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Care to elaborate/give specifics? As they say "you know it when you see it:" if you call it something else, but it smells and acts like a static, it's still a static. And I've read a ton of bad stuff saying mid core is practically dead due to AS. Honestly, Alexander Savage is horrific P.R. for SE on FF14, any potential new player seeing that stuff early on likely will be turned off real quick, so much bad stuff on there and it reflects really really bad on this game.
I'll tell you how to do it in the upcoming patch. You aren't level 60 yet so you are 59. What you do is when you hit 60 there a couple routes you can take. Either you can buy crafted gear which would get you instantly to ilvl 250 but that would probably be expensive. The other route is you run level 60 dungeons once you hit lv 60 for tomestones of lore, this will get you a 230 gear set. At that point you will want to run the 2, 24 man raids to upgrade your gear from 230 to 240. Once you are at 240 which is the current ilvl cap you will have to run the first alex normal 1-8. This will unlock alex normal 9-12 which will get you at 250 set after a few weeks. In the mean time you should be capping lore. However once you hit 240 you are good to join a raid group for the current tier of savage.