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A guide to the coloration of this chart:

  • General use gear, or gear specifically for DDing, is not colored.
  • Equipment specifically geared towards mage subjobs is colored green.
  • Equipment specifically geared towards evasion or tanking is colored red.

Whenever a piece of gear is mentioned that has a high-quality version, the high-quality version can be substituted for the normal-quality version if you so desire.

Daggers are usually not an 'all the time' weapon, as you'll typically be using H2H skills, but it doesn't hurt to carry one (or two for PUP/NIN) in order to fight things that are weak to piercing - Flies, Birds, and so on. If you intend to use them at higher levels, you may want to go ahead and pick one up at low levels and keep your skill capped so that you don't have to whiff constantly later.

Your ranged slot should always be equipped with the latest version of the Animator that you can equip. The Animator +1 could be considered an exception, as it requires trips into Einherjar. Those are:

While a Puppetmaster's highest skill is actually Throwing (?!), most Puppetmasters have an empty ammo slot until level 15, when (in conjunction with Repair) they can begin using Automaton Oil. The available Automaton Oils are:

These stack to 12 and give your Automaton a form of Regen when used with Repair.

Gearing your Automaton is beyond the scope of this chart; for that, I suggest the Puppetmaster Guide by Poof.

Puppetmaster Equipment Chart

Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 1 Cat Baghnakhs, Bronze Knife Circlet, Copper Hairpin Robe Slops Cuffs Ash Clogs Blood Stone
Lv 2
Lv 3
Lv 4
Lv 5
Lv 6
Lv 7 Blind Knife Wing Pendant Cape
Lv 8 Slacks Mitts Solea Heko Obi
Lv 9 Compound Eye Circlet
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 10 Freesword's Baghnakhs Brass Hairpin Mist Silk Cape Energy Earring, Optical Earring
Lv 11 Brass Baghnakhs Doublet Brais Zealot's Mitts, Gloves Gaiters
Lv 12 Aspir Knife
Lv 13 Knife Light Soleas
Lv 14 Strike Baghnakhs Cotton Headband, Fungus Hat Van Pendant Battle Gloves Friar's Rope Silver Earring Balance Ring, Courage Ring
Lv 15 Windurstian Baghnakhs Windurstian Slops
Lv 16 Bone Earring
Lv 17 Lizard Belt Valor Earring
Lv 18 Garrison Tunica Power Sandals Cotton Cape
Lv 19
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 20 Cougar Baghnakhs, Mercenary's Knife Trader's Chapeau, Silver Hairpin, Trump Crown Trader's Saio Trader's Slops, Baron's Slops Trader's Cuffs, Baron's Cuffs Sandals, Trader's Pigaches, Baron's Pigaches Variable Cape
Lv 21 Spike Necklace Garrison Hose Beetle Earring
Lv 22
Lv 23 Cotton Headgear Cotton Doublet
Lv 24 Lynx Baghnakhs, Baghnakhs Emperor/Empress Hairpin Martial Slacks Mythril Earring
Lv 25 Federation Knife San d'Orian Clogs
Lv 26 Dodge Headband
Lv 27 RSE Hands Force Belt
Lv 28 Wool Robe Wool Slops Air Solea
Lv 29 Seer's Tunic Seer's Slacks RSE Feet Dodge Earring
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 30 Mercenary Captain's Kukri, Claws Mercenary Captain's Headgear Mercenary Captain's Doublet Wyvern Mantle (sub DRG) Mercenary Captain's Belt Wyvern Earring (sub DRG), Mercenary's Earring (sub WAR), Morion Earring Archer's Ring, Rajas Ring
Lv 31 RSE Legs
Lv 32 Kosshin
Lv 33 Katars Peacock Amulet/Charm RSE Body, Linen Doublet +1
