FFXIV Loot, Gear & Tomestone Planning Tools

One principle across all three calculators

A useful calculator must distinguish three kinds of input. An official fact comes from a current first-party source. A group policy comes from the people using it. A personal plan comes from the player's own balance, target, or allocation. Treating those categories as interchangeable creates confident but uncheckable answers.

The FFXIV cluster now makes the category visible. Patch 7.4 Lodestone notes establish current mnemonics limits and describe current AAC Heavyweight reward restrictions. They do not define EP/GP, guarantee a static's direct allocation, or supply a universal activity schedule. Those values therefore remain labeled user inputs.

Choose the tool by the decision

A confirmed item needs a priority ledger

Use the Loot Priority Ledger only after the award exists. Name the item, mark compatible and participating members, and enter your team's current points. It produces a reproducible provisional order while keeping social rules outside the formula.

A gear target needs compatible units

Use the Compatible-Unit Raid Planner when you can define one target and its exchange path. Existing tokens are used first; future rows show direct units, token units, tokens left, and remaining target units at each weekly boundary.

A capped currency needs two separate limits

Use the Capped-Currency Planner when a currency has both a weekly obtainment limit and maximum inventory. It distinguishes the amount blocked by each cap and never turns reset counts into an invented calendar completion date.

Current Patch 7.4 evidence

Square Enix's Patch 7.4 Notes introduced Allagan tomestones of mnemonics with a weekly obtainment cap of 450 and maximum inventory of 2,000. The same notes describe then-current AAC Heavyweight normal token and Savage reward restrictions. The separate tomestone changes announcement documents the treatment of older currencies.

These links are not decorative citations. The current mnemonics limits enter the capped-currency formula; the raid notes define why tier and source labels are required. Each claim is also recorded in the site's evidence ledger with its verification date and formula status.

What was deliberately removed

Earlier versions of this cluster tried to turn raid coffers into fixed per-player odds, offered an undocumented luck multiplier, assumed a generic cap for every tomestone, and displayed invented observation logs. Those features were not supportable from primary evidence and have been removed. The replacement tools are less theatrical but more useful: they answer narrower questions, show their math, reject contradictory states, and make obsolete inputs easy to replace.

A weekly reconciliation routine

1. Before raid, verify the current patch notes and exchange menu.
2. Update currency balance, weekly-earned amount, tokens, target units, and team point ledger.
3. Create separate scenarios for separate items, currencies, characters, or token types.
4. After rewards and purchases, record actual events outside the calculator.
5. Rebuild the plan from the new observed state; do not force the prior projection to remain true.

For longer workflows, use the loot priority guide, raid target guide, and tomestone cap guide.