Item Level 270 - "Augmented Shire" To receive the highest level 60 gear, you will need to obtain the individual armor pieces listed in the Item Level 260 - "Shire" section, then buy specific items to upgrade each piece. However, I don't see a place to upgrade my Ironworks gear. It can also be purchased with Silver Chocobo Feathers from the Calamity Salvager in each starting city state. ... Yeah, you'll get a couple slight upgrades from Stormblood leveling gear, then the 290 from your 70 job quest, then it's new tomes, then Susano. ( this is not to say that upgrading isn't a good idea though! After some study, I figured out how to visit the Calamity Salvager to augment my old Shire and Scaevan gear after the 5.3 update. Upgrade your lifestyle Digital Trends helps readers keep tabs on the fast-paced world of tech with all the latest news, fun product reviews, insightful editorials, and one-of-a-kind sneak peeks. Calamity salvager seems to be missing ironworks entries in his list under "Deal in Spoils". after that you cna buy NQ ilvl150 gear in Azys Lla the final area of the game from NPCs for a lot less than market prices. In terms of gameplay, it serves as Heavensward's version of Revenant's Toll, housing the endgame vendors. Idyllshire is a location in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. just take your time and go at your pace, the gear isn't the problem here ) Don't take gear upgrade for the holy grail, unless there is a huge amount of difference. As far as gear acquisition goes, you're better off saving seals for level 70 to get a 310 set and using your tomestones of poetics to get shire gear, but upgrading the antiquated job gear does make it dye-able if you're wanting it for glamour. Moscini. After that, you're pretty much done with weapon upgrades from HW. Then you buy the upgrade item from the same NPC (cheap) and upgrade the shire weapon. Augment these items by buying Illuminati Deepest Gobdip, Tautest Gobtwine, or Darkest Gobcoat for weapons, armor, or accessories, respectively. Shire gear (item level 270) - The un-upgraded gear is purchasable with Tomestones of Poetics from Hismena in Idyllshire Rowena's Center for Cultural Promotion (5.8-5.2). Then you take the Shire gear and upgrade items to Seika in Idyllshire. At level 60 you can buy Shire gear in Idyllshire from Hismena (Bertana will give you the weapon for Rowena’s Scripture tokens and a micro tomestone, avaiable from Hismena). Buy Illuminati Deepest Gobtwine and Illuminati Deepest Gobcoat with Poetics tomes, and then upgrade your Shire gear to "Augmented Shire gear" at the NPC Seika at Idyllshire (x6.7 , y7.3). You should be able to run everything thrown at you by the MSQ perfectly fine with what the MSQ hands you out. (Upgraded Ironworks gear will last until level 55, and upgrade Shire gear will last til level 65. When you get to idyllshire there will be story quests and side quests that give you HQ level 58/ilvl145 gear and you have 1 more level 59 dungeon hat drop ilvl 148 gear. So BiS would be i270 gear. Was this an oversight, intentionally obtuse or do I just have to buy it all again to get augmented? #2. As mentioned above, you can obtain i260 Shire gear set from Hismena at Idyllshire (x5.7, y5.2), and then upgrade them to i270. Founded by a band of treasure hunters and goblin migrants, it is located at the northern edge of the abandoned city of Sharlayan, just beyond the Cenotaph. Weapon: Illuminati Deepest Gobdip from Hismena. At level 70 you'll be wanting to use Tome (Creation) gear or Raid (Savage) gear anyway, not crafted.)