Shadowbringers Updated up to Level 80! Level up Mining Quickly! Stop wasting time! Power Level your Miner!
MIN Leveling Guide 64-70
MIN & BTN Leveling Guides updated. Other notes...
Botanist Leveling to 90, as well as Miner Leveling to 90 are updated for the Endwalker tier. Older tiers needs some fixing, although I modernized what I could quickly – I placed the important notes on the top of the aforementioned guides reflecting the major things that you need to take note of.
I will post a personal update soon, for those that are curious…
Endwalker tier COMPLETELY UPDATED. At older parts of guide? OPEN THIS
Finally, the L80 to L90 portion of the BTN/MIN Leveling Guides are 100% complete and current. The older parts, however… (GEAR UPDATES per tier are most important)
While I will update these ASAP (promise, hehe).
Here’s the important banger notes:
GEAR UPDATES? Any time I mention gear updates in the lower tiers, (except 0 to 60), IGNORE IT AND BUY SCRIP TIER GEAR INSTEAD.
A Realm Reborn Gear Scrip gear? NO SCRIP, my notes are still pretty valid.
Heavensward L50 Scrip gear?NO SCRIP, my notes are still pretty valid.
Stormblood L60 Scrip gear: Augmented Keep tier IL200
Shadowbringers L70 Scrip gear: Landking tier IL350 (Offhand from L330)
Endwalker L50 Scrip gear: Landsaint – Guide already reflects this.
All of these upgrades are “good” until the end of their tier.
Get scrip by: Custom Deliveries and Collectables.
COLLECTABLES? Not only did the rotation / skill names change TWICE since SHB into EW, the entire System was overhauled pre-EW. Instead of rotating nodes with normal names, it’s SET NON-ROTATING RAREFIED materials. The rotation is also different, but somehow simpler. I’ll update a universal DoL Collectable / Rotation guide for this, instead of repeating myself 100 times.
TLDR: The old “everyday it changes” is OUT. Rarefied “set-in-stone” is in! Ignore mentions of OLD ROTATIONS AND SKILLS. I’ll remedy this ASAP
Endwalker tier is, of course, updated in this regard.
BEAST TRIBES? Each tier has a beast tribe you can use to level up, which I didn’t seem to note as I always blast through DoL super early… These are decent sources of EXP while also giving you some neat items.
A Realm Reborn: Ixal (DoL and DoH)
Heavensward: Moogle (DoL and DoH)
Stormblood: Namazu (DoL and DoH)
Shadowbringers: Qitari (DoL only)
Endwalker: Omicron (DoL only) – Guide already reflects this.
Please click on and read the above clicky box if you're leveling 01 to 79.
I split the Stormblood mining leveling into 2 chunks. This part assumes you followed the previous chunk.
From this point on,“Waiting for Collectibles” is your main activity! The space in between can be (Grinding) > (levequests if impatient) > (AFK).
In this tier: 60-65 | 65-70
Mining Leveling Guide - Navigation:
Miner Level: Level 0-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80 | 80-90
Before we get into it, a quick review…
GEAR CHECK: Rising from Scrubhood
Your gear should look something like this (check below this table for the “optional” info). With the exception of the Off-hand – EVERYTHING SHOULD BE HQ!
Slot | Item | Level | From? | Cheap Meld I | Cheap Meld II |
Main | High Steel Dolabra | 62 | BSM | Guerdon III+ | Any |
Off | High Steel Sledgehammer | 63 | BSM | Guerdon III+ | Any |
Chest | Gaganaskin Vest | 61 | LTW | Guerdon IV | Guile IV |
Head | Gaganaskin Bush Hat | 61 | LTW | Guerdon IV | Guile IV |
Gloves | Gaganaskin Gloves | 61 | LTW | Guerdon IV | Guile IV |
Leg | Bloodhempen Trousers of Gathering | 61 | WVR | Guerdon IV | Guerdon IV |
Boot | Gaganaskin Fringe Boots | 61 | LTW | Guile IV | Guile IV |
Belt | Gaganaskin Belt of Gathering | 62 | LTW | Guerdon IV | Any |
Ear | Gyuki Leather Earrings | 63 | LTW | Guile IV | OPEN |
Neck | Gyuki Leather Choker | 63 | LTW | Guile IV | OPEN |
Wrist | Gyuki Leather Wristband | 63 | LTW | Guile IV | OPEN |
Ring | Gyuki Leather Ring | 63 | LTW | Guile IV | OPEN |
Ring | Gyuki Leather Ring | 63 | LTW | Guile IV | OPEN |
Melding? You can technically downgrade all your Guerdons to III’s (but suffer a lower success chance). You can also downgrade SOME GUILES TO III’s – BUT I DO NOT KNOW THE MINIMUM THRESHOLDFOR EXACTLY 451 COLLECTABILITY!I experimented with these melds, and they’re slightly above the required power level. I cannot concretely tell you how many you can downgrade.
