Why does the Gold Needle even exist?

[Sedali]

Worked yesterday on a player who got petrified by an A rank hunt mob (ARR), so it seems to work with "level 50 mobs and below" as keyburz said.

[MagiusNecros]

Gold Needle won't work on Void Ark Petrification. Half the items you used to use for lvl 50 shit don't work in 60 content. Even worse is all items share a recast timer. So say use a potion that has a 4 minute cooldown. Your Gold Needle can't be used for that 4 minutes either.

Phoenix Downs should be a one time raise considering you can only hold one of them and be able to be used in battle like EVERY OTHER FF GAME.

Most of the items in this game for battle use are completely worthless.

It by extension makes my Alchemist mostly worthless. Orchestrion rolls though. >:P

[Sedali]

(...) Even worse is all items share a recast timer. So say use a potion that has a 4 minute cooldown. Your Gold Needle can't be used for that 4 minutes either. (...)

Agree, this is very annoying and doesn't make any sense to me...
SE, please fix that.

[randysquirrel]

It by extension makes my Alchemist mostly worthless

Max-pots...

[MagiusNecros]

Max-pots...

Emphasis on the word "mostly".

[MagiusNecros]

It's called the devs breaking their own rules.