Repair NPCs Do Not Charge Enough

[Irondude]

the price is so low it might as well cost nothing. Why would anyone ever repair someones gear for under 5k? It's just a waste of time. I know that you still need actual people to repair gear up to 100% before you can trade it, but that simple is not enough business to keep someone trying to do repairs all day for people. Gear repair should scale with gear level like everything else.... I think it does that now actually. It just has the max too low to even be noticeable.

Is it posted somewhere the logic of why we can not trade gear unless it is at 100%. I can't think of why this is needed. I'm sure its been over posted 100 times. this subject has to be pretty common.

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10~ = 2k max
20~ = 5k max
30~ = 10k max
40~ = 15k max
RARE/EX = 25k max

[RemVye]

Yeah, no





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[Vawn]

Needing gear repaired was extremely annoying. It was very difficult to find someone to repair it. The new team is smart enough to realize the system was poor.

I think the current system is a good compromise. It is no longer a hassle to repair your gear for use, but if it is important enough, you'll either need a high craft or pay for someone to fix it when/if you wish to resell it.

[Aistaraina]

Just because you're rich enough to spend 10,775,000 gil on half a pack of arrows does not mean the rest of us are.

[Xenor]

They should just get rid of the repair system altogether. They've dumbed it down so much that it's now irrelevant. Ifrit drops dark matter like candy so everyone I know has stacks of it. That stuff is worth less than 1k now I'm sure.

[grandm]

does any1 resell things any more with spiritbound? but i think your prices are way over priced a lv 20 paying out 35k to fix themself's don't seem fair

[neorei]

Needing gear repaired was extremely annoying. It was very difficult to find someone to repair it. The new team is smart enough to realize the system was poor.

I think the current system is a good compromise. It is no longer a hassle to repair your gear for use, but if it is important enough, you'll either need a high craft or pay for someone to fix it when/if you wish to resell it.

quoted for truth..

[Irondude]

I don't disagree its a poor system. I don't know if the plan is to revamp it altogether and what they did was just putting a band aid on it until they have implemented other more important things, or if they really like the repair system and want to expand on it. I just think now it feels like its a little half-arsed right now. They did add dark matter which makes me think they want to pursue player based repairs, but then they set the NPC price so low it eliminated the need to have people do repairs. It doesn't really matter for anybody right now its just a minor annoyance.

[Irondude]

so the general consensus is the repair system sucks. Why add dark matter? Why not just eliminate it?

[Aistaraina]

so the general consensus is the repair system sucks. Why add dark matter? Why not just eliminate it?

Because they (SE) still feel crafts are supposed to be "real" classes. Once they kick that stupid mentality, the system will be removed. I hope.