What bothers you most about the current synthesis system?

[Emphrygian]

The economy currently is a raw materials market. As someone who is leveling CRP and WVR, I can attest to the insane prices of materials. On Rabanastre it can cost me upwards of 10-20k per synth depending on the route I take.

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Which I again offer a simple, two-fold solution: Make static access to appropriate level leves and allow melding to be a one-class-does-all endeavor. Everyone wins, now one has to feel cheated.

While I agree that costs like that for a single synth are a bit insane, I feel like I must also play the devil's advocate and point out that there is an option: level the appropriate DoL classes. As the current economy is, as you say, lopsided towards the raw materials this seems like a win-win situation. You get the materials you need and you can sell any surplus you get on the wards, which in turn can help lower the prices for materials overall (if more people do the same). I realize that you didn't really request lower material requirements for synths (or higher EXP gains per synth), but I still think this needed to be said.

That said, I do agree that leves should be static as I'm constantly annoyed by not finding the appropriate ones.