Spiritbinding = Ex?

[Westers]

Not liking the idea of binding regular crafted gear at all.

I want to sell my double melded piece of armor for what ever it's worth, or be able to pass it along to a friend when I've just spent millions buying new pieces of armor and materia on creating a better triple melded piece of armor.

The idea of the market being over saturated with old gear is void for the simple reason I've mentioned above plus more I'm sure. People will be buying newly crafted armor to blow up, while trying to upgrade there older armor. As well as buying newly crafted gear for the soul purpose making new materia to sell or blow up. IMO armor with good materia upgrades can be better then some dungeon armor.

You could argue that yeah, there would be tones of low level gear floating around. But people don't normally stay low level very long. Plus all the low level DoH will be able to make there own gear, making low level armor pretty much worthless to begin with. In my experience that armor just got sold to npc's or I just would drop it to get more inventory space.

Long story short IMO the way the system worked at the end of 1.0 was just fine. Most times when you try to fix some thing that already works, it ends up breaking.

Westette, looking good in those earrings ^-

[MizoreShirayuki]

Glad I leveled Culinarian

[Pseudopsia]

Glad I leveled Culinarian

Hehe, this feature makes other crafting classes like Culinarian class. For food is consumed so you can't use it then sell it. With character binding, gear is now consumed when you use it.

In RL cloths break down over time when they are used, however in a game they don't. Could you imagine RL economy if cloths last forever? An alternative to gear binding is to have gear break down over time then it gone after a certain amount of use and you can only repair it a certain amount of times. I actually think this would be a worse system because your super expensive or hard to obtain item is lost eventually.

Other alternative been tried at the start of FFXIV 1.0 is reducing items from going into the economy. This was done by making crafting of an item super complicated where you would need a ton of items and several of those are crafted items that contain crafted items. This made crafting frustrating because you could be spending hours to craft a single piece of gear. Yoshi changed this and reduced the materials required to craft a piece of gear.

Materia system was an okay alternative. However it really only removes the cheapest gear and gear worth melding.

Gear binding is an acceptable alternative to me. I currently can't think of a better alternative right now.