Spiritbinding = Ex?

[darkstarpoet1]

i'm completely against it for 3 major reasons.

1. how many times have you had your group going to do a primal or a dungeon and you need someone to play a class and them say "i can't play x class because i don't have the main weapon". normally that's simple because you can just check among yourselves and see who has one and repair it and let them use it for the party. i know i've had to do that a ton of times. now this will not be possible.

2. i know how i do materia gear myself and i know many others that do the same thing i do. we go out and get a nice set of decent double melded gear for the class and then use that gear while working on getting a triple/quad meld on another piece. once we get the upgraded gear we then turn around and sell the decent double meld off in the wards. it allows us to recoup some of the gil we spend going for the upgrade as well as give someone else a starter piece for the class they are gearing up. now the double meld we've been using while trying to upgrade is worthless as you can't sell it off or even donate it to another ls member that needs a starter set.

3. i remember starting the game and the hard time getting enough gil to upgrade my armor. i'd save until i got enough gil and then go buy the new gear. it would take almost all of my gil each time i upgraded gear on my first class. the only thing that i could look forward to was recovering some of my gil by selling off my lower level gear. now they are saying that new players are going to have to just throw away their low level gear and just eat the loss when they don't have the gil to afford losing. this is going to actually make things harder on the low level players. we're thinking of it as it not really hurting us as we all have millions, but what about these new players starting with nothing?

to me this is a retarded idea, but somehow it's not a surprise.