Hahah wait.. are you serious?

[charlemagne]

Takes over 3200 tomestones of mythology for a set of AF2 for one job. We get 40 per run from AK and can collect 300 total in a week. How does SE expect us to gear enough of our jobs to allow us the flexibility to make parties for the highest level content?
SE already introduced the unicorn because not enough people played whm. How many players who would have had whm geared as a second choice job will now not be available for high end content because of this gate on getting gear?
"Sure guys I can switch to whm to help the party, just give me another three months of running this dungeon for eight hours a week to get gear and we're good to go."
Ridiculous.

[LebronJames]

snip.

Yeah, it's funny how much they put into your head that one character can be all the classes..

But you can only really gear up one at a time.

[MistressAthena]

Takes over 3200 tomestones of mythology for a set of AF2 for one job. We get 40 per run from AK and can collect 300 total in a week. How does SE expect us to gear enough of our jobs to allow us the flexibility to make parties for the highest level content?
SE already introduced the unicorn because not enough people played whm. How many players who would have had whm geared as a second choice job will now not be available for high end content because of this gate on getting gear?
"Sure guys I can switch to whm to help the party, just give me another three months of running this dungeon for eight hours a week to get gear and we're good to go."
Ridiculous.

Maybe SE is doing something which they did FFXI. That is, have people focus on being godly in 1 class, where that 1 class is where they truly show off everything they have, by obtaining things which take a hella lot of dedication and time.

I don't see the problem with this.

[aphexacid]

If people weren't in such a rush to get to the level cap within 2 weeks of launch, they might actually enjoy the game a bit

[Usotsuki]

If people weren't in such a rush to get to the level cap within 2 weeks of launch, they might actually enjoy the game a bit

>implying everyone wants to play casually
>implying taking time is always so super and funny
>implying level cap in 2 weeks is fast

[Nikki]

>implying everyone wants to play casually
>implying taking time is always so super and funny
>implying level cap in 2 weeks is fast

I agree. If you stick to just one class (and not get distracted)...2 weeks is all it takes to hit 50. The real challenge comes while leveling other classes when there are no side quests, main scenarios and guildhest xp to boost your leveling.

[Strelnikov]

If people weren't in such a rush to get to the level cap within 2 weeks of launch, they might actually enjoy the game a bit

THIS^^

I played with a great bunch of guys until release, then we couldn't get in to game. So of the 200 or so in the FC maybe 25 got in and never logged out, by the time we could actually get in, they were moving on 50, had already maxed some crafters and were doing the relic grinds.
Before all this in the phase 2 and 3 beta's it was great, everyone helped everyone, after this time we weren't allowed to contact the crafters or gatherers even though we had sent them many shards and materia. Greed doesn't flow with me.

You can play your hard core crap all you want, but I will be riding past you at level 50 while your sitting on your rear waiting for new content. Just like what happened in FFXI sit around the fountain all day.

[AryaUnderfoot]

Well weekly cap is 300 which means I have to grind it up day one. Omg, there goes my whole day... Oh right I have a whole week, I can actualy pace myself and do other stuff.

Sarcasm aside, I just can't understand why people are outraged for such an obvious exploit being fixed. Unbalanced and exploited dungeons can ruin games if left unchecked for long (GW2 CoF p1 anyone? - not that that was the only thing that ruined it). I for one, am glad they fixed it as promptly as they did - goes to show they care about such issues. Now just to fix some other issues..

As for gear and spiritbonding. It is more than possible to do AK runs in white 45+ gear. Probably best not with a whole set of such gear but accesories should be good. I started running AK as a tank in AF gear with white 45+ accesories with not issues at all. Worst case you can swap out gear for boss fights. Despite the misconception, AK isn't that much of a gear check.

[Furious]

Well weekly cap is 300 which means I have to grind it up day one. Omg, there goes my whole day... Oh right I have a whole week, I can actualy pace myself and do other stuff.

Sarcasm aside, I just can't understand why people are outraged for such an obvious exploit being fixed. Unbalanced and exploited dungeons can ruin games if left unchecked for long (GW2 CoF p1 anyone? - not that that was the only thing that ruined it). I for one, am glad they fixed it as promptly as they did - goes to show they care about such issues. Now just to fix some other issues..

Because they didn't fix the underlying issues that caused such rampant use of the exploit in the first place - nobody wants to play such a horribly grinding game. Had they addressed the fact that a normal AK run is ridiculously un-rewarding in a time sense, it would have been a great fix.

[PunkrockRobot]

If you don't want to play a horribly grinding game then why are you playing a MMORPG?