When they gonna delete yellow materia all together?

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Originally Posted by Themarvin

excelent fillers for transmutation... so yes they got a use.

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So, it has "a use"... as a way to get something worse so that you can then bloat your inventory with those worse things to go somewhere specific to then have a chance to turn the worse / bloat items into a worthwhile item you'd otherwise have had automatically if the bloat items did not exist?

Granted we could say the same for all melding. With GCD tiers neutered through increasing removal of duration-based buffs and debuffs, there is virtually no meaningful customization available through it. It's almost purely a gil sink.

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Originally Posted by Underscore

I'd rather they design the game such that those materia are useful.

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All they would have to do is to make enemies and bosses hit a ton more harder and fix tenacity's scaling that it would be a must have stat for damage reduction. While for piety they could just increase the MP costs of spells while putting little piety on gear to get players to use more piety materia.

The should nerf passive mp recovery so that piety is more useful.

Unless abilities begin to cost MP, then you just end up with either no effect or even GCD heals requiring identically scheduling even for PuGs...

I'm not sure that makes any more sense than slowing the GCD to 3 seconds so that the %global-recast-time-reduction of SkS/SpS is more potent or would be necessary to return to old syncable GCD tiers. The main Piety problem lies elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

They should just combine Direct Hit, Tenacity, and Piety into a single yellow materia whose effects depend on what role you are so we don't have three different types. While we're at it, combine Spell Speed and Skill Speed.

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Speed, Power, Break?

Speed = Skill Speed + Spell Speed
Power = Det, and Piety for healers and Tenacity for Tanks
Break = Crit

Tbh, though, an equally large waste just comes in the form of having multiple grades of materia, or materia as items at all instead of a granular currency you can insert whatever amount of up to the given gear's cap. Just grab and move the sliders for the three colors, drawing from your total of each materia currency collected.

How about they make materia actually interesting.

At least Tenacity does some good, but not enough to slot into gear...

Piety is so bad that Healers actively try to avoid it because it eats at other stats.