Quote Originally Posted by Okipuit View Post
Greetings,

As mentioned, the price of Flame Geodes is comparatively quite high due to its popularity for creating items such as Flame Gems/Pyrosoul Rings and completing Magian Trials.

Looking at weather frequency versus cost, dark and light weather is also rare, yet the price of these geodes are not very expensive. Also, there isn't a difference between the rate of obtaining Snow and Flame geodes that would cause a difference of 80x the cost.

With that said, increasing the drop rate for these would only be for convenience purposes. If you have any specific examples as to how Flame Geodes drop rates are not balanced versus other elements, please let us know and we can submit them for consideration.
How can you say this with a straight face? Here's the average price on Leviathan for magian trial items for the most popular trials:

Strength (fire)
Flame Geode: 70k
Ifritite: 1k

Evasion (wind) <- note that most people make 2 of these for dual wielding jobs (THF, NIN, DNC)
Breeze Geode: 20k
Garudite: 20k

Are you seriously trying to imply that the Goldsmiths are screwing over people who are working on fire trials? If that's the case, maybe something should be done to alleviate this. However, I think whoever gave you this information is full of shit.

As others have noted, the Cure Potency trial is the only light trial being done (Light Geodes 10-20k, Carbites 1k), and only crazy people like myself who are serious about their mage jobs do the dark damage and/or accuracy trials (I did both, 1k for each item). As it stands now, I can't justify finishing off the fire damage staff I started before I took a break last year because the cost of obtaining geodes just isn't worth it, considering how infrequently I focus on using fire spells.