Crafting in General - OMG Fix It

[Kiote]

Among the devs, we are tentatively calling this the Materia System, though that name may change. This new system will allow Disciples of the Hand to fuse materia to weapons and armor using special catalyst items gathered by Disciples of the Land.

Disciples of War and Magic can customize and personalize their gear
Disciples of the Hand can answer the materia-fusing needs of others
Disciplies of the Land can gather catalyst items to meet the realm’s demands


I’ll be posting more details on the Materia System at a later date.

This sounds, imo, absolutely awesome. My biggest fear about the new battle system is that we are going to loose a lot of customization. I would like to suggest, however, that you give crafters a way to remove "materia" as well. No one wants to have the koolest piece of armor ever, customize it, and then find a better customization.

[Kiara]

To Yoshida-san (and thanks Gildrein for translating / posting ,

YES! The Materia System is great news!

Please keep the name and here's "vote" to bring this system in as soon as possible!

It's as you said: It keeps Gatherers, Crafters and Adventurers involved with each other, customizing, tweaking armor and weapons to keep the game interesting (and go beyond what the standard RMT Botter would flood the market with (generic mass-produced items)).

Also, a post like this should go on LODESTONE's MAIN PAGE!

This is huge news and would surely get New Players interested (and Players who left, to come back).

Thanks~

[Sykora727]

Greetings everyone!

Naoki Yoshida, the FINAL FANTASY XIV Producer/Director, has given an update on the future of crafting and we would like to take this moment to share it with you.

That's great—but I'd love to still be able to buy and sell modified weapons. In it's own way it'd be a HQ item. Very fun!

[Delmontyb]

Oh please call it the materia system.
What my hopes with this is not only would DOL get the "catalyst" materials, but DOM/DOW would seek our rare materia that would allow for all kinds of bonus to gear.

Can't wait to hear more, good stuff.

[viion]

Very impressive

[Zhinse]

When you mention getting rid of the minigame process and progress bar I was a little worried. Sure, the process takes a lot of time for some people, but I enjoyed it at least. I can see that as a gameplay element it just made the process of playing with luck go on for a few minutes.

If we get in trade off, a more deep crafting system with items that hold value over longer periods of time and also differ in stats from other items of the same name, then i think that will be fine. If the crafter has to look at the economic situation and access that, i think that is a more compelling gameplay element. I do believe that right now the crafters disregard making profits, but if making profits is more emphasized on the path of the crafter, things would be more fun.

[Apricoth]

Very exciting! The instability issues seem to be cropping up more than usual. I experience at least one instability during most weaving synths and at least 2 instabilities during leatherworking. I will say, I hate LW and I hate the fact that I have to rank it up to 36 to get rank 40 weaver leves done. Thank you for addressing that issue Devs.

[obaley]

+1 for Materia system.

Sounds like awesome changes. May have to start getting in on the crafting business myself.

[Karbine]

I hope this gets some views or discussion going so please reply if you are in agreement or have an opinion;

I do not wish to see the Materia System develop into the synergy system from XI or atleast the one I remember. It was overly complicated and the benefits from it were minimal at best. I can assure you that killing 5 NMs and hoping you get what you want for a stone that grants +1 point of Defense against Birds will NOT go over well. Please consider this when making it.

Other than that it sounds very cool and I am glad to see this. I am very much in favor of the outline just please please please do it right!!!

[SilvertearRen]

I hope this gets some views or discussion going so please reply if you are in agreement or have an opinion;

I do not wish to see the Materia System develop into the synergy system from XI or atleast the one I remember. It was overly complicated and the benefits from it were minimal at best. I can assure you that killing 5 NMs and hoping you get what you want for a stone that grants +1 point of Defense against Birds will NOT go over well. Please consider this when making it.

Other than that it sounds very cool and I am glad to see this. I am very much in favor of the outline just please please please do it right!!!

It seems more like they will be following the models presented by other MMOs - with "enhancement slots" in weapons. Synergy is absurd, and they know that. :P