Repairs/Melding: Stop Increasing Its Level

[Veritas-Ancora]

If people don't want to spend time and effort leveling their crafters, then they can just spend gil to get their gear repaired. Problem solved.

In short, you are trying to solve a non-problem.

This doesn't solve the problem of repairs. You're avoiding the issue of repairs.

Repairs cost too much at the NPCs. So value over time becomes a factor in choosing whether or not to self repair.

And self repair is MASSIVE for raids, dungeons, or Eureka. Repair costs are too high. It keeps the new players poor and the crafters rich. Trickle-down economics at play.

[Shadygrove]

Repairs cost too much at the NPCs.

They do not. I have an alt who cannot self repair and only fishes for gil. When last I checked she had 67m.

As to your raid mates who cannot self repair, visit the repair NPC before each raid, use durability droughts or squadron gear maintenance manuals.

What we REALLY need is "Request Repair." We had it in 1.x.

P. S. I beat you all hollow as to time in game. /grin

[MistakeNot]

This doesn't solve the problem of repairs. You're avoiding the issue of repairs.

Repairs cost too much at the NPCs. So value over time becomes a factor in choosing whether or not to self repair.

And self repair is MASSIVE for raids, dungeons, or Eureka. Repair costs are too high. It keeps the new players poor and the crafters rich. Trickle-down economics at play.

If you are having trouble paying for equipment repairs, you are doing something wrong. Just playing the game normally should provide more than enough gil to pay for all repairs needed, and it is not that hard to make more money if desired.