AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[Drakkan]

I don't think most of you are understanding the complaint that it is too easy AND not as useful as it should be. Saying "there's better gear/it's starter dungeon gear" is not the point. The point is that your AF gear should of at the very least been the first thing you work hard to obtain at 50 by running dungeons, not the other way around.

[Zumi]

I don't think most of you are understanding the complaint that it is too easy AND not as useful as it should be. Saying "there's better gear/it's starter dungeon gear" is not the point. The point is that your AF gear should of at the very least been the first thing you work hard to obtain at 50 by running dungeons, not the other way around.

Thats AF2 gear.

[Drakkan]

Thats AF2 gear.

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[Zumi]

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AF is pretty much the same quality as it was in 1.0. I got all the AF in 1.0, and it was annoying to get especially the last piece. I remember unpopular jobs like DRG took me 5 hours of shouting in Uldah to make a group to do the lv50 drg quest because it required 8 people. Keep in mind this was starter gear in 1.0 as well only it was a pain to get people to help you. The system now is much better, no waiting around for several hours to form a group.

[Skies]

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You, ser, are the one missing the point about AF gear.
Why is your job-defining gear the first thing you obtain, simply by gaining levels? Because when yuou acquired it you have finally fully formed the identity of your job, all your skills, all your iconic armor, now you are a fully-fledged Dragoon (for example)! Ready to step in the big boy playground, and from there on you start working on being actually, you know, more than a noob.

First you define yourself, then you get stronger. That is what you miss, you think that finding your defining points should be the challange, whereas the devs believe that transcending that is where the challange is.