Repairing Repairs

[Rinsui]

My initial reaction to reading this forum is that I cannot believe there were people that actually liked the old repair system. I was not aware that was possible.

Yes, same here.
But there's a saying:
Every dark niche will attract someone to work in it.

[Eugenics]

dark matter isn't that space stuffs? XD

i welcome the change

Dark matter is the name scientists have given to the particles which we believe exist in the universe, but which we cannot directly see! abit like believing in God. :P

[Kio]

I don't understand the point of changing all repairs under one universal material, but then making that material have 5 different versions of itself.

I wonder what will become of certain items that served no other purpose such as most of botany's branches. Are they just simply NPC vendor fodder now?

[Rjain]

I'm gonna, for the sake of being positive for once about a stupid decision, smile and nod and pretend that this is going to work.

I have faith in Yoshida because Yoshida is not a stupid person and I doubt there's many stupid people on the development team in general, the problem is when you have so many people working on designing something and with all the differences of opinion in the office and all the asinine suggestions on these forums that end up resulting in stupid ideas.

For the sake that I trust that they are going to fix the game I will let this slide but so help them if they end up pulling more stunts like this around such a crucial time of the game being fixed up.

[Chardrizard]

Did you not read the notes? "Dark matter can be obtained from vendor NPCs, as guildleve rewards, and through gathering."

And even if it "easily obtainable" it's like saying shard crystals are going to be cheap because it's simply easily obtainable. Only problem is you've left demand out of the equation.

Since this item, dark matter, is going to repair a HUGE range of items, it will create a HUGE demand for it. Oppose to what a Maple Plank CAN repair, which has a small demand for that particular item. If you don't see that the intrinsic value increased from that, and in portion which will also increase its gil value, then I don't know how else to explain it to you.

Maybe this example would help you understand what I'm getting at;
What would happen cost-wise if instead of different elemental crystals for crafting, there was only 1 crystal. Would that crystal cost more than lets say what the current crystals cost now? Maybe yes, if your crystal is one of the low demand ones, but maybe not, if it is one of the extremely high demand ones.

For those who missed the post, I'm comparing what it would have cost now, oppose to what it will cost to repair an item after patch 1.18 via materials vs dark matter.

There are huge differences between crafting demands and repair demands.
People only need repair once every 2-3days if they play alot, Demand will be big for sure but not enough to drive the item price insane or empty the market stock.

[Ceons]

Great idea! I like this change.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Surely this hurt immersion, but some items had some crazy items for repair nobody carry on. Fells good then

[Synapse]

Wow.. this is getting ridiculous... do they even think about it before implementing, i mean they could have called it something decent or change it up a bit so it make sense..

"Piles of Scrap Iron" > repairs armor and stuff with iron
"Strings of Yarn" > repairs cloth stuff
"Straps of Leather" > repairs leather gear
"Vials of Synthetic Substance" > Repairs alchemy based stuff
"Planks of Lumber" > Repairs wood made items
"Handful of Shiny Stones" > repairs jewels and accessories

that took me less than a minute to come up with, come on, all you can come up with is a magical item called "Dark Matter"????? Please change the name at least before releasing. I'm beginning to doubt future changes...trust fading... ughhh!

"Check yourself before you wreck yourself SE" T-T

[Captaindownsyndrome]

im for it, getting sick of having all the mats in my inventory and on retainer and this being sold buy npc will make a good gil sink

[LillithaFenimore]

dumb

i like using mats that have a connection to what the item is made out of.

Yeah I'd have to put my foot down on a "general" repair item. Wtf? Now there is really no incenetive for people to buy mats for repairing >.>; Not cool IMO. The old way was just fine...well if it's any consolation to those on Trabia server, I'll stick to buying mats...hell I'm a crafter so yar....