Spiritbinding = Ex?

[NoloeTazier]

People will still buy items, no one will ever stop trying to become powerful. The difference here is you wont be getting 5 mil for breaking your head aganist RNG using it and then doubling your money (materia itself can still be a good gil seller (changes dependent))


Really how the economy changes will depend on what happened to materia. But the bottom line is either way things will sell, just for how much and therefore how big of a gil sink is it?

Yeah people will still buy items and blow things up for melds, but not on the levels that we did in 1.0. Nowhere near it. The big multi-melds will still be good but mostly a bragging rights thing. They're nerfing materia gains and boosting Dungeon drops through less RNG and more totems. When people can go into Raids and get things for free, they're less likely to spend gil on multiple gear and multiple materia to "attempt" an improvement.

[Shougun]

Yeah people will still buy items and blow things up for melds, but not on the levels that we did in 1.0. Nowhere near it. The big multi-melds will still be good but mostly a bragging rights thing. They're nerfing materia gains and boosting Dungeon drops through less RNG and more totems. When people can go into Raids and get things for free, they're less likely to spend gil on multiple gear and multiple materia to "attempt" an improvement.

They are nerfing the RNG for both materia and dungeon drops. I'm not sure where the get things for free thing is I'd have to read about that lol.


We dont know if dungeon gear will be better or not - yes materia isnt as powerful we have heard but we dont know what else has changed to materia or what has all changed to higher crafting.


If crafting gear is still more powerful than dungeon gear then people will still be making it. Perhaps crafts take more materials, or materia is crafted like (I suggested before, (and other games have done it... lo)). Its not black and white if we lost or gained a gil sink, at least not yet imo.

[Altena]

Yeah people will still buy items and blow things up for melds, but not on the levels that we did in 1.0. Nowhere near it. The big multi-melds will still be good but mostly a bragging rights thing. They're nerfing materia gains and boosting Dungeon drops through less RNG and more totems. When people can go into Raids and get things for free, they're less likely to spend gil on multiple gear and multiple materia to "attempt" an improvement.

Not sure how true this statement is. To begin with, it's not specifically dungeon drops that they are buffing up - it is balancing character stats & gear stats so gear has less impact. The completionists will still go for "best in slot" which has a high chance of some slots being materia melded, they just won't have as big an impact as they did in 1.0 because character stats will mean a lot more then they did previously.

I daresay there will still be slots (such as INT head or STR melded gloves) that will be ideally better then dungeon gear, but we probably will see less melded body pieces etc.