Materia Melding and 1.20a style repairs

[Valen]

^ I completely agree

Completely disagree. Being able to meld and experiment with forbidden melding is an exciting part of crafting, it should remain as one of the rewards for leveling up a Disciple of the Hand.

The option to streamline the melding process to make it simpler to request and do melds for others is awesome though =)

[Razor]

Couldnt we split the difference and allow an NPC to do the first meld and leave stage 2+ to the crafters? I get both sides but its like pulling teeth usually to get crafters to help, at least on my server

[Yelta_Sumasu]

I think that crafters need to be the ones to enhance equipment. It should help soften the blow when an epic U/U drop is BIS. I honestly expected the crafters to make the basic armor, the better armor with mats that are rare drops and their place in epic drops from NM would be enhancing.

I want drops to be awesome and BIS but I really want crafters to have a important place. If I level carpenter to 50 and am an awesome crafter I want my work to mean something. But if I am a DoM and I participate in an epic battle with a NM and I get a super awesome earring I don't want a crafted piece to be at the same level. I want my super awesome earring to be buffed by a goldsmith.

[Kraggy]

Completely disagree. Being able to meld and experiment with forbidden melding is an exciting part of crafting, it should remain as one of the rewards for leveling up a Disciple of the Hand.

*I* didn't tell you to take up crafting, don't make MY life more difficult simply to make YOU happy.

[YuriSan]

We're very happy to see that you are enjoying the new repair feature!

We let the dev. team know that you would like materia requests to resemble a system like the repair feature and they informed us that they are currently looking into a system that will make materia melding requests easier to do.

I hope they look into meldin u/u gear that way aswell and make the u/u gear worthy of getting

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

dont make it easier please dont

I interpreted Rukkirii's post as making it easier / reducing hassle to meld someone else's gear (as a crafter) our getting your own beholder by another player (similar to putting up a repair request).

Not easier in the sense of higher success rates or NPCs who meld.

[Bongeh1986]

Disciples of War should never be able to meld materia. They aren't craftsmen.

A way of setting a materia request similar to repairs will be great.

[Chione]

I too am hoping this gets added soon! I only wanted to mainly level Alchemy and Cooking which obviously you can't meld with and I don't want to have to level a craft that I don't really care about at the moment and I don't want to give armor to people I don't really know...

This is basically how I feel about it. Although I have several crafts at the mid thirties that can meld a few measely pieces of cloth and leather gear, I just don't feel comfy handing over my high level stuff and top tier materias to people I don't know. Add that to the usual tip or fee for the service, and it's a lot to entrust to players you aren't familiar with when there's nothing to stop them from running off with it all.

I also don't like bothering the high level crafters I do know. They're busy people and all. I'd much rather prefer a system similar to repairs to handle this. Or even as another poster suggested, an NPC capable of doing a single meld for a steep fee.

Until either of these things happen, my higher level stuff will remain unslotted unless I purchased it that way and my top tier materias will continue to collect dust until I'm capable of melding them myself. Which is a likely a very long way off, with as disillusioned that I've become with the crafting system on whole.

[Agoven]

There's nothing wrong with the way materia melding is done now. The only issue I have is you can easily see other peoples gear and what materia is attached. You have to go through several windows to see what is attached to your own gear.

[Geesus]

I think that crafters need to be the ones to enhance equipment. It should help soften the blow when an epic U/U drop is BIS. I honestly expected the crafters to make the basic armor, the better armor with mats that are rare drops and their place in epic drops from NM would be enhancing.

I want drops to be awesome and BIS but I really want crafters to have a important place. If I level carpenter to 50 and am an awesome crafter I want my work to mean something. But if I am a DoM and I participate in an epic battle with a NM and I get a super awesome earring I don't want a crafted piece to be at the same level. I want my super awesome earring to be buffed by a goldsmith.

Yep I agree. I've never understood how it is we can out stat NM/Primal gear.. ok, let me rephrase that Primal gear. NM gear should be a nice middle road sort of "cool" piece to say you did it and have solid stats not crafted or purchased but Materia should still beat it but primal gear....nope I don't like it at all. Mind you not complaining just think it's a bit strange and I can live with how it is but if it was an option down the road or something cool.

Personally I would like to see the +1 +2 melds be below a primal fight piece of gear. +3 and +4 well +3 maybe equal to or juuussstttt a bit less and +4, due to the difficulty to added it could be a better stat than a Primal but even that is something that could be designed as a "what if" type scenario.