Have a Materia Melding NPC

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I like the convenience of being able to meld my own gear, and I still don't understand what the big deal is melding a slot for someone. The resources are taken from the requester's inventory. I think it's greedy for crafters to charge.

I do think there should be a melding NPC with 2 conditions:
1. They are unable to meld beyond the available slots
2. It's one of the goblin NPC's in Thanalan.

[Zumi]

I would say no because it is not hard to level your crafts. If you want to be self sufficient then level them crafts.

[Kurogaea]

Yeah just get rid off all the social interactions that's left in the game one by one.

Wow, little extreme don'tcha think? I think it wouldn't be that bad of an idea. those saying crafting would be useless (which is the dumbest thing I ever heard) are obviously wrong because crafting literally builds the community through the markets with its rare items and needed crafting gears, and that won't change with melding NPC since melding rng will most likely not change either.

Thats said, I wouldn't mind it. The request meld system itself it rather bland as just about anyone who even bothers with materia melding would be like, "oh, im gonna need to meld this at some point, I better get me a crafter class. Hum durr dur..)" and just meld their own stuff.
When the new relic quest come out, well I guess we'll be swimming in character interaction when we're all doing the same thing together, at the same time not caring about anyone else but your friends and social groups you associate with. Rid of social interactions, Interaction is a choice to begin with. I'd be more worried about immersion. -_-

[Kurogaea]

The issue with this is, why? Nothing restricts you from leveling crafting so if melding is that important to you, you can level crafting, what are you doing with your leves? If melding is important and you don't want to socialize then you have an option but you just want an easier method. That's what I don't like about this, it's just asking for an "easy"/"lazy" way of doing it instead of taking that effort to leveling crafting yourself.

Then a better question for you is, why not? It isn't bothering progression, doesn't bother those crafting, doesn't bother gathering materia for melds. If a player has the time and effort to grind for materia, then they deserve to be able to use it whenever they want.