Bosses, Crafters, and Materia.

[Jinrya-Geki]

The Materia system has wiped out pretty much everything content. Darkhold, most of the Ifrit Weapons, and most of the Stronghold rewards are useless comapred to it.

The only way to make it all balanced and even out is quite obvious.

Make ALL bosses drop materials, absolutely no dropped U/U gear. Give the material to a crafter, and have them make the gear. When made the gear is still not U/U. They can then put materia into the gear making it even better.

The crafter can then trade it back to the user. When they equip the gear it then becomes bound to them and becomes U/U.

This way, there is a reason to repeat dungeons and primal fights more than once, crafters are still getting work, and content gear isn't rendered completely useless.

My two Red Wizard gil's is less than 2 gils of Gath.

[TheVedis]

I agree with material drops to an extent

I would much rather have had Ifrit drop "Ifrit Horn" as a material to be used in weapons made then to have him drop the weapons themselves

HOWEVER, in doing this you make it so they cant be unieque and untradable, which is what they also need to be in their own right.


There has been talk about getting drops to be slottable also and that is the actual direction we need at this point

[grandm]

can we have some facts to prove this. i would love to hear from any1 tht has a better materia weapon than an ifrit weapon

saying that a materia gear is possibly better than dropped gear, is not the same as showing proof that it actually exists

[Jinrya-Geki]

can we have some facts to prove this. i would love to hear from any1 tht has a better materia weapon than an ifrit weapon

saying that a materia gear is possibly better than dropped gear, is not the same as showing proof that it actually exists

Have you seen the two mage weapons? Those things are the most pathetic items. You can easily craft a staff or wand with more Magic attack potency than those.

[grandm]

Have you seen the two mage weapons? Those things are the most pathetic items. You can easily craft a staff or wand with more Magic attack potency than those.

ok granted i agree, but in general to say that materia gear is making drops obsolete is bending the truth. materia gear has the potencial to be better but how much of it is actually about

i have heard the problems of mage ifrit drops and i'm with you that should be fixed, maybe after class balancing they will fix it

[HiirNoivl]

Have you seen the two mage weapons? Those things are the most pathetic items. You can easily craft a staff or wand with more Magic attack potency than those.

My single Meld WaterBrand is better than the Ifrit Cudgel. I love the idea of getting mats instead of gear.

[Alise]

can we have some facts to prove this. i would love to hear from any1 tht has a better materia weapon than an ifrit weapon

saying that a materia gear is possibly better than dropped gear, is not the same as showing proof that it actually exists

Agree, as I said before in another Thread, the best and rarest non-ifrit Axe is my server got beaten when get in a test compare to ifrit Axe..

Yoshida said that maximum of 5x materia into 1 weapon would beat it.. but who already has it? and how many billions would he need for that?


Counter to the post above, I think stuff power should come with rarity:


-NQ white with 4+ materia, HQ white with 3+ materia, Nq Green with 2+ materia, HQ Green with 1+ materia. (or above)
-Blue
-NQ white with 3x materia, HQ white with 2 materia.
-Green
-NQ White with 1-2 materia, HQ white with 1 materia
-White


(Getting HQ(equal to +3) green is harder than Blue btw)

[Jinrya-Geki]

I said they become U/U when the crafted item is equipped.

[TheVedis]

I said they become U/U when the crafted item is equipped.

thatd be acceptable too of course

[Delsus]

I said they become U/U when the crafted item is equipped.

That would mean that you cant get someone to craft them for you, therefore they are locked to people who have crafting classes leveled, so wouldnt work at all.