AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[Aemun]

Yeah free artificat gear really screws some of the crafting classes.

[Terendal]

It always amazes me how people have been basically programmed that for anything cool to happen in a mmorpg that you have to spend 100 hours of grinding and sacrifice in order to obtain it.

Let me enjoy seeing fun stuff without having to experience a gruelling grind in a make believe video game world? That's all I ask and really it's not a lot.

[ZephyrK]

I assume they do this for 2 reasons:
1- To catch the general population up to legacy players faster, so they can introduce cross-type server transfers.
2- To generate a least a baseline stat set for the start of endgame.

[TohruHonda]

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.

This post is absolutely hilarious.

[Cabalabob]

Wait, what? If you are playing as your base class for any content past 30 you are doing it wrong. Get rid of that GLD preset, you should only be running around as a PLD. The only possible exception to this, is running around the world doing solo content since the argument can be made that you can pull from more cross class abilities that way. But even then, I have yet to face solo content that wasn't completely doable as my Job (and I am a squishy BLM... you just stand there an lol at their damage and even have a heal if the situation gets really dire)

Up until I got spirits within I still used my class for leves and side quests, sword oath is rubbish and I lose access to damage buffs such as raging strikes and I lose access to feint for slow. Sure I got AF at the same time as spirits within but my point is sometimes the class can still shine over the job when you're on your own and in circumstances like that which might occur from 45-50 you'll need gear for your class and AF can't be that gear. Besides you have to consider it from a design point of view. The devs can't go "oh no one will use their class from 45-50! Lets not make any gear for them at that level!". Regardless of if we use it or not it can't be disregarded for gear.

So the point of the gear from 45-50 is for classes. Which makes it untrue that AF gear obsoletes all 45-50 gear. Regardless of if people use the classes or not.

[Gilraen]

This post is absolutely hilarious.

Truth is hilarious? I don't think I'd have worded it quite like that. In the last days of 1.0 before character data was locked I helped some people try and get their AF bodies. We were able to one their white mage body, another their dragoon body... but the one going for the bard piece we just could not beat, even with following a strategy that had won loads of times before. Ultimately, we ran out of time and that person wound up having to wait till, well, now, in order to get their AF body. I only leveled the Gridanian classes to job status but from what I'd heard every body piece battle was tough. Some more than others, but tougher still was getting the help to run the battles. Little surprise the changes they made.

[DwightParkman]

the fact they just hand the AF gear to you has no rational positive excuse. they screwed up and wanted to cater to fail-gamers who cant diversify their gaming play style from non-stop leveling and fate farming.

any gear really good gear or loot in this game should also be hard to get. The fact that this game just throws it at you like this, really shows how much respect the game has for it's self. and it doesnt look good.

[Ferrick]

funny, because i do recall everyone bailing as soon as they see PUGs with AF gear on AK, Garuda, and Titan HM

the AF1 gears is not even that viable for use post ifrit HM, you guys are just being pissed over nothing

[DwightParkman]

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.

if you don't have 7 hours to play a game anymore, then maybe mmorpgs aren't for you? stop forcing yourself to play a genre that doesn't suit your time frame, either that or make time for the game. you cant have everyone else suffer because the game doeskin conveniently suit your specific needs, granted the same can be said to just about anyone else, however, ff11 was and still is a very successful game, and the way it did it was in the respect of long challenging game-play.

[ChanceSkeleton]

the fact they just hand the AF gear to you has no rational positive excuse. they screwed up and wanted to cater to fail-gamers who cant diversify their gaming play style from non-stop leveling and fate farming.

any gear really good gear or loot in this game should also be hard to get. The fact that this game just throws it at you like this, really shows how much respect the game has for it's self. and it doesnt look good.

You are joking, right? AF1 isn't even good. You can do intro level 50 dungeons with it, but if you think AF1 is good, you haven't seen real endgame gear yet.

They hand out AF gear because everyone wants to look iconic. From a casual perspective, this is great. And AF doesn't replace endgame gear, it's just a means to GET endgame gear.

Y'all crazy.