Please do not destroy Mastercraft Demimateria like you did with FCIII.

[Morzy]

Thick-Rim Glasses were never the best way to get FC3s.

Well that was just my opinion through my experience. Also the way i did it was very low in risk, as i only needed to get ONE fc3 to even return profit, with those glasses.

[Morzy]

Considering only AFK/botters are the only ones who can get mastercraft demimateria in decent supply, it needs to be destroyed. Morzy you're on the same server and you know the people who bot abuse mastercraft market and were doing the very same thing with Fieldcraft III when it was expensive. They all need to be crushed and earn their money doing honest things instead of preying on the stupidity of gilbuyers.

I do understand. I just hate change that specifically targets bots because i feel it affects players like us even more because the bots will always have something to fall back on.

[Morzy]

What do you have to say to people that have broken 30+ Forager's Dolabra's / Artisan's tools, and have only ever received 1 Mastercraft Demimateria?

I say I'm right there with you. I started desynthing the foragers pickaxe since 2.3(it became easier with supra) and must have broke... i dont even know. And ive gotten around 9 mastercraft. So ya, it sucks but it costs us gatherers nothing.

[Songi]

It shouldn't affect us much. Grinding out Mastercraft Demimateria for profit is flawed in itself on our server considering how much of a dead-end the 4 star market is on Lamia. Mastercraft sellers are only fortunate that 95% of the crafters on our server are bored/dumb/don't care that they're losing millions by reaching 4 star level.

If anything needs to become a lot more abundant are materia acquisition methods. Even the endgame raiders on Lamia aren't touching 4 star gear for progression thanks to Savage Aim/Might IV staying at 900k+ and Heaven's Eye IV peaking out at 600k this month. There's just no reason to for materia to be in such low supply but because of spiritbonding being a huge nuisance to get on Low population servers prices are going to stay out of control until SE decides to come up with a fix.

[Sibyll]

I understand that people want balance from their desynth choices. If everyone has the same ease to get MCDs as GSM desynth does, then none of the desynths should have a niche at all if everyone wants them to be equal. Its like culinarians wanting MCD's but wanting to keep swimsuits also. I agree with you 100% they are off balance, but if you balance them all equal then whats the point of even having more than 1?

*edit, Sounds really aggressive i dont mean it to sound that way

Perhaps this would've been worse, but I'd have liked it if Mastercraft Demimateria were class specific (ex: Mastercraft Demimateria (Goldsmith) can only get you a GSM Supra etc.) based on the repair/desynth class of the item. That way you'd have more diversity than everyone going GSM for one of their 3 desynths just so they can progress, but more importantly so you GSM (or equivalent classes) can't just control the market. The problem with the niche argument is that Crag Demis are incredibly niche and purely for glamours while MCDs are required for all Supras. Even at their peak primal demis never went for more than 300k on my server while MCDs have never gone for less than 1 mil.

[Morzy]

I think it will become more abundant but with how the items are aquired to then desynth for mastercraft..t makes it tricky. I think right now the mastercraft is validated by the fact that its the key to endgame gathering and crafter(to a degree).

I do think the acquisition of the grade 4 materia does need to be balanced because it is NOT encouraging to casuals wishing to get novus.

[Morzy]

Perhaps this would've been worse, but I'd have liked it if Mastercraft Demimateria were class specific (ex: Mastercraft Demimateria (Goldsmith) can only get you a GSM Supra etc.) based on the repair/desynth class of the item. That way you'd have more diversity than everyone going GSM for one of their 3 desynths just so they can progress, but more importantly so you GSM (or equivalent classes) can't just control the market. The problem with the niche argument is that Crag Demis are incredibly niche and purely for glamours while MCDs are required for all Supras. Even at their peak primal demis never went for more than 300k on my server while MCDs have never gone for less than 1 mil.

Lol i saw mog demi sell for 2m recently.. i laughed so hard.

[Sibyll]

I think it will become more abundant but with how the items are aquired to then desynth for mastercraft..t makes it tricky. I think right now the mastercraft is validated by the fact that its the key to endgame gathering and crafter(to a degree).

I do think the acquisition of the grade 4 materia does need to be balanced because it is NOT encouraging to casuals wishing to get novus.

The way materia is handled is a joke. Gathering/Crafting isn't as bad because all Grade 4s are more or less useful, or will because useful as caps increase. However, for combat classes the majority of materia stats are worthless meaning that the inevitable bad luck will make you feel like you wasted hours spirit bonding.

Lol i saw mog demi sell for 2m recently.. i laughed so hard.

At one point the Mog Demis did go for over 1m, but that has since plummeted. I think Crag Demis go for about 20k right now. Perhaps if the Crag Heart (and similar items) were a possible drop from the primal weapons these items would be more practical to make, but as of right now the drop rate is pretty low and not many groups outside of large FCs will farm primals for these.

[papichulo123]

Please do make mastercraft easier to obtain

[Penguinmayhem]

Mastercraft Demimateria are 1 million gil on Goblin. That's 3 million gil per supra. Plus the cost of the 10 Fieldcraft 3s on top of that. That's quite a lot of money to buy my new tools.

But quite honestly, it's not about the cost. It's about the fact that it takes a disgustingly long time to grind them. It's blatant, shameless gameplay padding. It's boring, tedious and a huge waste of time, and it makes crafting less fun.