Forcing everyone to craft, Is it good direction for FFXIV?

[Yellow]

Judging from the comments in this thread o-o I like the repairing system used.

I wish other MMOs depended on the players more =[

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Which happens I had a similar issue in ffxi getting velvet slops. I had the required mats too. I needed them for the second bygrid quest so I can turn in my sub for the 50 dnc/thf body peice. And this thread eva does give off anti social. I used to be that way myself due to the ritlin I had to take. It made me put all my focus on my work and I felt talking to ppl was silly and a distraction. every person i met always asked me why I was quiet. I just never say a point in talking. And focused on my work.

Things changed after I played ffxi though I broke outa myshell.

[Evangela]

Judging from the comments in this thread o-o I like the repairing system used.

I wish other MMOs depended on the players more =[

yes, but that's because of a lot of players who don't want to craft... they already left the game

[JayvirDeforte]

That is only partially right. Most non-crafters that left the game left because they had nothing to do.

[Evangela]

and I never anti-social

I chose Besaid because it's the most populated server, I love to be in a large LS, crowd cities, grinding party, leve link, etc

I once quit the game after the Nov patch because they ruined the party grinding

since when I said I don't want to talk to people? even I'm not a native english user but I'm very sure I love to talk and maybe I talk too much and I'm not an anti-social player

[Randis]

it is fairly easy to find someone to repair your gear in Uldah and you can get most things repaired for 2-5k, its cheap.
I think repair feature is nice and gives crafters something to do.

[Lamhirh]

i like preent system. maybe the NPC is somewhat expansive, but it is only 'emergency' system.

[Gun_Anam]

I think the NPC prices are fair and required to assist in the building of the ingame community (ie. encouraging people to interact with each other instead of with an NPC), however I do agree that he should repair to 99%. 75% is when I start to think I may need my gear repaired. The NPC is a jack of all trades, master of none, so I don't think he should be repairing to 100%.

For those crafts with more uncommon materials, it's often a good idea to acquire the repair item yourself and stick it in your bazaar for sale, ie. selling the repair item for 5k with the repair up for 15k, to encourage a crafter to buy the repair item to do the repair.

I don't think I've used the repair NPC since November. There's just so many people out there willing to do repairs and help out.

[Arcell]

I havent taken any craft past 20 yet and somehow all my R40+ gear is somehow fixed. Its a mystery, oh wait no it isnt. I have a good LS.

[AntonyB]

due to the awful repair NPCs, limited repairing up to 75% with unacceptable price... everyone feel like get forced to craft, at least few classes to repair their own gear even someone just want to play the game as fighters but they can't

do you think they should keep forcing people to craft or change something like... repair NPC can do it up to 90%, can repair accessories, reduce the cost, allow the crafter guys at each camp be able to repair, etc

Maybe if you stop leveling your CON in level 48 Iron gear and a decent level weapon instead of the 47 CON weapon it wont break as fast and you won't need to have it repaired as much. I rarely have to repair my gear myself due to the new patch that lowered the dura.