Meldable AF Gear?

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

This happens:
Forbidden meld --> AF Body.
BOOM
I lost my one time only drop AF body!
I demand you let us repeat the quest!

Please no.

[Buttons]

I just hope that AF gear will be upgradeable in the future then. It would be nice for AF gear to have quests, drop items etc. to upgrade them in the future, so that AF gear won't simply become obsolete in the next patches.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I just hope that AF gear will be upgradeable in the future then.

Maybe a future quest to +1 it.
But materia?
I'll say it again.
No.

[Vackashken]

It would be nice for AF gear to have quests, drop items etc.

Exactly. For me this was a stupid waste of opportunity. If they made the Af materiable, then that gives it the chance to be blown up. Whys that a good thing? Well if they made it so that there was an interesting fight for some (or all) the AF gear you would have had to go back and do it again and again.

Lets be honest, those two dungeons are going to conquered with in a week or two by the mass of the populace. If they made the AF re-get-able, and you had to get it in interesting encounters/fights, we would have a time sink for a very very long time for people when people blow it up.

Just seems like a wasted opportunity for a good and healthy time sink for when people are bored.

[Molly_Millions]

Or maybe the two new dungeons have meldable gear that, when melded, is comparable to AF gear. Then we get the best of both worlds, repeatable content plus we won't all look exactly the same.

[Jinko]

Don't want meldable AF, but then I don't want multi meld at all in this game :S

AF should be a special one time only thing, dev said they plan to make JSE craftable items later down the road anyway, which we can meld til we see fit.

[Matsume]

Wow you must be some kind of crafter-hating nazi if you want that

Brannigan, WTF mate??? I was a 103 Leathercrafter in FFXI for your ignorant information...

"Yay lets blow up AF gear!"

JSE sounds like its going to be sweet!

Why not? Just make the quest repeatable...

from here
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...035#post570035

Thank you, this is indeed what I was referencing. So it was not a dream afterall! I just forgot the "wont be possible" part...how's that for selective memory? Anyway, they ARE adding future gears that will have better stats than AF AND will be meldable. So That solves it:

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.

Imagine losing a piece of AF gear that you can only get a from a non-repeatable quest...

Yeah, its not meldable and has been confirmed as such.

Thanks a Million, Molly, remind me why they couldn't make the quest repeatable?

Shame its not - its a wasted opportunity big time.

I cannot believe I just liked Vack’s post…

This happens:
Forbidden meld --> AF Body.
BOOM
I lost my one time only drop AF body!
I demand you let us repeat the quest!

Please no.

I still don't see the problem in repeating this quest...

I just hope that AF gear will be upgradeable in the future then. It would be nice for AF gear to have quests, drop items etc. to upgrade them in the future, so that AF gear won't simply become obsolete in the next patches.

Well as soon as that “new gear in future patches that will have better stats than job- specific gear with multiple materia attached to them” are added, I can’t see much of a reason for AF except to upgrade into AF2

Maybe a future quest to +1 it.
But materia?
I'll say it again.
No.

Why are you such a Negative Nazi –oops- I mean, Nancy?

Exactly. For me this was a stupid waste of opportunity. If they made the Af materiable, then that gives it the chance to be blown up. Whys that a good thing? Well if they made it so that there was an interesting fight for some (or all) the AF gear you would have had to go back and do it again and again.

Lets be honest, those two dungeons are going to conquered with in a week or two by the mass of the populace. If they made the AF re-get-able, and you had to get it in interesting encounters/fights, we would have a time sink for a very very long time for people when people blow it up.

Just seems like a wasted opportunity for a good and healthy time sink for when people are bored.

OMG I just liked Vack’s post AGAIN O.O; something must be wrong with the world… Vack, I agree they should make U/U gear meldable including the dungeon drops.

Or maybe the two new dungeons have meldable gear that, when melded, is comparable to AF gear. Then we get the best of both worlds, repeatable content plus we won't all look exactly the same.

This would be a dream come true, in which case – it probably won’t happen.

Don't want meldable AF, but then I don't want multi meld at all in this game :S

AF should be a special one time only thing, dev said they plan to make JSE craftable items later down the road anyway, which we can meld til we see fit.

Yo Jinko, what’s happenin’? Where did you hear that JSE would be craftable?

[Molly_Millions]

Thanks a Million, Molly, remind me why they couldn't make the quest repeatable?

This is just a guess, but perhaps the quests that give you certain abilities are the same ones that give you pieces of job armor. We all know this games underlying code is a huge mess, so my guess is that the part that gives the ability is too difficult to take out of the quest upon repeating it.

[Vackashken]

Don't worry about it Matty - I am sure we will find something to be polar opposites about later. The planets align for only so long.

[Matsume]

Don't worry about it Matty - I am sure we will find something to be polar opposites about later. The planets align for only so long.

lol Vack, good times