[dev1068] Melding materia: remove trading

Right now to meld materia if you dont have the right DOH leveled up you have to hand over your gear and your materia to another player. This requires alot of trust between the players especially when the gear and materia can sell for large sums of gill. The other player could easily just walk off with your items leaving the player with the only option of calling a gm and wasting their time with the issue. I've also seen a fair few mistakes made by crafters melding the wrong materia because they cant remember what materia was traded when they come to look for it in the inventory. When we have a repair system that doesnt require handing over materials to another player could we please have a melding system that doesnt either.

I approve this message, but my approval means squat. +1

It seems strange that they wouldn't have made this an option.
I wonder how many GM calls have happened based on this. That would be interesting to find out.

I second this suggestion!

Also, since GMs have no power (or have no regulation) to settle personal dispute between players, including scam/steal cases, an adaptation of the Seek Repair system into Materia attachment craft should be brought into consideration. It would solve/prevent a lot of troubles.

yes....100%

not sure why it is the way it is atm in the first place

This is very reasonable and I support this. Having others socket materia for you also requires repairing for 100% before trading, which is mostly just annoying.

I approve of a Materia Craft option in your inventory that allows you to place the item and the materia on your bazaar.

Currently, the hottest items on the market are Heaven's Eye and Heaven's Fist materia (Accuracy and Attack Power, respectively) which have been selling for over 500,000 gil in Besaid.

Definitely agree with this, and it has been mentioned before, just had a scroll through the Dev Tracker as I was sure of it...
Here you go: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...106#post389106

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The dev. team agrees that a system that allows others to attach materia to your equipment via the bazaar system is definitely a necessity. We don't know when this will be implemented but we'll let you know once we have more concrete information to share!

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I haven't had any Materia yet due to the hassle of that, and my worry that something might go 'wrong' - fortunately I'm not in a position were that effects anyone but me either!

Yoshi has seen this issue brought up by players and agrees that this is needed. Hopefully he manages to implement this soon.

Thanks InuraBera. I didn't read that one. This is cool. :)

Sounds like a good idea. But in the meantime, and this may sound like a broken record, find a good linkshell and make some friends who you can trust.

Yeah I feel lucky that my LS is full of crafters and we make gear and share and trade raw materials, etc. Some guys came and be my bro's customers, making him tinker expensive gear with expensive materia. I was thinking, wow they've got guts.

But entrusting your items to a crafter might not be too hard to decide if you've been around for so long and have seen them around for so long, and, most of all, never heard any bad reputation about the crafter.

I've heard of a drama on my server recently though, about crafter who crafted for a customer and got lucky and HQ an item, he then kept the HQ one and gave the customer his own NQ item instead. Which is so fudged up IMO.

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

Currently, the hottest items on the market are Heaven's Eye and Heaven's Fist materia (Accuracy and Attack Power, respectively) which have been selling for over 500,000 gil in Besaid.

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Wow 500,000 gil ?? That's cheap! On Trabia materia prices are much higher. Like 1,200,000 gil for Touch of Serenity Materia III and Healer's Hand Materia III (Emnity -, Healing Magic Potency). Those materia IV would be over 5mio and ppl buy it...

I agree to this as well. My only other qualm with melding materia is the level necessary to meld the materia to a piece.
Why do I have to be a level 25 <insert craft here> to meld a materia onto a piece of gear thats level 25. I understand it but I think thereshould be a little leeway. Like If your a level 20 weaver you could meld materia onto items levels 20-25, so on and so forth...
Great suggestion though.