Augmenting the Jar Helm is painful

[fenr1r]

Hi, augmenting is a nice feature. The rarest the gear, the more difficult it is to augment gear (use gear from not less than one rarity below). It means that if you buy too early the legendary jar helm (level 120 for me), it would be very painful to augment it to level 349. You can't sell it and buy a new one or craft a new one.

Be careful too, you can't sell/dismantle/use to extract lacrima these items or the items from preorder bonus but you can use it as an augment material and definitively lose them (which may be a good thing to clean your inventory).

[Ren O'the Blade]

You can buy gear from the shop keeper. It will only count as 1 level at a time(if still unique), till you catch up, or you can dismantle a ton of gear, farm it off of spirits of adversity and make those into a unique helm quality and get 1 level at a time for that. I am assuming once we beat the game and go into NG+ it will be a lot easier as higher tier gear will start dropping.

This will likely be patched at some point, but you can make infinite lacrima or gold just crafting the lowest tier piece of equipment, it will only use 1 of the materials you will have thousands of, then you can sell them or break them down for lacrima. It is time consuming and boring, but with the infinite gold you can make, you can buy out and dismantle everything the shop keeper has, run a quick level, rinse repeat. Can level any piece of gear fast this way.

[fenr1r]

Exactly, that's why I say it's painful. Not impossible, just very time consuming.