Thread: Any craft Repairs/Affxing - are you for or against ?

I said yes to the repairs, no to the affixing.

I have always been for any one being able to repair any thing with a higher botch rate for off class repairs.

I think they should keep repairing as-is, since you can easily get an NPC to do it anyway, and repair requests is a pretty cool feature. They don't need to "unrestrict" repairing any more than it already is.

Materia, however, is a different story. If they let all DoHs meld materia to anything as long as the DoH level was high enough, it'd be a really good thing.

-It'd make things more balanced for Goldsmithers, Alchemists, and Culinarians, who aren't able to meld materia as much as the other DoHs. These jobs currently aren't as viable as "main"/first DoH jobs since you can't use them for melding most of the time.

-Since there's no "melding requests" like there are repair requests, it really sucks to get all your equipment melded if you don't know anyone trustworthy with the right DoH job. You basically have to trade your equip and materia to someone else and I don't even know if people ever do this with strangers. I've never seen anyone /shouting for a melder in Ul'dah, for example.

-I really hate having to switch my DoH tool all the time when I'm melding several things that require different DoH jobs. It's such a chore of going in and out of laggy menus. Not my idea of fun.

Letting all DoHs meld would be a huge improvement imo.

for repairing i said it was fine as is.
for affixing, i said everyone should be able to do it. it really does become sort of a hassle.

my opinion might change if the following occurs:

some sort of passive system for affixing materia. (ie. I put the materials up in a bazaar like system, random crafters can affix. similar to the repair features now)

As an alchemist, I would like to (and it seems logical) that I be able to affix my own materia. Just my two cents. *shrug*

As they are now, I'm for any for both.

Repairs use a magical item to fix gear and materia uses different tools entirely -- even though your character uses your class' tools the key item you get are the melding tools.

This would be a big boost for crafters for one main reason -- fewer total crafts in the market.

I know a lot of people level multiple crafts and DoLs to fix and meld their own gear. This then creates more competition across all DoH classes. Since repairs/melding aren't a source of profit -- since if they can't fix or meld it themselves most players have a friend who can for free or at cost -- it'd be better for the overall community to take a one-class-does-all aproach.

That way people won't feel slighted when they release good items dominated by a single class like the Ifrit weapons and goldsmithing.

It's a win/win for all those involved, even those who will inevitably come on and say something like "One class can fix/meld?!?! Slippery slope argument #345,567,344!!!!"