AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[MorbidAngel]

Maybe because it's considered to be entry level end game gear?, if it's even that anymore. There were people in my FC complaining about how easy the relic weapon quest is now as well.

[EdwinLi]

AF 1 now is basically starting endgame gears.

You begin with AF1 then work your way into Darklight.

After you get DarkLight you move onto AF2 gear for Job Role stats or Allagan gear for Utility stats.

AF2 and Allagan are currently the most powerful sets in the game after all with stats equal to each other except for their bonus stats being built differently.

AF2 for Job roles

Allagan for Utility.

[Quesse]

AF Gear is now vanity gear.

Sucks but that's how SE decided to roll.

[Kayo]

lol, I was wondering how the hell there were players with the full set already. This was on a newbie server and only a week since launch.

I dont really mind it. It kinda congratulates you for reaching end game and gives you starter gear for it. What drops off the current eng game dungeons and raids? As a future male Bard ... Id like to get rid of that godawful set ASAP.

[Aerokus]

Since they're going with the gear treadmill approach, it doesn't matter where or when you get gear, everything will get replaced as soon as a new tier is there.

Maybe they're shooting for the "my first endgame set" appeal-factor? I know I've felt that in other games: looking back fondly on that first endgame set I got that wasn't really that great (or hard to get) in the scheme of things but remembering how cool I felt when I got it.

[EdwinLi]

lol, I was wondering how the hell there were players with the full set already. This was on a newbie server and only a week since launch.

I dont really mind it. Its gear that kinda congratulates you for reaching end game and gives you starter gear for it. What drops off the current eng game dungeons and raids? As a future male Bard ... Id like to get rid of that godawful set ASAP.

Darklight takes up your next step after AF1 by trading Tier 1 tomesontes you get from dungeons and other lvl 40+ content.

After that you move onto AF2 set, which has better look than AF1 and is one of the strongest sets in the game for Tier 2 Tomestones from Hard Mode dungeons, or Allagan set from drops in hard Mode. Both are equal in stats but for stats focused on Job roles you will want AF2 set since Allagan is more about utility.

[Holyhunter]

its because its useless.

You can completely replace AF without even doing a single raid. Just run amdapor keep a few times and bam, you have better than AF.

[Drakkan]

FFXI Made people have to actually put work into getting their AF gear, unless you had a couple max level friends to help it usually took upwards of two full groups of people to run zones and hunt for their keys and chests. Both the reward and excitement of getting the key and the armor made it all worth it and you actually felt awesome having obtained the gear which most classes would use for a fair amount of time.

It didn't necessarily have to be XI hard, but it could of been a hell of a lot more gratifying then handing over the gear

[Zumi]

AF gear quality isn't that great. Its starter gear for dungeons. It gets quickly replaced by dungeon greens in Amdapor Keep and later darklight when you farmed enough tombstones in Keep.

[Drakkan]

AF gear quality isn't that great. Its starter gear for dungeons. It gets quickly replaced by dungeon greens in Amdapor Keep and later darklight when you farmed enough tombstones in Keep.

That's part of the problem, they made something that was iconic into something that you're only going to use for a short time. That's an addition to the problem, not justification to it.