Dark Matter, does these still matter anymore?

It still saves you a bunch of money....key is repairing with dark matter when your gear is around 10-15% durability (ok, never run a DF or roulette with gear that low in case you wipe several times).
12-13 slots for 80g = 960-1040g

Repairing 12-13 lv50 armor around 10-15% durability at the NPC is over 2500-3000g

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

If you repair your gear via DoH before the 50% 60% damaged mark, then you're not saving any gil compared to just going to the repair vendor, so in order to use this, you must leave semi damaged gear alone and not repair it.

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fixed it a bit
I think it also start at 68% to save money, but I need to look for this again.

I just repair everything in the repair UI that look like the durability bar is under 50% (need 2 seconds to see if there could be a bar under 50% in the list) and if you don't die too much you don't need to worry if you enter a dungeon with 50% or 100% durability.

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Originally Posted by khovel

Instead make it just a requirement to own the tool of the trade

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Also make it that a PLD can use all CNJ skills with just a CNJ staff in the armory chest?
Because switching classes take so long?

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In this sense, you could be a lvl 50 PLD, own a saw that is lvl 20 for your lvl 20 carpenter, then all you need to do is swap out the armor/accessories to craft/repair. Your armor/accessories would scale down to the lvl 20 of your craft at the time of opening the craft window.

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What your character have in his hands determine on what class he is. If you have a sword, you are a GLA/PLD, not a CRP.

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Originally Posted by Felis

So long we can also gather stuff without changing to a DoL class and getting exp by killing enemies without changing to a DoM and DoW class.
Best would be if we can do everything on only 1 class once we leveled all to 50, then we don't need to change to another class anymore.

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Gathering, crafting and fighting is based on gear stats. Repairing (and melding materia) is 100% success (well, not overmelding..), gear doesn't matter at all. Apples and oranges.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I hope they'll stay unimportant. It's a bad idea to try to make crafters important from the beginning.

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Why on Earth shouldn't they be important? In my opinion, they should be MORE important than they are now, and should be able to make more endgame competitive gear.