Cactuar Needles

[Ophannus]

These have been in the game for almost 9 years and they have not one purpose. They're not used in any quest or synthesis recipe. Please give these a purpose. Please don't relegate these to the same fate as Nidhogg Scales which also had no purpose until SE made it used in a worthless synthesis recipe for a piece of furniture nobody cares about.

Some suggestions for Cactuar Needles:

- Some Needle Crossbow Bolts.
- Needle Arrows.
- A high level spiked mace or staff.


But if this idea is ever forwarded to the developers I bet they'll end up making Cactuar Needles used for a lame Jumbo Cactuar statue furniture piece. =(

[Bayohne]

Sorry for the delay in getting a response to your feedback!

We spoke with the team member in charge and they said that while there aren't currently any uses for it, they would like to look into using it as an ingredient in crafting or something along those lines. We can't get too specific at the moment, but the dev. team is keeping a look out for a good use for it in the future!

[xbobx]

Um, why add something that has no use?

[Suteru]

I think they are talking about giving something that currently has no use one.

1000* Needle Mace!

*May only contain 500 needles.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Um, why add something that has no use?

They wanted something for the Cactuar to drop, or they planned something then removed it/never added it.

[Mid]

This also applies to Papaka grass to an extent. It's stackable to 12 and listed under Alchemy, but it can't be used in recipes and is only used in 1 non-repeatable quest in Windurst. Yet it drops all the time off dhalmels and is pulled up very frequently in East Saru chocobo digging.

[Ophannus]

I think the ease and volume of Papaka Grass was a countermeasure to prevent people from killing all the dhalmels and price gouging the grass. SE wanted to be sure there wouldn't be congestion or price hije for obtaining a Chocobo when the game first came out.

[Ophannus]

My fear is that they're gonna turn cactuar needle synthesis into a lame furniture piece instead of something actually useful like affordable and decently strong ammunition(HIGHER LEVEL;MORE POTENT STATUS BOLTS! BRING BACK XBOW). Was disappointed that Nidhogg Scales were in the game for over 7 years until they gave them a use with that lame balance-scale furniture instead of some kind of badass body armor for Dragoon(cuz DRK/WAR/BST had Adaman Hauberk and Dragoon only had Assault Jerkin to TP in)

[SharMarali]

Two words:

Cardian cards.

[Silverleaf]

Two words:

Cardian cards.

Yes!

Still kind of bugs me what these are actually for