Amdapor Keep Gear guide -Help, what gear do I need?-

I just tried to do an AK run just after beating the main storyline quest. I have my Paladin gear and thought I could. When we started players would immediately leave and not tell me why.

One nice player actually told me that I needed better gear and to go by Grand company gear. I cannot do this. In order to buy the GC gear you have to beat Amdapor Keep!

So where should I gear up for this run? Appreciate any help :)

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You can farm Palace and level 40+ dungeons for Tomestones of Philosophy and use them to buy Darklight gear from camp Revenant's Toll (in Mor Dhona). Though I'd recommend you'd just try to find a friendly linkshell or free company group to learn the dungeon with. I'm pretty sure I've successfully run it with tanks in pretty much full AF.

The Wanderer's Palace drops lv50 Darklight Weapons and a Darklight shield you could use. It also drops various pieces of gear, some of the tank gear may be an upgrade for you.

The Wanderer's Palace also rewards you with Tomestones of Philosophy which can be used to buy Darklight gear. If you want to farm more Tomestones, Castrum Meridianum awards 100 Tomestones of Philosophy per run. :)

Good luck and have fun. :D

Find players that are not asshats.
I remember I did my very first AK run as a fresh level 50 PLD with just AF gear and some older accessories from previous dungeons and we were fine.

the easiest way is farming tomes in Castrum. it's a super easy 8 men dungeon and award you 100 tomes per run. you'll get your darklight parts in few days.

i have runned AK successfully with a tank that has pretty much same gear as you. Problem is there are a ton of elitist "speed runners" who will not except anyone other that people in T1 with good mainhand.

AK is not really hard for the tank, it's more a dungeon where the dps is more needed.
if you know how tank the boss is easy actually.

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Originally Posted by Tatsuo

Find players that are not asshats.
I remember I did my very first AK run as a fresh level 50 PLD with just AF gear and some older accessories from previous dungeons and we were fine.

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^ this. Its true. Myself and I'm sure more than a few other people have run AK in strictly full AF gear no problem. Some people agree just douchebags

Thank you for all the advice. I have ran into quite a few toxic players since hitting the 50 dungeons. People just quitting after inspecting my gear, being d-bags in the chat, even after a successful Ifrit Hard mode where nobody died A player said I was "a shitty tank" and then left. Ive seen it directed at others too, DPS, healers, I dont understand why people are like this at the higher levels...

I can say right now that the only gear you need is the gear you get from your level 45 and 50 class quest and the company gear that you're able to get pre-50, I did it like this as an archer and a dragoon with the same set of gear (I also had trash accesories on), the tank did have some armours on from AK it self but it's most definitely not required in the slightest, what you've ran into is the elitist trash that ruin all games.

Don't worry man. More than likely those people leaving have longer queues than you, so jokes on them.

AK is easily doable with AF and a level 45-50 weapon. Anybody that says otherwise is wrong or is going for speed. You just have to know the fights.

Since we're talking about gear, what's the consensus on required gear for things like the Primals? I haven't started on them yet, but I've heard Ifrit is relatively easy, whereas it's better to have full or mostly full Darklight for Titan to add some lee-way on his attacks.

Ifrit can be done in the 45-50 class quest gear, though I'd recommend getting the level 50 company weapon before doing ifrit just incase there's no caster in the group that can limit break when 4 spikes come up that will insta kill you if not killed quick enough.

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Originally Posted by Tatsuo

Find players that are not asshats.
I remember I did my very first AK run as a fresh level 50 PLD with just AF gear and some older accessories from previous dungeons and we were fine.

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This.
You don't need some very special gear to do AK.

Thanks for the re-assurance guys, wish all players were this helpful :) I actually did Ifrit earlier and won with just my lvl 50 paladin gear and other armor bought off the marketplace.

Ill try AK later hopefully get a friendly party :)

Just go Run CM and get 100 ToP each run to get your Darklight gear. That's what I am doing and it pretty easy and people tell me you can us the gear for all the fights to come as long as you have a good Weapon.

For this stage, you are okay being a healer/tank with minimum gears. It's quite taxing on the DPS though, at least a green ilvl 50 weapon I think would be a good choice.. Mainly just because of bees, if you take too long to kill bees there's a high chance your healer can't keep up.. Not impossible, just a lot harder.

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

For this stage, you are okay being a healer/tank with minimum gears. It's quite taxing on the DPS though, at least a green ilvl 50 weapon I think would be a good choice.. Mainly just because of bees, if you take too long to kill bees there's a high chance your healer can't keep up.. Not impossible, just a lot harder.

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It is a lot hard not because of the bees... rather its the AOE paralyse.

I find these stories hard to believe... Be honest, how many times did you wipe the group?

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Originally Posted by Zeons

I find these stories hard to believe... Be honest, how many times did you wipe the group?

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I don't find this hard to believe at all..
People randomly rage about everything nowadays.. no patience

This will happen more often when SE implements the gear lvl system.. which I hope they don't

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I find these stories hard to believe... Be honest, how many times did you wipe the group?

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They're true, people like you are the reason the Game gets annoying.

elitist ass-hats

always going to run into them.

Ran one yesterday where a dps came in and decided he was going to be both tank and dd( I was tank) , wouldn't help explain anything to the new people, would yell and curse at us in caps for the dumbest things. funny thing is, he was not that great he just thought he was heh , knew we were in for it when he came in and replied to my question of who is new to the dungeon. " dur hurr look at my gear it's all lvl 50 " and then he proceeded to run past us and start attacking things. ( so I sat down outside of the final boss and let him die a few times, get angry and leave, got new dps and we beat him.. felt bad for making the others endure it , but It's about the only tactic I have to show the consequences for being a douche) forgot to mention, that was in Qarn, so his 50 gear wasn't even 50 lol

Had another one in WP that flipped out on a guy because he had lvl 30 something gear in there, I understood why he was criticizing him.. but the way he did it dayumm

This just makes me wanna not do end game. So many stories of losers ruining the game.

I don't know about tanking, but I healed Amdapor in AF gear (one darklight bracelet), with only two wipes (both to Demon Wall) on my first run.

It strikes me as fishy that people think you need ilevel70 gear to do a dungeon that drops ilevel 60. AF gear is probably fine.

One thing you can do to help your group out, though, is look up guides to the fights ahead of time. Demon Wall in particular will wipe you out of nowhere if you don't know the dance before you take the floor.

After doing it my first time it really was not bad. I found a good group of guys who explained each fight briefly. We only died once on the last boss, the rest of the run was fine. I did it with my paladin gear and some gear bought off the marketplace. Was not that hard thanks to a helpful group :)

And no I did not wipe or cause any wipes. That was my first run. All other attempts the run would start and someone would leave or BM then leave presumably because of someones gear.

Ive seen so much bad mannered people though doing in CM. It literally takes a few seconds to give brief help to new players but instead you see players quit or BM the whole run. I got to find a good friendly free company to join :)