FFXIV Botanist Leveling Guide (L100 Dawntrail UPDATE) – Page 9

DAWNTRAIL UPDATE up to Level 90 to 100! Level up Botanist Quickly! Stop wasting time! Power Level your Botany! Collectables, Rotations, Tips, etc

DAWNTRAIL Guides! Dawntrail L90-100 Miner Leveling, Botanist Leveling
Dawntrail Normal Raid Guide (Quick, Spoiler Free)
See: Viper STARTER Guide / Rotation | Pictomancer Starter Guide / Rotation

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.

In my new format, I’ll be separating tiers according to “logical changes in activities”, instead of hard forcing a tier discussion every 2 levels (DoL tiers past 50). I think this makes much more sense since your play patterns will change with each tier listed here, instead of in-game.

Botany Leveling Guide – Navigation:
BTN Endwalker tier L80 to 90 (Scroll to): Prep | 80+ | 83+ | 85+ | 87+ | 89+

Botany Leveling Guide - Navigation:
Botanist Level: Level 0-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80
80-90 | 90-100

BTN 80 to 90, Preparation, Setup, Reminders

Here’s a bunch of reminders, macros, and notes to kickstart your botanists level 80 to 90 journey.

BTN L80 GEAR UPDATE: Get scrip gear | Landsaint tier

The absolute most important thing before setting forth in Endwalker botanist leveling content is, as always, UPDATING YOUR GEAR! Here’s the gear you want, loosely ordered by IMPORTANCE.

Universal Gear upgrades for all DoL

Slot	Equipment Name	Scrip Cost	Importance	Perception
Body	Landsaint’s Coat	840	1	238
Head	Landsaint’s Bandana	560	2	476
Boots	Landsaint’s Boots	560	3	262
Legs	Landsaint’s Breeches	560	4	119
Hands	Landsaint’s Gloves	560	5	0
Earring	Landsaint’s Earrings	200	6	0
Necklace	Landsaint’s Necklace	200	6	0
Wrist	Landsaint’s Bracelet’s	200	6	0
Ring	Landsaint’s Ring	200	6	0
Ring	Landsaint’s Ring	200	6	0

How and where to buy these?

By the way, you buy these at any place that does scrip exchange (choose: Gatherer’s Scrip (Gear) -> Scrip Exchange Lv.80/IL 500). Also – if you’re rocking hardcore gear from the previous tier (Melded Aesthete), feel free to skip this gear upgrading phase.

Priority of each item? On a budget?

If you’re on a scrip budget, I highly advise taking these in order of importance. After the gloves, however, you can skip the accessories for now and get the weapons. Why? Accessories only give GP, and you’ll have more than you’ll need with virtually anything equipped there. People with older, melded gear are better off with that most of the time, as these “blue” accessories are typically pretty bad.

Botany Specific Gear

Slot	Equipment Name	Scrip Cost	Importance	Perception
Offhand	Landsaint’s Scythe	350	1	833
Weapon	Landsaint’s Hatchet	350	2	476

Some notes on the weapons

If you MUST choose first, off-hand a little more value than the mainhand. Why? You can’t easily cheat Perception when you’re going for collectables. This is the same-ish reasoning for the body pieces, but since the actual chest piece gives gigastats, that’s the highest prio.

It’s really up to you how you want to go about which pieces to get first, but if I were to recommend a one-size fits all path: All left-side pieces > weapons > accessories.

TLDR: Get leftside body pieces > weapons for BTN (and or MIN) > accessories.

— Need Scrips?

How to farm Scrips

Help! How do I farm Scrips?

If you don’t have enough Scrips, well, there’s a couple things you can do.

Using up your weekly allowance on DoL Custom Deliveries is a double whammy. Not only will it jumpstart your leveling process via EXP, but this is hands down the fastest way to gain scrips in a short period of time.

