Quote Originally Posted by Zanfire View Post
probably because people who are mainly DoW dont like to wait around for multiple different crafters to fix their gear. All this means is people who are willing to actually seek people out who need it or just want to have friends fix their stuff will benifit. Im very glad they are making repairs less intrusive to other classes. Its not like you cant already make gear that people depend on to keep up the economy or need you to attach their materia, that seem like plenty to me. crafters are very nessicary and even in FFXI they were just as important, but not something that you were pretty much forced to use.
All the changes made for 1.19 make the changes for 1.20 unnecessary. You will not be required to use crafters because NPC repairs will be cheap and effective. But taking away the Class specific ability to repair items only serves to degrade the crafter classes themselves, it does not benefit DoW/M in any way. In fact having to seek out a Specific crafter will prolly work to your benefit because it would give you the opportunity to sell the item to them for a discount and not have to worry about working the markets to get rid of your second hand gear.