Quote Originally Posted by Cons View Post
So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?
It will. It gives people absolutely no reason to buy from the market if their 3 retainers can farm things like snurble tuft, flax, diremite web, electrum ore..etc. I don't think they'll be able to get unspoiled node items but that just means instead of farming those other items, your time can be invested in clusters/crawler cocoons/etc. Materia isn't exactly something people readily invest into because everyone knows Dungeon Gear > Crafted and it's not going to change, toss in ilvl requirements and it doesn't matter if your gryphonskin ring is penta-melded and ACTUALLY better than a garuda ring, if you don't meet the ilvl requirement you don't get in. People are already grinding the tomestones that the gear requires..and vanity reasons still won't produce much buying power.