Gear Prep for Dawntrail: crafted 640 enough?

[Rongway]

To be clear, the 660 now will be the next poetics so by farming now you will gain on poetics when the expansion will be released. But poetics will only have the upgraded one, you will to buy an entirely new items or do the 3 raid 24 to upgrade an old non upgraded item.

Based on historic patterns:

• The base IL 650 Comedy gear will be upgradable to Augmented IL 660 at the cost of 100 poetics per slot.
• The Lv91 dungeon will drop IL 650 gear.
• The Lv93 dungeon will drop IL 660 gear.
• Crafters will be able to make Lv94 gear that is IL 663.
• The Lv95 dungeon will drop IL 666 gear.

Getting a full set of IL 660 gear now would put you at the max IL available from Lv90 through Lv93, and the max IL available from duties through Lv94. A full set of IL 650 gear now would put you at the expected IL through Lv92 but that set can be upgraded to a full set of IL 660 gear for 1,100 poetics.

[Kazelus]

Based on historic patterns:

• The base IL 650 Comedy gear will be upgradable to Augmented IL 660 at the cost of 100 poetics per slot.
• The Lv81 dungeon will drop IL 650 gear.
• The Lv83 dungeon will drop IL 660 gear.
• Crafters will be able to make Lv84 gear that is IL 663.
• The Lv85 dungeon will drop IL 666 gear.

Getting a full set of IL 660 gear now would put you at the max IL available from Lv90 through Lv93, and the max IL available from duties through Lv94. A full set of IL 650 gear now would put you at the expected IL through Lv62 but that set can be upgraded to a full set of IL 660 gear for 1,100 poetics.

Like I said, no upgrade before third dungeon. You have ilvl 663 from MSQ once but it won't apply for the rests of your jobs. And is not a necessity to continue the expansion.

I'm curious, never found a way to upgrade old Tomes gear with poetics, where did you get the upgrade ?
(You've put the wrong level for the dungeons, you put 8X instead of 9X.)

[Jeeqbit]

I'm curious, never found a way to upgrade old Tomes gear with poetics, where did you get the upgrade ?

The upgrades were obtained the same way you obtain the upgrades for level 90 gear now, except with poetics and old hunt currencies.

They just decided to remove the upgrade process and make it impossible to purchase non-augmented gear for old expansions. This was done because it was a nightmare to explain the upgrade process to sprouts in the Novice Network. This led to Yoshi-P posing the question - would there be a problem with making it impossible to obtain non-augmented gear? There didn't seem to be much reaction to that question so they just did it shortly after.

So, when Dawntrail releases you won't be able to obtain non-augmented gear for Endwalker.

[kaynide]

Based on historic patterns:

• The base IL 650 Comedy gear will be upgradable to Augmented IL 660 at the cost of 100 poetics per slot.
• The Lv91 dungeon will drop IL 650 gear.
• The Lv93 dungeon will drop IL 660 gear.
• Crafters will be able to make Lv94 gear that is IL 663.
• The Lv95 dungeon will drop IL 666 gear.

Getting a full set of IL 660 gear now would put you at the max IL available from Lv90 through Lv93, and the max IL available from duties through Lv94. A full set of IL 650 gear now would put you at the expected IL through Lv92 but that set can be upgraded to a full set of IL 660 gear for 1,100 poetics.

Just to plus 1 this.

The final tomestone set will be better than anything until the 3rd dungeon.

At the same time, you can just as easily replace any bargain bin armor via quests and even the very first DT dungeon. You would almost have to go out of your way to be below required ilvl if going through on your first class.