[dev1027 - sort of] Recreating Crystal Clusters

[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.

[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.

[Korpg]

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?

Ok, I will admit, that would be helpful. But then people will buy clusters for this aspect, or buy a stack of crystals at a time, which is what I do when I spam synth stuff.

[Tamoa]

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.

I keep fire crystals because I make red curry and red curry buns for myself and my friends.

4 stacks of fire crystals = 4 MH/inventory slots occupied.
4 stackable fire clusters = 1 MH/inventory slot occupied.

Yes, it's not a lot and not game breaking in any way. But when you have as much gear as I do, every bit helps. Red curry and red curry buns are also both synths which require non-stackable ingredients, and red currys aren't stackable either. So I have to empty my inventory as much as possible before I start synthing. And even if I fill up satchel and sack (other MH storage options are always 80/80) with gear from my inventory, I'm still something like 45-50ish/80. So like I said, I welcome any sensible suggestion that will free up some inv/MH space for me.