Have a Materia Melding NPC

[Gunspec]

We don't even need the NPC, get rid of the crafting level requirement entirely.

But then crafting will be worthless! But then crafting... will be worthless...

but then crafting will be WORTHLESS !!!

Seriously though, on one hand there needs to be a reason for why crafting exists, on the other hand, two many subsystems are shackled to the anchor that is crafting grind. Glamour crystals, materia melding, gear with materia slots, gear that can be turned into materia, certain dyes, etc.

Hopefully we're going to be seeing more changes, what with tomestone gear having meldable slots in 3.2, and materia redeemable from airship exploration missions.

Yeah just get rid off all the social interactions that's left in the game one by one.

Some people have crazy behavior in this game, and while I'm chill with that and all, it does become something of a drag when their crazy behavior requires me to sit by their side and spam something for an hour. If you want to glamour all of your clothing 3 times a day, especially while leveling a new class, that's fine, but stop asking me for truckloads of glamour crystals when you can't even help me get the toadleather, velveteen cloth, steel ingots, or whatever. And yes, I get that you really want to get that 5th materia in the slot, but we've been trying for 20 minutes, and I'd really like to do something else.

The occasional "help me make something, meld a materia for a quest" is fine, but for the more ambitious requests, I'd love to have an NPC to point to.