Dark Matter, does these still matter anymore?

[Lucke]

How would you repair a leather jacket with a bow?

First, you poke some good sized holes with your arrowhead, then you use your bow string as stitching to attach the patch or close the rip. Of course, after repairing something with the bow, you gotta buy a new one to replace it, but hey! at least we don't have to waste .5 seconds switching classes!

[Giantbane]

How would you repair a leather jacket with a bow?

So long we can also gather stuff without changing to a DoL class and getting exp by killing enemies without changing to a DoM and DoW class.
Best would be if we can do everything on only 1 class once we leveled all to 50, then we don't need to change to another class anymore.


A bonus is already ingame, but watered down since 1.0 launch. the bonus to save gil.
At 1.0 launch it was a decision between PC repair for 80k gil each lv45+ gear or crafter repair for only 3k gil as a thank you. You got cheap repair, the crafter got easy 3k gil, everyone was happy.
I wish SE would increase the NPC cost again. At least to 500 gil for 40% repair of lv45+ gear

Don't be asinine.

Current DoH repair system sucks and it's not because it's not "worthwhile" to do it. It's because the act of using your DoH classes to repair gear is extremely tedious for what you're doing and you're not even allowed to repair your gear when you'd need it most (in a dungeon).

Just allowing you to repair without switching classes would go a long way to removing this tedium.

EDIT: and the answer is NOT to make the normal repair system more tedious. Your average, non-DoH player does not usually want to be forced to interact with DoH if they don't want to.

[Welsper59]

Don't be asinine.

Current DoH repair system sucks and it's not because it's not "worthwhile" to do it. It's because the act of using your DoH classes to repair gear is extremely tedious for what you're doing and you're not even allowed to repair your gear when you'd need it most (in a dungeon).

Just allowing you to repair without switching classes would go a long way to removing this tedium.

Agreed. Repairing gear is a completely different matter than anything the person you quoted said. Logically, it makes sense that you have to be the class to do it. Functionally, it's absolutely ridiculous, especially when you consider how often you have to repair, the number of craft classes you need to switch to for full repair on numerous jobs/classes, and the fact that you can break gear in dungeons/raids and be restricted from being able to repair because of system limitations.

[HakuroDK]

So long we can also gather stuff without changing to a DoL class and getting exp by killing enemies without changing to a DoM and DoW class.
Best would be if we can do everything on only 1 class once we leveled all to 50, then we don't need to change to another class anymore.

By that logic, how about we just change it so converting gear into materia requires the proper DoH class and level to convert it? That will surely solve all of our problems right there.

[Zider]

So long we can also gather stuff without changing to a DoL class and getting exp by killing enemies without changing to a DoM and DoW class.
Best would be if we can do everything on only 1 class once we leveled all to 50, then we don't need to change to another class anymore.

Gathering, crafting and fighting is based on gear stats. Repairing (and melding materia) is 100% success (well, not overmelding..), gear doesn't matter at all. Apples and oranges.

[Lucke]

*Crotchity old man voice*

You guys have no idea how easy you have it with repairs. Back in my day (That being early release 1.0), we didn't have dark matter, oh no. No, we had to actually use crafting mats to repair gear. If you wanted to repair say, some mithril plate armor, you had to use mithril plates as the repair mat. If you wanted to repair a cotton robe, you needed cotton cloth. For many people, to repair a full set of gear required like 15 different items of different quantities all taking up precious inventory space. The dark matter introduction was welcomed because it at most, only took up 5 slots.

Seriously, how lazy are you if you can't be arsed to spend AT MOST 30 seconds repairing gear?

[PROBOUND]

*Crotchity old man voice*

Seriously, how lazy are you if you can't be arsed to spend AT MOST 30 seconds repairing gear?

Lol Couldnt have said it any better

[Penguinmayhem]

I'm level 50 in all eight crafting classes.

I mostly only get repair mileage out of Leatherworking, Weaving, Goldsmithing and Blacksmithing.

But I'd still rather have dark matter any day of the week because it costs less than half what paying for repairs normally costs.

[HakuroDK]

I have an idea. How about making it possible to repair gear without changing classes? I mean sure, still rely on class levels to determine what can and cannot be repaired, but just try to make it possible to repair without changing classes.

[Drako]

Ya I like that idea as well. Some kind of bonus for repairing your own gear, or having someone repair it(eventually down the road) Having it degrade slowly, heck give it a marginal stat buff(this coupled with being able to repair others gear would really make crafters wanted).