Repair NPCs Do Not Charge Enough

[Andrien]

whats annoying about it? when you're an average gamer and on the go and want a quick fix, its perfect for them.

I think they should change the use of Dark Matter and allow it to enhance the basic stats currently set on the gear. This should increase the price for Dark Matter, and probably make it harder to obtain.

[DNO]

so the general consensus is the repair system sucks. Why add dark matter? Why not just eliminate it?

No thats not the general anything. The system USE to suck. Now its 100% fine. Gear des not degrade every 5 secs and repairs are cheap. Each and every system should be in the game for a purpose and this systems purpose is to make crafts useful and to make people not want to die. It serves its purpose so we can move on.

[Irondude]

Just because you're rich enough to spend 10,775,000 gil on half a pack of arrows does not mean the rest of us are.

LOL :'( i still remember that sad sad day. It gives me a stomach ache thinking about it. It was a week before they search system was added.

[Reliquia]

One of the last things we need is a gil sink just to repair our gear.

I agree with this. I think it's a fair compromise as it is now, however I'm not entirely happy with this either. I hate having to repair gear at all. You should be able to repair rings, necklaces and armbands at the repair NPCs as well.

I think that a good way to even out the NPC vs crafters unbalance is to have the same requirements for repair by crafter, but maybe make your gear twice as durable and compensate making it twice as expensive to repair by the repair NPC.

[Quanta]

So what you're saying, OP, is that you want more Dark Matter?

Alright.

[Irondude]

No thats not the general anything. The system USE to suck. Now its 100% fine. Gear des not degrade every 5 secs and repairs are cheap. Each and every system should be in the game for a purpose and this systems purpose is to make crafts useful and to make people not want to die. It serves its purpose so we can move on.

OHHHHHH yeah death. Completely forgot about that. That mucks it up a bit. I guess the system is here to stay. It would be nice to have some added benefit from a user repairing your gear though. add a carrot not a stick

[Fer]

I hope they remove the repair system forever u.u

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Are they gonna add big boobs anytime soon?:
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[Onidemon]

the price is so low it might as well cost nothing. Why would anyone ever repair someones gear for under 5k? It's just a waste of time. I know that you still need actual people to repair gear up to 100% before you can trade it, but that simple is not enough business to keep someone trying to do repairs all day for people. Gear repair should scale with gear level like everything else.... I think it does that now actually. It just has the max too low to even be noticeable.

Is it posted somewhere the logic of why we can not trade gear unless it is at 100%. I can't think of why this is needed. I'm sure its been over posted 100 times. this subject has to be pretty common.

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10~ = 2k max
20~ = 5k max
30~ = 10k max
40~ = 15k max
RARE/EX = 25k max

You're being Sarcastic right? After months of debate and SE finally acknowledging the problem and fixing it, you want to go backwards?

[DNO]

OHHHHHH yeah death. Completely forgot about that. That mucks it up a bit. I guess the system is here to stay. It would be nice to have some added benefit from a user repairing your gear though. add a carrot not a stick

Well i agree with this. Real craft jobs should be able to repair gear to 150%. that be cool and it would give players a reason to look for craft jobs. Also you could sell your gear at 100% and above.

i will never look for players as the system is and crafters do not look in the menders ward a lot now because repairs are so cheap. If we want to make crafters useful again for repairs they should add this IMO.

[Anonymoose]

Man, I came into this thread like, "You have to be kidding." and I came out of it with a huge smile on my face. I'm glad the repair system is starting to be seen in the same light I've been saying since day one (an action rpg sink-element for maintaining basically free gear that is irrelevant in a sandbox where it takes effort to even get the gear; used as a justification of giving legitimate class ranks and exponential exp curves to crafts).

Idk where all the support came from, unless it was just angry crafters who didn't want to lose the irrational status of repair chief because they'd already dedicated TIME to it that were so angry about it, but I tried getting a discussion like this going a month ago and I thought I was going to be boiled alive and served to the opo-opo king.