Open and force melds? As long as you can hit 450+ with Single Mind, go for gathering. Perception has its uses too, but falls off considerably unless you can get enough to “double single mind”.
L64 and under: Optional upgrades
Optional – Gyuki Leather tier: If you’re leveling ALL THREE CLASSES (including fisher) then I would MAYBE invest in the HQ Gyuki Leather Jacket. I found it completely unnecessary. The non-chest pieces were also too negligible of an upgrade.
Optional – HQ High Steel Sledgehammer: I thrived without it. The NQ from the MIN 63 Class Quest was enough. Obtaining this simply increases your gather chance. If you’re the type to grind (and can easily offset its costs) go for it.
Go to top
Mining Leveling 64 to 66
Welp, back to business!
MIN Collectibles @ 64 – 66
Mining Collectibles 64~ | |||||||
Lvl | Item | Slot | Time | Map | Area (or Aetheryte) | Unlock | |
MIN | 62 | Raw Star Spinel | Slot 8 | 12AM/PM | Ruby Sea | Onokoro | 61 |
MIN | 60 | Raw Triphane | Slot 6 | 2AM/PM | The Fringes | Castrum Oriens | 60 |
MIN Practice & Farm Nodes | |||||||
Practice Node | 62 | Koppranickel Ore | – | Any | Ruby Sea | Sakazuki | 61 |
Practice Node | 60 | Gyr Albanian Alumen | – | Any | The Fringes | East End | 60 |
A new one unlocks AT 66, but that belongs in the next tier’s table.
What to grind? MIN 64 to 66
Pick any of the previously mentioned grindables. Here’s a rundown of the “old” ones:
- Koppranickel Sand: Crafters use this by the truckload. Also spammed in a low tier BSM repeatable leve.
- Doman Iron Ore: You should have a decent gather chance on it now. Integral to one of the only viable ARM levequests.
- Koppranickel Ore: Heavily used in a popular GSM Levequest.
Notable events in this tier
Miner L65 Class Quest
Feather Iron Ore is in Ruby Sea, Onokoro (same node as Koppranickel Ore). As for rewards, take the Kudzu Coat of Gathering, and a new main-hand Doman Iron Pickaxe.
The Chest Piece (NQ Kudzu Coat of Gathering) is a welcome, albeit small, upgrade. I melded these with III’s, as they were too marginal an upgrade without even the cheapest of melds.
The NQ Doman Iron Pickaxe is only a hair’s breadth better than your current one (If you meld it) – Sell or use, doesn’t really matter.
If you are leveling the other DoH classes simultaneously, then get the Cap or Gloves next once you hit 65 quest on those.
Completing the quest gives you Endless Toil of the Pioneer, which instantly reveals all hidden items in older nodes! Interestingly, RAW TRIPHANE COLLECTIBLE is part of this! So you get an extra gather for it!
Again, the quests are in Idyllshire.
Should I upgrade my gear? Kudzu & Tigerskin Tier?
I got to 70 just using the NQ shirt from the class quest. But, getting an HQ Kudzu Coat of Gathering is obviously welcome. Needless to say the same applies leveling BTN.
HOWEVER IF YOU ARE LEVELING FISHER, this becomes more relevant as MISSED FISH are much more painful than MISSED MIN/BTN NODES.
If you’re leveling all 3, you may consider an investment for HQ:
The other HQ pieces are COMPLETELY OPTIONAL.
MIN 65 Main hand: Doman Iron Pickaxe?
As I typed above: “The NQ Doman Iron Pickaxe is only a hair’s breadth better than your current one (If you meld it) – Sell or use, doesn’t really matter.”
If you can afford the HQ, the only upside is higher % gathers. Luxury.
MIN 66 Off-hand: Doman Iron Sledgehammer?
Same old story. NQ Doman Iron Sledgehammer loses to HQ High Steel Sledgehammer – HQ is purely luxury. Didn’t feel like I needed it at all.
