[Dev] Repair system problems

[ApplePie]

So, people think it is hard to imagine a weaver repairing a weapon with "dark matter" but don't find issue with the fact "dark matter" repairs everything? Kay. Both are for convenience. Just do it for convenience. Making a poll for this is a bad idea........

[Naylia]

So, people think it is hard to imagine a weaver repairing a weapon with "dark matter" but don't find issue with the fact "dark matter" repairs everything? Kay. Both are for convenience. Just do it for convenience. Making a poll for this is a bad idea........

Nope...I have issue with Dark Matter too. But don't have much of a choice now.

I agree Poll is a bad idea. Every camp will have an NPC that can repair your gear. That's all the convenience you need.

[NoctisUmbra]

So, people think it is hard to imagine a weaver repairing a weapon with "dark matter" but don't find issue with the fact "dark matter" repairs everything? Kay. Both are for convenience. Just do it for convenience. Making a poll for this is a bad idea........

Universal material is fine. Dark matter is defined as such.

Repairing a longsword with a needle... no.

[Zoltan]

It is a fact that many people had a problem with the implementation of dark matter.

Since when are Eorzeans physicists anyway? Sounds more like it should be in SWtoR than FFXIV.

Yes there's a problem with a weaver repairing armor. It's more than illogical, it's insane.

I agree that crafters will not be inclined to repair items to 100% after the 99% repair NPC implementation unless the increase the price where players will not want to pay the NPCs.

It used to cost a lot to have your gear repaired by an npc. Especially when starting out and players had no gil. Now gil is plentiful and they only offer one dark matter for repair fee. That's BS and I won't do it. Go level the DoH job yourself you cheap dark matter offering piece of.....

[ApplePie]

Universal material is fine. Dark matter is defined as such.

Repairing a longsword with a needle... no.

Kay, SE should create Repair Kit so that any craftsmen can repair anything! Oh! People still have issue even in that case, I'm sure. Kay. Universal for the sake of universal ^-^ should just make a "repair job"!!

And please, explain how you repair something with dark matter? I'm pretty sure a needle will have the power to repair anything with "dark matter."

[Moiren]

Go for PLAN A please!

[NoctisUmbra]

Kay, SE should create Repair Kit so that any craftsmen can repair anything! Oh! People still have issue even in that case, I'm sure. Kay. Universal for the sake of universal ^-^ should just make a "repair job"!!

And please, explain how you repair something with dark matter? I'm pretty sure a needle will have the power to repair anything with "dark matter."

I'm not going to argue semantics here. I've argued against people calling these changes 'dumbing down' before, because honestly the crafting/repair system was much too convoluted.

However, the 'any crafter can repair any item with a repair kit' idea is pure dumbing down at this point with all the other features they are adding.

Getting a repair on anything is no longer an issue with repair NPCs charging 5k at the most for repairs and them being everywhere. If you need to sell something then find the appropriate job. It really isn't tough at all. This game clearly went in a direction with a variety of crafter classes. Making it so ranking one of them up makes you able to repair everything just oversimplifies.

Dark matter on the other hand - while it can be argued in either way - solved the convoluted repair mat system where it was difficult to gauge what repair mats were worth, and how certain items has the easiest mats to get while others had nearly-impossible ones.

[akisato]

Why is Plan B always the better plan?

[naaros]

I'm loving the new repair info! NPCs repairing to 99% is absolutely fantastic! And contrary to what some have said, the pricing is about what I was wanting it to be - slightly more money than what crafters can do. I was hoping they would be able to repair accessories in 1.19, but it's nice to know you are looking into it for a later patch at the very least. As far as Plan A or B goes, I really don't care as long as the NPC is cheap for accessories (as we can equip so many - currently, anyways; apparently this is changing).

Plan A would be totally fine with me, though. I hate having to worry about repairing SO many items - especially because the process as it is now is so tedious and slow. And you can only repair 5 items at a time in your bazaar, so I can't even go AFK most of the time in case someone repairs and I can put something new up.

[Kiote]

Yea, I had a fairly in depth break down of this and lost the text somehow so I'm going to keep it simple.

1.19 Repair updates are spectacular. They are exactly what the repair system needs to become reasonable after having removed 90% of the system.

1.20 Updates are ridiculous, they are completely unnecessary and make literally no sense. It is once again removing what little depth the crafting classes have and is counter productive to Yoshida's own plan to give crafters influence over the economy.