Quote Originally Posted by QuinceTaru View Post
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I understand what you are saying. Just to clarify, what I'm trying to get at is that the desynth classes are horribly off balance. I think they were going for perfect imbalance with how ALC and BSM had a strong foot hold in primal demimateria (with ALC having a monopoly on Crag demis) and GSM having a strong mastercraft market. The problem is that at his point the Primal materia isn't worth anything because the rare drops (Ifrit Horn, Crag heart etc.) are the major gate for crafting those weapons and those materia are more or less useless outside of making the weapons. MCDs on the other hand are part of crafter progression and the items that drop them are a tedious task to acquire if you get all the mats on your own (particular the shards).

My point is that there should be an attainable way for people to get the demimateria regardless of desynth choice. In theory, you could've picked LTW, ALC, and CUL and been SOL in getting mastercrafts, while the guy that went GSM can effectively gear all his crafts with Supras with ease.

I didn't pick GSM because I figured everyone was going that and I wanted to bring something else to the table and would never have imagined they'd have the balance of these classes so skewed.