Bahamut Lair gear equal to Mythology gear?

[EdwinLi]

Well it is too soon since the game has only Ak for Mythology Tomes gathering.

I'll wait to determine once Patch 2.1 when the 2 new Hard Mode Dungeon and Crystal Tower is released.

These may be new methods of getting Mythology. Crystal Tower may actually treat Mythology like the Philosophy tomes.

The 2 new Dungeons may even provide Mythology as well but a little more for completion since they maybe 8 member dungeons

(it is assumption but I believe Hard Dungeons are 8 member dungeons in SE definition.)

[texhnolyze]

Where's the crafter choice? It seems like we've been forgotten.

i believe that crafted max iLv is 70, is it not?
it's on par with darklight from phylosophy, but we're talking about higher iLv gear here
moreover, if there were higher tier of crafted gear, we still don't know the stats nor the iLv so we can't discuss it
cmiiw

[Mazi]

So back in the day I heard that Bahamut's LABYRINTH was going to be the high end gear and it wasn't coming out until AFTER Crystal Tower, now is it just a translation error and they meant Coil or nah? Cause it seems like Crystal Tower would actually be the best gear then Bahamut's Labyrinth comes out, this is assuming again that coil isn't what they meant.

[HurtigeKarl]

i believe that crafted max iLv is 70, is it not?
it's on par with darklight from phylosophy, but we're talking about higher iLv gear here
moreover, if there were higher tier of crafted gear, we still don't know the stats nor the iLv so we can't discuss it
cmiiw

Darklight cannot be melded right? If so crafted properly melded HQ version is not on par, it is better than darklight.

[NefarioCall]

Well, even if people are capping mytho every week since early access, no one will have full mytho gear set before 2.1. Unless 2.1 is 4-5 months away instead of the expected 1-2.

These are my thoughts EXACTLY. I mean, there are currently 8? battle classes in the game or 9 jobs, and it would take several months to obtain just ONE full set if you ran 8 AK wins every week, so maybe SE is thinking that Crystal Tower gear will only be obsolete for the select few people crazy enough to spam AK that much for so long, and even then they'd still have 8 other jobs to go.

Meanwhile, it's much faster to get it from Binding Coil, but to efficiently tackle that, you'd want the Crystal Tower gear.
Hopefully the tome source is expanded sooner than later though. The AK bottleneck is trouble.

It's not optmal, that's true, but it's not something that's supposed to always happen, and very few players, if any, will actually fully outgear Crystal Tower before 2.1.

^^ and those few will still have 8 other jobs to go.

[Nihility]

the way i see it,
there are already people walking around in near full coil gear sets.

haven't seen someone with more than a single piece of relic armor yet

which one is the hard one to get again?

[texhnolyze]

Darklight cannot be melded right? If so crafted properly melded HQ version is not on par, it is better than darklight.

true, i missed that
HQ crafted would be better than Darklight, but Crystal Tower gear will still be better
i presume that Crystal Tower gear will have iLv 80, as there's a gap between iLv 70 and 90 right now

the way i see it,
there are already people walking around in near full coil gear sets.

haven't seen someone with more than a single piece of relic armor yet

which one is the hard one to get again?

now that's interesting
what's the iLv of Coil gears, 90?
so basically, we can just grind Coil using Darklight/crafted gear
that's a bummer

[UBERHAXED]

Well it is too soon since the game has only Ak for Mythology Tomes gathering.

I'll wait to determine once Patch 2.1 when the 2 new Hard Mode Dungeon and Crystal Tower is released.

These may be new methods of getting Mythology. Crystal Tower may actually treat Mythology like the Philosophy tomes.

The 2 new Dungeons may even provide Mythology as well but a little more for completion since they maybe 8 member dungeons

(it is assumption but I believe Hard Dungeons are 8 member dungeons in SE definition.)

Except not? AK may be the only dungeon that drops the mythology tomes (out of a whole 2 dungeons that are end game), but it most certainly is not the only way of getting them. Defeating the HM primals also drops tomes and it most certainly faster by at least 4 times (8 times if you count the average premade party waiting time).

[Lux_Rayna]

It takes 5 months. In 5 months AF2 is not going to be the best gear. We will surely have a major content update before then. There is no way you will have best gear by farming mythology tomes. SE set it up this way on purpose. Why else have a 300 per week cap?

Only raiders can get top gear.

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

There is no sense in the above. The two story dungeons should be dropping the gear that is in AK right now and not dropping Tomes at all. AK should be dropping some Darklight and Philosophy stones only. Garuda+ Titan hard should be dropping a few Mythology as well as turn bosses in Coil. Then they need to figure out some way to make Allagan gear worthwhile over AF2.0. Though actually I'd prefer is AF2.0 was actually the best gear in the game only dropped deep in the coil now since it's your traditional class defining stuff AND they might actually be able to give the stuff some effects rather than bigger numbered stats.

Agree with OP and agree wholehearedly with this. This sounds like the perfect progression with the limited content available atm.