Repair Prices

[SuzakuCMX]

When I see people offering dark matter for repair or lower gil of the dark matter I just ignore. No profit no repair.

Less than the cost of dark matter I see, but if they're offering you dark matter, you're getting free SP.

[Akuun]

Pre 1.18 I typically payed 100gil per rank
12 = 1200
50 = 5000
I think you get the point.
For my jade hora that required an HQ mat, I normally payed 10-15k a repair.

Now the repair mats can't be crafted and doesn't seem to be in mass supply from gathering just yet.
So, we are kinda at the mercy of those that can repair.
4500 for 1 grade 5 is pretty pricey considering most will want to make some profit for their time.
I'm going to venture out and say grade cost + 33-50% should be fair.
And if you want it done snappy + 75-100% or 2 of the dark matter grade.

[Eruantien]

Now the repair mats can't be crafted and doesn't seem to be in mass supply from gathering just yet..

they are gathered really rather slowly imo comapred to the price from NPC's.

[Gun_Anam]

I offered 6-10k per repair before the patch (dependant on item rank and urgency of repair), and I still offer 6-10k per repair now (dependent purely on what kind of mood I'm in).

There's still some items that can be bought for cheaper than the repair material, for example the other day in the wards there was 8 R45 belts for sale for just 3k when it would cost 4.5k to repair them. So I bought them all and will just discard when they're damaged since it's cheaper. I know I was paying double that to get my belt repaired before that.

Another thing I've been doing recently is offering 2 dark matter as reward for the repair.


The repair system is a massive gil sink and will likely send the ingame economy into a depression. The gil gain with the reduced gil rewards is less than the gil loss from spending on repairs. I expect people will soon start budgeting their gil reserves and the rewards for repairs will become much less. We'll see how this plays out after they've made the other changes.

[Shika]

I agree that there should be gil sinks in the game, as before the patch there was not actually an awful lot that I personally would spend my money on.

However, I would possibly like to see the price of the Grade 4 and Grade 5 Dark Matter reduced slightly. For example over the last two days doing the rank 45+ dungeon I have used up 20+ Grade 5 Dark Matter in repairing my own, other LS members and some random players' gear. Due to the "return damage" and having a few bad runs in the dungeon, gear can degrade pretty quickly as you all know.
As I don't charge LS members for repairs (never have done as in the past I had a ton of the repair materials stocked up on my retainers anyway- that I could gather quickly and for free), that's about 100K in just one type of repair material that I have lost out on.

I can't really bring myself to say to people I know "pay me the amount for the Dark Matter or give the Dark Matter in return", but if this carries on and I don't find chance to do some crafting and gil making exercises soon I could lose about 350K in a week and therefore 1.4million in a month! I'm hoping the dungeon running craze dies down a little lol.

But in all seriousness I think the higher grades could be reduced a little bit, and I'd really like to see an increase in the amount that you can gather. Having gained about 5+ levels on my FSH recently I only gathered 3-4 Dark Matter

[Rinsui]

Increasing the yield rates for DoLs would diminish the dark matter's value as a gil sink. I have to disagree, though, that they are overprized. I also watched my cash during the last few days, and even though dying quite a couple of times (soloing NMs has become WAAAAAAAAY more difficult), it always hovered around the same amount.

Of course, if you go to an dungeon, that cash can take a hit.

But then again: A dungeon is a dangerous place. Even for a wallet.

[SuzakuCMX]

The repair system is a massive gil sink and will likely send the ingame economy into a depression. The gil gain with the reduced gil rewards is less than the gil loss from spending on repairs. I expect people will soon start budgeting their gil reserves and the rewards for repairs will become much less. We'll see how this plays out after they've made the other changes.

Or maybe people will learn to do what they can and not attempt something ridiculous like an HNM without preparing for it properly.

I still make enough money off leves to repair my gear.

[Miyochan]

In my opinion, the repair price that petdo post is fair price.
I think the reason people cheap out is because they using wrong gear for their rank.
I think if they can manage to rank 40+ they will have lot of money from shard/crystal or leve reward.

So they can't say they don't have money. But yeah, we must leave their gear unfix without mercy.

[Wynn]

I agree that there should be gil sinks in the game, as before the patch there was not actually an awful lot that I personally would spend my money on.

However, I would possibly like to see the price of the Grade 4 and Grade 5 Dark Matter reduced slightly. For example over the last two days doing the rank 45+ dungeon I have used up 20+ Grade 5 Dark Matter in repairing my own, other LS members and some random players' gear. Due to the "return damage" and having a few bad runs in the dungeon, gear can degrade pretty quickly as you all know.
As I don't charge LS members for repairs (never have done as in the past I had a ton of the repair materials stocked up on my retainers anyway- that I could gather quickly and for free), that's about 100K in just one type of repair material that I have lost out on.

I can't really bring myself to say to people I know "pay me the amount for the Dark Matter or give the Dark Matter in return", but if this carries on and I don't find chance to do some crafting and gil making exercises soon I could lose about 350K in a week and therefore 1.4million in a month! I'm hoping the dungeon running craze dies down a little lol.

But in all seriousness I think the higher grades could be reduced a little bit, and I'd really like to see an increase in the amount that you can gather. Having gained about 5+ levels on my FSH recently I only gathered 3-4 Dark Matter

Wouldn't you agree that your situation is kind of your own fault? Shame on your LS members for exploiting your pocketbook. They are taking advantage of you and they know they are doing so. You should find another LS.

[Shika]

Wouldn't you agree that your situation is kind of your own fault? Shame on your LS members for exploiting your pocketbook. They are taking advantage of you and they know they are doing so. You should find another LS.

Yes, I probably shot myself in the foot for trying to be a nice person lol.

I am going to stamp down a little bit