Please keep: Surplus, repairs, stat point allocation and job flexibility!

[Abriael]

Ok oh wise fanboy, please explain what I am doing wrong then. Ive gone afk leaving my items up in the bazaar for repair in most of the major gathering areas. Ive had him stand in front of the repair npc, on the main steps in ul'dah, near the aetheryte, near the wards entrance, near popular local leve npc's in town, near crafting guilds, near the adv. guild.

I wouldn't know. All I know is that every single time I have something to repair I place it in my bazaar, normally for 5k, or 7k if it's my sword, in any decently crowded area of any city. The area of the repair NPC normally works. If I have a bunch of items it's extremely rare that i make it in time to put them all up that the first ones are already repaired. If I have just one or a couple, then I go grab a coffee and when I'm back they're done.

So either I'm extremely lucky, and I have been costantly for months (statistically impossible),or I'm irresistibly charming, or you're doing something wrong.

Item damage and repairs are a staple of most major MMORPGs, hardly something unique in FFXIV.
I defend it because it's a great way to encourage collaboration between crafters and adventurers, because it's now nicely streamlined and works without hassle for all parties involved (the only way to streamline it more would change the generic icon with class specific icons), it's a viable money sink (and boy, this game needs more, not less money sinks), and it doesn't bother me one bit.

SE is going to fix this.

They already have. Item degradation now is very slow, unless you're wearing stuff way above your level (and then maybe you shouldn't?), and the repair-specific bazaar icon removed every hassle in finding viable repairers to anyone that actually tries it.

PS: don't assume you can speak for the majority just because a bunch of people in a forum whine. Forums are hardly any representation of any majority.

Sorry to burst a bubble, but no matter how much you scream, disagreeing with you doesn't necessarily mean being a "fanboy".