Hit 80 - how do I gear up?

[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