Remove Elemental Resistance? More Changes to Spiritbonding Needed?

[Duelle]

No one is going to give up an actual useful stat slot for resistance, unless someone was trying to be a special snowflake. Untill they give them their own slots they will forever be useless.

They could go the AQ/Naxx40 route and tune content in such a way that it forces people to stack resistance in some way. Killing Sapphiron in naxx was difficult without some frost resistance gear (there was even an achievement for killing sapphiron with everyone in the raid having below a certain amount of frost resist).

Still agree with the OP.

[TheRogueX]

I honestly feel like they're put there in place of a chance to fail a conversion. Since you can't fail converting gear, there has to be a chance to get nothing (or garbage, which is the resistance materia) so that you don't get good stuff every time you convert.

Elemental resistance materia exists because there has to be a "booby prize" for converting gear. If every ticket wins the lottery, the guys running the lottery would go broke. (I know it's not a perfect analogy.)

Both of these reasons are asinine and you know it. The randomness is in what grade of materia you get and what stat it is. There doesn't need to be a 'fail' or a 'booby prize.' That's simply ridiculous. I don't understand why some people can honestly justify some of the broken systems that are in this game.

[zeth07]

Besides removing the useless elemental resistance, it should really be whatever stat is on the piece of equipment is what it pulls from for converting. So yes if you are doing DoW/DoM accessories you have a 1/2 chance at getting a stat you want, which sure isn't far off from the current 1/3 for DoH and DoL.

And before anyone talks about how it would impact the market, they sure in the hell don't care about that:



Tier 4 Prices
DET = 610,000 (x8) = 4,880,000 (no fails, which isn't probable) ------Tier 3 = 10,000......
CRIT = 385,000 (x11) = 4,235,000 (no fails) ------- Tier 3 = 10,000.....

TOTAL = 9,115,000+

ACC = 137,900
VIT = 90,000
SKL SPD = 79,998
PARRY = 75,792
SPELL SPD = 72,000
PIE = 70,000
STR = 33,000
INT = 31,790
DEX = 30,000
MND = 25,000

Ice = 36,000
Water = 34,000
Fire = 29,999
Earth = 29,000
Lightning = 24,396
Wind = 22,000


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Gathering = 260,000
GP = 223,000
Perception = 100,000

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Control = 300,000
Craftsmanship = 199,900
CP = 33,000 (not a typo)

[skaterger]

Since we're on the topic of useless materia, anyone knows whats up with the str/int/vit materia? Will we ever be able to use them?