Why destroy current repair system, just add dark matter as another option.

dark matter stinks now i have to carry all my crafting mats and 5 grades of dark matter.
so it frees up inv for non crafters and screws actual crafters.........UNLESS.....

someone has a recipe for dark matter

EDIT: after buying some dark matter it dosent seem as bad as i thought.
IDK gonna give it a chance

The weird thing about the way this was implemented is that we immediately went from fent/spetch to dark matter. At least when I found out there were merchants for it, I felt a lot better. Imagine if immediately after the patch we had to go farm it from gathering/mobs? D: Augh.

I'm kinda torn between selling the mats I kept around only for repair or throwing them into an alt (buddy) retainer.

Cotton fent, canvas fent, velveteen fent, copper nuggets, dodoskin spetch, buffalo spetch, chamois spetch just aren't attractive in my inventory anymore.

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Originally Posted by Keftenk

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In fact, remove the repair system all together. It's a piece of crap to begin with, playing with durability is never fun.

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This. I actually logged right out of FFXIV yesterday because of this. I don't want to spend time lvling up and buying new gear knowing that It'll degrade and i'll have to pay some dickwad a bunch of money to repair my stuff.

I sure as shit am not going to waste my life away leveling up a craft when the crafting system is so horribly piss-poor boring. Sorry, but time is the most valuable resource on the planet, and I don't see any worse way to waste it.

FFXIV will fail unless SE does something about durability, or fixing the crafting system.

In case you missed the real point of the Dark Matter switch:

They can say it it to make the repair system easier and all that (which it does do!), but the driving force behind the change is they needed to start creating some ways to take gil out of the ever-inflating economy. With dark matter primarily being sold from NPCs now, everytime anyone repairs anything, the MAJORITY of the time there will have been dark matter purchased and gil will have left the system.

If you didnt notice they made other gil changes in 1.18 as well. They finally realized everyone everywhere is a multi millionaire.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

For the currect items leave the ability to use the current repair mats or the new dark matter item. Why not make a flexible system?

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i dont see any problem with this other then being overly complex. Why would you want a choice of repair mat, if you are doing repairs often i would think you would have dark matter no you more easily then 100's of mats. Like i said im not arguing with you, i just dont see the point.