SE, I need a Sugar Daddy!

[Arkghyom]

SE, Control Materia II is so expensive. I need a Sugar Daddy ASAP!

[HakuroDK]

You should force your slave lab-err... I mean your retainers to go farm for you.

[TomTom1968]

SE, Control Materia II is so expensive. I need a Sugar Daddy ASAP!

It would be enough if they raised the chance a bit when you convert your Materia. Out of 20 materias I bind, I get ONE control materia. Rest is predominantly HP materia and a few of the craftmanship Materia. I refuse to buy them on the market because of the prices (and the odd feeling to blast 50k+ to the roof on a 13% chance to insert it successfully). Looking at the rate I am binding Materia, my crafters will be able to craft 3 star recipes when they introduce 5 star recipies in 2016. Looking forward to it.

[KhalidTheGreat]

People might disagree with me, but I really think that materias should drop in dungeons at least at a very low rate.

It will lower the prices to a reasonable amount and also give crafters / gatherers motivation to do dungeon runs a bit more.

[Chibionieko]

Put on crafting accessories around level 30, go spirit bond them by running some dungeons, convert and repeat. you'll only get crafting materia, mostly 1s and 2s with an occasional 3.

[ImDingDing]

People might disagree with me, but I really think that materias should drop in dungeons at least at a very low rate.

It will lower the prices to a reasonable amount and also give crafters / gatherers motivation to do dungeon runs a bit more.

what is a "reasonable" price? This is free market and every character started with 0 gil unless they bought gil or got funding from their Alt/friends/FC members...
The demand is high because everyone want to craft 3-star and supply is low because people are lazy and just dont want to SB by themselves. So the price is high and it IS reasonable like the economy in the real world.

By the way, put on crafting acc and run dungeons will give u these materias way faster and more than "very low drop rate". If you want you always have the reason to run dungeon, people are just lazy.

[KhalidTheGreat]

what is a "reasonable" price? This is free market and every character started with 0 gil unless they bought gil or got funding from their Alt/friends/FC members...
The demand is high because everyone want to craft 3-star and supply is low because people are lazy and just dont want to SB by themselves. So the price is high and it IS reasonable like the economy in the real world.

By the way, put on crafting acc and run dungeons will give u these materias way faster and more than "very low drop rate". If you want you always have the reason to run dungeon, people are just lazy.

It's not about being lazy, I just think equipping crafting gear in dungeons is kind of a selfish thing to do.
But if everyone is doing so then I might just do it too.

[Haprimac]

It's not about being lazy, I just think equipping crafting gear in dungeons is kind of a selfish thing to do.
But if everyone is doing so then I might just do it too.

As long as it doesn't hinder your performance. On DDs I would agree, but I've tanked and healed many dungeons/speed runs with crafting+gathering jewellery. Sometimes somebody examines me and raises their brow in question, but so far nobody has had anything to complain in the end.

[Penguinmayhem]

It's not about being lazy. It's about the sheer amount of work you have to do to actually soulbind and convert gear, especially when you're level 50 crafter. Electrum gear? I have to grind on nuggets and things that cost stupid numbers of shards to make. That's hours upon hours of harvesting and then yet more hours of crafting relentlessly, monotonously, laboriously. And then the RNG just goes "here's a billion CP I materia instead". And then I have to overmeld all my gear to even have a HOPE of crafting i70 stuff, so that's materia by the dozens wasted because the probability for melding goes from 100% for the first couple down to Fuck You% for all the others.

I hate materia. I hate making them, I hate getting none of the ones I need, I hate the sheer RNG asshattery of it, I hate wasting hours upon hours of my life because of pure luck, and I hate having it all mean absolutely nothing because I fail sixteen overmelds in a row.

[Lyrinn]

I don't know about everyone else but my i45+ gear converts into Command III more than anything else. It got to the point where I just used Command III in place of Command II.