Get whatever upgrades you can, then try the L80 collectables on (preferably both BTN and MIN), see how you fare. This is another amazing source of scrips. Don’t worry if you can’t max them out. You simply need to submit the bare minimum collectability to gain some scrip.

If you really can’t do them, or need a further boost in scrip, do the L70-80 Shadowbringers tier collectables. It might seem weird and tedious to do them at this point, but its a near infinite source of scrip, albeit a little slower. This is probably the “lowest point” that you should be willing to dip into.

TLDR: Custom Delivery > Try Endwalker L80 Collectables? > L70-80 Collectables

Waiting for next week’s Custom Delivery is also valid, lol.

Is there anything else I can do...

No scrip? Desperately undergeared? Other gear options?

Patience is the answer here, as buying the older (Aesthete) gear or the L81 gear are pretty bad choices both ways… I’d highly suggest sticking to the plan:

Custom Delivery > L80 Collectables? > L70-80 Collectables

If you really can’t do L80, the lower level collectables can give good scrip. With a tiny bit of patience you’ll get the scrip you need. Trust me, I honestly wouldn’t spend a single gil on non-landsaint tier gear.

BTN 80 to 90: Collectable Rotation Macros

Here are Macros you’re gonna be using from L80 to 90.

Copy and paste this into Notepad first, before pasting it into FFXIV
This is due to “technical limitations”, but just bear with it for now…

3 Scrutiny 3 Scour

Macro Name: L???? 3Scr3Sco

/ac Scrutiny <wait.3>
/ac Scour <wait.3>
/ac Scrutiny <wait.3>
/ac Scour <wait.3>
/ac Scrutiny <wait.3>
/ac Scour <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/ac Collect <wait.3>
/echo “Mahiko San of the land, let 3 Scrutiny be enough!”

Remember to press whichever Field Mastery you need before you press this one, if you need it.

This is the baseline macro where you begin your experimentation. For each new node, if you can’t reach 1000, then try the next one. If you think you get 1000 “always or often”, then try the last macro on this list which includes 1x Restoration.

Once you’re settled on which level nodes to use this on, rename the macro from L???? to something like L8083 or whatever.

DOL L80 to 90 Beast Tribe: Omicron

Thankfully there is now a DoL beast tribe for Endwalker, the Omicrons in Ultima Thule! DoL Beast Tribes are always a welcome daily burst of easy, brainless, and chunky EXP.

Best way to use daily beast tribe allowances?

While you “SHOULD” be focusing on using these up for FSH leveling, as that’s considered the most tedious for me… if you wanna rush your Mining to 90, then feel free to augment your EXP with this before moving onto Fishing.

Is there a good time or deadzone to do these?

Leveling up in this tier, 6ET to 10ET is completely dead of unspoileds, so you have a decent window time to do this if you’re really grinding it up. That’s like, what, 15 minutes dead-time? haha. Honestly, most people would just do this as a change of pace. Don’t feel bad if you end up missing a few collectables.

General DoL Leveling / EXP sources summary

A quick reminder on the main sources of where you’ll be getting your EXP!

Beast Tribe Quests are fast, easy, brainless, but only daily.

Grand Company Delivery: Do these everyday, it’s an easy source of massive EXP. Feel free to use the marketboard if you’re lazy. CTRL+U, then click on GC. Seals can be used to purchase Cordial.

Levequests are great these days, but only if you have excess. They’re far better used for leveling up crafters. If you feel like you have more than enough or are overflowing – feel free to use Fieldcraft levels to help speed up your Botanist leveling process.

Custom Deliveries: are similar to levequests, in this regard. Use them up for DoH / Crafters since EXP can be harder to come by for them, and potentially costlier… The only exception to this is that, early on, these are an amazing source of SCRIPS which you need for your starting gear.

Grindingis your last resort, but actually not bad if you need materials too

L80 to 90 Collectables Echo Macro

This macro looks funny, but it’s simply a way to remind you in-game of where and what you need to gather, where you need to teleport, what class and level node… It’s actually something I’ve always loved to use.

