Please let us socket materia without crafting

[StouterTaru]

I think the requirements are too light, you should be required to have more than just that job at 60. For i210-230 gear, 2 star minimum stats. For i240+, 3 star minimum stats.

But seriously, it's not that difficult to meet the requirements, and I would welcome being bugged less for melding by people that have no idea what they are doing.

[MagiusNecros]

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

Except as far as the raid gear is concerned you aren't adding a slot at all. You are just quite literally dropping a ball in a hole. And you need a crafting class to do that?

[Andrea]

Serious question, and not trying to be rude.

You get like one piece a week? Is it really so bad to sit in Idylshire and shout : looking for -insert craft here- for meld pls?

Like I get that you want to do them yourselves but is it really as bad as people are making it out to be?

IDK about your servers but on leviathan if you ask someone for a meld of one item they will gladly do it.

[FritoBandito]

To be honest, if crafting and gathering were just actually enjoyable to more than half the game's population, this thread would not have nearly so many pages right now.[/SIZE]

I'm with you on this, especially for gathering. There are multiple ways they could have made the gathering much more fun. For example, with fishing all they needed to do was put in a little mini-game like what was found in Zelda and it would've been a hit.

I think crafting would be fine like it is but without so much luck involved (something with an 80% chance of success should not fail MOST of the time!)

[Artemiz]

I don't understand some crafters who're against this request. If you enjoy crafting, good for you. The others don't, and they shouldn't be forced to do what they don't want to.

It's like some kids don't want to lose their relevancy or something. Insecure?

What I don't understand is why it's now too difficult for people to shout in Idyllshire for a meld. As a crafter I've been doing melds for people for years, tipping is optional but appreciated. It was common practice back when relic weapons where a thing back in 2.0. Apparently now though it's too much to ask.

[Andrea]

What I don't understand is why it's now too difficult for people to shout in Idyllshire for a meld. As a crafter I've been doing melds for people for years, tipping is optional but appreciated. It was common practice back when relic weapons where a thing back in 2.0. Apparently now though it's too much to ask.

talking to people in an mmo? don't be crazy.

[Solarra]

So, are large numbers of players having trouble getting anyone to meld for them? Is it holding up people's progression and causing genuine hardship?
Or is this just about people feeling so entitled that actually having to work for something or make a simple request to another player seems like a horrible imposition?
Seriously!

[Mutemutt]

Serious question, and not trying to be rude.

You get like one piece a week? Is it really so bad to sit in Idylshire and shout : looking for -insert craft here- for meld pls?

Like I get that you want to do them yourselves but is it really as bad as people are making it out to be?

IDK about your servers but on leviathan if you ask someone for a meld of one item they will gladly do it.

It's not hard, but it's a nuisance of a system that really adds nothing to the game in my eyes. I'd think differently if the act of melding actually required the crafter to actually craft, but it doesn't. It's an NPC level action that, for some reason, only the crafters of light can do.

The only compelling argument I can see for keeping melding only in the hands of crafters is if said crafters are trying to make a buck off of melding. I don't really like that idea either but it's more convincing than "can't you just go shout in Idylshire?".

[Lambdafish]

Except as far as the raid gear is concerned you aren't adding a slot at all. You are just quite literally dropping a ball in a hole. And you need a crafting class to do that?

are you really bringing lore into this? well then its actually a more complicated process than that, from what I gather, there is no hole and there is no ball, you are using the aetheric energy from the materia stone and imbuing the weapon or armour with it, in a sense you are augmenting the gear with aether to increase its strength, that sounds like something that only someone with a knowledge of how the gear is constructed would be able to do.

Materia melding as a concept is far different from how it was in FFVII, these are two different universes.

[Andrea]

It's not hard, but it's a nuisance of a system that really adds nothing to the game in my eyes

There are quite a few of those in this game sadly.

Also I have to laugh at the person saying its dropping a ball in a hole. Even if it is that doesn't give your argue credit, hell there is loads of stuff in this game that doesn't make sense due to well...its a game..