Hit 80 - how do I gear up?

[Iscah]

Don't spend Copied Factory coins on upgrades to i470 at this point. It's already outdated and you'll need them for each of the following upgrade tokens too.

[Elkanah]

Don't spend Copied Factory coins on upgrades to i470 at this point. It's already outdated and you'll need them for each of the following upgrade tokens too.

I mean, honestly, if they're not buying the crafted gear (which is dirt cheap on the marketboard, with 5.3 coming soon-- and new craft gear most likely too), I'd say that's still okay till they can get ahold of Eden Verse 480 gear (and their tomes). It's better than the 430 stuff they give you in the beginning, and trying to gear up with rhonkan gear at least. They can hit 80, do their dailies, and get quite a bit of tomes for the 460-470 (upgrade) gear, buy craftable gear, or do eden and access to the Nier Raid series 1. Most of their dailies are under level 80 with their current gear grind once they reach cap. And since most of those are 1-50/60/70 (excluding expert), with the occasional level 71-79 dungeons in leveling roulette, that should be more than enough to get them on the right track into eden verse and nier raids at minimum

[Iscah]

I mean, honestly, if they're not buying the crafted gear (which is dirt cheap on the marketboard, with 5.3 coming soon-- and new craft gear most likely too), I'd say that's still okay till they can get ahold of Eden Verse 480 gear (and their tomes).

Yes, but unaugmented i460 Deepshadow gear is entirely fine as a stepping stone to i480/90. No need to run Copied Factory multiple times over to earn coins when you're replacing it ASAP. Especially when you're going to need as many coins again for each of the next two tiers. They're much better saved at this point.

[Frizze]

I mean, honestly, if they're not buying the crafted gear (which is dirt cheap on the marketboard, with 5.3 coming soon-- and new craft gear most likely too)

Small correction. The odd patches dont raise the item levels available, so they dont include new crafted combat gear. The odd patches are catch up patches where the people who dont raid savage can get their gear upgraded to almost the same level. They will probly add an option in Eulmore to upgrade the existing i480 crafted gear to 490(wont be overmeldable, but higher stat caps). The next Yorha raid will drop i490 gear(same as allegory tomes but with different sub-stats), and running the new raid will get you the upgrade coin that(when combined with the CF coins we have now) will allow upgrading 490 crystarium gear into the 500 equivalent. The next relic step will probly stop at i495 for the weapon. If the extreme trial drops a weapon, itll likely be in this same range.

[Elkanah]

Small correction. The odd patches dont raise the item levels available, so they dont include new crafted combat gear. The odd patches are catch up patches where the people who dont raid savage can get their gear upgraded to almost the same level. They will probly add an option in Eulmore to upgrade the existing i480 crafted gear to 490(wont be overmeldable, but higher stat caps). The next Yorha raid will drop i490 gear(same as allegory tomes but with different sub-stats), and running the new raid will get you the upgrade coin that(when combined with the CF coins we have now) will allow upgrading 490 crystarium gear into the 500 equivalent. The next relic step will probly stop at i495 for the weapon. If the extreme trial drops a weapon, itll likely be in this same range.

I imagine somewhere between 5.3-5.4 we'll see the upgrade with the last tomes to allow upgrades to 490 with the crafted gear, and it'll be back up in price a short while again while that's happening. On goblin, the average price is about 50-75k a piece, but almost always goes up to the 150-300k range when the upgrade currency comes out for the last series crafted gear