Please Remove the Materia Melding Crafter Restriction

[FoxyAreku]

It's a PITA to do yourself, takes up valuable inventory space & takes longer than using an NPC.

You're joking right?

Repair is one button press when you do it yourself, using an item that you can stack 99 of in one inventory space, for a more effective repair than using an npc, vs spending 5 minutes running to an npc to just have it put to a lame 100%.

If that's a PITA to you you might be playing the wrong game as there's literally a hundred more painful things I can think of.

[Defias]

(Condescending Comment)

I dislike having to change jobs multiple times to repair my own hear. When I go and click Repair All at an NPC.
(As you can tell I rarely repair my own gear at this point.)

While some may feel leveling it was easy. For me it was tedious. But I forced myself to do it. Cause I wanted everything at 50.

Now...I once my retainers and myself have gathered enough I plan to lvl them to 60. But like I said.
For ME it's tedious. Therefore it's extremely low on my "to do" list.

Don't tell me I am playing the wrong game.
I play the content I desire. I enjoy the content that I participate in.
But you have to admit this game often complicates things that do not need to be complicated.
Melding being one of them.
Glamour Grades being another.
Chocobo Racing/Breeding.
Scrips.
To name a few.

[ElHeggunte]

I dislike having to change jobs multiple times to repair my own hear. When I go and click Repair All at an NPC. [...]

I think you might be a little behind the times. You haven't had to change classes to repair gear for quite a long time now. So long as your requisite crafting class is the proper level and you have the proper catalyst you can repair anywhere as any class. That includes being able to repair while in the middle of a duty.

[ruskie]

I dislike having to change jobs multiple times to repair my own hear. When I go and click Repair All at an NPC.

Change jobs what???? What are you talking about?

You can repair on any job all the gear. The interface is exactly the same as the NPC one - use the Repair action in the actions menu - then you just click repair all and it will repair all your currently equiped gear that needs repairing - exactly the same as the NPC last I checked - but then I haven't visited that NPC in ages - I believe you can even go through all the other gear to repair it as well.

Seriously I do this mid fight during a break if I notice my gear strated to go below 100%. Self repair at 99% puts it to 199% so it lasts for a while.

Anyway crafters aren't given the skill to meld materia by simply being crafters - we earn it at level 20 by doing a quest. And advanced is a quest later on.

Do wish for repair others gear option as well.

[blindfoldedkaos]

Don't tell me I am playing the wrong game.
I play the content I desire. I enjoy the content that I participate in.
But you have to admit this game often complicates things that do not need to be complicated.
Melding being one of them.
Glamour Grades being another.
Chocobo Racing/Breeding.
Scrips.
To name a few.

Sorry i saw this and had to stop to ask.

How can Glamour be complicated?
Chocobo Racing is Mario Cart on rails, how much easier do they have to make it for you?!

[Suirieko]

I dislike having to change jobs multiple times to repair my own hear. When I go and click Repair All at an NPC.
(As you can tell I rarely repair my own gear at this point.)

Oh freaking please. You have every crafts at level 50, you should be able to repair any gears, anytime and anywhere... even in raids and dungeons and in the middle of battle, and you should have no trouble keeping your gears repaired. You get an alert whenever your gears reaches 10% durability.

You should have absolutely no trouble keeping your gears repaired.

While some may feel leveling it was easy. For me it was tedious. But I forced myself to do it. Cause I wanted everything at 50.

Now...I once my retainers and myself have gathered enough I plan to lvl them to 60. But like I said.
For ME it's tedious. Therefore it's extremely low on my "to do" list.

Exactly HOW are you leveling your crafts? Are you just making things over and over and over again?

There's a WIDE variety of ways that would make leveling craft MUCH easier.

One of the best method is Grand Company daily turn-ins. You only have to do it once a day, and if you make the item HQ, you can get double amount of EXP and Seals. Do this daily and you'll have every crafts at 60 in the long run.

But you have to admit this game often complicates things that do not need to be complicated.
Melding being one of them.
Glamour Grades being another.
Chocobo Racing/Breeding.
Scrips.
To name a few.

Is it just me or do you have a beef against complicated matters? If things are simple, rewards and efforts wouldn't be worthwhile. And these matters aren't even hard.

Melding: As a raider, it is acceptable to rely strictly on gears you get from raids. Therefore, you'll NEVER have to worry about overmelding. (Assuming SE doesn't make that a thing in the future). So you get guaranteed slots, and only have to worry about it doing it once, if you use the right materia. Of course if you decided to use crafted gears (like the Eikon gears) for raiding, that's another matter....

As crafters and gatherers, we're expected to overmeld every single slots to get the most bang of our abilities, it can be very costly, as we lose the materia and catalyst for every fails. Gigantic pain in the ass, but the reward for it is worthwhile, and very helpful.

Glamour Grades: How is THAT a complicated matter? Having every crafts at level 50 should be making this easy for you. Hell Heavensward made this even easier, now that every dungeons in 3.0 drops clear glamour prisms. The materials required to make useable prisms aren't even hard to get, and some can even be purchased by NPC (for example, for weaver glamour prism, you can buy undyed velveteen from Sylvans' vendor)

Chocobo Racing/Breeding: Strictly optional, so of course it'll be complicated. I haven't even fully figured out the breeding, mainly because I can't be arsed to, but I've tried the racing and it is fun. I found that if you play the cards right and have a good chocobo, you'll be able to take in a LOT of MGP.

Scrips: If DoW/DoM have tomestones from dungeons, trials, etc, then Crafters/gatherers have scrips, so it's not meant to be easy, especially not the red scrips. However, for crafters, it's just the same as focusing on HQing the item, except you don't need to be 100% Gatherers, however, took me a bit to learn since it required doing various rotations to get the collectibility rating we need to turn in. That is a pain in the ass, but I never expected it to be easy.

Things get complicated for a reason.

Be glad this isn't like FFXI, especially in pre-Abyssea days, where the game was a great deal more challenging than ever.