Quote Originally Posted by Eekiki View Post
Before, I'd put my weapon up for 10k, because finding a high level goldsmith willing to sacrifice a jade to repair my knuckles was near impossible. Now I put it up for 6k, because I know grade 5 dark matter only costs 4800, and it gets repaired within minutes!
Agreed.

Additionally, the current system pushes players to respect the time/gil required to achieve a high level craft. Before, an iron square was used to repair items ranging from r20 to r50. Because the material itself was low level and relatively cheap, the amount of gil players offered to crafters to repair their gear was quite small. Despite the fact that getting a crafter high enough to repair their iron cuirass (or whatever) was no trivial task - that time was not rewarded because the associated repair material was cheap.