Best Weapons for Every Job in FFXIV (Patch 6.5)

Each piece of gear adorned by the Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV plays an essential role in their performance within the game's duties. With most of the game's activities based around combat, no item in their gearset plays a more vital role than their weapon.

With each update and increase in item levels, FFXIV players are constantly playing a game of chase to obtain the newest and best-in-slot (BiS) weapons to showcase their triumphs over challenging content and better prepare themselves for content on the horizon. Typically, you can find the best weapons in the game in the hands of Savage raiders, who have cleared the final raid of the current series.

Getting a raid clear may give access to the most powerful weapons, but that doesn't mean the more casual players are left kicking dirt. While weapons outside of the Savage-tier raids don't boast the highest item level in the game, the next best thing isn't far behind in terms of stats, meaning even Warriors of Light who never venture into higher-difficulty content can gear themselves to overpower lesser challenges.

The best weapons for every job in FFXIV (Patch 6.5)

Ascension weapons (Savage option)

No other weapons in the game have similar or better stats than the item level 665 Ascension weapons. Each is considered to be BiS for all 19 Disciple of War and Magic jobs, and it's only fitting that the most powerful gear is given to those who have conquered the most difficult content. 

You can obtain an Ascension weapon from the treasure coffer that appears after clearing Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle (Savage), otherwise known as P12S. The chest will contain an Ascension Weapon Coffer and a weapon chosen randomly for one of the 19 different Disciple of War or Magic jobs. If you're lucky, the weapon dropped will be for your desired job but still requires rolling against the other seven party members. The Ascension Weapon Coffer provides the weapon for whichever job is equipped when opening it, eliminating another layer of RNG for acquiring the BiS weapon.

Allagan Tomestone of Comedy weapons

Savage raiders only make up a fraction of Final Fantasy XIV's player base, and they're not the only ones who can put in hard work to obtain powerful gear. Using Allagan Tomestones of Comedy rewarded for completing content as a level 90 job and a unique token, players can acquire Credendum weapons. Each Credendum weapon has an item level of 650, surpassing the level requirement for any non-Savage content in the game.

Acquiring a Credendum weapon for your job requires 500 Allagan Tomestones of Comedy and one Hermetic Tomestone. With the current endgame tomestone cap being 450 and the weekly restrictions on raid drops, acquiring the weapon can take a few weeks. After obtaining the Hermetic Tomestone, speak to Cihanti at Radz-at-Han (X: 10.8, Y: 10.4) and exchange it alongside your 500 Allagan Tomestones of Comedy in the Comedy Weapon Exchange menu for the weapon of your choice.

While more casual players may obtain their desired Credendum weapon and call it a day, these tomestone weapons can still be beneficial to Savage raiders. For those who have yet to clear P12S, players can use the Divine Solvent, acquired by exchanging for four Anabaseios Mythos III books or dropped directly from Anabaseios: The Eleventh Circle (Savage)'s treasure coffer, to augment the Credendum weapon to item level 660. The Augmented Credendum weapon can then be further enhanced to its "Exquisite" version by using an Elevated Ester, dropped from the Savage difficulty of Another Aloalo Island, to increase the item level again to 665.