Rise of the AF2

[NorthernLadMSP]

I love SMN and AST gear, but I'm feeling so bleh about WHM and SCH. Actually, SCH's is pretty dang ugly. Too bad that the WVR and SCH sets weren't switched.

[EdwinLi]

I still have no idea what the NIN gear actually looks like because they showed it on a Lalafell... at night... in the middle of a forest -_-
On a side not my poor SCH is gonna need an emergency glamor when it gets that gear. My SMN, MNK and PLD will love it tho

Ya not a good choice for background on Ninja when showing the Job armor.

Though the lighting is just about enough to see Shadow's signature side horn on the head gear.

[saber_alter]

I don't like the idea of having your iconic set locked behind a weekly tome limit honestly. A recolored version the way AF1.5 was I can understand, or something that just looks cooler overall.

But having to wait 1 month + just to get your iconic set just kills it for me. I wouldn't know what else they could do with it though to make it not be irrelevant instantly. Other than maybe setting up in a similar way the relic weapons work, and have them upgradable as patches go by.

get the chest as your first piece and use either the level 56, 58 or the vault halonic pieces to mimic the look.


alternatively you could cosplay as fray until you have the full set. (160 crafted chest + terror knight pants, sabatons, gauntlets. not as gold but still looks good.)

[Ayuhra]

Black Mage: Contractually obligated to look very silly at least once in every re-gearing process.

The price we pay for being able to magically set things on fire without melting our own innards.

[Anova]

Astrologian, Summoner, and Bard are my faves.

I heard somewhere that the AF2 sets would be relatively easy to get, about on par with the AF1 difficulty. I imagine it's a series of class quests that make them available. They might even be dyeable right off the bat, or at least have a quest or craft item available.

[Frederick22]

Oh well yea sucks to that we need to farm lot of esoteric, that will probably take us like 2 months to get the full gear.
Think on the relics, they arent going to come until 3.1 . So af2 1 month after the release and relic weapons 3/4 months >_<

I reay dont understand the meaning of releasing this kind of content so late, to make it feel is important? So it was poosible to have an excuse so they can be more powerfull?

[Intaki]

Hopefully alchemists will again be the ones to provide the avenue for players to get dyable versions. That class needs all the help it can get.

[Lisotte]

Uh... how on earth can ANYONE not be convinced that they are anything but the new esoteric gear? You really think that if the new AF2 gear isn't acquired via esoterics, that we wouldn't have gotten some inkling of how else to get it by now? Or also, you really think that if esoterics don't give the new AF2, that we wouldn't have gotten an idea of what this new tome gear looks like, by now?

Anyway most of the gear IMHO looks like shit. Dragoon, Bard, and Astrologian look fantastic. Scholar looks mediocre. The rest look like boring shit.

[Frederick22]

Uh... how on earth can ANYONE not be convinced that they are anything but the new esoteric gear? You really think that if the new AF2 gear isn't acquired via esoterics, that we wouldn't have gotten some inkling of how else to get it by now? Or also, you really think that if esoterics don't give the new AF2, that we wouldn't have gotten an idea of what this new tome gear looks like, by now?

Anyway most of the gear IMHO looks like shit. Dragoon, Bard, and Astrologian look fantastic. Scholar looks mediocre. The rest look like boring shit.

Im total convinced is will be obtainable with esotecis. beacuse if it turns to be not heads will roll..

[Lisotte]

Im total convinced is will be obtainable with esotecis. beacuse if it turns to be not heads will roll..

It boggles the mind that any informed person consider anything else otherwise to be the case! It'd be totally rad if we'd get AF2 from something else and esoteric gear turned out to be something different entirely, but come on, let's be real, it'll be esoterics.