Lv 34 Federation Kukri Federation Headgear Windurstian Doublet Venerer Ring
Lv 35 Guarding Earring, Evasion Earring, Dodge Earring Jaeger Ring
Lv 36 Flax Headband, Blink Band, Red Cap Hose Deft Ring, Puissance Ring
Lv 37
Lv 38 Spirit Torque Mountain Gaiters
Lv 39 Vampiric Claws Dobson Bandanna, Sinister Mask Tundra Mantle
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 40 Electrum Hairpin Royal Squire's Robe Combat Caster's Slacks Combat Caster's Mitts Tilt Belt Enhancing Earring, Intruder Earring Sniper's Ring, Woodsman Ring
Lv 41 Mythril Claws Voyager Sallet
Lv 42 Earth Doublet, Wool Doublet +1 Lucent Cape
Lv 43 Royal Squire's Robe +1 Combat Caster's Slacks +1 Combat Caster's Mitts +1
Lv 44 Corsair's Hat
Lv 45 Gold Earring, Tortoise Earring
Lv 46 Bone Knife, Exocets Jester's Headband
Lv 47 Adargas
Lv 48 Patas War Hose Wool Socks Life Belt
Lv 49 Dodge Cape Mana Earring Kshama Ring No. 2
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 50 Tactician Magician's Hooks Mercurial Kris Crow Beret, Gold Hairpin, Storm Zucchetto Cerise Doublet, Crow Jupon Crow Hose Crow Bracers, Storm Manopolas Crow Gaiters, Storm Gambieras Swift Belt Velocity Earring Unyielding Ring, Garrulous Ring
Lv 51
Lv 52 Tactician Magician's Hooks +1, Darksteel Claws Gaia Doublet Puppetry Churidars Tactician Magician's Cuffs +1 Bellicose Mantle Accurate Earring
Lv 53 Silken Hat Silken Coat
Lv 54 Silk Headband Puppetry Babouches Grace Ring, Victory Ring
Lv 55 Sainti, Bone Patas Republican Army Mantle, Royal Army Mantle Fang Earring
Lv 56 Beetle Knife Puppetry Dastanas
Lv 57 Light Gauntlets Toreador's Ring
Lv 58 Puppetry Tobe
Lv 59 Darksteel Kukri, Darksteel Katars, Cermet Claws Black Cotehardie, Vermillion Cloak Battle Boots +1
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 60 Black Adargas, Puppet Claws Puppetry Taj Chivalrous Chain Aketon Intensifying Cape, Miraculous Cape, Invigorating Cape Potent Belt, Precise Belt Elusive Earring, Phantom Earring, Platinum Earring
Lv 61 Jamadhars Minuet Earring
Lv 62 Cermet Kukri
Lv 63 Coral Earring Jelly Ring
Lv 64 Gold Patas, Darksteel Sainti
Lv 65 Shiva's Claws Green Beret Evasion Torque, Guarding Torque Tabin Jupon Tabin Hose +1 Tabin Bracers +1 Tabin Boots +1 Taffeta Cape Diabolos's Earring
Lv 66 Tigerfangs, Stun Jamadhar
Lv 67 Rainbow Headband Fencing Bracers
Lv 68 Blue Cape, Cheviot Cape
Lv 69 Stun Kukri, Avengers
Main Sub Head Neck Body Legs Hands Feet Back Waist Earrings Rings
Lv 70 Adaman Sainti, Hades Sainti, Behemoth Knife, Pahluwan Katars, Rune Baghnakhs Faerie Hairpin, Optical Hat Volunteer's Brais Boxer's Mantle Defending Ring
Lv 71 Master Caster's Baghnakhs, Pahluwan Patas Vendor's Slops
Lv 72 Wagh Baghnakhs, Scogan's Knuckles Pahluwan Qalansuwa Gorgets from In the Name of Science Pahluwan Khazagand Pahluwan Seraweels Pahluwan Dastanas Pahluwan Crackows, Dance Shoes, Errant Pigaches Hexerei Cape Adroit Ring, Triumph Ring, Flame Ring, Thunder Ring, Soil Ring
Lv 73 Heart Snatcher, Indra Katars Faith Torque
Lv 74 Manoples, Ponderous Manoples
Lv 75 Walahra Turban, Usukane Somen Usukane Haramaki, Goliard Saio Barbarossa's Zerehs, Usukane Hizayoroi Usukane Gote Usukane Sune-Ate Brutal Earring, Orichalcum Earring

Source entry: User:FFXI-Socrates/Puppetmaster Equipment Guide. Cached on this server on 4 November 2026.

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