Copy and paste this into Notepad first, before pasting it into FFXIV

Minor odds and ends

And here, we talk about some little things to wrap up our preparation…

Cordials

Cordials

I don’t care what kind of Cordials you use, but I’ve certainly survived with NQ (NO QUALITY, BASIC, TRASH-TIER) El basic of the basic, old-school, OG, “Cordial” and I had no problem. You can get cheap better ones, sure.

Food Buffs

Food Buff

3% EXP for “free”. Even if you use dumpster-tier boiled egg or something similar, do yourself a favor and get this buff. Now, if you can easily snipe some cheapo PERCEPTION FOOD off the marketboard, or through some other means, great! NPC’s also sell good food. Perception is the name of the game for leveling up, so try to get food that buffs that.

Flying Unlocked

Flying Unlocked?

I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST LEVELING YOUR BOTANIST / DOL JOBS IF YOU HAVE NOT UNLOCKED FLYING IN THE ENDWALKER ZONES. I certainly don’t pay your sub, so I can’t tell you how to play, but I hope I don’t need to explain this one further.

Riding Maps

Riding Maps

Buy the relevant Riding Maps for the Endwalker zones for extra mount speed if you can. Not just for leveling gatherers, but just playing in general. Ultima Thule is the prime suspect for this, as you are doing your Omicron Beast Tribe quests there. How do you get these? Via the Shared FATE system, and In the case of Endwalker tier you only need to do what, 10 or less fates to access the riding map from the vendor.

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And with that, we can FINALLY begin!

Botanist Leveling 80 to 83

Ok, lets begin! I hope you read all the reminders and notes up there.

BTN 80 Gear updates? Again, get the scrip gear mentioned above. If you’re short on scrip and need to round out your gear, you’ll want basic-melded Aesthete tier gear (item level 490). I’m going to assume these will be more expensive, and rarer, as time goes by as this is “old high-end gear”. Honestly, stick to scrip (Landsaint) unless you find a good deal.

BTN L80-83: What to do in this tier?

Your main source of EXP right now is your very first Botanist collectable for Endwalker, Rarefied Palm Log, at Thavnair. Gather this as much as you can.

During your downtime, feel free to travel to and gather every new material you’ve unlocked – every “first time” gives you bonus EXP via the Gathering Log. There’s no better time than now. (”b” to open your gathering log, then check the L81 Logging and Harvesting nodes)

Since this tier can be a little empty, it’s a good idea to pair it up with Miner leveling – you can visit both of the L80 collectables to level up both your Miner and Botanist. MIN spawns at 12, BTN at 2, so it’s an EZ 1-2 punch of heavenly value.

Levequests are decent option at this tier as well, since there’s a lot of waiting around. As always, be careful using them up for your DoL / Gatherers, as they’re generally more efficient for Crafters.

Daily GC Submits, Beast Tribe, you know the drill.

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Reminder: Maximum Collectability is Best

This one’s important, and I’ll say it again. Try out which macro works for a “100%” chance for a max collectability.

THE ONLY SCENARIO where “Tier II collectability rating, but one more gather” is when you can only get A SINGLE GATHER of the highest tier, which should almost never happen, except for maybe L89.

As mentioned earlier in the macro section, try it out progressively. Start out with 3 Scrutitny 3 Scour. Not enough? Maybe 3 Scrutiny 4 Scour. Not enough? 4 Scrutiny 4 Scour – once you reach 4/4 you cannot squeeze out any more from your gear, and that’s the max you’ll ever reach.

Honestly, the 2x Scrutiny 3 Scour 1 Restore rotation can only possibly ever be worth it for the L80 Collectable, ignore that one for anything higher.

