AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[Vanfrano]

After receiving a lot of feedback in version 1.0 about the job artifact armor quests being overly frustrating due to the fact that they were placed within dungeons or at the end of difficult battles, the development team decided to make them easier to earn in A Realm Reborn.

As mentioned, there are definitely more difficult challenges available for players who seek a greater reward for their efforts.

Never saw that "lot of feedback" regarding this matter in 1.0... but anyways.

[Elirion]

For me, the fun of these types of games is working for the advancement of your character. Gear is part of the advancement. Having it handed to me is not fun and makes the armor meaningless.
There is a small but growing group that is already complaining about a lack of content. The AF quests were good content. Next there will be a large group of the "give it to me now" crowd complaining the game is not fun and will move on to the next game. They are like locusts moving from one game to the next and never interested in staying with any game more than a month or two. FFXI was SE's highest grossing game due to the sustained player base not the MMO locusts that try every game then move on and never staying with anything. SE needs to focus on pleasing the right players.
The AF armor quest nerf isn't that big of a deal to me by itself. I just hope it doesn't become the standard for this game.

[Riv]

Casual game is casual.

[SetzeR85]

The thread kinda annoys me. As someone who's new to mmos and is in this gear currently, it's not like I just paid for it or just got it handed to me- it really was countless hours of playing and learning and developing. I get that it was harder to get in 1.0, but this isn't 1.0- I don't think that there should be such a sense of entitlement, because the standards for everything else is new anyway. You guys all have more powerful gear, have accessed more, and are playing with people on your level anyway, so why not just leave it alone?

[SIXTYONESIX]

A whole bunch of crying for nothing. What does it matter what the gear is called? An easily obtainable endgame starter set that will be replaced after your first level 50 dungeon could be called anything. I'm sure that the majority of the QQ is just because it is called AF.

If they stopped calling it artifact and called it something else, would that make it all better? Why does the fact that it is called artifact mean it has to be the most uber thing in the game? How many WHM in FFXI did you ever see wearing Healer's Duckbills? It was AF though! It has to be awesome or the game is ruined! All that gear given to you throughout the game for doing menial tasks and no one bats an eye, but as soon as they call it artifact, the crybabies come out in droves.

I think some people whine just for attention.

[SetzeR85]

Kind of feels like no matter how long I play, people like me who are new to FF14 or MMO's will never be good enough in general? Yo.

[Xmbei]

it makes any gear from 45-50 from those dungeons and quests useless, thats what I don't like, if they at least made it 1 every lvl from 45-50 it would at least make the 45-50 gear useless.

[rubina]

Considering i have beaten Ifrit and garuda with very few wipes, in fact garuda on second try, even with bad DPS, and titan is on hold since i have not been playing much latelty, i;m not sure what makes you think it isn't good enough. You may want to rethink that opinion.

Because you were carried through. Come back with your smugness when attempting to take on Titan HM with free gear. Once the new patch comes out, it'll be a moot point since there will be gear pre-reqs for DF runs.

[ReiszRie]

Considering i have beaten Ifrit and garuda with very few wipes, in fact garuda on second try, even with bad DPS, and titan is on hold since i have not been playing much latelty, i;m not sure what makes you think it isn't good enough. You may want to rethink that opinion.

Being carried isn't exactly something you'd want to be poud of... =/

Clearing Primal H with inadequate gear is certainly possible but that would require your team to make up for your gear's inadequcy.

[Alyko]

If the elitists QQing in this thread had their way, we'd all be competing with each other for coffer key drops and coffer pops like the bad old days of FFXI.

I'm a busy person. I only have a few hours a day to play, I don't have 7 hours a day like FFXI demanded, and I don't want to compete with other people nor form the perfect party just to get a piece of AF gear.