[Stormblood Budget] Where all the money's gone ?

[Shougun]

(Except crafting... I miss the overly complicated, insanely detailed original crafting. /sigh)

I really liked that too, when I made my first chain mail I felt like "I JUST MADE MY FIRST CHAIN MAIL!!!" lol. Now, meh, next item. I would like some of the exp growth to change if they kept that system but I did really enjoy the complexity of making said items. Although I'd probably also be begging much harder for the ability to craft from retainer's inventory then or some sort of GW2 material system lol.. so many items :P.

Still, agreed the recipes were pretty cool.

I miss the gear and materia it had back then about it /sigh

The materia that shattered your gear if it failed? Or something else about the system?

[Talraen]

I really liked that too, when I made my first chain mail I felt like "I JUST MADE MY FIRST CHAIN MAIL!!!" lol. Now, meh, next item. I would like some of the exp growth to change if they kept that system but I did really enjoy the complexity of making said items. Although I'd probably also be begging much harder for the ability to craft from retainer's inventory then or some sort of GW2 material system lol.. so many items :P.

lol yeah I had a very similar experience. Some random guy was like "can you make me a hempen cowl?" and after crunching numbers and drawing flow charts for 10 minutes, I determined that... no. I mean I had a ton of hempen cloth (since it was like 2 moko grass for 12 yarn and 2 yarn for three bolts of cloth or something), but some of the pieces were like, taupe, and others were slate gray, and you could only find the appropriate bugs in two different continents. So I went on a world-wide quest for dye bugs, leveled up my alchemist to make them into dyes, and eventually completed my epic level 5 body piece. It's still my favorite memory of 1.0.

Also, no lie, my bewilderment at needing wood chips to make leather caused me to research how leather is actually made. It was educational and fun! Well, educational at least.

[odintius]

The materia that shattered your gear if it failed? Or something else about the system?

No the stat it gave were better and varied like magic attack pontency + 9 the system back then to create them can go away. What we currently have is a joke the gear increase that they newly introduce in stats should be were you sprit bond it once 100% you can chose to allot stat points into repeat it until it max given a reason for it to sprit bond in the first place and the materia I mention as a bonus option but meh it is what it is..