fuck, Stormblood made a change that wastes 20-30 mins of time. They removed carbonized matter from the game since you don't need it for materia melding now. It's not on the MB, vendors don't sell it, quests don't give it. Sounds fine, right?
But there are gathering job class quests that require 99 of it.
So now I gotta go and mine 20+ nodes for 30 mins to get 99 grade 1 carbonized matter ;_; to advance the miner job questline. Guessing Botanist job questline will run into the same issue.
*edit* actually wasn't a big deal. Never collected 99 of things before, only the 40 item leves, but it didn't take too long, maybe 10 mins. It's kinda funny because they changed the job quest dialogue with 4.0, now when you bring carbonized matter back, the person says "yeah, they used to need this for melding materia to gear, but recently they discovered catalyist-free melding so it's useless now, but technology advancement is great! So good for them."