Quote Originally Posted by Kazelus View Post
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.