Quote Originally Posted by ViolentDjango View Post
Yeah.

I hate to do the shard thing to alchemists, though -- we don't want to end up with a community that basically looks at alchemists and goes "lol, well you have shards."

Just because they move, doesn't mean they should be the only thing the craft has. 50+ Levels and a specialization for "lolShards" ? Come on.

Maybe they could be able to make synthetic Materia? Or convert certain materia into other effects. MP Regeneration + MP Boost = Auto-Refresh?
That's actually a really interesting idea. Of course they would need limiters like making them unique or something. Maybe even make the different tiers come from different HQ's. Alchemist really should have more options than shards.