Level 64 Mining Levequests
The only reason to use levequests at this point onwards is if you’re not leveling crafters…
Class | Level | Levequest | Plate | Type | Location | Note? |
Miner | 64 | No Stone Unturned | Flower Girl | 4 Node Eval | Yanxia | Best |
Miner | 64 | Simply Marble Us | Miqote Fishing | 8 Node Eval | Yanxia | Great |
Miner | 64 | Scraptacular | Lala Merchant | Collect 40 | Yanxia | OK |
Go to top
Miner Leveling 66 to 68
MIN Collectibles @ 66 – 68
I THINK RAW AZURITE TURN-INS UNLOCK RIGHT AT 66.
Mining Collectibles 66~ | |||||||
Lvl | Item | Slot | Time | Map | Area (or Aetheryte) | Unlock | |
MIN | 66 | Raw Azurite | Slot 7 | 4AM/PM | Azim Steppe | Dawn Throne | 66 |
MIN | 62 | Raw Star Spinel | Slot 8 | 12AM/PM | Ruby Sea | Onokoro | 61 |
MIN | 60 | Raw Triphane | Slot 6 | 2AM/PM | The Fringes | Castrum Oriens | 60 |
Ephemeral Nodes | |||||||
Ephemeral | 66 | Schorl | – | 12A | Azim Steppe | (@Durium Sand) | 66 |
Ephemeral | 68 | Perlite | – | 4P | Yanxia | (@Durium Ore) | 66 |
Practice & Farm Nodes | |||||||
Practice Node | 66 | Durium Sand | – | Any | Azim Steppe | Onsal Hakair | 66 |
Practice Node | 62 | Koppranickel Ore | – | Any | Ruby Sea | Sakazuki | 61 |
Practice Node | 60 | Gyr Albanian Alumen | – | Any | The Fringes | East End | 60 |
Ephemeral Nodes? WTF?
Ephemeral Nodes are a pseudo unspoiled node that “recharge” as you farm nearby nodes. They are prime suspects for “Aetherial Reduction” items.
As to how they’re relevant to leveling, they are only good as supplemental “grinding” sections.
Treat them as you would any collectible – but instead of getting MORE of them, the goal is to get THE HIGHEST COLLECTABILITY.
Once harvested, right click on it and press “Aetherial Reduction”, to reap sweet rewards. High powered reductions result in much sought after Aethersands.
To be safe use a TRIPLE CYCLE OF: Discerning Eye > Methodical Appraisal. Then gather once.
If you CANNOT get “Level 5 Aetheric Reduction Power” with that, it devalues this method quite a bit, as the chances for Aethersand is much lower at 4.
MIN Unspoiled Nodes: Farming Only
Purely for making money along the way. Optional.
Mining Unspoiled unlocked: Gil making | |||||||
MIN | 70 | Raw Imperial Jade | Slot 6 | 6AM/PM | Yanxia | House of the Fierce | 66 |
MIN | 69 | Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal | Slot 1 | 12AM/PM | The Lochs | Porta Praetoria | 66 |
What to grind? MIN 66 to 68
In this tier, there is a special way to grind, which yields some good profit on the side. And that’s Ephemerals and Aetherial Reduction!
The cycle goes something like this:
Raw Triphane (2AM) – Raw Star Spinel – (12PM) – Schorl (12pm)
Raw Triphane (2PM) – Raw Star Spinel 12AM – (Repeat).
Schorl comes up every OTHER cycle.
This may get tricky, but you can get a solid attempt at Schorl AT LEAST every window.Buy Cordials.
The “recharge” node is also value from the high heavens: It contains 3 useful materials – Durium Sand, Doman Iron Sand and Palladium Sand.
The main reason for doing this is, again, profit. Speaking of profit… I placed a clicky box of new unspoiled nodes to farm up there. In the grinding notes of the L68 to 70 tier, there is another ephemeral node to farm, but with a little higher difficulty… (not so recommended for now).
If you don’t want to farm Ephemerals, you can grind:
Durium Ore (which has a L68 Ephemeral, lol), or any of the sands mentioned in the ephemeral method above (… which have an ethereal node…)
Or of course, the highest costing material right now… or whatever you personally need.
Notable events in this tier
L67 Main Hand: Plumed Doman Pickaxe
Okay, I’m going to have to bite the bullet here. HIGH QUALITY L67 Plumed Doman Steel Pickaxe is MANDATORY.
