Please Remove the Materia Melding Crafter Restriction

[Mycow8me]

I find it saddening, because the benefits of leveling "all" combat classes to 60 are probably far smaller than the benefits of leveling "one" craft to 60 ._.'

So much for effort and deserving things >_>

lol... I've got my crafts leveled pretty decently and I feel like they only serve one purpose... "making gil". Tell me again about how they provide all these wonderful benefits. Most people can't even make the 3star due to requirements. Some crafts like blacksmith don't serve hardly any purpose other than glamor. I guess I get to look nice, what a wonderful benefit.

The hardcore raiding community don't like powerful crafted items because they are "the easily obtained item". So we don't really see any powerful crafted items rendering crafting almost useless without overmelding.

[alimdia]

U are not forced to lvl a crafter
Can request meld
U are also not forced to meld

[Zephyranthes]

This is not even a major issue. Just another request that falls under the instant gratification needs to players.

[Defias]

Oh insulting people now are we. Crafters recently had to level their crafters from 50 to 60 to meld again and people like you want to be able to do it for free. Complain all you want it's not happening.

Insult? Hardly. The person ignored me completely and took a cheap shot at me. So I responded in turn.

Look at my character before you make assumptions.
I leveled all my crafts to 50 & am saving materials so I can grind them to 60.

I craft myself and I have resented melding since day one.
I also resent the repair feature. It's a PITA to do yourself, takes up valuable inventory space & takes longer than using an NPC.

I often craft to help out new players obtain gear and at reasonable prices.
I often give away HQ sets to new players.
I also meld for free

So don't you dare mistake me as someone who feels entitled or wants crafter benefits for "free".

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

Insult? Hardly. The person ignored me completely and took a cheap shot at me. So I responded in turn.

That's the standard here in the forums. If you express any opinion on a matter that is in conflict with someone's views, they consider it an ad hominem attack and respond in kind. I could go into the psychology of such behavior but it stems from the feelings of entitlement coupled with no fear of reprisal.

That being said, adding an npc to enable basic melds and adding a crafted melding kit so people can buy the item from crafters and do the meld themselves are both ideas with merit. I was never asking that the service be free in the first place. I was just asking that something be put in place that doesn't require that we have to track another player down everytime a piece of gear drops.

[Leigaon]

Psst....level your crafters Problem solved...

I think that's what they want you to do. They have given two choices to people. Level each craft so you can meld on your own, or find someone else to do it. That's how this game seems to be set up. They give you ample time to do so much, if you want to do more than that? Prepare to put some time in.

Personally, it does not make or break me to have it crafter related or not. I've only leveled 3 to 60, gave up on the rest. I can ask someone in my FC to meld something for me. I know who the crafters are and if they're on, they can do it.

If they implement it, my only concern is the hard work those who got each crafter to 60 have put in so they can craft..meld. Also I don't like anything you can do by yourself. In a MMO, anything that is made where you don't have to interact with other people just takes it a step backwards. Still, not like it would make or break things.

[Cnidarian]

Insult? Hardly. The person ignored me completely and took a cheap shot at me. So I responded in turn.

Look at my character before you make assumptions.
I leveled all my crafts to 50 & am saving materials so I can grind them to 60.

I craft myself and I have resented melding since day one.
I also resent the repair feature. It's a PITA to do yourself, takes up valuable inventory space & takes longer than using an NPC.

I'm sorry, but 8 months after the level cap raise and the highest crafting class you have is 54 CUL means you do not craft. You might have crafted in the past, but currently you do not actually craft. Also the fact that you think repairing yourself is worse than repairing at a NPC is somewhat laughable. It takes 1 inventory space and takes roughly 2-5 seconds to repair anywhere you please. Going to a NPC requires you to take the time to actually go to the NPC which is more than a few seconds and the NPC also doesn't allow you to go above 100% durability.

[worldofneil]

Also the fact that you think repairing yourself is worse than repairing at a NPC is somewhat laughable. It takes 1 inventory space and takes roughly 2-5 seconds to repair anywhere you please. Going to a NPC requires you to take the time to actually go to the NPC which is more than a few seconds and the NPC also doesn't allow you to go above 100% durability.

Agreed! The perk of being able to repair mid combat is simply amazing and fully levelled crafters will never be "that guy" who has to leave the instance because their gear broke (well unless they actually ran out of repair materials, but a few stacks at a time costs so little!). We even laugh about it in my FC when people repair in the middle of the boss fight because it's so quick/easy to do and we find it hilarious that no one else even realised it happened!

[jssanderson747]

Why dont we just make crafting utterly useless while we are at it.

I don't know a single person that makes much of any of their gil from materia melding. You'd be lucky if anyone tips more than 2k considering the crafter doesn't have to do anything.

[TheUltimateSeph]

Insult? Hardly. The person ignored me completely and took a cheap shot at me. So I responded in turn.

Look at my character before you make assumptions.
I leveled all my crafts to 50 & am saving materials so I can grind them to 60.

I craft myself and I have resented melding since day one.
I also resent the repair feature. It's a PITA to do yourself, takes up valuable inventory space & takes longer than using an NPC.

I often craft to help out new players obtain gear and at reasonable prices.
I often give away HQ sets to new players.
I also meld for free

So don't you dare mistake me as someone who feels entitled or wants crafter benefits for "free".

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