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Botanist Leveling 83 to 85

BTN 83 Gear updates? At L84 you unlock a new tier of gear that’s better than Landsaint (High Durium / Saigaskin / Snow Linen). The next tier unlocks at 87. IMO there’s only 2 choices at this point…

Ignore gear upgrades

Pretty much ignore gear upgrades: You can “easily” get to L90 with just the Landsaint tier. You’ll RARELY have some issues with the higher level collectables but if you’re not in a hurry, it doesn’t matter. I tried both paths with each class and honestly, I didn’t mind the 0 upgrades. Yes, you will not get maximum appraisal on many nodes, especially with auto-gather macro, but that’s not a huge deal.

Tryhard L84 gear upgrades

Tryhard this L84 gear upgrade, and nothing else: Since the next tier is at 87, and upgrading your gear for 3 measly levels doesn’t make any sense. Investing now, and slightly speeding up the process for 6 levels, is more logical. Get a full HQ set and meld as much Perception > Gathering as you can.

Are some upgrades more important than others?

Very much so – some gear updates are MILES more powerful than others.

Left-side upgrades are generally the best. They’re used by all DoL classes and have the greatest impact to stats even without 2x basic materia melds. And even within this grouping BODY > HEAD > BOOTS > LEGS >>>> Everything else. I talked about this in the intro segment.

Weapons are amazing, but non-universal obviously, so there’s a cost issue here. The stats gained are titanic.

Accessories… hmm… very little gain as you’ll have to meld them to get more Perception, but a slight upgrade nonetheless. Universal for all DoL as well.

MELDING would be Perception VIII (x2 if possible ) > Perception VII (if you can get at least +10) > Gathering VIII (If perception is too near the cap) > everything else is a non-factor.

Why upgrade?

What exactly do you get if you choose to upgrade? Fewer button presses, lesser thoughts, higher average EXP… you’ll save some time and brainpower. But the main draw isALL YOUR DoL CLASSES WILL BENEFIT.

BTN L83-85, What to do in this tier?

Mainly, spam the 81 and 83 collectable. You’ll be doing this for a while!

Thankfully, a new node to add into your routine. As you may notice, this one is a bit harder. Remember, “Always start with triple scrutiny”. As a note, I tried manual gathering with one class and auto-macro gathering with the other. While, of course, the yields may be better for manual, the brainpower used versus one-button yoloing is significant. I cannot, in good conscience, say manual gathering gives a godlike return vs effort.

The gathering gods are good, as even in this tier there are no scheduling conflicts if you’re leveling both MIN and BTN – the unspoiled nodes spawn at 12 (MIN) > 2 (BTN) > 4 (BTN) > 6 (MIN).

Levequests, as always, are good EXP but are better saved for crafters. Even more so if you’re leveling up both MIN and BTN on collectables, you won’t have much downtime for levequests anyway.

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Reminder: Use Field Mastery

At this point, a quick reminder that you should use the appropriate Field Mastery skill to get you as close to (or over) 100% gathering possibility – BEFORE pressing your macro.

Field Mastery I and II give 5% and 15% respectively, and you probably won’t need Field Mastery III which gives 50%, but costs a ton of GP.

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Botanist Leveling 85 to 87

BTN Gear updates? New gear appears at L84 (discussed in previous chunk) and L87 (discussed in next chunk). Nothing new here!

Botany L85-87, What to do in this tier?

So the TIMING of your process doesn’t change. 12 (MIN) > 2 (BTN) > 4 (BTN) > 6 (MIN) . If you’re only leveling Mining, then try to fill the downtime with other activities. I highly recommend leveling Mining at the same time in these early tiers.

Since he new collectable Rarefied Coconut shares the same exact node as the L80 one (Rarefied Palm Log), you’ll have to choose one over the other. You’ll definitely have to use some more oomph to get this 85 one to 100%. Lazy? Pick the L80 one…

Around this time, you’ll get a new batch of nodes unlocked. Like previously, this is a great time to get bonus EXP from the Gathering Log each time you gather something the first time. (Default “b”, then check for Logging and Harvesting nodes)

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Botanist Leveling 87 to 89

BTN 87 Gear updates?? While a new tier of gear does appear at L87, I highly advise against upgrading since you’ll only get a maximum of three levels of use from it. Terrible investment.

