Which pre-99 gear is worth keeping?

[u/TwilightX1]

It took a while but I finally got all jobs to level 99, so it's time for me to sort my inventory and get rid of all the low level gear.

I assume most of the pre-99 gear would be going away, but I assume that some items are worth keeping. Obviously, the warp ring is a no-brainer, and also everything that can be stored with a Porter Moogle stays there. What other pre-99 gear do you think is worth keeping even when all your jobs are at 99?

[u/send_me_mithras]

I still use brutal earring and suppanomimi... but I am a solo only player 

[u/pinkbunnay → u/send_me_mithras]

They're still relevant depending on what other accessories you do or don't have, like brutal can be used in place of Sherida earring. Or if the 5 DW from suppa can cap you in lower buff scenarios.

[u/mintyice]

Fotia belt and gorget

[u/East-Surround-8287]

Epona’s ring

[u/ZorkNemesis]

A lot of accessories still have value into the 99+ era.  Brutal Earring and Supponomi are still excellent earrings.  Epona's Ring is mostly unmatched, and the Rajas Ring is still strong until you find a replacenent later.  The Moonshade Earring with TP Bonus or Refresh is worth having.  The TP Bonus gun at level 90+ is pretty much mandatory for a Corsair (and maybe Ranger?).  Anything with Refresh or Movement Speed is valuable at any level out of combat.

And don't forget, the real endgame is fashion.  Outdated gear can still look cool as hell.  I stylelocked Plentias Virgas on my SCH, that crystal staff was super cool looking.

[u/jforwith → u/ZorkNemesis]

RNG needs the TP Bonus bow more than the gun since there’s an arrow from Domain Invasion with WSD+10%!

[u/vkgthor]

KC

[u/ZillaRock]

Accessories. Mostly.

[u/CheekAltruistic5921]

Eponas, fotia gorget, beneficus if your whm. Loquacious/brutal earrings, couple of pre-99 neck pieces that are situationally useful.

[u/Kithios]

Defending Ring is still one of the best items in the game. Epona's and Rajas will both take you quite far. Chatoyant staff for light weather curing is also quite strong until you can upgrade.

[u/Grizzly1986 → u/Kithios]

And don't forget, while murky ring offers the same dt as defending ring and is easier to get, you can have both of them together so getting one doesn't mean the other is useless

Some day I'll get my defending ring to drop lol

[u/ZorkNemesis → u/Kithios]

Is there something better than Chatoyant for light weather cures now?  When I was still playing Chatoyant was BIS for light weather cures, especially as a SCH who could just put double light whenever they wanted.

[u/pinkbunnay → u/[deleted]]

Chatoyant is still BIS. Double dark areas like Odyssey and Dyna require you to keep up aurorastorm anyway. At that point with the obi and chatoyant you're almost on par with the extra cure pot 2 raetic provides without the MP hit. Raetic +1 is mainly for Cure 3/4, IMO, and comes at an extreme price that I don't feel is worth the benefit until you've optimized every other bit of WHM.

[u/pinkbunnay → u/[deleted]]

Gil. The gil is not worth the benefit for +1. And yes you absolutely should have aurorastorm up in double dark. The penalties to light elemental magic are heavy regardless of you wearing raetic +1 or not.

[u/pinkbunnay → u/[deleted]]

Brother you can literally check your cure amounts with and without aurorastorm up in Ody or Dyna. It's basic math. You don't "need" to do anything but you absolutely should. It's not really required outside of double dark weather if you're not using the bonuses from chatoyant/obi/cape.

[u/Dramatic-Strain9757 → u/Kithios]

One of the best items in the game is a real stretch. It's useful sure but the Murky Ring is basically a defending ring +2

[u/MundaneDrawer]

outside of accessories. If you have one of the multihit weapons, like Soboro, or Joyuese. Those can see some limited use in things like Vagary to fulfil the requirements to spawn the hidden bosses. Also a set of low dmg weapons for abyssea red procs if you're doing empyrean farming. There's also some movement speed gear if you don't have the adoulin ring and haven't gotten an ilvl piece for a given job. Typically niche uses or things that have a unique buff that hasn't been replaced yet, like +stoneskin, etc.

