Edit: Had a talk with Androziel. The current arrangement is temporary, and the single move tutor will be split into 4, for different categories of attacks. Each will ask for a specific color. Not sure how pricing or acquisition of shards will be changed beyond that.
All move tutors have been combined into one NPC in Tsukinami village. (This includes the old man in Nowtoch, the ninjas, the dentist, and so on.) This was confirmed to be a very deliberate choice to streamline the game and won't be reverted. So here's the current status of the situation:
1. All moves cost 4 of each colored shard (red, blue, green, yellow). Moves that were free or $5000 in the past now cost this amount.
2. There are very few sources of shards. They are a drop from breaking coral, and they don't drop in great numbers.
3. You can't see the list of moves he offers if you don't have the required shards, it looks like.
4. All move tutoring is backloaded to the end of the game.
All of these strike me as a problem, but I doubt #4 will change. I'm going to address the others. So: you need an uncommon currency from a single, tedious farming spot to learn any move tutor moves, and you need a lot of it. On top of that, you can't even preview the options without gathering up all that currency first. (I don't remember that being a restriction in the canon games.)
So, what can be done? I think there's three reasonable solutions:
1. Reduce the shard cost for move tutoring
2. Make shards more common
3. Change it to require another, more attainable kind of currency altogether
I'm delighted to finally have the full range of move tutor attacks available, but the current way is a downer. Since move tutoring is absolutely essential to make the most of many Pokémon, this pricing seems excessive. Will it be changed?
All move tutors have been combined into one NPC in Tsukinami village. (This includes the old man in Nowtoch, the ninjas, the dentist, and so on.) This was confirmed to be a very deliberate choice to streamline the game and won't be reverted. So here's the current status of the situation:
1. All moves cost 4 of each colored shard (red, blue, green, yellow). Moves that were free or $5000 in the past now cost this amount.
2. There are very few sources of shards. They are a drop from breaking coral, and they don't drop in great numbers.
3. You can't see the list of moves he offers if you don't have the required shards, it looks like.
4. All move tutoring is backloaded to the end of the game.
All of these strike me as a problem, but I doubt #4 will change. I'm going to address the others. So: you need an uncommon currency from a single, tedious farming spot to learn any move tutor moves, and you need a lot of it. On top of that, you can't even preview the options without gathering up all that currency first. (I don't remember that being a restriction in the canon games.)
So, what can be done? I think there's three reasonable solutions:
1. Reduce the shard cost for move tutoring
2. Make shards more common
3. Change it to require another, more attainable kind of currency altogether
I'm delighted to finally have the full range of move tutor attacks available, but the current way is a downer. Since move tutoring is absolutely essential to make the most of many Pokémon, this pricing seems excessive. Will it be changed?