Yes, I know some of you are itching to say “I got to 70 without it!”, but of course! I can get to 70, too, even if I had a 1% node success rate gather! It will simply take 99 times longer.
Now, just so you don’t feel so bad, cheap meld it with Guerdon III, and then OVERMELD it with ANY (even non gathering) materia. So by the time you hit 70 you can convert it to materia.
MIN L68 Class Quest
Serpentine!? Where can I gather Serpentine!?!? Serpentine is located in the same node as Durium Ore (Yanxia – Unseen Spirits Laughing). I suspect they will edit the quest marker in the coming patches because it’s very unintuitive.
Rewards: You get Bountiful Yield II, and a choice of Gathering Materia V. I chose Perception, but choose whichever you like, and an NQ Doman Steel Sledgehammer.
HQ Doman Steel Sledgehammer?
HQ Doman Steel Sledgehammer is entirely optional. If you can muscle through 80%+~ success rates, it’s fine.
Either way, it’s time to finally retire your HQ High Steel Sledgehammer (it was the only “mandatory” off-hand upgrade in this entire guide). The NQ Doman Steel Sledgehammer free from your class quest completely smashes the stats on your previous HQ.
Level 66 Mining Levequests
The only reason to use levequests at this point onwards is if you’re not leveling crafters…
Class | Level | Levequest | Plate | Type | Location | Note? |
Miner | 66 | Dunes of Our Lives | Flower Girl | 4 Node Eval | Azim Steppe | Best |
Miner | 66 | O Say Can You Rock? | Lala Merchant | Collect 40 | Azim Steppe | OK |
Miner | 66 | Bead Em Up | King | 32 or Fail | Azim Steppe | OK |
Go to top
Miner Leveling 68 to 70
MIN Collectibles @ 68 – 70
Mining Collectibles 66~ | |||||||
Lvl | Item | Slot | Time | Map | Area (or Aetheryte) | Unlock | |
MIN | 66 | Raw Azurite | Slot 7 | 4AM/PM | Azim Steppe | Dawn Throne | 66 |
MIN | 62 | Raw Star Spinel | Slot 8 | 12AM/PM | Ruby Sea | Onokoro | 61 |
MIN | 60 | Raw Triphane | Slot 6 | 2AM/PM | The Fringes | Castrum Oriens | 60 |
Ephemeral Nodes | |||||||
Ephemeral | 66 | Schorl | – | 12A | Azim Steppe | (@Durium Sand) | 66 |
Ephemeral | 68 | Perlite | – | 4P | Yanxia | (@Durium Ore) | 66 |
Practice & Farm Nodes | |||||||
Practice Node | 66 | Durium Sand | – | Any | Azim Steppe | Onsal Hakair | 66 |
Practice Node | 62 | Koppranickel Ore | – | Any | Ruby Sea | Sakazuki | 61 |
Practice Node | 60 | Gyr Albanian Alumen | – | Any | The Fringes | East End | 60 |
Ephemeral Nodes? WTF?
Ephemeral Nodes are a pseudo unspoiled node that “recharge” as you farm nearby nodes. They are prime suspects for “Aetherial Reduction” items.
As to how they’re relevant to leveling, they are only good as supplemental “grinding” sections.
Treat them as you would any collectible – but instead of getting MORE of them, the goal is to get THE HIGHEST COLLECTABILITY.
Once harvested, right click on it and press “Aetherial Reduction”, to reap sweet rewards. High powered reductions result in much sought after Aethersands.
To be safe, use a TRIPLE CYCLE OF: Discerning Eye > Methodical Appraisal. Then gather once.
If you CANNOT get “Level 5 Aetheric Reduction Power” with that, it devalues this method quite a bit, as the chances for Aethersand is much lower at 4.
MIN Unspoiled Nodes: Farming Only
Purely for making money along the way. Optional.
Mining Unspoiled unlocked: Gil making | |||||||
MIN | 70 | Raw Imperial Jade | Slot 6 | 6AM/PM | Yanxia | House of the Fierce | 66 |
MIN | 69 | Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal | Slot 1 | 12AM/PM | The Lochs | Porta Praetoria | 66 |
What to grind? MIN 68 to 70
There’s another ephemeral node in this tier (it’s unlocked in previous tier, but the level difference may make it less than optimal).
The Perlite node spawns in the same cluster as Durium Ores in Yanxia – Unseen Spirits.I mean, if yer gonna grind anyway,might as well make the most out of it.
