Prismatic Gorget/Obi/Belt...inventory +7/14/21

[Alhanelem]

oh hi, when did SE hire you as a comunity rep? oh... they didn't did they, even you can't argue that this is something thats needed, and its not your call to say no on it.

I never pretended to be one. I don't know where you're getting this funny notion. I'm not disputing that it's wanted by people, hell, even I want it. But I know we're not going to get it. SE has made several attempts at this and they've all been ball-breakingly terrible. They WANT you to swap gear every 3 seconds. No, it's not an officially stated fact by a SE representative, but we all know it's true. Call me cynical if you want, that's fine. In this case, I call it being realistic.

[Meyi]

Honestly, if SE let us combine all of the ToM staves via name (ex. Vourukasha I, II, and III into a Vourukasha), I'd be willing to make all the tier II staves just to meld my 16 back down into 8.

[Tinuviel]

This is what synergy should be for. You could have 7 recipes that combine thunder/wind, earth/dark, fire/light, water/ice; then fragmentation/fusion, gravitation/distortion; then light/dark (light spectral obi, dark spectral obi) -> prismatic obi, etc.

Quests could be integrated with the synthesis of these obis by adding materials to the recipes that are ra/ex, etc.

SE seems to utterly fail in realizing that people ***love*** upgrading gear! Instead of allowing us to recycle and upgrade old equipment, they just inundate us with new crap that makes old gear useless or reduces our inventory. Its a fail approach that leaves all the veteran gamers feeling like they wasted their time.

[Cowardlybabooon]

lol? I wasn't aware you needed 3rd party tools to swap staves. And even if they did add some magical rainbow staff, you'd still end up swapping them on mage jobs (terra for -pdt, pluto for hMP, etc).

I was more referring to obis and the weather. Makes using spellcast much more tempting.

[Septimus]

it's not really a justiviable parade. We've been asking for it for years. we're not ever going to get it because SE is not going to make the game less situational gear-based. In fact, it's only gotten worse with time. So what makes you think this thread is going to be THE one where SE actually listens? ...

All I'm doing is letting you know it's an unrealistic expectation. They're not going to do it.

Wanting to have our inventories more streamlined is a perfectly reasonable and justifiable request. And in the past they have shown that they know this is an issue and may be willing to do something about it, remember this thread?

Maybe if we keep asking them to change things that really need to be change and don't let up on them about it instead of raining on every perfectly reasonable parade that comes through the town square they might listen every so often. Seriously, how are they supposed to know that something is an issue if people outright dismiss it for them?

[Meyi]

This is what synergy should be for. You could have 7 recipes that combine thunder/wind, earth/dark, fire/light, water/ice; then fragmentation/fusion, gravitation/distortion; then light/dark (light spectral obi, dark spectral obi) -> prismatic obi, etc.

Quests could be integrated with the synthesis of these obis by adding materials to the recipes that are ra/ex, etc.

SE seems to utterly fail in realizing that people ***love*** upgrading gear! Instead of allowing us to recycle and upgrade old equipment, they just inundate us with new crap that makes old gear useless or reduces our inventory. Its a fail approach that leaves all the veteran gamers feeling like they wasted their time.

Ugh, I hate synergy, but I'd be willing to level it for this kind of opportunity. Anything is better than nothing when it comes to increasing inventory!

[Alhanelem]

And in the past they have shown that they know this is an issue and may be willing to do something about it, remember this thread?

Yeah, and i also remember their previous "solutions" to this very problem. They all sucked/were impossible to obtain. They keep making MAB staves when almost any amount of affinity is better than a pile of MAB.

[Septimus]

Yeah, and i also remember their previous "solutions" to this very problem. They all sucked/were impossible to obtain. They keep making MAB staves when almost any amount of affinity is better than a pile of MAB.

Were MAB staves ever supposed to be a solution to a problem that they never acknowledged before the Prism Staff thread, or were they one of the typical inventory -1 items that are clearly inferior to many items that had been added before them but they love to put out anyway?

P.S. With the advent of Meteor, MAB staves are no longer inventory -1, they now qualify as "one-trick ponies".

[Alhanelem]

Do you really think high MAB staves were not SE's answer to 'give us a staff that boosts all spells' ? They were. And yes, I know they have a slight use now. That doesn't change this.

[Septimus]

Do you really think high MAB staves were not SE's answer to 'give us a staff that boosts all spells' ? They were. And yes, I know they have a slight use now. That doesn't change this.

I am one of the biggest cynics that this world has ever produced, and I do not believe that any MAB staff added to this game was meant to replace elemental staves. Even Laevateinn and Tupsimati were not meant to replace any elemental staves any more than Murgleis was.

Why were they added? Because Square hates giving mages nice things. (Although, the SMN mythic is nice, too bad mythics are a labor in masochism to make.)