Fieldcraft Demimateria III

I did read *this notice* but don't get what it is about.

Afaik the price on the board is high enough to let me stack them instead of selling, cannot understand why someone will sell to NPC something worth 30-50k on the board.

Yep, that's exactly what I was saying before and I really can't understand this change.

Probably because they're gonna make them useless with the upcoming patch. Why else would Yoshi suggest players hoarding them to sell them before it goes live?

So while they're selling at 30-50k right now, they might not be worth more than the vendor price in just over a week.

So there's going to be an modification to the crafting system, such that crafters will no longer need these as recipe components?

Why just Fieldcraft and not also Battlecraft, tho? Or/also Mastercraft?

Must be a change that makes them irrelevant and the vendor price change is in anticipation of players mass-selling them and pushing a large sum of raw gil into the economy.

Shame in one way, Fieldcraft I's were actually a great earner I'd recommend to very new players via Goldsmith desynthing Brass Ring of Crafting. But it'll be interesting to see what they're planning.

I wonder in this update we can buy them from a vendor then. But could be wrong.

No one here watched the live letter, I guess? He said bots are taking advantage of the vendor price of FC materia, so if you plan to vendor any, do so before the patch changes their prices.

He never said vendoring was a great idea (it's a terrible idea as stated here), he just wanted to ensure those who DO have terrible plans aren't inconvenienced by an anti-bot measure.

If I had to guess, the bots using this method to make gil are running trial accounts and/or are aware of the consequences of a flooded market.

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Originally Posted by Harmonea

No one here watched the live letter, I guess? He said bots are taking advantage of the vendor price of FC materia, so if you plan to vendor any, do so before the patch changes their prices.

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I watched it, but I don't recall the bots part in what got translated and I don't really understand Japanese myself.

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Originally Posted by Harmonea

No one here watched the live letter, I guess? He said bots are taking advantage of the vendor price of FC materia, so if you plan to vendor any, do so before the patch changes their prices.

He never said vendoring was a great idea (it's a terrible idea as stated here), he just wanted to ensure those who DO have terrible plans aren't inconvenienced by an anti-bot measure.

If I had to guess, the bots using this method to make gil are running trial accounts and/or are aware of the consequences of a flooded market.

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None of the live letter translations I saw mentioned bots as an explanation. All that got mentioned was a warning that prices were going to be getting adjusted.

I can see bots getting demimateria through desynthesis as a problem, though. I know I've gotten quite a bit casually leveling up desynthesis on my alts.

As for why Fieldcraft and not Battlecraft, Battlecraft sell to vendor prices are already 60/300/500. This brings Fieldcraft in line with them.

they're going to make them useless. so they're either going to remove them from crafting recipes most likely or make them insanely easy to get.

Thanks for the heads up, have a big stack of Demi 2’s to dump at 1100

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

they're going to make them useless. so they're either going to remove them from crafting recipes most likely or make them insanely easy to get.

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My understanding is they are just making them near worthless to vendors, I wonder why they didn’t do it to all of them though. Surely the Clear Demimateria 3s are just as alluring to RMT bots

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Originally Posted by Lolli282

My understanding is they are just making them near worthless to vendors, I wonder why they didn’t do it to all of them though. Surely the Clear Demimateria 3s are just as alluring to RMT bots

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Clears are very rare compared to the others. They probably don't see a need at this point.

So in other words, sell them if you were planning to sell them anyway. But there's no actual guarantee they're being made useless, so, if you ever thought you might use them, may as well keep them.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

So in other words, sell them if you were planning to sell them anyway. But there's no actual guarantee they're being made useless, so, if you ever thought you might use them, may as well keep them.

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That’s what I’m doing. I use them in recipies

The clear just vendor them beforehand :). at 5k each it adds up if you desynthed a lot over the years :)

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Clears are very rare compared to the others. They probably don't see a need at this point.

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Very rare? I get clear most of the time. while instead I find fieldcraft the rarest

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Originally Posted by Tlamila

Very rare? I get clear most of the time. while instead I find fieldcraft the rarest

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I've been leveling up Desynth on one of my alts lately. I picked up about 110 Fieldcraft III (from ilvl 430 DoH/DoL items) and over 200 Fieldcraft II (all those Hingan housing items that have flooded the marketboard) but only about a dozen total Clear of all grades.

It could vary based on what you're using for desynth and usual RNG but I ended up with very little Clear to vendor.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I've been leveling up Desynth on one of my alts lately. I picked up about 110 Fieldcraft III (from ilvl 430 DoH/DoL items) and over 200 Fieldcraft II (all those Hingan housing items that have flooded the marketboard) but only about a dozen total Clear of all grades.

It could vary based on what you're using for desynth and usual RNG but I ended up with very little Clear to vendor.

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Yeah, I think the fact is, ofc if you desynth DoH/DoL items you'll get fieldcraft, but you can get that only from that gear while you can get Clear from all types. And mostly, people desynth dungeon drops, afaik, which makes Fieldcraft overall rarer.

In the while, price here plummeted to 10k... and I follow along selling all I have.

I've never had reason to use fieldcraft demimateria anyway, so I just sold all the ones I had on the MB when I heard this.

well, just used 16 of them the other day to unlock Master <Profession> II stuff, haha. Not sure where else you need them ;D

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Originally Posted by icy_

well, just used 16 of them the other day to unlock Master <Profession> II stuff, haha. Not sure where else you need them ;D

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They're used in some master recipes.