Please let us socket materia without crafting

[dejavutwo]

Now that raid and tome gear has materia slots can we affix materia into this gear without leveling our crafting classes? As it is now, every time I get an upgrade I have to go to my static's crafter and ask them put it in for me which is fairly tedious.

[LaylaTsarra]

Now that raid and tome gear has materia slots can we affix materia into this gear without leveling our crafting classes? As it is now, every time I get an upgrade I have to go to my static's crafter and ask them put it in for me which is fairly tedious.

No level a crafter if you want to do it yourself. Maybe you want to be able to craft the items too without leveling a crafter because it's so tedious to have to do that. Sorry but crafters can't do raids without leveling a war/magic class and those who don't want to level the crafters shouldn't be able to meld. It's fine just the way it is.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

While we're at it, can I have gear from midas savage by just leveling up my botanist ? It's fairly tedious that I have to level up battle classes in order to get loot from there.

[Youkulm]

No level a crafter if you want to do it yourself. Maybe you want to be able to craft the items too without leveling a crafter because it's so tedious to have to do that. Sorry but crafters can't do raids without leveling a war/magic class and those who don't want to level the crafters shouldn't be able to meld. It's fine just the way it is.

While we're at it, can I have gear from midas savage by just leveling up my botanist ? It's fairly tedious that I have to level up battle classes in order to get loot from there.

This. No. Level it or ask for help.

[Chiramu]

This. No. Level it or ask for help.

lol completely missed that sarcasm, and I thought I wasn't good at seeing stuff like that XD. Zetsu's post was awesome XD.

[AzakaTonnerre]

Now that I can wear crafted gear, please let me craft crafted gear without crafting. Its fairly tedious to actually have to craft it.

[Shurrikhan]

I don't understand how it's so much to ask that dungeon and raid gear not newly require a crafter to really utilize. Because that's exactly what the extra slot on each piece does unless base materia slots become fill-able without a crafter.

Leave all slots beyond that for crafters, perhaps even including that first slot on crafted gear.

[Conradus]

I don't understand how it's so much to ask that dungeon and raid gear not newly require a crafter to really utilize.

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

[RaineAmorie]

No one cared about this until slots were put on tome/raid gear. It's all about supply and demand, there was no demand for melds before so no one gave a crap, now there's a demand and everyone wants to do it. Slotting materia is a unique ability only suited to crafters, just be glad you convert things without having the craft leveled.

You can't always have everything, hell I want to be able to take more than 3 auto attacks from a lv60 mob as DoL/DoH but I can't.

[Zojha]

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

The whole point of adding the slot was enabling more customization, which dozens of people kept begging for on the forums >_>

And even in those threads, people kept pointing out that materia was not the way to go about the customization if the melding stays in the hands of crafters because people would end up not utilizing the slots at all.

We've had these discussions before. Personally, I'd rather have non-customizable gear that I don't need to bother with beyond acquisition (Like we used to get). Should be an option, so that people who do prefer it the current way can get their customized melds instead.