Dark Matter, does these still matter anymore?

[BobbinT]

Up to now, the usage of these stuff are getting kinda useless, especially since npc can repair up to 100% condition. And till now, we can't even repair others too.

Back in 1.0, having repairs have quite big benefit. You can get quite income for repairing others, and npc only repair up to 99%, forcing players actually dependent on others who has the ability to fix your stuff.

Back then, I don't have every DoH class high enough to repair stuff. But now in ARR, I have capped them, and felt the repair feature are getting looked over. I don't even bother repairing gear myself even though I could. What's the point? NPC now can repair fully, and money's not really big deal anymore.

Also... back in 1.0, in dungeons when there's players who forgot to repair stuff, he/she can change to DoH and repair themselves, or have others help you for it. Now? players are totally screwed if they forgot to prepare their gear conditions.

All of these come to this point: Do we still need to keep some DMs? Either make the repair feature back where it used to be or improve it, or... just remove it completely.

[Seif]

I have enough crafting 50s to repair my own gear but SERIOUSLY SE WHAT THE EFFIN' DUCK?!

Have you people ever TRIED repairing your own gear? It takes forever to switch classes for every single mitten and spear.
100% NOT worth anyone's time over just using a mender with one click.

p.s. Thanks for making leveling these crafts next to useless!

No I have nothing good to say about this system it's the worst part of the game right now.
Also doing it yourself doesn't save you any gil and wastes inventory space so... no... just don't even try it kids.

[MicahZerrshia]

I sold all mine. Why switch to 5 different classes to repair 5 different pieces of gear when you can repair it all in 2 clicks for pocket change.

Its just another way SE is making crafting absolutely useless

[Fluttersnipe]

I think it would be cool, but at the same point a major pain. Not all your armor is made by the same class, so you'd need to get multiple classes to repair a single character's gear set.

[Nayto]

Only to the super frugal they do. Think it was a bigger deal way back when it was stupendously hard to make gil.

[Delmontyb]

For the record I voted that they make it where any class could repair all gear like they have it now with the NPC. Sure it isn't close to realism, but it would be nice if we could bring up the repair menu and repair all just like we do with the NPC.

And when I say voted, it was during the players poll back in the day. I'd like to see them do another one now that ARR is released.

[Shneibel]

or just remove it out of the game because it is now super useless ._.

[Garlyle]

or just remove it out of the game because it is now super useless ._.

Sadly, I agree. At 2.0 they might have been useful due to far lower gil in circulation and higher repair costs; by now it's utterly pointless.

Besides, Dark Matter should be reserved for much more valuable drops/mechanics. It has a very special place in the FF universe.

[UBERHAXED]

Sadly, I agree. At 2.0 they might have been useful due to far lower gil in circulation and higher repair costs; by now it's utterly pointless.

Besides, Dark Matter should be reserved for much more valuable drops/mechanics. It has a very special place in the FF universe.

This is exactly it. They designed the system with the 2.2 repair costs in mind. They lowered the repair cost (so it no longer takes 10000 gil to repair from 50% in full 90) and this was simply looked over. If repair cost were the same as launch then this topic wouldn't even exist because people wouldn't use npc unless they had trucks of gil to waste.

[Pandastirfry]

Even back in 1.0 I only ever repaired to 100% if I was going to try and sell the item, or it could be stored in the armoire (even then rarely, I'd usually just stick it in my retainer's inventory). Never saw much use for player repairs, always saw it as functionally useless then as all 100% repair did was make it sellable/tradeable 99% and not having to track down several different crafters and carry around several tiers of dark matter was far more convenient, and even if one crafter class could repair all gear, still would be kinda useless.