Please no items binding to players....

[Kairyu]

There is absolutely no need for this. I hear people saying that it will keep the crafters going but that is what the materia system is for. With the materia system people will still constantly be blowing through gear to try and get materia, so there will always be a need for crafters.

Making it to where you cannot sell your used gear is just plain retarded. I really hope SE changes it because in my opinion there is no point. Crafting was very essential in 1.0 and it would be the same in 2.0 without this stupid binding feature. If anything this will make the market or AH pretty lame imho.

[KiriA500]

I don't see why it's a big deal. All the worthwhile gear is going to be from dungeons...so crafters will just make stuff for houses.

[DoctorMog]

They did this with NM drops in 11.

Remember the droprate?

yeah, that's because over many years, if the droprate is good, the price goes down to worthless.

They later then changed the items to rare/ex to prevent the bottoming out of prices on non-rare/ex items.

If you want 2% droprates on NM's and bosses, by all means, let everything be tradeable. Otherwise, think before you type.

[Delsus]

I don't see why it's a big deal. All the worthwhile gear is going to be from dungeons...so crafters will just make stuff for houses.

Or if they carry on like they have done, the best gear will be for the richer people to meld all their gear (depending on exactly how they change the materia system) and dungeon gear will just be a step up to the melded gear.

[Taika]

There are already two separate threads about this issue:

1. Item Binding
2. Spiritbinding = Ex?

[Bita]

They did this with NM drops in 11.

Remember the droprate?

yeah, that's because over many years, if the droprate is good, the price goes down to worthless.

They later then changed the items to rare/ex to prevent the bottoming out of prices on non-rare/ex items.

If you want 2% droprates on NM's and bosses, by all means, let everything be tradeable. Otherwise, think before you type.

Making rare items easy to get makes them not so rare. Whats the point of having easy drops for everyone? just go play another mainstream mmo for that.

[Altena]

Making rare items easy to get makes them not so rare. Whats the point of having easy drops for everyone? just go play another mainstream mmo for that.

I would prefer challenging content that only a handful of people are capable of, over a grind fest to get the piece of gear to drop 1% of the time.

[Bita]

I would prefer challenging content that only a handful of people are capable of, over a grind fest to get the piece of gear to drop 1% of the time.

challenging content plus rare drop rates is part of what made xi so good. I think there should be a good mix of trade-able and non trade-able items.

[Pseudopsia]

Geez Louise! Stop creating new threads while there is already a thread on this subject; in fact two.

[DoctorMog]

Making rare items easy to get makes them not so rare. Whats the point of having easy drops for everyone? just go play another mainstream mmo for that.

Because droprate should be good,
Fights should be challenging.

Both problems solved.

Well, for good items anyway.
Mediocre items can come from easier nms.