Geomancer and Rune Fencer Artifact Equipment

[Lithera]

Problem with this is that a new player can't level RUN or GEO first. Why? Because it's an advanced job and won't be unlockable until the player hits level 30 on one of the 6 basic jobs.

Thanks for assuming I meant that a person could just pick up these jobs from character creation. What was left unspoken was that said new person goes and unlocks either one or both and wants to take them to 99 1st. Unlike the other jobs who get to use gear that is tailored to their job in doing their lv70 cap fight, Geo n Run won't have that luxury. Though I doubt anyone would be doing this, but hey there could be someone who would want to.

[Lithera]

If you need bayld to acquire those items, I'm going to go insane. I hate Reives with a passion.

Would you rather have to collect items that are rare to get and then wait a day? You might not like rieves but at least bayld is almost as easy to get as allied notes are.

[Quetzacoatl]

Excuse me, but I grind my jobs to 99 AND I don't mash through Job AF CS because yay story~

Apparently I'm a minority

[Mirage]

shock aside, the invocation of item level here makes me think... they are calling it artifact now, but i wonder if these might be our first glimpses of the next tier of AF armor? such that, all jobs might one day have an AF in the item level range of whatever RUN/GEO's 99 AF is.

I am hoping so as well. Every (good) heavy DD regadless of job looking the same (except the weapon) at lv99 is really boring.

[Kincard]

Excuse me, but I grind my jobs to 99 AND I don't mash through Job AF CS because yay story~

Apparently I'm a minority

You're not, a great deal of the hardcore playerbase stick around because they love the lore/setting of FFXI, it's just that players that don't accomplish very much in the game like to make themselves feel better by saying they're better at enjoying the setting of the game more than said players.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Just ran a /search: roughly 15% of the players on Sylph right now are level 99 and rank 6.

/sea all: 1129
/sea all rank 6: 211
/sea all 99 rank 6: 165

[Quetzacoatl]

You're not, a great deal of the hardcore playerbase stick around because they love the lore/setting of FFXI, it's just that players that don't accomplish very much in the game like to make themselves feel better by saying they're better at enjoying the setting of the game more than said players.

Yeah, definitely. It just seems weird to me that some people find themselves disregarding lore and just play solely for the endgame. Kind of like making water without Hydrogen. And these forums need a sarcasm tag!

[Demonicpagan]

Just ran a /search: roughly 15% of the players on Sylph right now are level 99 and rank 6.

/sea all: 1129
/sea all rank 6: 211
/sea all 99 rank 6: 165

On Asura those numbers are as follows:
/sea all: 1481
/sea all rank 6: 263
/sea all 99 rank 6: 203

Making it roughly 14%

[Hayward]

This is a curveball that would make any MLB pitcher proud. As long as 1) Delve is NOT involved in the acquisition of whatever is required to get these pieces, 2) Umbril Ooze is not involved whatsoever, and 3) the stats on each set are worthy of fighting Adoulin-level monsters (read: AF3+2-quality or higher), I am fine with this twist on tradition.

I also agree with creating some kind of quest that would allow other jobs to upgrade Artifact or Relic gear to level 99 quality. I'd be all in if I knew Evoker's & Summoner's lvl. 99 sets would match or surpass the Caller's +2 set.

[Talias]

Just ran a /search: roughly 15% of the players on Sylph right now are level 99 and rank 6.

/sea all: 1129
/sea all rank 6: 211
/sea all 99 rank 6: 165

I'm actually kind of curious to see these totals (yay useless trivia) but..
Did you just use /sea all for the total?
If so the /sea all rank 6 will ignore all anon players as well, have to start with /sea all 1-99 or only count 99's