Ifirit, how it could have been done better.

[AmyRae]

Instead of a crafting recipe, I would propose setting up an NPC.

Ifrit would no longer drop weapons, but a key item.

You would take this key item to the NPC, and the NPC would "craft" it into any of one the "Ifrit Weapons" you would desire, avoiding the whole "market forces" problem that a recipe would have.

This way, there would be a lot less waste, and it would be up to the person with the random drop to get a weapon they'd find useful. There would be no requirement for need, greed, evil deeds, whatever.

[Bahn]

Instead of a crafting recipe, I would propose setting up an NPC.

Ifrit would no longer drop weapons, but a key item.

You would take this key item to the NPC, and the NPC would "craft" it into any of one the "Ifrit Weapons" you would desire, avoiding the whole "market forces" problem that a recipe would have.

This way, there would be a lot less waste, and it would be up to the person with the random drop to get a weapon they'd find useful. There would be no requirement for need, greed, evil deeds, whatever.

This would be a good solution to the current Ifrit loot problem. There's already a similar system set up in place for the faction leves and their runestone drops, so I can't see how this couldn't be easily implemented. Add some lore to why this NPC is capable of turning them into weapons and bam, problem solved. Or, obviously, as Murugan pointed out, just make it drop in the regular friggin loot list in the first place so you can give it to the party member that ACTUALLY needs it.

Also, I've been following your posts for awhile, and you make some of the most succint, straight to the point, yet well thought out posts ever. I saw your posts as you continuously fended off the trolls who were arguing against the reduced subscription rate in that other thread; people tried to argue against you using Walls of Text to no avail. You gotta teach me where you learn to write like that.