Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

[Wynn]

Hello! We received some information about job-specific gear that I'd like to share with you.

It won’t be possible to attach materia to job-specific gear. Job-specific gear will feature stats that are better than gear that is craftable that have more than one materia attached. With that said, we will look into adding new gear in future patches that will have better stats than job- specific gear with multiple materia attached to them.

There was also a question about the reasoning for the job-specific gear being referred to as AF (or artifact gear). While the upcoming job-specific gear is a type of artifact gear, there are plans to have other types of artifact gear in the future, some of which won’t necessarily be job-specific.

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

[Elexia]

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Play FFXI and do the Magian trials, they've already proven this won't happen if they make it require a decent amount of work and if they make the content challenging enough to warrant it it will have its place just like crafted gear with materia attached will still have its place.

The whole point of this is to balance out how powerful materia gear is, it's time for alternates that you can quest and/or get from raids, like people been wanting to happen.

[Starlord]

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Not really.. if the difficultly of the JSE is very hard to get... not many will be able to obtain them without a good LS to help with the cause

[Wynn]

Not really.. if the difficultly of the JSE is very hard to get... not many will be able to obtain them without a good LS to help with the cause

It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....

[SirOleas]

Here's the thing:
If you actually want to put the effort into getting 3x/4x/5x Tier 4 materia into a single gear then that makes it loads better.

It's a hard feat, it costs materials every time you fail so crafters will still have to make all that gear.
Gathering classes will still have to farm the materials for melding.
People will still need crafted gear to convert into materia.

So no, nothing is really effected by the AF gear, and difficulty of obtaining the AF will play a role as well. There's always going to be a demand for crafted gear so long as there's people who are wanting better gear than AF.
Plus this is all based on the current game economy....Which is not diverse enough imo.

[NoctisUmbra]

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Let's not jump to conclusions when we don't know what the stats on each piece of the gear are and how difficult they are to obtain.

[Zumi]

How will the AF gear be obtained ?

If we look at FFXI SE has done this 3 different ways. I hope they don't go the AF2 way with years of farming dynamis to get a set with horrible drop rates. It would be fine if they went the abyssea or AF1 route.

AF1 obtained by quests/coffer key hunts, which mostly were talk to npcs, find a ??? / trade item to a ??? / kill NM / kill countless mobs for coffer keys open the chest and get your AF

AF2 Random drop from dynamis.

AF3 Found in abyssea, kill some easy popable NM several times till you have enough seals / upgrade items for the piece you wanted. Each NM could drop 4 seal types. Tedious but easy to do and you could get the piece of gear you wanted fairly quickly. This was one of the better systems.

[Teknoman]

It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....

We dont know that for sure. And yes, AF gear should be powerful compared to all other items at or around that level.

[NoctisUmbra]

I think i remember reading somewhere that the set for 1.21 will be obtained through the questline - assuming the lv 50 quest. I expect the quests to be challenging, at least at the level of the quest - particularly the lv 50 one.

We shall see. I definitely hope for a fun, challenging, thematic solo quest series though.

[Teknoman]

I'd like a solo/group mix, but there was talk of facing npcs and other nm monsters for the quests (skills and AF).