FFXIV Botanist Leveling Guide (L100 Dawntrail UPDATE) – Page 10 – FFXIV Guild (2024)

Botanist Leveling Gear Update: L90 to 100

For leveling your BTN in Dawntrail, you’re gonna need Natural Afflatus tier gear of better. You can buy these with scrip, and they’re available at Old Sharlayan near the Aetheryte. Gattherer > Afflatus Gear (IL 620).

FOLLOW THE MELDS – you NEED 870+ GP. More on this later

Above is for miner only, the below are shared with MIN, BTN, and FSH.

Getting 870 GP, and why it’s important

“trust me bro”.

870 GP actually means 900. How, why? Each action gives you 6 GP. So during an unspoiled nodes lifespan you’ll get at least 5 actions. That’s 900 GP total. Perfect for..

Scrutiny (200 GP)
Scrutiny (200 GP)
Scrutiny (200 GP)
Ageless Words (300 GP)

Which works out to 900 needed for the ultra rotation! Also, 870 GP also gives +1 node integrity sometimes on the L93 collectable. Value.

Dawntrail Leveling Strategy: Summary

BTN Daily GC Submissions are your best friend. Theyre easy and give a massive chunk of EXP – but only daily.

Collectables (unspoiled) will be your main source of EXP! No surprise here!

Wachumeqimeqi Quests: Do these now while leveling up. Trust me. Theyre fast, easy, give GREAT EXP and can be halved between your MIN and BTN. You’ll get lazy if you put this off for “later”. It’s giga value to do it now. Unlocked at Tullyolal, quest name “Wrought in Wachumeqimeqi”.

Gathering Log and Grinding: Super legit. Just get it over with while you’re leveling! Gathering everything once gives bonus EXP. And, if you plan on leveling crafters grinding some materials will save you a lot of gil! For botanist I suggest 60+ of each log and “cloth”.

Above are the GOOD sources of EXP…
Below are the “situational” ones.

Levequests are actualy a gigaton of EXP, and are super fast (the best types, “Moblin”, and “Pelupelu Alpaca” are – the others are meh). BUT it feels really bad using leves on MIN or BTN. If you aren’t planning to use them otherwise though, sure, these are actually GODLY.

Custom Deliveries are great for all but just like levequests, these feel REALLY BAD to use on MIN / BTN as well. Only do this if you’re not planning to use them on crafters.

Non-unspoiled Collectables: are absolute TRASH TIER. Basic grinding for materials are better IMO. These are just bad and a waste of GP.

While unpopular, and better used by FSH and and DoH. Here’s a list of “Moblin”, and “Alpaca Pelupelu” levequests. These are actually GODLY fast.

Avoid the “Viera Tender” and “Twinhead” leveplates. These are vastly slower.

If you have 2 in a tier, you can do them simultaneously since they’re in one place.

Pelupelu Alpaca is a “4 Node Eval”, which has always been good. Use Field Master II to get the hard node. You should get there more often than not. You can literally complete this in about a minute.

Moblin is “Gather 45”. Use YIELDII and just go ham. Like the above, you can get this done in a minute or so.

Both Twinhead (8 Node Get 35), and Viera Tender (8 Node Eval) are in comparison miserable. They’re much slower, and don’t even give that much exp to compensate for the time difference.

There aren’t alot of options right now! Do you daily GC Submission for Botanist ALWAYS. After that, gather the L93 collectable Rarefied Mountain Flax as much as you can.

Since there’s not much else to do, level up your miner alongside by getting the MIN L93 Collectable, Rarefied Raw Dark Amber at 10ET. Might as well!

Still want EXP? Next tab…

Wachumeqimeqi Quests – do them as they come. They give GREAT EXP and are super easy. I use them to equalize the EXP between my miner and botanist. You’ll get one at L90 and 93.

Gathering Log + Grinding Materials you unlock a bunch of new nodes at L90, and you might as well gather 60+ of ores if you’re planning to level DoH. Great use for the long downtime.

Levequests: Refer to the levequests table above if you’re sure you wanna use em for botanist leveling. Moblin and Alpaca good. Viera and twinhead bad.

Same with Custom Deliveries: Avoid on BTN if you can. However, if they’re just gonna expire feel free to use ’em up.

After doing your daily GC Submission, Gather as many collectables as you can / want to, prioritizing L93 and L95 ones (Rarefied Mountain Flax, and Rarefied Sweet Kukuru Bean). The L98 one (Rarefied Acacia Bark) is risky at L95, but it’s alright… Feel free to drop those until later.

If leveling alongside Miner, the Unspoiled Schedule looks like this (Botanist Nodes bolded)

• • • 12 – (93) Rarefied Mountain Flax (Worlar’s Echo)
    • 2 – (95) Rarefied Sweet Kukuru Bean (Mamook)
    • 4 – (98) Rarefied White Gold Ore (The Outskirts)
    • 6 – (98) Rarefied Acacia Bark (Mehwahhetsoan)
    • 8 – (95) Rarefied Titanium Gold Ore (Sheshenewezi)
    • 10 – (93) Rarefied Raw Dark Amber (Ok’Hanu)

Thankfully there are no “scheduling conflicts”, but can be rough if you wanna hit them ALL. Also, the “bad” nodes are next to each other in schedule.

Try to gather everything in your botanists gathering log – you unlock new botany nodes at L95. Gather 60+ logs / “cloth” if you’re leveling crafters.

Finish the Wachumeqimeqi quests as they come. Trust me, you’ll get lazy if you leave them off. I use ’em to “equalize” the EXP between Miner and Botanist. You get 2 of ’em at 95 and another at 98.