Armor repairing, what do you think about it?

[ckb]

Specifically replying to the question at hand, I feel that any artificial impediment to progress in game is a detriment to customer satisfaction and should be removed. As a fan of FF since it's first NA release, repairs are as much a part of the cannon as the armory system (but thats another issue.) If gil removal was the deciding factor for implementation of repairs then gil should have never been attached to guild leves to begin. Repairs much like other things in Eorzea feel more like a response to rampant RMT activity in FFXI than an innovative system promoting an entertaining experience for adventurers. In my humble opinion it is systems like this that contributed to the failure of FFXIV on PC.

[Lusavari]

friends.shellmates get everything from me for free
or at least i try to, they still refuse to take it for free and pay me

as far as some of ther 200k+ items out there, i used to wonder about that too til i leveled up everything enough to actualy make them myself
and OMFG the ammount of synths needed in some of them hurt.
Cavalry bows for instance.
Takes carbon fiber, which is a 45 alchemy recipe. which cost 100k on its own to make 3! so there is 35k or so gil on its own for that one material. Add in everything else, and you have done around 10+ synths already, and had to go through the hassle of finding an alchemist who can actualy make the stuff(and hasnt quit the game, which is the case on Besaid right now, all the 50 alchemists quit, and the closest active one i know of is me, and im only 42)
then you add in the 5 more synths it takes to make the next upgrade of that bow
and the 7 or so more synths to make the next upgrade...and you realize how much time it can actualy take to make some of these items. And it more then justifies some of the markups on them.

Heh heh. I should clarify what I meant. The upper level weapons, I can appreciate it. I'm fine with 200k+ for a rank 40 or 50 bow, Maybe even 3 or 400k

But a rank 26 Axe? No way. I got the rank 30 axe for 150k. And it's more complicated to make!

[TheVedis]

Heh heh. I should clarify what I meant. The upper level weapons, I can appreciate it. I'm fine with 200k+ for a rank 40 or 50 bow, Maybe even 3 or 400k

But a rank 26 Axe? No way. I got the rank 30 axe for 150k. And it's more complicated to make!

yeah, "most" low rank items the prices are a tad rediculous
however some of them(cavalry) bow the price is justified due to whats required to make them, but thats 1 out of every 100 or so low level items that even falls into that pricing catagory.
i laughed when i was able to sell 10 iron pickaxes for 200k each, i got away with it cuz no one is making gear that low anymore
yeah i know it was wrong to overharge on them like that....but there was actualy a demand for them, so i went with it(plus i was making myself one so i made a ton of extras while getting myself an HQ)

[Kimahri]

Just on topic from the OP. I have no problem with gear repair. I keep myself sustained by leveling all crafts and classes.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

and you are the extreme minority then
people never give away all their stuff for free, cuz it costs them time and effort to farm it
so you cant expect crafters to do the same, which is exactly what you are asking us to do

actually in reality ppl charge money for stuff cuz they expect and get away with it. Time and effort are non excistant in an mmo.
Its like a tank getting paid miney to travel to a part cuz of the time and effort to get to said party.

[Fieros]

I see what they were trying to do but at the same time it is no fun to have to quit and search for repairs on something. I for one and trying to work on crafting in order to be self sufficient but that as well is very time consuming. So what does everyone else feel about this?

I love the current gear repair system.

To all the cheap lazy scumbags offering less gil than the repair material is worth- I will continue to laugh at your stingy ignorance and complaints of not being able to find someone to fix your gear. I enjoy performing repairs at cost, not at loss.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

CKB you must never played many rpg. Most solo rpg do have repair systems. Like elder scrolls or fall out.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I love the current gear repair system.

To all the cheap lazy scumbags offering less gil than the repair material is worth- I will continue to laugh at your stingy ignorance and complaints of not being able to find someone to fix your gear. I enjoy performing repairs at cost, not at loss.

can the attitude dude its just a froken game jeezum. This is the BS that makes me hate crafters.

[TheVedis]

CKB you must never played many rpg. Most solo rpg do have repair systems. Like elder scrolls or fall out.

i was trying not to point it out to him, but yeah
most rpgs in general have repair systems now, especialy most mmos

also, he talks about anything that can impede progress...

so lets remove skill points, experience, all but the highest level gear, and then give everything to everyone for free, cuz anything that forces you to do work is in fact impeding you from progress.


repairs arent impeding progress, they are part of you earning your progress. most games have it now, and will have it, so this is nothing different(and as has been pointed out in every other thread this specific point was mentioned in, repairs dont cause games to fail, otherwise wow wouldnt have survived)

[TheVedis]

can the attitude dude its just a froken game jeezum. This is the BS that makes me hate crafters.

you seem to be the one taking it so serious, your fighting us so hard on this issue when you yourself DO NOT CRAFT

seriouslym, take up crafting and you will realize the truth behind it all, until then, do not try to convince or regulate how we do our business