AF+1 Costs WAY Too Much

[AlexiaKidd]

Wait for Crystal Tower, that is was supposed to bridge the gap between AK and BC so should yield much better drops and speed things up a bit.

[Synthesis]

Accept my apology then. To get the best gear in game within 5 months is quite normal in mmorpgs.

[Buddhsie]

While it's true that they need to add a larger variety of dungeons.. People are still missing the point of the tomestones. They aren't meant to be a primary source of gear, they are supposed to be something extra you get per week as you do other, more challenging content. Over time you get enough points to nab something here and there, but it really is just to give you a guaranteed something or other as you tackle the real endgame (coil and crystal tower).
Keep complaining and I guarantee you'll get a post from Yoshi-P saying just this.

[Ruisu]

Are you joking? Getting AF+1/Relic+1s is a joke. You shouldn't even be worried about your AF+1 unless you're incredibly casual and have no desire to enter Binding Coil/future content in general.

I'm actually pretty disappointed that SE decided to hand out AF+1 and Relics by doing something so simple, rather than having challenging quests that fit the upgrade of each.

Considering AF+1 is comparable to ALLAG GEAR. It's pretty much being handed to you. Stop crying.

[Welsper59]

People treating AF+1 as though it were the only gear available to you. Like Allag doesn't exist or something. Nor the possibility that new content will be released soon to either supplement the grind or to possibly replace it. Keep stressing about it, some of us relish in your anguish and mental ineptitude.

[ImeXo]

Never played WoW, sorry. Just because that game was apparently over-easy doesn't mean XIV needs to knee jerk in the opposite direction, though.

On a side note, while I didnt play WoW I do despise what it did to one of my favorite childhood RTS franchises. WCIII was so good... and then WoW destroyed it and made 'Azeroth' a byword of disgruntled nerdom. At least SC is still rockin'.

You're really calling 5 months long, considering that in FF11 you had to wait roughly 2 years at the time it came out to progress and complete your relic weapons, 5 months is like a walk in the park. If the stats are really worth it then yes, I don't think everyone should be running around with said gear, there needs to be some difficulty in obtaining it and not that I agree with dungeon grinding, but I guess that's the only way they found to limit it thus far.

[Al-xndr]

This is MMO... so getting things should not be easy..

[Rivest]

Get Darklight and farm the first two-three turns in Binding Coil

[Kroktar]

i think thats awesome...but we really need something else than AK soon.

[SKYeXile]

Not sure if its the XI in me, but I call it AF2, because the name is different and it doesn't say "+1."

I call it tier 2 because the tomestone has 2 lines down it...