Melding raid gear

[Kiara]

Hi DoctorMog,

Totally agree.

Yoshida-san, please allow Materia Melding on Unique / Untradeable Gear. A lower % rate of success is one way to balance it; or balance the stats in a way to allow them to be on par with at least ~1 - 3 Materia Melded Gear (obviously some Ifrit Weapons are OK, but the vast majority of U/U Gear is inferior to 1 - 2 Materia Melded Gear).

The sad part is, rebalancing Stats for old Gear (FNM drops, Dzemael) takes very few resources away from your 2.0 work (it's # adjustments). And allowing Materia Melding on them isn't too toilsome, either (compared to, say, creating brand new armor sets, etc.).

[Zantetsuken]

Hi DoctorMog,

Totally agree.

Yoshida-san, please allow Materia Melding on Unique / Untradeable Gear. A lower % rate of success is one way to balance it; or balance the stats in a way to allow them to be on par with at least ~1 - 3 Materia Melded Gear (obviously some Ifrit Weapons are OK, but the vast majority of U/U Gear is inferior to 1 - 2 Materia Melded Gear).

The sad part is, rebalancing Stats for old Gear (FNM drops, Dzemael) takes very few resources away from your 2.0 work (it's # adjustments). And allowing Materia Melding on them isn't too toilsome, either (compared to, say, creating brand new armor sets, etc.).

ungh... how many times to I have to say this..

[SIZE="5"]Allowing Materia melding on U/U is a HUGE undertaking that WILL take resources away from 2.0 work.[/SIZE]

There is no system in place that allows you to meld, craft, or alter multiple items simultaneously in another person's inventory or Bazaar.

If you want it after 2.0, fine... but I'd rather they just boost stats a bit for endgame U/U items (of which there are only 51)

[Edgecrusher]

ungh... how many times to I have to say this..

[SIZE="5"]Allowing Materia melding on U/U is a HUGE undertaking that WILL take resources away from 2.0 work.[/SIZE]

I'm sorry, could you repeat that, and this time use caps so we can understand it better...

[Vexerus]

I agree this would balance U/U and crafted gear. However, this would be a nightmare for linkshell leaders. Think for a sec if in FF11 you could meld Ridill and E.Body. People killed themselves just to get one copy of these items. What would happen if you wanted to obtain 10 of them to double meld? Not a fun situation to think about.

Other solutions have been mentioned so I won't go there, but I'm in favor of giving U/U items one free slot and limiting crafted items to 2-3 slots.

[DoctorMog]

I agree this would balance U/U and crafted gear. However, this would be a nightmare for linkshell leaders. Think for a sec if in FF11 you could meld Ridill and E.Body. People killed themselves just to get one copy of these items. What would happen if you wanted to obtain 10 of them to double meld? Not a fun situation to think about.

Other solutions have been mentioned so I won't go there, but I'm in favor of giving U/U items one free slot and limiting crafted items to 2-3 slots.

Might be tough on loot distribution, but allows for some serious replay value of old content.

1 patch later and darkhold is useless.

remind me why I should ever step foot in there again?

Or for a new player: Ever?

[Vexerus]

Might be tough on loot distribution, but allows for some serious replay value of old content.

1 patch later and darkhold is useless.

For this type of content, I'm hesitantly in agreement. Unrestricted melding on uncommon items would be ok. I'm thinking along the lines of some of the other posters: green items meldable, purple items not (better stats than currently).

remind me why I should ever step foot in there again?

Or for a new player: Ever?

Currently, you shouldn't. Just wanted to make the loot distribution point.