AF+1 Costs WAY Too Much

[Neeso]

So you farm for 5 months and get that gear... you run Raids in the meantime and get Ilevel 90 gear thats better than AK farm gear.

My beef is that this game has nothing else to do once you get that gear. other than do it again for anther role which will take months again. But the content is the same.

[Winzhi]

Who is forcing u to run keep only? All dungeons above 40 rewards you tomes.

Its up to you if you want to force feed or go play other dungeons.

[GilbertLapine]

Who is forcing u to run keep only? All dungeons above 40 rewards you tomes.

Its up to you if you want to force feed or go play other dungeons.

That's like saying fire trucks are a frivolous use of public funds because buckets are available.

[LostMK]

nice image macro spam

[Galand]

I love all the self entitled noobs throwing around "its a mmo it needs to be grindy"

Lets look at wow and how you get valor there

6 Normal/Heroic Raids
like 12+ Looking For Raids
9 Dungeons
17 Normal/Heroic Scenarios
Hundreds? of dailies

FF has
AK
CM
Praetoirum

Two of these I believe are going to be nerfed due to people rushing others through cut scenes leaving us most likely only AK

[texhnolyze]

do you realize that there will be more dungeons to farm mythology tomes?

well indeed, this is the best way to sustain a P2P game
the longer people play, the better
of course, it's from SE's perspective

[Cocytus]

You mean all I have to do is run AK once a day and I will easily have my AF+1 pieces easily and binding coil drops are of equal value... Damn this game is so hard to gear up.

Seriously stfu with this. Tome farming isn't the main gearing option it would be drops BUT the reason they have tomes is b/c even if you don't get a drop eventually you will from tomes. Get over it.

[cherubims]

So , OP let me get this straight.

1. You can see no comprehension or aspirations for the game beyond gear attainment.

2. You want to take out that said mechanic because you want to enjoy running the same dungeons and raids for the "FUN" of it??

You are either an expert Troll or making a bad joke.

You want the AF+1 gear to be easily attainable but you also know that it is one of the few things that are keeping people playing in the long run?


Sure the wait might be 5 months give or take to attain a full set , but
Group runs take around 60 mins max - will take you 8 hours of grinding , give or take.

Using Df will take you longer but if you are raiding for end game gear i will assume that u are in the proper FC for it.


So Conclusion is <=20 days of grinding for full AF ( 1 day per week ) , seems reasonable for the best gear ingame.

[TunaTime]

Didn't bother reading through all the post but...

At some point patch 2.1 will land and there'll be something else to farm for stones.

It's a fairly new game so endgame options are few (but good imo).

Back in vanilla wow (yeah, everyone likes wow comparisions) I farmed Molten Core and Blackwing Lair for more than 5 months and I didn't get all the upgrades I wanted. I'm not saying that this system is perfect.

Also there's plenty of other things to do in this game than farm endgange currency.

[nelar]

I love peoples excuse that if you don't want to grind the gear don't do it... what else is there to do lol? from what i've seen crafting is pointless at 50, which is a pity as the crafting system in this game is very good.

In the end, you're grinding gear. So you can get the gear to grind more gear. Just reminds me of this: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I guess I'm sick of the old format of do a dungeon 100 times. Why can't players improve there character through world events, crafting or unique and hard quest lines, or final fantasy staple mini games! I want Blitz ball, chocobo racing and card games. I loved blitzball, spent so much time playing that. I just hope the golden saucer adds this kind of content and also gives it a purpose (ie good gear/items). PVP would also be very nice to have including PVP for the mini games, they really need to add this soon.