Order | Time | Open Node | |
1 | 12:00 AM | Raw Star Spinel | Unspoiled |
2 | 2:00 AM | Raw Triphane | Unspoiled |
3 | 4:00 AM | Raw Azurite | Unspoiled |
4 | 12:00 PM | Raw Star Spinel | Unspoiled |
5 | 12:00 PM | Schorl | Ephemeral |
6 | 2:00 PM | Raw Triphane | Unspoiled |
7 | 4:00 PM | Raw Azurite | Unspoiled |
8 | 4:00 PM | Perlite | Ephemeral |
Again, the Ephemerals are mostly FOR PROFIT, and for me to incentivize teaching newer players on what exactly ephemeral nodes are.
- Get the highest power you can, at least once, per ephemeral using Triple Discerning Eye-Methodical Appraisal cycle.
- 5 or 6 Aetherial power is value, avoid 4 and below. I would rather have 1 6 power and farm a bunch of 2/3 power reductions, than a smattering of 3/4/5’s.
Notable events in this tier
L68 Class Quest Review
I put the info in the previous tiers notes, but it bears repeating here. Summary is:
Serpentine!? Where can I gather Serpentine!?!? Serpentine is located in the same node as Durium Ore (Yanxia – Unseen Spirits Laughing)
HQ Doman Steel Sledgehamer is entirely optional.
L68 Marid Leather Tier?
I know you’ve heard the story before, but yeah, again, completely optional. I’ll say it again “These upgrades are more value if you are leveling FISHER as well since a missed node from MIN or BTN is much less painful than a missed fish”
Even then only the Shirt > Helm > Gloves are truly valuable. For reference, here are the names:
- Marid Leather Bolero of Gathering
- Serge Turban of Gathering (not to be confused with Serge Hood)
- Marid Leather Gloves of Gathering
L70 Class Quest: Pummelite
Farm Pummelite – the same node as Raw Rhodonite. It’s an unspoiled node that spawns in THE PEAKS 8AM or 8PM (nearest aetheryte is !!!)
The NQ pile is no problem. Ensure it by using Toil of the Pioneer and Solid Reason to get it in a single spawn of the node.
Apparently I’m crazy and only NQ is needed?
5 HQ Pummelite? Eh, this can be annoying.
The sure way is to bait out Deep Vigor on the node. For this to be consistent, you need to have as many gathering attempts as possible, AND a high success rate (you can’t break the chain).
Something like:
Hit to Reveal
Sharp Vision (Level depending on how sure you want to be)
Gather until chain 4 (using Ageless Words to ensure and/or extend it)
Brunt Force then Gather as much as you can.
I do not recommend “Unearth + Nald’Thal’s Counsel + Dredge” type rotations as they’re prone to RNG. While you MAY save time by 1 trip, you may also extend your trips by 10.
The rewards are a bunch of good materia, plus enhanced GP Regeneration trait. SO DON’T SKIP OUT ON THIS QUEST.
Level 68 Mining Levequests
The only reason to use levequests at this point onwards is if you’re not leveling crafters…
Class | Level | Levequest | Plate | Type | Location | Note? |
Miner | 68 | The Ores Have it | Flower Girl | 4 Node Eval | Peaks | Best |
Miner | 68 | Mine All Mine | Miqote Fishing | 8 Node Eval | Peaks | Great |
Miner | 68 | Adios, Ala Mhigo | King | 32 or Fail | Peaks | OK |
Go to top
Stormblood Tier DONE!
Congratulations, now onwards to Shadowbringers tier, 70 to 80!
In this tier: 60-65 | 65-70
Mining Leveling Guide - Navigation:
Miner Level: Level 0-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80 | 80-90
Join our IRL Cross-World Linkshells (socials lol):
- Instagram (@ffxivguild)- We just rezzed our Insta, check in for more coming soon!
- Twitter (@FFXIVguild) - Finally un-boomering myself because our Twitter is back.
- Facebook (/FFXIVguild) - Like us on our OG social.
Contact us about anything and everything. Don't be shy! Love our guides and want to let us know? Got questions or corrections? Suggestions for improvement? TALK TO US! How, you say?
Comment below if it's about this guide. Message us on any of our socials above about anything.We're organizing our email situation if you're into that.
Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9
Author: FFXIV Guild
Google+ View all posts by FFXIV Guild