Whats with the zerg / speed run mentality?

[Aldora]

Normal gear progression would be:

AF -> farm WP gear for AK runs -> farm AK gear and gather tomes for Darklight for primal weapon farming -> relic weapon.

But, since people have done WP and AK hundreds of times already, they will only want to speedrun those dungeons. In order to efficiently speedrun these dungeons, they "force" players to have geared their characters with (at least) Darklight and a Relic weapon. Even in dungeons like CM. This basically beats the purpose of the gear that drops in WP and AK.

You will roughly have to do 32 dungeon runs to get a Darklight set without the belt and accessories. 50 runs if you want the accessories. After that you would still have to farm Primals for weapons...

Just to be able to run WP and AK with speedrunners.

I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous...

[Ri_ri]

Darklight for primal weapon farming

You don't need Darklight to do Ifrit and Garuda.

... you don't even have to farm Garuda if you've got your Ifrit weapon.

[Aldora]

You don't need Darklight to do Ifrit and Garuda.

... you don't even have to farm Garuda if you've got your Ifrit weapon.

Ow, you're absolutely right. I am posting with my smartphone (which is quite a hassle, but I don't carry token around 24/7 (^_^ ) ). That particular fragment was missing parentheses. This will make more sense:
"farm AK gear (and gather tomes for Darklight) for primal weapon farming"

Darklight is not needed for both Ifrit or Garuda, but it help with Titan and you need to beat Titan at least once in order to get your Relic weapon. Just to be clear on this. The gear progression I mentioned earlier was meant as "guideline", not a requirement.