Synthesis Material Supply

[Gokku]

As a byproduct of the massive amount of Abyssea only exp partys, ive started to notice a large shortage of Sythesis Materials and Crystals on the AH . If a dev reads this are there any plans to address the issue as im sure its occurring on other servers.

In before crafting is dead etc.

My main points of interest are in and increase in NPC/Guild materials types or in the rate at which guilds restock. For the crystal situation i understand that making abyssea mobs drop crystals is unfeasible but it would be within reason to make the Emphreal mobs and Elemental drop there respective elemental clusters.

[Sydebeheln]

I assume since abyssea is coming to its climax, along with the new content being released in the coming months, the issues such as material/crystal supply will be reimbursed since the content takes place in the natural world, where synthesis items are common.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Make crystals drop in abyssea please ;o

[Sylvane]

Make crystals drop in abyssea please ;o

Read the story and you'll understand why this doesn't work.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Read the story and you'll understand why this doesn't work.

ehh.. the story has become so convoluted lately.. with time travel and alternate dimensions... I'm sure at this point they could justify putting w/e they want in the game....

Which part of the story are you referring to specifically that prevents the addition of crystals to abyssea?

[Gokku]

Make crystals drop in abyssea please ;o

storyline aside the massive spam this would cause / the lack signet santion or sigil make this unreasonable , hence why i mentioned clusters from only a few mobs ala Sea mobs that dont drop crystals but do randomly drop clusters.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Could probably tie visitant status to whatever programming subroutine that makes signet / sigil / sanction drop crystals.

[RAIST]

eh...I just port around to farm elementals if I don't find them for a reasonable price in the AH. Granted, if you don't have WHM leveled and the tele spells, that option may not be available. But otherwise, I can find any element pretty easy--if I don't find it right away near the telepoint, I can always sky warp.

As for materials... hopefully that may be remedied to some extent with the AH merge and abyssea teleports in starter cities. Once people see they can do the old buy low/sell high thing with regional/guild items throught the AH, maybe we'll see more base mats coming up again.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I do the same thing.. kill random elemental's while i'm running about doing magian trial and put on a mule till needed...

I was really interested in why putting crystals into abyssea would be *impossible* storyline wise...

I think sylvane was just tossing a red herring into the argument though... they aren't actually able to point to a specific cutscene or plotline that would make it not possible.

[Vold]

I do the same thing.. kill random elemental's while i'm running about doing magian trial and put on a mule till needed...

I was really interested in why putting crystals into abyssea would be *impossible* storyline wise...

I think sylvane was just tossing a red herring into the argument though... they aren't actually able to point to a specific cutscene or plotline that would make it not possible.

I really just don't know what to tell you. I know crystals originally were tied to conquest. You had to have signet for them to drop, and they wouldn't drop in beastmen controlled areas. I'm not sure what the deal is for ToAU and WotG aside from needing sanction and sigil for crystals to drop for no real reason. So sure, one can argue the only reason crystals drop in ToAU and WotG areas is for the sake of keeping crystal supply up, so why not Abyssea.

It's either because A)SE is trying to keep us in other areas of the game, or B)because there's a story element that most if not all of us have forgotten because A)we didn't care to begin with, and B)it's been so long since we've been through the lore that we forgot. I'm with B btw, cause I'm pretty sure lore prevents crystals from dropping in Abyssea if for no other reason than because Abyssea is not Vana'diel and as such things happened differently there. They never got the chance to create a conquest system and cast magical seals of their nations called signet onto people to compete in conquest and since crystals dropping are tied to this system then there is no good reason for Abyssea to do the same. The beastmen dominate Abyssea. They control it hook line and sinker. With this logic we never should have gotten crystals in toAu and WotG but perhaps those places have their own lore and reasoning that I am forgetting. I will admit ToAU was something I spammed the enter key because of long boring assed cut scenes with a little girl and her puppets and a mithra with a PMS problem the size of China, long NPC text, and the desire to play catch up, and as far as WotG goes I am almost certain there is jack about why crystals drop with sigil only(I remember it being sigil only anyway)

With conquest you'd think crystals are magically created and drops thanks to your signet effect. Yet because of WotG that is during the crystal war that can't be true. Conquest didn't exist back then. So it's like, wait a minute. What? Why is it crystals will not drop unless you have a special effect on you?

Either way it's for the best that crystals do not drop in Abyssea. It gives you a reason to hunt in Vana'diel. But hey, it seems just about anyone can ask for anything and get it these days so long as it's a quick adjustment so keep on screaming for it. I'm sure SE will give in just so you don't have to spend 30 minutes of your precious time farming 10+ clusters in Sky. I was farming them before Abyssea so I'm not even affected in the least by crystal supply.

[Sylvane]

http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25683&start=15#p335703

[Rambus]

I would sell crystals if I had more inventory to collect them.

No idea how many wind crystals i tossed or npced or did not meet the equipments to collect.

same with synth items XD

[Flunklesnarkin]

http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25683&start=15#p335703

I see nothing in your link that would make adding crystals impossible.