FoV Augmentation needs an overhaul...

[Mirage]

Hello!

We spoke with the dev. team about your requests for augments from Fields of Valor and while you brought up some very good ideas, there are some limitations under the current system. Due to these limitations, augmented items cannot be delivered to other characters on your account and signatures cannot be maintained after an item has been augmented.

On the bright side, the dev. team did say that they will look into reducing the wait time between augments in the future.

Lastly, if we were to allow re-augmenting of the same item, synthesis for the base item would no longer play as important of a role as they do currently, so they would like to keep this step as a requirement for the augmentation process.

I understand that you want to ensure that crafters will be able to keep making these staves, but I have a few suggestions that might work for both sides of this.

As someone else mentioned before me, you could limit the number of retries to 3 per staff. Alternatively, you could make it so that to remove an augment, you'd need items that can be made by the same crafts as was required for making the staff.

These items could be expensive, but not quite as expensive as buying a whole new staff. If you could re-augment the staff at a cost around 25% of a new staff, perhaps you'd end up with 4 times as many people trying to augment theirs, resulting in just as big an income for the crafters.

[Concerned4FFxi]

Please allow re-augmenting of FOV and or remove negative stats from augmenting. Thank you.

[Sunrider]

Instead of worrying about removing or re-augmenting an item, how about just allowing the players to choose from a list of available augments?

As a post above mentioned players hate the randomization. Complicating the issue with permanent undesirable augments without means to remove and re-obtain, or discarding a potentially hard-earned item just to roll the dice again, is simply demoralizing.

[Duvemora]

Instead of worrying about removing or re-augmenting an item, how about just allowing the players to choose from a list of available augments?

As a post above mentioned players hate the randomization. Complicating the issue with permanent undesirable augments without means to remove and re-obtain, or discarding a potentially hard-earned item just to roll the dice again, is simply demoralizing.

I like that idea, my good fellow Elvaan. That would be the best of all!

And if it's too much to ask, why not increase the difficulty of the NMs, or increase the cost of the elite training? Or hell, even increase the time limit. Anything for that.

[Bragii]

In my opinion it's very understandable that re-augmenting cannot be done. However I think there should be given a possibility to players to influence the outcome of augments in any way.
Also I wonder:
Will there be a possibility in the future to augment the new 75+ crafted-items through new Field Parchments? (maybe in Ground of Valor areas)

[Nawesemo]

Make points for defeating xyz mob, make the aguments cost points, make the desired result known, make it %based, but at least let us choose the augumemt ... 30% getting what you want, 50% something close, but not quite, and a 20% s.e f u.... Something other than completely ramdom.

[Kristal]

Make points for defeating xyz mob, make the aguments cost points, make the desired result known, make it %based, but at least let us choose the augumemt ... 30% getting what you want, 50% something close, but not quite, and a 20% s.e f u.... Something other than completely ramdom.

Bleh on points. Just give us a choice to either accept the augment or reject it (and get the unaugmented item back). That way, disastrous augments can be rejected but if you want to keep a decent augment you have to obtain a new item to shoot for an even better augment.

And make these type of augments not EX, so they can be traded between players. It would make EFoV an entirely new kind of crafting system.

[saevel]

FoV augments suck, always have. Too random, getting -2 STR +1 CHR + 1 Light Resistance on a melee piece is the epitome of stupid. Due to high crafting costs of any item worth while your not going to spam 20+ of an item hoping for that 1 decent augment.

The complete and utter lack of people doing FoV augments should demonstrate how BAD it is.

[Mirage]

Totally with Saevel here.

[Sarick]

How about this? You trade an unrelated cheap item like a clear chip to the NM and it gives that item an augment up to it's max level. You can have as many of these as you want. If you find one with augments you like you can use it to augment whatever item of equal or higher level you choose with it.

SE to put it simple, your lottery augments suck. If we could use chips to hold augments the player would BUY from the NPC instead of blowing money on items we'll just throw away. The point is intelligent players won't risk augmenting their precious items if there's a chance they'll get shit they can't erase.

The response about not giving players the ability to remove augments is silly. It's just an effort to maintain a time sink as always for augments that have little to no real benefits. In some cases these augments DESTROY good items.

THIS >>>>

FoV augments suck, always have. Too random, getting -2 STR +1 CHR + 1 Light Resistance on a melee piece is the epitome of stupid. Due to high crafting costs of any item worth while your not going to spam 20+ of an item hoping for that 1 decent augment.

The complete and utter lack of people doing FoV augments should demonstrate how BAD it is.

You might as well just remove this flawed system from the game. Only perfectionist with a lot of lose cash are willing to invest in this crap.