Former WoW player: Suggested changes to FFXIV Raiding end-game

[Shurrikhan]

There's no fee to have a friend do it tho, and many will do so if you just ask in a city.

I'm not sure why the point here is so elusive. It is a brief but nonetheless convoluted series of menu-steps that neither has an engaging final result (the small additions to secondary stats at % per stat point so low one can at best barely feel the difference) nor engaging process (extracting materia, melding materia, retrieving materia -- none of which processes are fundamentally necessary, but simply exist, as it were, to exist).

Are we really so certain that such is the best and only way gearing customization can or should work in this game?

If not, then I don't see why materia existing should mute any and all conversation on gear customization.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm not sure why the point here is so elusive. It is a brief but nonetheless convoluted series of menu-steps that neither has an engaging final result (the small additions to secondary stats at % per stat point so low one can at best barely feel the difference) nor engaging process (extracting materia, melding materia, retrieving materia -- none of which processes are fundamentally necessary, but simply exist, as it were, to exist).

Are we really so certain that such is the best and only way gearing customization can or should work in this game?

I won't say yes or no to that. But frankly, I prefer minimal stat changes over skill changes and the like.

I don't think it's that confusing to figure out or deal with. Materia is fairly straightforward.