Make materia inlaying a NPC action, not a crafter action

[Xenor]

I don't think there needs to be economic balance between the disciplines. Even in real life someone who runs a successful business is going to earn more than someone who mines coal for a living or joins the army.

I still think the better solution is to give battlers their own content to make money from that crafters can't get involved in. (Selling loot that from NMs and dungeons). Crafters will always be involved in the gatherer's content because without a crafter anything that can be gathered is trash.

[Peregrine]

This isn't real life. Again, that crafters tend to petition it to be is an inherent problem with the people who play crafting jobs. It sucks, but the kinds of people who play on Wal Street have inherently different perspectives on what people who do should be entitled to, and that perspective usually does not match what the rest of the world thinks they're entitled to.

Gatherers should not be in the coal mining SES. Did you just say that's how it's supposed to be, in a videogame? Sounds like it.

Gatherers should be designed so that townie crafters are common McDonalds managers without their direct assistance, and that only crafters with direct lines to top gatherers should be significant.

But that's not how it works now.

[tragic]

Peregrine, you keep bringing up that materia gear is no longer exclusive. Where was this stated? I haven't seen this.

[Peregrine]

Mm I can't remember. It is on this forum by an official entity.