Melding raid gear

Please allow the melding of materia to all raid gear at 1/2 the success rate of crafted gear.

For example;

If the success rate of attaching a 2nd materia to a crafted body is 20%, attaching a second materia to a raid body would be 10%.

Attaching a 5th materia to a crafted body was 10%, then attaching a 5th materia to a raid body would be 5%.


This promotes players to redo old raids (after breaking raid gear from failure) creating replay value of old content.

Also, this puts raid gear back to where it should be balance-wise.


Thanks,
Mog

doesnt even need to be half the success rate

the fact that if you fail at all you have to go back to the dungeon to reget the item is punishment enough for that blowing upage of the item


but yes we need to be able to meld UU gear

at least the NM gear, that stuff is junk. would love to meld SH gear too, why we can meld sent and nothing else i dont get. maybe they did that on accident,lol

+1 for this.

I've been collecting the sentinel's gear to double meld it. I'd love to do the same with the sipahi/mercenary/sorcerer's sets.

It is most likely an accident (on the Sentinel side).

Nope, SE does not want balance in the force. How many times are we going to ask for this and they still have not really said much. It's really unfortunate. I mean Yoshi talks about adventuring and battles comes first but yet it takes a back seat to crafting. This game has become very boring.. There's absolutely no incentive to do any raids or NM's anymore when gear you can make is 3X's better.

before this, make melding bazaarable :) if not please up ur crafter to L50 to meld it.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Please allow the melding of materia to all raid gear...

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A strange image sprang to mind. That of a dark-haired Elezen carefully placing a hand on Mog's face, saying without emotion, "My materia... to your materia. Your gear... to my gear."

Allow all Green W gear to be meldable and abundant.

Do not allow Blue W gear to be meldable, yet give them unique and great stats/effects that place them at 3-4 melded gear levels.

this is the wrong place for this but i just wanted to vent how frikken broken materia melding is. i tryed 20 doble melds with chances around 30% and all failed. At least 1/4 shuold succeed with that%. there done.

on topic, yea we should be able to meld "green" rare gear.

Bad random streak there. Did 18% melds in 1/3 before. Random is random.

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Originally Posted by Leo_Hart

before this, make melding bazaarable :) if not please up ur crafter to L50 to meld it.

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^^This is what the U/U melding fans are really asking for from the developer's perspective. ^^

It's a huge undertaking that wouldn't even be started until well after 2.0 is released.

If they do make U/U melding possible, restrict it to green items, and restrict it to a single materia, and give it a 7% success rate. (same cumulative chance as a 3rd meld)

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Originally Posted by NoctisUmbra

Allow all Green W gear to be meldable and abundant.

Do not allow Blue W gear to be meldable, yet given them unique and great stats/effects that place them at 3-4 melded gear levels.

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Nice, I dig this idea.

Hi DoctorMog,

Totally agree. :)

Yoshida-san, please allow Materia Melding on Unique / Untradeable Gear. A lower % rate of success is one way to balance it; or balance the stats in a way to allow them to be on par with at least ~1 - 3 Materia Melded Gear (obviously some Ifrit Weapons are OK, but the vast majority of U/U Gear is inferior to 1 - 2 Materia Melded Gear).

The sad part is, rebalancing Stats for old Gear (FNM drops, Dzemael) takes very few resources away from your 2.0 work (it's # adjustments). And allowing Materia Melding on them isn't too toilsome, either (compared to, say, creating brand new armor sets, etc.).

If you do some searching around, you'll find that they are already thinking about it, and if you really want to make "raid" gear as powerful as something with 3 materia in it, you better make it as rare of an occurrence

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Originally Posted by LemmingKingXXX

If you do some searching around, you'll find that they are already thinking about it, and if you really want to make "raid" gear as powerful as something with 3 materia in it, you better make it as rare of an occurrence

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Difficult content that requires you to best dungeons and difficult bosses in order to have access to a RNG-governed chest. Sounds like loot from such content would be worthy of such high stats. So long as content providing such powerful loot maintains that minimum as a standard, then all is well.

The one thing they definitely need to do is make Green W gear meldable - even if with limitations and/or lower success rates.

Also, all loot should be convertible - not necessarily with a higher tier yield expectancy.

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Originally Posted by Kiara

Hi DoctorMog,

Totally agree. :)

Yoshida-san, please allow Materia Melding on Unique / Untradeable Gear. A lower % rate of success is one way to balance it; or balance the stats in a way to allow them to be on par with at least ~1 - 3 Materia Melded Gear (obviously some Ifrit Weapons are OK, but the vast majority of U/U Gear is inferior to 1 - 2 Materia Melded Gear).

The sad part is, rebalancing Stats for old Gear (FNM drops, Dzemael) takes very few resources away from your 2.0 work (it's # adjustments). And allowing Materia Melding on them isn't too toilsome, either (compared to, say, creating brand new armor sets, etc.).

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ungh... how many times to I have to say this..

[SIZE="5"]Allowing Materia melding on U/U is a HUGE undertaking that WILL take resources away from 2.0 work.[/SIZE]

There is no system in place that allows you to meld, craft, or alter multiple items simultaneously in another person's inventory or Bazaar.

If you want it after 2.0, fine... but I'd rather they just boost stats a bit for endgame U/U items (of which there are only 51)

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

ungh... how many times to I have to say this..

[SIZE="5"]Allowing Materia melding on U/U is a HUGE undertaking that WILL take resources away from 2.0 work.[/SIZE]

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I'm sorry, could you repeat that, and this time use caps so we can understand it better...

I agree this would balance U/U and crafted gear. However, this would be a nightmare for linkshell leaders. Think for a sec if in FF11 you could meld Ridill and E.Body. People killed themselves just to get one copy of these items. What would happen if you wanted to obtain 10 of them to double meld? Not a fun situation to think about.

Other solutions have been mentioned so I won't go there, but I'm in favor of giving U/U items one free slot and limiting crafted items to 2-3 slots.

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Originally Posted by Vexerus

I agree this would balance U/U and crafted gear. However, this would be a nightmare for linkshell leaders. Think for a sec if in FF11 you could meld Ridill and E.Body. People killed themselves just to get one copy of these items. What would happen if you wanted to obtain 10 of them to double meld? Not a fun situation to think about.

Other solutions have been mentioned so I won't go there, but I'm in favor of giving U/U items one free slot and limiting crafted items to 2-3 slots.

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Might be tough on loot distribution, but allows for some serious replay value of old content.

1 patch later and darkhold is useless.

remind me why I should ever step foot in there again?

Or for a new player: Ever?

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Might be tough on loot distribution, but allows for some serious replay value of old content.

1 patch later and darkhold is useless.

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For this type of content, I'm hesitantly in agreement. Unrestricted melding on uncommon items would be ok. I'm thinking along the lines of some of the other posters: green items meldable, purple items not (better stats than currently).

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

remind me why I should ever step foot in there again?

Or for a new player: Ever?

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Currently, you shouldn't. Just wanted to make the loot distribution point.

+1d, but again, depends on what they do with balance between ra/ex gear and crafted gear. atm single meld on crafted gear makes darkhold stuff look like shit.