Some of the RNG is nuts...we need to get rid of it

RNG is a staple in most games because it is a damn easy way to force replayability. Go through a dungeon have a chance to get an item, yadda yadda. Fine, not to huge, but....RNG on crafting to a point where you could fail 100 times is too much.

I am talking about pentamelding. It is a bit out of hand, and really feels punitive. I get that it is totally optional and all that but it feels tuned wrong.

I would suggest an opposite version of RNG for things like this. Have an RNG chance, that is quite low of getting it early, and then just tell us how many materia it takes to put it on there. So say first slot top tier materia, costs 15, but you have a 5% chance of getting it instantly with every attempt. Just something to make it not feel like a bottomless pit of screw you.

Penta Melding is just a way to make sure materia gets deleted from the game. If it was always a 100% chance to go in then there'd be too much materia and it would clog inventories in an extreme case.

You're extremely deluded if you think FFXIV has bad RNG.

This game has the least RNG I've ever seen in an MMO. When pentamelding you can just buy a stack of 99 and click a button to run through the RNG for you.

Unless the percentage says 100% chance to succeed you should just assume it's always 1%, you'll be way less disappointed.

The game just could use a hidden loss-counter which would increase the chance of success.

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Originally Posted by Starshower

You're extremely deluded if you think FFXIV has bad RNG.

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My mountains of Stuffed Alphas and Stuffed Bom Bokos would like to discuss RNG with you ;)

I'll take either over 1 crystal.

At least you can use the crystal, but the Pom Bokos can't even be desynthed.

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Originally Posted by Ilisidi

At least you can use the crystal, but the Pom Bokos can't even be desynthed.

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I can at sell it. Gil is gil.