Augmented AF Gear.

[Muzetta]

Personally, I think there will be an AF armor upgrade eventually to go along with the AF weapon, and this is just the start of it. Seems like quite a bit of trouble just to color an item no where near useful after 50.

And this right here is what I've been fearing right as they introduced the Augmented AF. Yes, we already knew SE was going a tad overboard with glamours, but it just seemed fishy to me. Definitely not gonna be surprised if our AF2 is going to be related to all this... *shiver*

[Felis]

Personally, I think there will be an AF armor upgrade eventually to go along with the AF weapon, and this is just the start of it. Seems like quite a bit of trouble just to color an item no where near useful after 50.

Complete new AF, no upgrades

And it doesn't help that literally the only ones who can make these things are alchemists, who already got the lion's share of primal weapons and the item literally every piece of LHS crafted 3* gear requires two of. I really hope Square rebalances things a bit, BSM/ARM/CRP have been getting seriously shafted lately, particularly BSM.

Which primal weapons, except the books, need Alchemist?

[Adler]

I will save allied seals for Twin Adder armor set and believe my elezen will look more badass than all those "augmented" people that have wasted tons of gil for simple glamour.
At least on Odin there are so many people with "glowing" armour, painted AF or wearing swimsuits that it really seems very lame already. Especially some of those swimsuits - fugly.

[Leeloo]

Which primal weapons, except the books, need Alchemist?

All the new i95 Tremor(Titan) ones.

[Felis]

All the new i95 Tremor(Titan) ones.

They are crafted weapons (where you need a mat from Titan), not primal weapons.
Primal weapons are weapons you get directly from Primals without a crafter in between.

[TheRogueX]

People were asking to be allowed to dye their AF, so SE added augments. People weren't asking for it to require expensive items though, lol.

This. Proof being that they modified the Lightning Returns gear so that it can be dyed, and you don't have to spend a fortune to do so. The Augmented AF gear concept is stupid. Why it wasn't like dyeable LR gear or dyeable Darklight gear, who the hell knows. SE just seems to think that glamour stuff should be ridiculously hard to get, but actually usable gear should be easy. Such a backwards, stupid position.

[Canadane]

Looking good is half the battle. I don't mind that it's expensive or difficult to create.

[myahele]

With all those mats they could've atleast increased the stats to make it comparable to i90 -i95

[16bitBounty]

The hoops you have go through and the amount of gil spent to augment full AF gear is just crazy. I only did the the body for the monk because the monk body AF gear is the best looking gear for a monk IMO (besides saurian shirt which isn't too bad) it is abit rare and a quite an accomplishment if you do Augment full AF gear. Kudos to those people

Don't forget those sweet temple gloves.

[subteraneanbird]

I will save allied seals for Twin Adder armor set and believe my elezen will look more badass than all those "augmented" people that have wasted tons of gil for simple glamour.
At least on Odin there are so many people with "glowing" armour, painted AF or wearing swimsuits that it really seems very lame already. Especially some of those swimsuits - fugly.

Gil is easier to get and less useful than Allied Seals. If anyone is being "wasteful" it would be you. Generally a good idea to not judge others for choosing to do something they'd like to do when it has zero impact on yourself.