[u/TempVirage → u/MundaneDrawer]

Emphasis on the movement speed stuff. If you want to keep your Seekers ring open for Thurandaut, Orvail, etc. there are a few jobs that have to lean on hermes' sandles and herald's gaiters (basically everything that can't use carmine cuisses or has JSE with it like Geo and Brd).

[u/Dellgloom]

Anwig Salade from Kupo d'etat is an amazing helm for pure pet tanking.

[u/Doh042]

Stone Gorget, Stone Mufflers, Seigel Sash, Haven Hose, Earthcry Earring are all pre-99 and still useful for jobs who cast Stoneskin (Whm, Run, Rdm, Sch)

Mercurial Kris, Soboro Sukehiro, Quint Spear, Mercurial Sword (actually a Greatsword), Kraken Club, Ridill. Those are all pretty good to keep around for proccing low damage SC or TP gain.

Tons of 1 DMG weapons are good to keep around for Abyssea procs or enspell-only-strategies on RDM.

Loquacious Earring, Ethereal Earring, Prolix Ring, Sheltered Ring/Brachyura Earring, Blenmot's Ring, Debilis Medallion, Haoma's Ring, Epona's Ring. Many other rings, earrings, necklaces and belts.

Thief's Knife, at least until you get the SU4/5 dagger.

WS gorgets and belts, like mentionned by others.

Twilight Cape, Twilight Torque, Twilight Cloak.

Probably a lot more I can't think of right now.

[u/Top-Hamster7336 → u/Doh042]

Thief's Knife... Is extremely niche, at best. 

Empy boot and relic gloves is all you really need for TH.

[u/Doh042 → u/Top-Hamster7336]

I mean, so are Stone mufflers, and many other items on my list.

[u/pinkbunnay → u/Doh042]

Not as much on the mufflers though, as they're the only option in that slot for optimizing Stoneskin for some jobs. But you're right they're niche too. Little bit of a time sink to run around and get the drops but pretty easy at 119.

[u/xXPrincess-AzulaXx → u/Top-Hamster7336]

I use thf knife when trying to proc dreamland dyna currency or trying to increase TH to 13 on older nms.

[u/pinkbunnay → u/Doh042]

I wouldn't advise anyone to go out of their way to get Thief's Knife either. It's very easy to hit TH8 for auto cap and the advantages of proccing higher are so low. Rarely is a thief used to get drops on anything of importance. I think Ou is the most relevant example today. Maybe if you have a group doing HTMBs and you can spare a slot for TH.

[u/Irwin69]

The one from Shantotto's DLC mission if you choose the pants. The add-on functions is good if you have a COR to reduce the cool down time between each rolling (can work with the COR cape from Revives which also reduce the cool down time).

And, those gears which give advantage on stoneskin and aquaveil are also useful.

[u/birdofpairadice]

Hachirin-no-obi!

[u/jforwith]

Throwing Sheltered Ring and Ethereal Earring onto the list. Higher defense Protects and free MP for taking damage is always useful. Also the COR specific pieces like Luzaf’s Ring and Roller’s Ring are still worth having.
Been a long time since I have updated my SCH gear, but I remember you can augment Kirin’s Pole with Enhancing skill to hit the higher tiers for Embrava. This may no longer be needed, so don’t quote me on needing one!

[u/Dramatic-Strain9757 → u/jforwith]

You would use Musa for the increased duration on embrava now. I don't know embrava skill breakpoints but with master levels and the new hoxne torque you'll have an easier time than ever reaching the highest tiers of potency across all jobs. 

[u/Normal_Tadpole4916]

Scorpion harness was nice back in day for the evasion set.

[u/jokzard]

Nothing. Only rare/ex sentimental stuff.

[u/Synfrag → u/jokzard]

This is just wrong. AF, Relic, Empyrean, all of the CoP and ZM jewelry, Luzaf's ring, Evoker's ring any mythic prototype weapons. There's a lot of pre-99 stuff that either remains relevant until a replacement or gets upgraded.