[dev1027 - sort of] Recreating Crystal Clusters

[Eurell]

Again, what is the point in getting more crystals than needed? We are not hurting on inventory spaces at all. Instead of buying 20 stacks of ingredients to make whatever, why not just buy 1 stack of ingredients at a time and sell what you have on AH, or, in case buying one stack of ingredients at a time isn't feasible, have a mule that holds the ingredients and make one stack at a time.

There is no need to have a crystal mule, or to hold extensive amounts of crystals.

What? I only have 3 jobs, 2 of which are severely undergeared, and I still have almost no space.

On topic: this is a good idea.

[Alhanelem]

What? I only have 3 jobs, 2 of which are severely undergeared, and I still have almost no space.

On topic: this is a good idea.

Then you keep way too much junk. 1 character, no mules, 5 jobs (1 not really geared), I had enough space to save up 25 unstacakble red curries until my cooking skill finally reached the first hq tier for buns.

Anyway, I see breaking a crystal cluster as akin to scrambling an egg. You can't undo it. I guess I wouldn't complain if they added this though.

[Korpg]

What? I only have 3 jobs, 2 of which are severely undergeared, and I still have almost no space.

On topic: this is a good idea.

6 jobs, one of which is undergeared, one is overgeared (don't really need hMP set for BLM anymore), and I can still go naked with 6/80 inventory total when I want to spam cooking for red curry buns.

Maybe you need to do Gobbybag quests? Might just help you out.

[Seriha]

It's a good idea, ignore the haters.

[Gallus]

Good idea. The only haters on here are the trolls that complain about everything.

[Tamoa]

17 lvl 90 jobs, none of them undergeared although the jobs I use/like the most have the biggest gear selection. Stored everything possible for most of my jobs. Muled a TON of stuff, ra/ex stuff that's useless now but that I can't bring myself to toss. Mog House has almost no furnishings at all. Done all gobbie bag quests and have satchel.

I'm hurting for space all the time, and I welcome any sensible suggestion that can free up a couple of MH or inventory slots. Such as this one.

[Korpg]

17 lvl 90 jobs, none of them undergeared although the jobs I use/like the most have the biggest gear selection. Stored everything possible for most of my jobs. Muled a TON of stuff, ra/ex stuff that's useless now but that I can't bring myself to toss. Mog House has almost no furnishings at all. Done all gobbie bag quests and have satchel.

I'm hurting for space all the time, and I welcome any sensible suggestion that can free up a couple of MH or inventory slots. Such as this one.

How does crystals being converted to clusters help with your inventory? Just sell them when you get into town. Or drop the crystals. You shouldn't be in full gear when you synth for profit anyway, that is a lot of wasted space unless you are only going to synth a small amount of items.

To the BG crowd: I said 6 jobs, 1 of which is undergeared, 1 of which is overgeared. Learn to read before you make comments about my gear sets, which none of you have even seen at all.

[Alhanelem]

Good idea. The only haters on here are the trolls that complain about everything.

I don't see any trolls in this thread, or any haters, either. I know you're referring to me, and Korpg, so you may as well just say it. But neither of us hated on anyone in this thread, nor did either of us troll anyone in this thread.

There's nothing wrong with the idea. I don't strictly see it as necessary, however it definitely wouldn't hurt anything.

[Yarly]

this is equivalent to quivering/toolbags, it's perfect this way

[MDenham]

How does crystals being converted to clusters help with your inventory?

Well, let's just take the obvious case: you're doing ~100 synths.

After the update, you'll be able to hold this as a stack of clusters and just break clusters as needed, rather than buying up multiple stacks of crystals. Fine so far, right?

Now let's say you've come back from a GoV run with enough crystals and are like "hm, I want to use these up". But your only skillup synth is something that doesn't stack. Converting the crystals to clusters means you run out of inventory space less frequently (since you go from, say, 9 slots taken up with crystals to one slot taken up with clusters and one with crystals from the cluster you most recently re-broke), meaning you have to stop less frequently to dump off the synth results (or desynth them), meaning you save a little bit of time.

Is this a "OH GOD THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, THE GAME SUCKS WITHOUT IT" idea? No. But neither is auto-repeating FoV/GoV pages. Neither is bait that stacks to 99 - or clusters that stack at all. Neither are Scrolls of Instant Warp for 10CP instead of 1000.

It's just convenient, that's all. It's not even an easy-mode button, since you still have to come up with the crystals somehow.

EDIT: I'd also like to thank Alhanelem for being more reasonable about this than Korpg is.