I just spent 3 hours gathering and crafting to overmeld a MH/OH tool and of course this was the result of that outing was losing all the materia I got from that on a single unsuccessful overmeld. This is such a terrible and outdated system.
I get that they need a resource sink but why not just make it so that it takes 6 materia to meld a 17% slot, 10 to meld a 10% slot, 15 to meld a 7% slot, and 20 to meld a 5% slot. When you average over the entire server, the same amount of materia and gil changes hands on the market board, the same amount of gil and resources is removed from the game, and you remove the super bad feeling of randomly losing a ton more resources than you expected.
Continue reading...
I get that they need a resource sink but why not just make it so that it takes 6 materia to meld a 17% slot, 10 to meld a 10% slot, 15 to meld a 7% slot, and 20 to meld a 5% slot. When you average over the entire server, the same amount of materia and gil changes hands on the market board, the same amount of gil and resources is removed from the game, and you remove the super bad feeling of randomly losing a ton more resources than you expected.
Continue reading...