Upgrading Ironworks gear after 5.3

[Callinon]

My understanding was you could fork over your unaugmented stuff to a calamity salvager with 100 poetics and he'd take care of it for you.

[Hasrat]

This - the old way of upgrading IronWorks gear is still there: North Shroud NPC by Gerolt who also sells the replica's.

You can still buy the items needed for the upgrade for 100 poetics from Mor Dhona, as well as getting them via the repeatable quest that requires you to do the CT raids.

Your information is out of date. The repeatable quest was removed, and the upgrade items are no longer available for purchase. You are correct that Drake still offers the upgrade, but this may have been yet another oversight of devs forgetting to remove that shop section, seeing as it wasn't in the same zone like the expansions. But sure. If anyone happens to still have un-augmented, and can acquire the upgrade tokens from the remaining raids that may still drop them, then some poetics can be saved.

My understanding was you could fork over your unaugmented stuff to a calamity salvager with 100 poetics and he'd take care of it for you.

Visit your local salvager and discover this only applies for Shire and Scaeven gear.

[Kamatsu]

Your information is out of date. The repeatable quest was removed, and the upgrade items are no longer available for purchase. You are correct that Drake still offers the upgrade, but this may have been yet another oversight of devs forgetting to remove that shop section, seeing as it wasn't in the same zone like the expansions. But sure. If anyone happens to still have un-augmented, and can acquire the upgrade tokens from the remaining raids that may still drop them, then some poetics can be saved.

Yikes. I just checked and you are indeed right. You can not buy the upgrade tokens anymore, and while the repeatable quest is still there... it no longer provides the upgrade token/object anymore.

So it seems that anyone with unaugmented Ironworks gear who doesn't also have the appropriate upgrade token/item... will have to either just live with it being unaugmented, or spend the full amount for augmented Ironworks.

My apologies to all for my earlier misleading post