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TheStarlightWanderer

How to upgrade 380 Rakshasa gear into 390 Yama gear.

[Guide]

Making this post because I thought more people knew about this, but I just had to show half my FC how to do it so perhaps more people would like to know. YES! If you have 380 Rakshasa gear (the crafted stuff) you can upgrade it to 390 gear and avoid the tiresome Genesis grind or weekly Monastery runs without the pieces you want!

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  1. Go to Rhalgr's Reach and speak to Enna <Tomestone Exchange> (13.8, 11.5)
  2. Choose Allagan Tomestones of Mendacity (Other)
  3. Buy as many Doman Reiyaku as you can. They cost 100 Mendacity each you need 7 for a weapon, 5 for major gear slots (chest/legs), 3 for minor gear slots (head/hands/feet) and 2 for accessories/belt.
  4. Now, run across the zone and speak to J'tandhaa <Exchange> (9.6, 11.5)
  5. Choose Earn Rakshasa Tokens or Earn Rakshasa Tokens (HQ) depending on the quality of your gear.
  6. Of the three options, choose which one you want to upgrade, Weapon, Gear (Left side), or Accessories (Right side)
  7. You will need to trade your Rakshasa gear to the vendor for Rakshasa Tokens.
  8. Once you have the Rakshasa Tokens choose Use Rakshasa Tokens (HQ).
  9. Once again, choose the appropriate option for which piece you want.
  10. Trade the Rakshasa Tokens and Doman Reiyaku for any piece of Yama gear.

NOTE: You can trade for any piece of gear, so be careful you don't exchange for a different piece than you gave up for Tokens.

EDIT: Some commenters have pointed out something! I made this guide as someone who already had a set of 380 gear to trade in, but if you don't and would still like to take advantage of this system you can buy cheap 380 gear like the Head piece and convert it to Tokens for gear you actually need.

Hope this helps and if anyone has questions let me know!

Posted Jan 30, 2019, 10:01 PM UTC · edited

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ArtemisMoonsongBLU sucks.•

Better yet, just mass craft HQ i380 Caster/Healer hats and turn those in. They barely cost more than accessories material-wise (like three ingots, 1 Reisui, and 1 Pally nugget) and are worth significantly more Foodstamps mat-for-mat than trading in any other item.

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TheStarlightWandererOP•

I'm confused. If, for example, I trade my Rakshasa headpiece in for a Yama headpiece, where did I lose? I'm not suggesting people trade in just for the tokens, doing a 1:1 trade seems like the best way to go for this.

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Alex_RagesRed Mage•

I think it's like 2 hat's for 3 right side pieces? Something close to that.

I bought a bunch of cheap hands/feet for random classes, whatever was cheap and filled in a serious amount of slots. Like under a mills worth of gear got me like 5 slots.

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TheStarlightWandererOP•

But if I already have the 380 accessories then why would I buy/craft MORE to trade? Just trade in the 380 to make it 390.

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kokobo88•

because most ppl dont have crafted gear and instead of buying a full 380 set (1 for each slot) for like 5 million, you can just buy cheap items for any class for 2.5m and trade those for points and then buy the items you need from the npc. sure a HQ weapon will give you 27 points to buy the 390 HQ weapon, but so do 3 HQ accessories (3x 9 tokens), which might be cheaper than any weapon. thats the logic, whats actually cheap depends on your market

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BroswagonistPLD•

Say I'm a fresh lvl 70 and don't have any crafted 380 gear for my class (eg. my first melee dps). Rather than get each respective piece of 380 gear to upgrade to 390, I might as well skip 380 by using something that's more efficient/cheaper per token.

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KShrikeWarrior•

what me and my friend were doing was crafting dragoon lances because all weapons give 27, which means 7 of them will get you an entire set of gear and some change, for any job. Keep in mind you need mendacity for every upgrade.

But if healer hats are even easier, and you aren't exactly opposed to making more of those things, then I guess it's probably a benefit to go for those instead.

Either way, all "food stamps" can get all gear.

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leviathonlxKurenai Kaisuri (Midgardsormr)•

This post is a perfect example of what a convoluted mess the loot system is.

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KosoudaHarumi Yuzuka - Leviathan World•

It really couldn't be any simpler. You're using the Doman Reiyaku to upgrade your crafted gear, and that's it. So I'm not sure what the convoluted part is, even if we were talking about the other ways to acquire better gear. Now, it is fair to say the game could direct players better or at all, but it's probably better to just let new players like that discover things on their own.

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mechl•

10 steps to upgrade gear is the literal definition of convoluted.

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ThickSantorum•

It's more of an example of how some people need everything absolutely spoon-fed, and refuse to look up anything that hasn't been arranged into a guide, even when the information is right out in the open, if they bothered to even try not being helpless.

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kevRoye•

I mean... Sure, the information is out there. But are you actually implying that the token/totem/currency/trade system is not actually a goddamn nightmare, hidden under layers of obscure menus?

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sharkchalkSCH•

SE Enix needs to make a better system on upgrading gear/weapons. It's so convoluted & not user friendly.

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ShagyamNinja power•

No part about upgrading is hard? If you want gear that levels with you and automatically levels up you can play WoW with heirloom gear.

