Quote Originally Posted by Psykloned View Post
Honestly I've seen many people do HM Garuda just fine with full AF and/or some AK/Darklight pieces.
But to the OP: You tell them they should run Wanderer's? Why? A DPS queueing for Wanderer's may as well just queue for AK considering the wait time is still horrid and the drops from Wanderer's are pretty much good for only one thing, and that's converting into materia. Not to mention the amount of farming of AK, CM etc for Tomes of Philosophy for Darklight gear.

A lot of people just want to experience the content, which by all means let them. The more experience people get the better duty finder/PUGs will be.
I have ran AK before several times with everyone in mostly AF gear, myself included. First boss is a bit of a wall if you lack the gear.

Mind you if you have 3 awesomely geared folks and one not so amazingly geared but skilled, you can still trek through it. The reason I say to run WP first is so you don't have to be that guy.