What is the correct way of labeling artifact armor?

[Tenku]

I don't think you can extrapolate a pattern from one instance. We don't even know how AF2 is going to be introduced let alone if there will be a recolored version of it. It might be dropped from coil 6-10 for all we know. Maybe it will do a similar move to FFXI and have bosses drop an item that can be turned into a specific piece of AF2 after you've obtained 5 of them (for example).

This would be freakin awesome.

[Ryvai]

Too many posts to reply to all but is a summary:

• First of all; the the developers are calling the new sketches AF2, so THAT is the AF2, we cannot call mythology gear AF2. That is just wrong and will confuse people.
• There is space in the inn where you can store these items under artifact (hence the name AF).
• Mythology gear is between AF and AF2, so it is only natural to call it AF+1. Since AF2 is taken, and intended for something else. It is natural to call mythology gear AF+1 because it is an upgraded version of the same gear (visuals). There is no need for an actual +1 to be in place.
• Allagan and CT gear is not artifact armor, so they will not interfere with the AF labeling.
• This thread is about finding out what the official name for these things are. If majority of the population says AF2, it doesnt make it right, in fact it is wrong. People get confused because of things like this.
• I would love for an official from SE to comment on this.

[Cidel]

Because the JP have been calling myth gear AF +1 this whole time.

(Or sometimes call it shinwa=mytho.)

I have no problem referring to them as "mythology/myth/whatever." I find it funny though that it stems from the currency used to purchase them.

I don't think I can rightfully acknowledge it as +1 though, because:

I have been referring to the ilvl 90 job gear as Relic armor because it shares the same names as the Relic armor from FFXI just like the artifact armor shares the same name as the artifact armor in FFXI. I don't call things +1 unless there is a +1 in the name.

Which I agree with. Also didn't think about the same naming system as XI, which, by the way, has +1 of the original AF sets. Same looks and everything. Who is to say they won't do that in XIV? Prefer to call them "Relic" over a "ver. 2" anyway.