Novus Meld Failure - Remove Please

[Giantbane]

It is a statistical impossibility to even think that someone would never successfully meld and should not be taken into consideration. That would be like asking for CRT to a floor as well because someone with 20% has a probability that he could never crit anything ever.While the systems (Novus and Spiritbinding) could use improvements right now, you can't disagree that people are grossly over exaggerating how terrible they are.

I think a lot of it has to do with cost. There's a serious potential for blowing more $$ worth of materia than a house costs. And well, you saw how happy people were with that...

But no, the potential for some players to get the short end of the stick isn't as bad as atma or overmelding. But it's still another pure RNG system "press button and hope for the best!". They're getting ... old.

Either way, you may have a few hundred thousand players attempting stuff like this. It's very likely someone's going to have a very bad time. Why do that to a player who's paying the same money as everyone else when they can't impact the outcome?

But your crit example actually highlights a better (IMO) way of implementing this sort of thing. Killing something has no bearing on whether you crit or not, you just kill faster when you do crit. So even if someone was so extraordinarily unlucky as to never crit, they would still get the result they're looking for eventually (kill the monster). So you have an RNG factor, but you can still win even in the absolute worst case.