Repair NPCs Do Not Charge Enough

[Solace]

Your costs are lol high. If I had to guess I'd say you have craft jobs and no dom or dow. Otherwise you'd never recommend rep costs that high. That's just ridiculous.

[Overkill9000]

i don't think the prices are bad, i think that they give 99% is bad. imo they should lower gear wear just a hair and put it back to npc ->75% and crafter to 100% but yeah im lvl 50 and i have a hard time paying 5k a repair. i don't always like to do things that make money and you don't make much by doing leves anymore. i'd have to do 3-6 leves to get a full set repair, even now... make it higher?.... no thanks.

right now our market is so terrible that it is hard to rely on for money; so i vote no.

[indira]

it charges plenty when you play all the jobs and crap happens then you have to return after getting killed.

it fine how it is, no one want to spend all day shouting for repairs.

[Kopuno]

How about, since you seem up for gilsinks, specially because you seem to have tons of gil to spend. Why not make the repair NPC take 5-10% of your total gil, if you have over 5m. I think that sounds good too, also make sure Airships and chocobo's work that way as well. Hell, even make a few to change classes, and add in the charge there!

/lolthatwouldmakemegiggle
/sarcasmhumoroff

[Jinko]

it charges plenty when you play all the jobs and crap happens then you have to return after getting killed.

it fine how it is, no one want to spend all day shouting for repairs.

This ..

It's a good example of how crafter only players have no idea, I pray the dev team don't listen to them too much because they have already messed up the U/U gear from dungeons and raids just to appease crafters.

[Mikita]

There are two sides to everything.

First with Dark Matter, now with NPC repair costs so low, most people only offer the same grade of Dark Matter or maybe a few hundred gil in tip (above the cost of the matter) as a "reward" for helping them repair their stuff.

I've pretty much stopped repairing strangers' stuff.
It's not worth using my in-game time for that.

[Zeref]

There are two sides to everything.

First with Dark Matter, now with NPC repair costs so low, most people only offer the same grade of Dark Matter or maybe a few hundred gil in tip (above the cost of the matter) as a "reward" for helping them repair their stuff.

I've pretty much stopped repairing strangers' stuff.
It's not worth using my in-game time for that.

This is a part of the problem, They fixed perfectly fine EXP rates after you people complained about not getting enough EXP, and now you refuse to get more EXP because OMG NOBODY IS PAYING ME TO LEVEL UP, But what do i care....

[Jinko]

I've pretty much stopped repairing strangers' stuff.
It's not worth using my in-game time for that.

I've never repaired a strangers gear unless they specifically asked, there really has never been much money to make from repairs unless of course you gather the Dark Matter and sell that in the wards.

Personally I think they should remove player based crafting from the game completely and make it 100% npc, of course crafters everywhere would kick up a stink if they did this.

Having materia isn't enough so it seems.

[Edgecrusher]

This is a part of the problem, They fixed perfectly fine EXP rates after you people complained about not getting enough EXP, and now you refuse to get more EXP because OMG NOBODY IS PAYING ME TO LEVEL UP, But what do i care....

The problem as i see it, was that at one point...i could get...i sh*t you not...50,000 gil for a damned 40 leve, just walking up to the guy at the desk, and then going to the Atheryte, and just popping a one star leve, got me 50,000 gil. (ah the good 'ol days.) now ..i personally was too busy ranking DoW stuff to totally devote alot of time to crafting, plus i thought alot of it was broken (i'm sorry but carp had a r8-9 bow that took a r40-ish Wvr bowstring...and that's just ONE example there are others)..and YES that's my own fault..but i'm digressing.

My point is, i'm not sure what you were getting on crafting leves at the time...but if it was the same as DoW leves...that means for every 4-6 leves..you were making 200-600k, just for showing up and hitting things with a hammer. so of course when you throw out money like that..you get just INSANE pricing, and if you WERE smart enough to rank DoH, you could charge high ammounts and honestly unless you were the laziest bastard in the history of Hydaelyn, you had enough not to feel the hit.

Now..fast forward to 1.9, leves give NOWHERE near the same ammount...and to be honest the exp is awful and the fact that alot of people see them as pulling teeth when thanks to beastmen outposts/strongholds, the addition/increase in non-leve mobs that give good exp, and the fact i can link those and make it to 50 somewhat easier, made leves unappealing to say the least.

Point being is the costs of alot of things have dropped, getting repairs are a touch easier even if it's only to 99%...so frankly people aren't about to farm leves, grind, and do whatever else just to pay a repair to another player when frankly if the person comes up with their own dark matter and gives an extra say 2k for your time, you should be a good guy and just give them the nod, instead of pissin and moaning that you aren't getting 5k or more, when you know as well as i do, that you probably got that damned red cobalt cuirass on the wards for 600k anyways. (damned besaid >.> )

Either be a cool guy when it comes to repairing, or tell whoever you think is being a cheapskate good day. (I SAID GOOD DAY SIR!)

[Zeref]

What edge said is basically what I'm getting at, and complaining that You're losing income on repairs is just awful, the only people who I've seen Start a DOH simply for the repairs were the ones that wanted to repair their own gear, if you've got a DOH above level 25, and your main source of income from that discipline is repair jobs, you're doing something wrong, because all the gear you could be making and selling should make you more than enough to comfortably give away repairs however you feel like it, I've neglected my weaver a lot, but I still repair nub stuff if someone asks me without asking for anything in return because effectively why would i charge 5k a lvl10 Archer to fix his vest when for ten minutes of resource gathering or 5k of my cash I can make 50k worth of vests and just sell them :/ penny for your thoughts.