AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[Whitemage82]

Well apparently they think differently.

This gear will be replaced immediately upon doing any of the coming end game additional content.

[Majidah]

Well apparently they think differently.

This gear will be replaced immediately upon doing any of the coming end game additional content.

Actually I got better hat and pants than my AF at AV, BUT I don't disagree with the OP.

[Synfrag]

Because it is crap gear. It is only for you to feel like you are finally a full fledged (insert job). Just cause its blue doesn't make it good.

[Sidious]

Because it is crap gear. It is only for you to feel like you are finally a full fledged (insert job). Just cause its blue doesn't make it good.

If people feel full-fledged, then what's their incentive to stay subbed?

No one is going to keep paying to play a ultra-shallow casualfest. Just look at post-WotLK WoW-- not a single positive quarter for sub retention in years.

I felt completely underwhelmed by the AF "quest", which consisted of walking up to some boxes with no danger presented to me at all.

[Synfrag]

If people feel full-fledged, then what's their incentive to stay subbed?

I felt completely underwhelmed by the AF "quest", which consisted of walking up to some boxes with no danger presented to me at all.

By full fledged I mean they finally reflect their job, they have all the actions/spells and look the part. They are ready to start endgame, NOT face roll the hardest content in the game.

People reference 1.0 as being strides better, it wasn't. Most of it could be soloed or was as hard as getting 4 people to run you half way through a dungeon and then group up for a jokingly easy final fight for the body. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGw6aBln2c (Fisherman FTW)

I know at least personally I had better gear in pretty much every slot by the time I even finished my AF. Melded Tights, GC Head and Body, Melded Spruce Pattens, Melded Ringbands etc. In 2.0 you can buy better than AF for maybe 30~50k and if not you will get drops that are better as soon as you enter AK. FFXI was pretty much the same, most AF was macroed in depending on situation. AF never has been nor will it ever be great gear, it is intended to fulfill the "Look" of the job based on FF lore and history and as such should not be difficult or time consuming to achieve.

[Terendal]

It always amazes me how people have been basically programmed that for anything cool to happen in a mmorpg that you have to spend 100 hours of grinding and sacrifice in order to obtain it.

Let me enjoy seeing fun stuff without having to experience a gruelling grind in a make believe video game world? That's all I ask and really it's not a lot.

[Danathos]

Well apparently they think differently.

This gear will be replaced immediately upon doing any of the coming end game additional content.

^^ this exactly. AF is shiny and neat but I don't really think its meant to be anything special at all. Its just the preview armor from the character creator. One could almost be certain that in November it will all be cast aside and forever more used only as a set of armor to jump you from one patches general gear score to the next.

[DezyRavioli]

^^ this exactly. AF is shiny and neat but I don't really think its meant to be anything special at all. Its just the preview armor from the character creator. One could almost be certain that in November it will all be cast aside and forever more used only as a set of armor to jump you from one patches general gear score to the next.

It's meant to be upgraded and isn't useless at all. #getwithit.

[Danathos]

It's meant to be upgraded and isn't useless at all. #getwithit.

lol I am sure 8 months to a year from now we will all be well beyond the limits of it's upgrade-ability, ppl shouldn't get so attached to silly things. Armor comes armor goes, its that way 5-50 it will be that way with every bit of new content added. When crystal tower comes out there will be drops in it for every class better than everything we have seen so far. Its also likely that the new equipment that players obtain will likewise be upgradable thus invalidating your comment as better armor will provide greater advantage from said upgrades that are provided. So back atcha bud, get with it!