This is just me venting, so feel free to meh through this.

I was one of the folks looking forward to Augmented AF. But would have never thought they'd make it some extreme level Alchemy that was gonna so sparsely populate the auction house, AND be priced over 5mil just to get the set. This just seems way off to me. I realize prices will fall, but why is this such an unaccessible thing? I immediately started leveling Alchemy, only to have my alchemist friends tell me that it's such an unreachable recipe, it'd be better just to throw materials at them so they could make.

And then we come to Hunts, where running around in a pack is the only way you can participate, and mindless grinding is now the way towards the best gear. Not to say that many things aren't a mindless grind... but essentially this is just another FATE Grind, except with no big blue circle on the map. But it's currently the easiest way to get ahead. Unfortunately it brings out the worst in folks cause of the upgrade items you can buy with them. The people that find these mobs get huge exclusive linkshells to do it, the people who can't find, shout curses and complain about the unfairness of it all.

Seems to me that a Oil/Sands would have been better to place in other content, maybe tie it to soldiery purchase, and put the Augmention stuff in Hunts. Would atleast help to make it a more friendly world.