Ode to Crystals

[InfamousDS]

Something I considered but didn't put in my idea is that the item wouldn't work like typical lights. It only enhances the specific player. I didn't know how that would be received though.

[Kensagaku]

That would simply cause lootwars to break out initially in parties, honestly. I can see it being useful for those new individuals to a party that's been going, to get them up to snuff faster so their killshots aren't giving you gimped-up chests, but overall I think it would cause conflict in the long run.

[InfamousDS]

That would simply cause lootwars to break out initially in parties, honestly. I can see it being useful for those new individuals to a party that's been going, to get them up to snuff faster so their killshots aren't giving you gimped-up chests, but overall I think it would cause conflict in the long run.

Yea, I thought that too. I also thought that if they weren't EX that people would sell clusters for like 150k/each on AH, and crystals like 200k/stack. Any other suggestions are welcome guys, think you have to be in the 50+ post range for Devs to take it seriously!

[Alhanelem]

As it stands now, parties of less than 6 well-balanced jobs

BS, you can do this with 2-3 people, of many job combinations.

[Ravenmore]

Blu can do it solo. just have to know which zone the emp. mobs are worth what. Like in misx. coast they capped your blu in 2kill other zones give only few more per kill then reg mobs. If you are on a melee job and not Gold box farming you could build a little red and get azure from them outside of heros zones. In heros they drop a fair amount of the time silver and golden so red in heros is still not good if your a melee soloing.

[Alhanelem]

Abyssea is already easy. Being able to pop a bunch of crystals to cap out your lights with no effort would be just silly.

[InfamousDS]

I don't have BLU. I'm interested in it, but not enough to actually level it. And while capping is possible, it takes 120,000 cruor (6 clusters for 255) or 4.25 stacks of crystals that cannot be traded among players. In other words, it's inefficient, unless you cap them just before a VERY long exp party, where you will get the crystals and cruor back. And all that is just for 1 light, you need 2 capped to get anything worthwhile quickly from pyxides in Abyssea. The checks are in place to prevent some abuse, but some abuse is also unavoidable due to the way the system works (and has to work). Nothing will ever be perfect, but I would like the option of building lights with more specialized groups or even solo. BLU NIN BLM(with great staff) SCH(with great staff) RDM WHM PLD DRK are the only jobs that immediately come to mind who can solo Pearl and Azure. That is 12 other jobs who have different strengths who are forced to rely on mages in some way to do anything in abyssea for longer than 120min. And of those 8, some are not even expected to help build azure even in small groups. I like my 2 current jobs, I don't want to be forced into leveling another job and getting gear for it when I have trouble enough finding the time and people to gear those 2. I spent 21 stones farming King Hides to pop Amarok, I bet I could have cut that in half if I could easily get Azure, which is what led to the brainstorm that led to this idea.

[Zatias]

The cruor cost looks a little high for something like that... lol

Otherwise pretty good idea. I mean it's already easy to build lights, but some jobs DO have a difficult time doing this alone, so the crystals would facilitate their light gain.

Though looking at the title I thought that we were having normal crystals drop here, since no one exps anywhere else anymore