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sharkchalkSCH•

It is. It's confusing, and annoying from a new player perspective. You need 3 vendors to buy and upgrade your tome gear - even worse for players that just hit level 70; and the layers they have to go to get a weapon. All the Creation gear is shoved in NPC's that you wouldn't even know until you start clicked on them by mistake.

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The-very-definitionWarrior•

It’s confusing and annying from an old user perspective too.

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KasumiKagura•

Still - From an old wow players perspective - I actually prefer the systems in place for FFXIV. Its refreshing to see that the formula is working for them.

I don't want ffxiv to go the way of WoW tho where it becomes so easy and convenient it hurts the user experience. I agree tho that vendors could use a tuneup.

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angelar_Rhalgr•

I've been away from the game for a year and even though it's simliar to other upgrade processes, I wasn't here when it was new and it's a giant pain in the ass trying to figure out what the hell it even is. It needs like a billion tokens and its not obvious where they come from.

It's not much better for the other loot acquisition methods. SE is obsessed with vendors and menus. You have to run between 4 different ones in Rhalgr's to figure out what all the pieces for upgrading any given piece of equipment is, and which NPC is the one that finally trades it to you. It's hostile to learn.

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PatchySanityThe Red•

While there are definitely people who buy the gear because they need the iLvl and some of it is cheap, keep in mind the 390 stuff cannot be penta-melded, and for many people the penta-melding is the point of the crafted gear.

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TheStarlightWandererOP•

I see. I haven't gone down the dark road of pentamelds yet so I didn't see that perspective.

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PatchySanityThe Red•

In all honesty, unless you're going for the super meta, top-DPS BiS build, the penta-meld won't matter too much. If you're not big into parsing, don't sweat that stuff.

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kokobo88•

and even then its just the top 1%, if even that. the pentamelded stuff were worth a lot more when the 380 gear came out, as it gave you an edge in alphascape.

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heyimpotatoDRG•

380 pentameld is slightly superior, at least some pieces are.

It depends how much stats you lose out on and whether the str/dex/vit/int etc is worth it.

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Aurora428•

It depends on whether or not its an accessory since something like a shirt will give you far more substats than can be pentamelded

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KShrikeWarrior•

maybe finally crafted market will impro-- nevermind, bot fixing all weapons to 260k lmao gg fucking bots

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gst_diandre•

Two things:

You can buy the cheaper ones, turn them in, and get back any other kind of gear since all you do is turn in tokens.

Once you upgrade to 390, you CANNOT overmeld. And also make sure you remove your materia first lol.

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TheStarlightWandererOP•

I mentioned the first bit but the second tip is news to me since I don't overmeld. Thanks for the info!

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Transfotaku•

Oh shit. For some reason I was thinking, when I looked at it last night, that I basically needed two copies of the item I wanted to upgrade, one for the tokens and one for the upgrade. I thought for some reason I needed to keep a weapon (armor/jewelry/etc) around and trade THAT WITH the Reiyaku and tokens.

I guess I shouldn't be looking at this stuff right before I go to sleep.

This makes things a lot nicer. Thanks. Silly me.

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Curvedabullet•

Also keep in mind that some of the 380 gear gets different stat bonuses when you upgrade it to 390. For example, Crit Rate is the defining stat for BRD, but the 380 Rakshasa bow doesn’t have any crit rate at all. However, when you trade it for the 390 Yama bow, it gains Crit Rate instead of Whatever the old stat was. The opposite can happen as well, so make sure you know which piece of gear to keep at 380 cause it might lose your desired stat when it gets upgraded.

If you’re looking for specific stats to fill out, save your genesis tomestones for Scaeven gear that the yama gear won’t satisfy. The i390 yama boots for example don’t have crit rate, so I used my genesis to buy Scaeven boots which do have it.

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Shinobimagi509NIN•

This happened to me last week, I was deciding between optimizing my tanks or dps and he was like, "why not use the Yama 390 gear?"

Queue me telling everyone in the FC about it for the past 3 days

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DTRevengeanceMelee DPS•

Cue

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hawley788•

Excuse the necro post but don't forget you need a shit ton of mendacity for the reiyaku too. I know you mentioned it but it is absolutely critical. I was a dummy and forgot that step. Burned 1.9 mil and have enough tokens for my entire set I think.. but didn't have enough mendacity for even the weapon lol

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The-very-definitionWarrior•

You forgot the step where you remove all the material already slotted into the gear before turning them in for tokens.

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TheStarlightWandererOP•

I mean, if someone has materia then yeah. I didn't assume melds or not.

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SuperstarDB89•

Thank you! A friend showed me this, too. What a break from grinding Genesis tomes

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midgard2024•

A bit late to take advantage of this news due to being on leave from the game, will I need to go through a quest or MSQ to access this trader? I'll still need to farm the Mendacity tomes, but just wondering if the trade can be done without a quest.

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CIA_Linguist•

I have ornate 380 chest. 5 materia slots. If I upgrade it, will I lose my 5 slots and will it no longer be called ornate in the name of the equipment?

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Pyros•

You can't turn in Ornate.

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