Does FFXIV really need repair? Fix?

[Feilina]

[..] It's never an outrageos price. And, I don't have to worry about giving another player my gear to fix.

At release of 1.x we had to had leather patches and other mats to repair, later on we got the now known dark matter. The NPC's to that time repaired max 99% for an outragous price. This has to be known first.

Atm SE has lowered the repair and dark matter costs significantly just after release of ARR because the hasting majority wasn't able to earn money and the haven't been willing to earn money, dungeons mostly have been the top priority. But shortly after the rush they realized that FFXIV ARR isn't exactly the game they played before, be it WoW or LotrO or GW ...

Back in Beta we have been able to gather dark matter, so any repair would only had one cost... time.

[HEC]

Back in Beta we have been able to gather dark matter, so any repair would only had one cost... time.

I'd like to see that re-introduced, possibly with some of the improvements suggested above (only one dark matter, having matters stored in the shards tab, not needing to change to craft class to repair, being able to accept / perform repair requests for other player).

[Feilina]

Those 5 grades are good, and might remain. If we get a little personal basar just like the one in the past would do it.
And repairing is crafting and should remain crafting.

What I try to say is, don't let us ease all and everything. A bit of complexity can't be bad. Just look how many people whish back the crafting (or parts of) we had in 1.0/1.x

[Highlanderx]

And - indeed it would be nice not to be foreced to swap arround crafting classes to do the repairs but once you get into habit doing your own repairs it's not that much of hassle anymore and it's considerable saving too.

Even when you get used to it. It is still a Hassle. Especially if you swap classes alot, seend doing so rearranges all you equips in the armory chest.

Its definately a savings though, since a buy them with GC seals. Actually dont have any other use for seals.

[Classikal]

And - indeed it would be nice not to be foreced to swap arround crafting classes to do the repairs but once you get into habit doing your own repairs it's not that much of hassle anymore and it's considerable saving too.

This here is actually the only issue I have with the repair system, Having all DoH at 50, it's still a annoying having to change to 4-5 different crafting classes just to repair all my equipped gear. If I could do it from my current DoW/DoM just for having the requisite DoH at 50, I'd repair my own gear all the time, I have np keeping a stack of Grade 5 Dark Matter in a far off corner of my pouch. And it would easily be cheaper than going to the NPC.

[Penguinmayhem]

My only problem with the repair system is that you can't request other people repair your stuff like you can request melds.

Seriously why is that not a function it should be a function that would be so good.

[Alistaire]

This is stupid. Don't remove repair. So what if it doesn't save *that much gil* vs going to a mender npc? You don't take something out of the game because it's NOT gamebreaking. That'd be like saying "Oh, we should remove auto-attacks from the game because they don't do a lot of damage."

It doesn't hurt you that players with crafts levelled can fix their gear cheaper than others.

[Lucke]

Repairing isn't even a gil sink though. You get dark matter for free from your GC. Just do some FATEs or sell some green/pink dungeon gear and BAM! 99 of every tier Dark Matter. The only gil sink is having an NPC repair, and that's dirt cheap.

[TheRamosOnline]

Allow repairing to be done outside of the class required to repair it (you just need to have the class at the appropriate level and the tools required to use its abilities), allowing repairs to be done during dungeons.
Remove the need for Dark Matter entirely and swap out the main skill bar for the appropriate repair class bar and repair the item (in the same way you'd make an item).
Boom, repair system is now a viable thing that can stay in the game.

[YuiKitahara]

Yeah unless I can't afford the repair fee or player repairing gives more benefits (like durability would drop much slower or so) I think I won't try to find a player to do this for me =/