Geomancer and Rune Fencer Artifact Equipment

[Demonicpagan]

I'm glad they took this route. There's not much sense adding new 50-60 gear that'll be useful for all of a few hours and some vanity screenshots. Now the question is whether this'll be more like AF3+2 or +2'd Relic.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No sense on doing 50-60 gear with the way the game is played now.

[RushLynx]

lvl 50-60 AF is still useful for ability and skill bonuses on all of my jobs... The fact that so many people simply skipped over it and never bothered going back to get them as macro pieces is pretty sad.

If nothing else, this decision is just something they had to cut corners on because their man-power is starved with the launch of FFXIV just two months away...

[Catmato]

First, one reason is that Adoulin content is for level 99+ and as such the monsters in those areas are extremely high level, and trying to acquire level 50-60 gear in these areas just doesn't make sense.

The other major reason is that most of you are looking forward to wearing these new artifact armors to do battle with the monsters that lurk in Adoulin areas, so the development team made the decision to implement them at the proper level in which they can be used.

In this case, why aren't GEO and RUN set to level 99 when they're unlocked?

[Kincard]

This change only really bothers me from an OCD "now AF charts will look funny" standpoint.

Will other jobs be obtaining ilevel105 JSE or are there any plans for further JSE in the future?

[Leatherman]

I can't wait to see the stats! Now I'm going to express something odd but something nice to point it out. With other Jobs you can kinda pick which piece you want for the "Perfect Set", or different AFs will grant different bonus like DEX, ACC, CRIT, Magic CRIT, stuff like that.

Geo is a job that can swing a club and staff quite well, so will there be an option to maybe add some acc for GEO to go Melee/Elemental WS mode with light Nuke?

The new Delve Club gives some acc but feels like it's missing quite a bit of punch, The Delve staff is awesome just doesn't have accuracy. Either geo was not meant to go anywhere near melee and I'm dreaming out loud or maybe it will be an option for Augmentation on gear.

[Kincard]

Actually, I just thought of something- in the past job-specific 75 limit break quests were basically the final "chapter" of the AF quests, so I'm wondering how that's going to work this time...the genkai quest is just going to be the pre-requisite for the AF?

[Leatherman]

Just a simple request, please don't make it too hard so that a low-man party can't do it. People do have friends but not everyone is willing to help so easy. After all I do want to get my GEO AF~!

[Fynlar]

Take a trio. AF3+2 DRG, a MNK in Bayld gear and a RDM/DNC (me). Halfway through it started spamming stuff and wiped us. Several times. Going by damage alone I'd say the mob was designed around a tank taking the hits, because it cleaned our clocks too easily. That's with it casting cures on us.

As I said, if AF quests involve mobs are anything like that one, it's going to hurt. A lot.

That mob starts to rage very quickly, around 5 minutes or so, possibly even less. But as long as you don't dilly-dally, he's a wimp.

[Lithera]

Along with most people used all or a good chunk of their AF to beat Maat or their Job's version of Maat. What happens to the lone person who just started the game and wanted to level geo or run 1st? Not that I think anyone would go and do that, but if they did then they would have to do the 70 cap in mix n match gear. The 40-60 gear was the 1st addressing of what the jobs might need help with unless it was Smn af in which it didn't help in the two areas it needed. Then relic was to fix some of the short comings of the af and help the job even more for the 70-75. It's not even like it would be tooo big of a stretch for Geo or Run gear to appear in dynamis. There were a few characters who came from Adoulin or knew people from there. Maybe some Run or Geos came over on the down low.

[Demonicpagan]

Along with most people used all or a good chunk of their AF to beat Maat or their Job's version of Maat. What happens to the lone person who just started the game and wanted to level geo or run 1st? Not that I think anyone would go and do that, but if they did then they would have to do the 70 cap in mix n match gear. The 40-60 gear was the 1st addressing of what the jobs might need help with unless it was Smn af in which it didn't help in the two areas it needed. Then relic was to fix some of the short comings of the af and help the job even more for the 70-75. It's not even like it would be tooo big of a stretch for Geo or Run gear to appear in dynamis. There were a few characters who came from Adoulin or knew people from there. Maybe some Run or Geos came over on the down low.

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.

Unlocking the two jobs is a breeze since to unlock GEO is having a petrified log (3k gil on AH) and running to an Ergon Locus to rest for 5 minutes, and to unlock RUN run and get a KI.

I am eager to see how the quest lines play out since the final chapter for the SCH and DNC AF gear was the final limit break quests for both of these jobs. I would't doubt both of the jobs AF gears to be fairly expensive to acquire items. It's probably going to follow the lines of how some of the DNC AF gear was obtained, meaning it's not going to be cheap (especially to someone like me who doesn't have much gil to begin with and acquiring the amount most players I know is only a dream). I would gather to say the final piece of AF for both jobs will be some sort of BCNM fight.