Botany L87-89, What to do in this tier?

The L87 Collectable (Rarefied Sykon) is, thankfully, in a brand new node so you can add it into your route. However, here’s where we get some scheduling conflicts.

Schedule Focusing on BTN Leveling:
12 BTN | 2 BTN | 4 BTN | 6 MIN – if leveling Botany only, 6ET is a deadzone.

This node (and the next L89 one) ain’t exactly “easy” as you’re stretching your stats to the limit at this point. Triple Scrutiny is the way, and just hope for the best.

I’ll remind you about the food buff here. The 85/87/89 nodes can be a little rough so you’ll want as much help as you can get. Snag any cheap perception food you can find from NPC’s or the marketplace. If nothing else, the slight EXP bonus is free.

Of course, if you upgraded your DoL gear at 84, this might go down a little smoother.

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Botanist Leveling 89 to 90

The absolute last step – you’re close!

BTN 89 Gear updates? There’s no new gear until L90! If you’ve leveled up this far, don’t bother upgrading, there’s only one level left! The last new upgrade tier was L87 for Botanist.

Botany L89-90, What to do in this tier?

The level 89 node is a wholly new one. Notably, the miner 89 node is at 10ET which is a previously unused slot – so there’s some value moves to be made if you’re leveling both. Which you should be…

The L89 Botany Collectable, Rarefied Dark Rye, is obviously rough, and at 6 ET this conflicts with the L83 MIN Collectable.

Rotation-wise, the 89 node will be brutal. You’re gonna need Sharp Vision, too. Try out 3 Scrutiny 4 Scour first and see where you’re at.

If you’re leveling up your mining in tandem, then I suggest gathering this L89 one with BTN, and dropping the L83 MIN. So what does the gathering schedule look like?

Schedule Focusing on BTN Leveling:
12 BTN | 2 BTN | 4 BTN | 6 BTN | 10 MIN – if leveling Botany only, 10 is a deadzone.

Either way, you won’t be here too long. Congrats in advance!

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Summary and Outro

Botany Leveling Guide - Navigation:
Botanist Level: Level 0-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80
80-90 | 90-100

Botany Leveling Guide – Navigation:
BTN Endwalker tier L80 to 90 (Scroll to): Prep | 80+ | 83+ | 85+ | 87+ | 89+

Congratulations on snipping off Botanist level 90! That’s the final leaf of your botany leveling journey in the Endwalker tier!

Typically, I used to add stuff here on guidance regarding DoL endgame, but I haven’t written about that in a minute… Let’s see, huh?

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FFXIV Botanist Leveling Guide (L100 Dawntrail UPDATE) – Page 9 – FFXIV Guild (2024)

BTN 80 to 90, Preparation, Setup, Reminders

BTN L80 GEAR UPDATE: Get scrip gear | Landsaint tier

— Need Scrips?

BTN 80 to 90: Collectable Rotation Macros

DOL L80 to 90 Beast Tribe: Omicron

General DoL Leveling / EXP sources summary

L80 to 90 Collectables Echo Macro

Minor odds and ends

Botanist Leveling 80 to 83

BTN L80-83: What to do in this tier?

Reminder: Maximum Collectability is Best

Botanist Leveling 83 to 85

BTN L83-85, What to do in this tier?

Reminder: Use Field Mastery

Botanist Leveling 85 to 87

Botany L85-87, What to do in this tier?

Botanist Leveling 87 to 89

Botany L87-89, What to do in this tier?

Botanist Leveling 89 to 90

Botany L89-90, What to do in this tier?

Summary and Outro

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