Potd

[HyoMinPark]

I made it to floor 100 twice--once with randoms and once with my FC. Boss there was tricky, but simple enough if you have the right pomander for the fight. I liked how challenging the last 10 floors were. Super brutal at times. Ours had lots of alluring traps, so we made good use of all the witchings we found at least. Lots of accursed hoard pieces too. Wish they'd do away with the pointless materia and firework prizes for the iron ones, though. Tired of tier iv and v elemental materia clogging up my retainers selling inventories (since people buy them for whatever reason). Market crashed hard on the replica Allagan stuff though on my server. Crafters everywhere are probably super pissed right now.

Wouldn't recommend anyone using alterations on the last 10 floors. 3/4 time we did, rooms full of mimics. And we ran out of purities, so I ended up finishing it with pox. Got lots of upgrades--- +61/+57 right now. Red bow looks so cool. Terrible stats, but a potentially good glamour piece later on. :> Not trading in my points though until I clear floor 200.

I hope they do away with the fixed party requirement for floors 101-200 (and the no party KO requirement). While my FC mates are active, we also have other things we need to do (like updating our main relic and working on others, and two of them raid every weekend), and may not have time to sit and do floors 51-100, and then start progressing through 101-200. I really want to start those floors, but feel very restricted by the fixed party requirement. :/

[EusisLandale]

Tired of tier iv and v elemental materia clogging up my retainers selling inventories (since people buy them for whatever reason).

Anima and transmuting respectively is a good part of why they sell.
Can definitely do without all the fireworks though.

[HyoMinPark]

Anima and transmuting respectively is a good part of why they sell.
Can definitely do without all the fireworks though.

I understand the tier IV, since they can be traded in for sands if you get three umbral or three astral, but the tier V ones? I've never heard of much use for them, but then again, I don't do any sort of transmuting (and not even sure what that is). Just kind of wish that the iron sacks, since they are from more difficult floors, would give better drops. I know they give HQ replica Allagan pieces, but other than a few pieces of that, I've gotten mostly elemental materia and fireworks. Did get the Edda minion though. :> I really want the song that plays the last 5 or so floors for 91-100.

At least for the tier IV elemental materias, they're so common, the market for them is pretty affordable on my server. So works out for those that want to trade them in, I guess. X3 I never bothered trading them in, because I would get tons of poetics that I'm not spending on anything, so I just bought the two items from Mor Dhona, and traded them in for sands instead. X3 Couple thousand gil from selling them does help me buy crafting mats if I decide to make stuff randomly though.

[EusisLandale]

I understand the tier IV, since they can be traded in for sands if you get three umbral or three astral, but the tier V ones? I've never heard of much use for them, but then again, I don't do any sort of transmuting (and not even sure what that is).

Go to the goblin out in Central Thanalan that teaches you how to meld. He'll take 5 materia, your choice, and turn them into a random new one. Generally the same level as most of what you use, sometimes a step lower, and even more rarely higher. So basically you take all these cheap IV and V elemental or useless stat Materia and try for things you or other people want, like V ranked Crafting/Gathering Materia.

[HyoMinPark]

Go to the goblin out in Central Thanalan that teaches you how to meld. He'll take 5 materia, your choice, and turn them into a random new one. Generally the same level as most of what you use, sometimes a step lower, and even more rarely higher. So basically you take all these cheap IV and V elemental or useless stat Materia and try for things you or other people want, like V ranked Crafting/Gathering Materia.

Ooh, nice! Thanks for the advice. May definitely try that out to see if I can get some more crafting materia. Maybe RNG will be nice to me, since I only have my crafters half-way melded, and still a ways off from the new 4-star stuff.