Please Remove the Materia Melding Crafter Restriction

[worldofneil]

Sorry, but I'm against anything to change melding away from actually having levelled the respective crafting. Right now it's a good incentive to make people level crafting, it should stay that way (or if you don't want to you should bother your FC friends or pay a stranger)

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

Oh hey there's a blist feature in the forums too. Learn something new every day.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

The difference being that people who primarily ...

I also primarily do the PVE content. I can get why crafters might feel miffed at this request too because they DID put all those hours into leveling their jobs. Me, I don't even endgame raid. I get on and hit my weeklies, do a few dailies, and any remaining time I happen to be on is spent helping friends out. I play this game to get away from the grind that is homework. When I do get on it's to take a load off. I don't want the game to turn into a chore. Why play at all if that becomes the case? I'm sorry that I don't have the play time some others have. Should I have to suffer for that? I'm just asking for what in essence is a small QoL adjustment. Instead I'm faced with walls of angry text saying "you're lazy," or "you're stupid," or "get good," etc. None of us know the first thing about each other, but at least it's nice to see SOMEONE who is willing to have a dialogue.

[Andrea]

Oh hey there's a blist feature in the forums too. Learn something new every day. Suirieko just found mine.

I can understand blisting someone but announcing you are doing it is just plain childish.

[Defias]

Why dont make an option where you can send a retainer with the materiales and money for the melding and post it un the marketing board for crafters to acceso and make the work, after that you can take your ítem with materia woth the retainer again

I actually would not mind this. Great idea.
Give retainer the gear & materia and money (if you desire to offer any money) for a meld.
Have a Work Order Board and Crafters can choose from the board and fulfill the orders as needed.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

I can understand blisting someone but announcing you are doing it is just plain childish.

Perhaps, but I'm not going to put up with jerks anymore either.

[Tev]

Still haven't seen anyone address how obtaining the BONUS stats from melding is any different than obtaining the BONUS stats from food and potions or how these stats are any more required than food or potions. If you're the kind of person who already doesn't use food and potions you don't need these slots used either... and if you are the kind of person who uses food and potions then you're probably fine with finding crafters to meld for you.

[Defias]

Still haven't seen anyone address how obtaining the BONUS stats from melding is any different than obtaining the BONUS stats from food and potions or how these stats are any more required than food or potions. If you're the kind of person who already doesn't use food and potions you don't need these slots used either... and if you are the kind of person who uses food and potions then you're probably fine with finding crafters to meld for you.

No one has addressed it because it's an over exaggeration.
Potions last all of 10 seconds. The Item system is even worse than the Materia system in this game.
The only potions most folks use are HP & MP restores.
Ailment cleansing is useless as NPCS immediately reapply the ailment.

Food Buffs are mostly used by Crafters & Gatherers.
Battle Jobs use them for the xp buff.
Raiders use them because Savage requires every little boost you can get.
Also Food is readily available by NPCs. Unlike Melding.

Also gear doesn't require you to be fed.
Now if a system were implemented where your character got hungry and received a debuff that could only be cleansed via eating the appropriate lvl food & that food could not be bought from an NPC.
THEN you'd see players get upset.

[Tev]

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Then you're bad at math. Add up the benefits you get from having all the slots on your dungeon gear melded and the benefits from using stat potions properly during fights and the proper food buff and you'd find that having ALL of your slots full is not significantly more than food and potions.

[Reinha]

Life of a crafter:

Today I want to make some musical instruments for the house. Oh? The items drop from dungeons? Nvm...

Okey how about the new kettle then. Oh? I need to do the relic quest? I see...

Maybe I can make a cool Sephirot barding. Oh? A trial drop is needed? Damn...

Lets make a Gobwalker minion then. Oh? It requires raid drop?

Uhh, how about... gear? Oh, the items drop from mobs. Hmm.


Life of a fighter:

Don't force me to even speak to a crafter, please SE!