Quote Originally Posted by Demon6324236 View Post
No really it fits for everything. Just because Skirmish gear is level 113 it doesn't make an X-hit all by itself. Just because my Skirmish gear is all 113 on my WHM does not mean it caps cure potency or has low enmity/cast time. More or less I assume it will be the best still because the stats we already had on them were generally better. The SMN set is already very nice from what I understand, putting it up to 119 only makes it better, if it already holds some of your best gear and its getting upgraded, its only reasonable to expect it to get better, and be potentially the best.

I am sure they will get a +1 version like everyone else.

This isn't as bad as you make it sound, more grind is what we need, no one is doing anything because everyone is finished with the content, that's why shouts have been dead for weeks. The game has been more lively on Phoenix in the last week than the previous month all together.
That's what I mean, your looking at the same gear as before but better, which means all of the old best Empyrean and Relic stuff will probably pop out on top again if they do it right. Though SMN is questionable due to the Skirmish gear I suppose.

Don't get your hopes up, most skill enhancements for AF went up by 2~5, not 10~20, so you could end up disappointing yourself needlessly.
You... are clearly not a SMN...
Because if you were... you'd know that the skirmish gear... while it's often good for the other mages (and why is you not capped potency with your skirmish body on whm??? there's so much cure potency every!)...
We've come to realize that Hagondes gear is just crap for smn outside of macroMAB. (though some ppl do idle in the body when they don't have an avatar... the Hagondes=lv100 bayld body in that case... both have +2mp refresh on the body.)
It's why we have become EXTRA squishy in combat... because we don't have all those green numbers all the other mages get.
SMN is the redheaded step child when it comes to gear.
We've gotten a bit of love from weapons recently.... but pretty much none of the iLv gear is worth anything once we poop an avatar out.

And as to what's good about the 109AF1...
It's pretty much only the boots and horn.
Why?
Because they beat the stats for the empy+2 pieces.
The body, hands, and legs... the lv"90" empy and relic hands are better in all those slots.
Even if the body has the same +BPdmg% as the caller's+2 does... the loss of 10skill is not worth the extra green numbers.
Because SMN doesn't gear for themselves... Good SMNs gear for their avatars.

And as to the +skill? Evoker Horn+1: +5 109Convoker: +15
Empy body +2 has +10
Relic hands have +15
Empy legs have +6
SMN has gotten major love for once...
And seeing as how with just: AF3-AF3-AF2-AF3-AF3, and the required misc gear... vox strap, evoker's ring, astute/99 cape etc
I'm sitting at just over 500 skill (and I'm not using Ifrit's ring because I'm Elvaan and need that +70MP more than the +4skill)
The max we can get currently is something like 540 or 550ish... idr...
So seeing as how the Af1+1 went from +5 to +15...
It's VERY likely that with all the appropriate "Alexander gear"...
600 is very likely.

And as to more grind... maybe I should take a trip to Phoenix... cause they're pretty much just as dead on Odin...
(though maybe you guys are just reaching Odin's current low rate... so... >_> we really need those mergers...)