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    Zeth Hiryu
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    Dragoon Lv 100

    Remove Elemental Resistance? More Changes to Spiritbonding Needed?

    Does anyone actually care about Elemental Resistance? It seems like a giant waste and is probably ignored by everyone anyway. It has it's own tab (besides the other resistances) which serves no real purpose and we are coming close to 1 year into the game with it being almost entirely useless.

    Which brings me to the next point of having the materia for all of them show up in spiritbonding which is terrible. Having the materia you get be random is one thing, but having so much useless materia just skews the results so much that it's seriously a pain. Meanwhile crafting/gathering are narrowed down strictly to materia that applies to them, which makes sense and is how it SHOULD BE.


    Tier 4 CRIT and DET go for ABSURD prices on my server, so if I want them for Novus I would have to spend well over 7 million on materia, not counting failures. Is that really what they expected people to do?

    So what's the alternative for someone who doesn't want to spend 7 million? You need to SB Tier 3 gear for a small chance at a Tier 4, but you are already against the odds of FOURTEEN different materia, compared to Crafting's THREE. Or you SB higher level gear that takes way longer but at least you're getting Tier 4s but you're still going up against terrible odds to get what you want.

    Removing Elemental Resistance at least gets rid of 6 possible materia (down to 8). So the next step would be to get rid of tank materia on gear that is clearly meant for DPS, there's no reason for me to get Parry materia on DPS equipment. It would make a lot more sense if the possible materia for DPS gear is STR, ACC, CRIT, DET, SKL SPD. That's still FIVE different materia compared to DoH/DoL's THREE that I would have to randomly get.

    And Tier 4 Gathering/Crafting materia is still pretty expensive, so the effect on the economy probably wouldn't matter too much.

    I'm literally sitting on my Alexandrite now because I refuse to spend 7 million+ on Tier 4 materia and I am having no luck with SBing, not to mention how long it would take to actually GET all the materia even if I was fortunate enough to get the ones I want.
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    Last edited by zeth07; 08-19-2014 at 03:18 PM.