Rarity

Item Rarity is as follows: AWhite → DPink → BGreen → CBlue → EPurple. Rarity does not indicate anything about an item's power, merely how easily it is obtained. For gear power, see Item Level.

• AWhite or ABasic gear is purchasable from NPC vendors or craftable by the player. Most of the time ABasic gear is also available as a High Quality variant. Only the HQ variant will have appropriate stats for the Item Level. Normal quality or NQ gear will have a -10% penalty in stats, which is huge. The only source of HQ crafted gear for Gil is from other players via the Market Board. Players will also receive HQ gear directly as well as via coffers from the Main Scenario Quests and certain Side Quests.

• DPink or DAetherial gear used to drop more commonly from dungeons. However, with various quality-of-life adjustments culminating in Patch 5.3, dungeons now very rarely have DAetherial items. The only real source for them now is Treasure Hunting maps and Guildleve bonus chests. All DAetherial gear has random substats, but the main stats are in line with High Quality ABasic gear. There is no DAetherial gear after level 50, as the random substats were deemed too frustrating for players. (Diadem-associated Heavensward sets have been removed.)

• BGreen or BDungeon gear most often drops from chests in dungeons. However, endgame gear crafted with recipes in the Master Recipe Tomes will also usually be of this rarity. This is likely to reflect the fact that endgame gear requires materials from timed nodes, aethersand, and tomestone materials and is thus indirectly time-limited. Crafted gear is generally tradeable via the Market Board, while dungeon drops are not. BGreen-rarity seafood may denote a Big Fish, or a Spectral Fish obtained during Ocean Fishing.

• CBlue or CTomestone gear includes anything currently or formerly bought with Allagan Tomestones or Scrips. This also includes weapons that drop from (Extreme) Trials and Raid gear, the latter of which were weekly capped when current. CBlue gear is never tradeable.

• EPurple or ERelic gear is the various expansions' Relic Weapons which are very grindy and time-consuming to acquire. Relics are never the best-in-slot until the very last patch in an expansion. Relics from previous expansions are primarily intended as cosmetic status symbols. They do have niche use for some high-end duties due to the customizable substats.