AF+1 Costs WAY Too Much

[Lux_Rayna]

I find your particular brand of faith amusing

Be amused, but they set a quota for a reason...its a "timetable" for the next content release. 300 isnt just a random # they pulled out of their anus. I'm just using common sense. 300 is the result of mathematics, not picking numbers out of a hat. Now whether they succeed at meeting their timetable or not is an entirely different matter. I have no expectation on that. I do think it is probable though if all goes according to plan.

[NefGP]

I think the OP is saying it's not challenging though.. just time consuming. Given time, EVERYONE will have AF2 regardless of skill level.

Making it take forever doesn't make it any less easy... just cheaply attempts to prolong content that is pretty slim to begin with

Exactly, stall tactics is bad design. Time sinks are necessary to a degree, otherwise people won't keep paying. But there's a fine line and all too often SE seems to cross it.

[Githiun]

Not sure if there are any people from the olden MMO days..but....5 months to be completely geared really isn't that bad. If any of you played Everquest in it's hayday 5 months was good...for ONE ITEM... I remember it took me like 5+ months to get my BiS chest...and another few montsh for one more item...and another for more.

People are spoiled these days but I suppose if it were still this way I wouldn't have the time needed to invest. Back when guilds competed for the same mobs and it could take months just for an attempt on a mob..and when you wiped another guild swooped in and jacked your mob. Back in the days of DKP and you had to raid for months just to have enough points to ROLL on an item..not win it..just to roll!!!

Dang spoiled kids!

[Rydin]

Not sure if there are any people from the olden MMO days..but....5 months to be completely geared really isn't that bad.

It's not about the length of time as much as it is the method of acquiring tomes... Still doing AK on Mondays 2 months from now sounds AWFUL

[sasakusaku]

And to think, the fans of this game tell me I am crazy when I say there is next to no end game content then they encourage me to simply level all the other classes + gear them up to pass the time! Well at 5 months per to get good gear, I might be done in 4 or more years for those sets! So exciting! /fist pump

[Zumi]

I am guessing what will happen is they will do the same thing that WoW does when new tier of gear and content is released.

When the next raid tier is released whatever is past Bahamuts Coil, AF2 gear will be put on philosophy tomes which you can now get unlimited per week, darklight gear prices will be way reduced. This new tier of gear say item level 120 will be put on mythology, and the new raid will drop ilvl 120 gear. Also they will probably nerf BC and put it in DF for casual players to do now, while the hard cores do the new hard raid.

[Johnist]

You are aware that every 3 months (November, February, May, August) is a Major Content Patch planned, most likely with more places to get Mythology (btw, you get Mythology in BC as well as AK atm. You also get it from all 3 HM Primals).

Since they are releasing another Primal (GKMM-XII) and Extreme of 2 Primals, AND 2 Hard Mode dungeons, in addition to the Crystal Tower in November, I think there will be a vast increase in ways to obtain Mythology, and in fact a higher limit cap than the 300 / week. I wouldn't be surprised if it rises in November.

The Cap on Mythology is probably to keep people from burning themselves out on AK (and allowing other people to access it after that nightmare of the first day of each week's reset).

[jcw005]

Considering all the NPC fanfare that accompanies your retrieval of AF items in your class quests, I think it would have been much cooler to see Relic Reborn-type quests for your AF2.