AF gear - handed to you for dinging 45/50

[Gilraen]

Never saw that "lot of feedback" regarding this matter in 1.0... but anyways.

Probably because you didn't read the Japanese threads, maybe? English complaints tended to be centered around animations and harder content and open-world PvP (that is, wanting those things) and, later, raging at seeing unicorns as mounts and servers being segregated (which never happened). Essentially, alot of 'me, me, me' and 'I want this, I want that'. It was depressing to the point that I just stopped going to the forums.

[MrObject]

So I'm almost 48 now and I still haven't seen this fabled AF armour, I'm going to assume it's a story mission? Since it's 45 I'm guessing it's after Garuda? So Garuda is now considered easy?

I've been playing mmo's since UO and M59, I've played everything from TSO to DAOC, I've recently put time in on GW2, Defiance, Rift, etc etc. Obviously I also played WoW as well, so I can put things into a better perspective then a fair amount of you people that are still in their early 20's and think they've played a lot of mmo's. The primals in the storyline aren't a walk in the park, you can't faceroll them like any dungeon that exists in WoW. They have mechanics and they need to be followed, and this is a challenge to a fair amount of players in this game. Group cohesion is a skill and once a group acquires it then these primals become easy.

Giving people AF armour for defeating the storyline isn't giving away free armour so please, stop acting like elitists.

[Lapulapu]

It's astounding the number of players that believe that having all your AF gear is your combat license to take on all the Primal HMs.

Imo you should be able to do things with a few or all AF when you think about Primals being your entry level endgame activity. hard stuff should be the AK, DD, relic weapon type of stuff(I know you mention HM Primals but not everyone is going to have the best of the best gear for these things, get over it, playstyle has a lot to do with success not just gear). Really, how do you get better armor? How do you get better pre relic weapons? you play with the best weapon you can get and armor you can get pre DL and pre Primal. You could lvl crafting classes to 50 and synth decent armor and meld it but really, what do you expect ppl to do? Especially if they don't like crafting?

[cngo]

After their previous update, speed running AMD for easy Darklight is gone, so at that point, just getting an instance queue would take you about 20-25 minutes with a full group, and another 40-50 minutes clearing the dungeon, so pretty much working towards your AF2 would take quite a while. Which should have been the case, they don't expect you to be fully geared by the first month.

[HorrorStory]

I don't think people shold have to endure a dungeon with an Altedour I Tavnazia-esque boss at the end for a piece of AF.

There, I said it. Gating artifact armor quests behind such requirements serves only the players who get on the content early enough. Later on down the road, two expansions in, this content would be dead on the vine due to inactivity.

[ReiszRie]

After their previous update, speed running AMD for easy Darklight is gone, so at that point, just getting an instance queue would take you about 20-25 minutes with a full group, and another 40-50 minutes clearing the dungeon, so pretty much working towards your AF2 would take quite a while. Which should have been the case, they don't expect you to be fully geared by the first month.

I don't follow you...

Speed-running AK only speeds up the process of Myth farming, you're still limited by the weekly cap; so, even if you speed-run, theres no way to get a full AF2 set within a month

[Terpthree]

Because in about 10 minutes your AF gear becomes useless and considered undergeared for the following instances.

[zaviermhigo]

I'm not gonna lie when I say I was a little disappointed. Just as a 1.0 player, who had to work a lot harder for my AF, they just gave it out like candy. I got over it fast though.

[Spawnie]

really dont understand what all those fuss is... u could have the best godly equipment in game n still die fast if u dont have the skills = = honestly this is more a whinging thread about ppl not bein able to brag look at my smexy equips lol

[Churchill]

It kinda sux that i worked so hard for mine in 1.0 an now its just like "well here you go" <.< eh oh well, on to AF +1 an relicz

You mean get a chest prior to the first boss in a dungeon, then go solo coffer areas just like it is in 2.0?

It was pretty hard.