Make materia inlaying a NPC action, not a crafter action

[Peregrine]

That would make sense. I mean could you imagine trying to add double inlay to any of the NM drops? Would you be happy blowing up Bardiches trying to add double materia? You would have to profit crazy amounts just to make it worth the risk. You could succeed on the first try or the tenth. But then isn't the materia made from the weapon to begin with?

Everything would lean to crafters' imbalanced weight. The only thing this system was supposed to do for them was to give them something to do with their NQs. Not give them a reason to spam more NQs than they are, for three times the price, with the extra ability to milk a rare event sellable that only they can do.

That wasn't the point. Shouldn't be the point.

Everyone should be able to walk up to a NPC, trade them an engraved bhuj, two double attack materia, and a catalyst, and have their shot at 30 million gil, because crafters don't deserve that activity. They already sell the NQ bhuj's for gravy after the update because they're consumable, and they already sell the +2 and 3's for a lot of gil.

Crafters are simply overprivileged and spoiled in this game. They don't deserve it.

They look at the materia system and go CA-CHING!!!!!!!
Burst their little bubble before they start riding it to their ridiculous conclusions. Take double inlays away from them. Don't even train them to think they deserve that kind of attention and pandering.