Demicrystal Change

[icy_]

I'm pretty mad at this change. Demicrystal was my go-to when i didnt need relic or plant stuff.

I thought it wasnt even in the patch notes, but then after finally finding a match for 'price' I got this gem:



This is hurting normal players way more than some subtle method of controlling RMT, if that rumor even holds water.
For soil -- La Noscean has an awk method of acquisition, while Shroud and Thanalan appear to have tanked. Gl getting anywhere close to the pure 40k gil you wouldve had from demicrystals in the past.
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40k gil for the effort of MSQ and maybe 4 other roulettes was totally fair. Just a sad, sad change.

[Eclipse12187]

Just noticed this change today as well, at least with the fieldcraft demimateria they told us ahead of time it would get nerfed.. would have been nice to know ahead of time to empty out. RIP, guess I'm just gonna leave my poetics capped from now on.

[Uzadyn]

holpfully they don't attack leavequest turn-in next

[Hasrat]

Yeah I don't approve of this change, demicrystals gave me a reason to do rouletes when I had nothing else to do sometimes. Anyone have any other suggestions for Doman enclave now?

Spend some time in Eureka, if/when you get there. Lockboxes regularly drop all grades of clear demimateria and platinum pieces.

At first, I wanted to save and sell them all off to Doman Enclave to double up. But, their weekly budget is so low, it'll take months, probably near/more than a year to sell them all off solely to the Enclave.

(although, this stockpile is from spending some considerable amount of time in Eureka, still, shouldn't be too hard/long to get what you need. unless you just hate the zones)

[Liam_Harper]

An additional downside with the gear changes is that you can only buy augmented gear with poetics, making it much less efficient for desynth.

Perhaps they could expand the poetic vendor a little. Replace the Grade 6 materia with 7 or 8, add special desynth items for 150 poetics for each craft up to 400 skill, or even add a mount for something silly like 500k poetics for a long term goal.

[TheGrimace]

Yeah, noticed this change immediately. They also lowered the prices of the Allagan crafting items you'd receive from Binding Coil of Bahamut from something like ~125g down to ~25g. Lots of stuff like this.

But for real, we need a legitimate poetics sink in the game that isn't just relic fodder. I already have high Desynth in everything, and I have no need to convert poetics into equipment to convert into grand company seals to convert into gil or ventures or what have you. Until this patch, Demicrystals were a good happy medium. Now everything sucks.

Maybe they could develop some sort of mini-game that can be played using Poetics? Something with good but consumable rewards that cannot be traded or sold. Or maybe options that can be sold, but let's be honest, the amount of people that want to offload poetics is so high that any sellable options are gonna hit the bottom of the price floor immediately. There's gotta be something that Square-Enix can implement to make this currency worthwhile for those of us up-to-date.

[Flay_wind]

Well, one option is that you can buy a stack of NQ Goblinol and sell it. It's not that great, since it's 1 poetics to 6.4 gil rate, instead 1 to 20, but it's there.

[MsQi]

Yeah I don't approve of this change, demicrystals gave me a reason to do rouletes when I had nothing else to do sometimes. Anyone have any other suggestions for Doman enclave now?

Allagan Silver Pieces from the long retainer ventures.

[AduroT]

Allagan Silver Pieces from the long retainer ventures.

It’s what I use for the Doman Restoration as well.

[MsQi]

Now, I understand that with the free trial being extended to Heavensward, there could be some concern over gil inflation over time or RMT having to do with gil being too accessible in that patch of content, but I really do think there should be some form of reasonable and direct poetics->gil transfer available for players. Particularly when poetics have a sort of limited usefulness outside of a few avenues like the recent relic weapons.

In theory I suppose people could simply buy raw materials and shunt them off to the MB, but practically I think that would mainly have the effect of crashing markets. Considering that, is it possible for another poetics->gil exchange item to be added to further vendors in either Stormblood or Shadowbringers?

Free players are a monetary "island".