ roulette. And it only took me a day or two to unlock each of the above "milestones". Probably just a day each if I had done the raiding roulettes.