Upgrading U/U items to make them better.

[Firon]

After reading a few threads on people wanting to do Materia on U/U items i just don't see it being popular.

Why risk blowing up your U/U items you spent hours trying to get?

Why not just risk blowing up crafted gear that can be easily bought again and you can attempt to Dbl meld?

Why would putting Materia on U/U items automatically make them better?




The Plan

What they should do for U/U items is make an upgrade system for u/u items. This idea could also make old content have use once more. Take the Blade dancer boots from Darkhold I think its like 3 dex and 3 evasion or something like that.

Basically what they could do is make you use items from the respective dungeon to upgrade U/U item's to make them better than materia items. So Lets take those blade dancer boots from darkhold with 3 Dex and 3 evasion and see what they could look like upgraded.

How it works.

Lv 0: 3 dex 3 evasion: Obtain item from chest.

Lv. 1: 8 DEX 8 Evasion: Recluse Hippogryph Hide x3, Diamond Hedgemole Quills x4, Alpgrot Orobon Skin x3

Lv. 2: 13 Dex 13 Evasion: Recluse Hippogryph Hide x6, Diamond Hedgemole Quills x8, Alpgrot Orobon Skin x3

Lv. 3: 18 Dex 18 Evasion: Hardened Ogre Skin x5, Ogre horn x2, Ogre Claws x6.

Lv. 4: 23 Dex 23 Evasion: Batraal Skins x5, Batraal horn x2, Batraal wings x6

Lv. 5 28 Dex 28 Evasion: Batraal Heart x1, Ogre Soul x1. (Maybe the last upgrade could let you choose an bonus stat of your choice)

How the actual upgrade should be taken care of.... I'm not sure but i would think Npc would be good to get this done for a small fee. That could also help remove gil from the game.



Conclusion

1. This system would make U/U and U gear more worth while.

2. This system could make content last much longer.

3. Adds long term goals to the game.

Some of you might argue I could just dbl meld 2 evasion Materia on my shoes but, you can't put Dex on that. I feel that are plenty of good items in the game if only they had better stats on them.

Option B

Just increase the base stats of all U/U gear so they are better than double melded gear. I think this would be the best and easiest solution for the dev team.

Thanks for reading. Choco-boco-lina!!!!! WARK.

[Duuude007]

Option c: don't let augmented melder work on U/U, i.e. no more than one materia at a time, ever.

[Firon]

Option c: don't let augmented melder work on U/U, i.e. no more than one materia at a time, ever.

If you did that, then crafted gear is still better by a long shot -.-

@ Felis that still wont make U/U gear better. That is just a lame cop out for making content last longer. The game should be all about progression and that does not help at all.

[Duuude007]

If you did that, then crafted gear is still better by a long shot -.-

As it should be.

[Firon]

As it should be.

Then there is no point is doing anything in the game then <.< Just lvl to 50 do some dungeons till your bored then toss it away. Some of us actually want this game to last.

[HiirNoivl]

Then there is no point is doing anything in the game then <.< Just lvl to 50 do some dungeons till your bored then toss it away. Some of us actually want this game to last.

Crafters are gaming beasts that deserve to be rewarded for their hours of efforts. Farming Instanced bosses is a cakewalk in comparison.

[Jinko]

As it should be.

If you think this game can survive without proper dungeon gear or reason to do those dungeons then you can think again.

Come 2.0 if Yoshida keeps this stupid system of crafting gear being the most powerful the game has to offer its going to fail.

There needs to be some balance, with dungeon gear having a slight edge.

+1 to the idea Firon, Personally I would only like to see 1 meld on U/U aswell, it would be horrendous if after 4 upgrades and 1 materia you failed on the 2nd. (that is game quit inducing stuff)

I duno why we can't meld as many times as we like with no chance of losing the item, make materia rarer so the only risk is losing the materia, failure rates still apply but don't destroy the item.

I am sure I will not going all the trouble to get xxx batraal crap to upgrade a U/U when primal wep are still better

Huh, one is a weapon and the other is armour.

Crafters are gaming beasts that deserve to be rewarded for their hours of efforts. Farming Instanced bosses is a cakewalk in comparison.

Crafters need their own server then lol, cause I don't want that shit in my game ! /foot stamp

.. this is mostly sarcasm by the way ..

If they made the good U/U gear take several months to obtain that would help, because then people would buy crafted gear until they could get it. There are many things they could do to "reward crafters" but it's so unfair to make every dungeon every primal and every quest useless just to make crafters happy.

This, if content required the farming or U/U tokens which you could trade in for gear it would make content worth repeating and longer to get the items you want.

Ifrit and Moogle took a step in the right direction with the addition of Kupo nut charm and inferno totem.

[Mirana]

hmm i don't know but i think I've heard that the gear from Dzemael can be trade for seals in grand company
and some of them (NM crafted gear) will be upgrade-able but i can't find the link so maybe it's just the rumors though.

[Felis]

Also, as we mentioned yesterday we’ll also be implementing special U/U item delivery (from content like instanced raids) to obtain company seals and we don’t have any plans on having caps on this content.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post561941

[ArnoMorley]

I don't see what would be so bad about allowing us to meld U/U gear, if people don't want to risk breaking it then they don't have to.