Tossing the currect materia system for 2.0 for new one

I've always thought the idea of it even being possible to quad/penta meld ridiculous. I'd rather melds be capped at triple and, maybe, increase the stats of the higher quality tier IV materia to make a perfect meld something that is obtainable and, therefore, something players can realistically compare to a piece of rare/ex gear.

A piece of rare/ex gear is pretty strong, comparable to triple melds, but even the possibility of quad gear makes that dropped gear underwhelming.

Me from another thread, assume that the crafted gear is also melded.

"I still prefer the XI model. Have some equipment slots of crafted gear be fairly easy to obtain but have very good stats and only beaten by the hardest content at the time. Then some equipment slots dungeon gear be fairly easy to obtain and only beaten by a HQ crafting proc of an already expensive recipe.

Something like a crafter can make a pretty good, inexpensive body piece for blm that they use for most of the content, and then they finally replace it in the last or second to last dungeon. Then have one of the first dungeons drop a ring for blm that is some where between the NQ and HQ crafted rings."

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Right now you can barely swap gear out of battle without grinding to a halt, I really hope you don't think they purposefully designed it like that lol.

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Wait, it's what we should be saying it seems :P The fact that gear changing is horrible because of the engine currently doesn't change the fact that you can do it. You can't be saying they purposefully designed it to be slow and laggy ;) The fact is, you can change gear outside the battle now and you will be able in 2.0, just more easily/faster.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Right now you can barely swap gear out of battle without grinding to a halt, I really hope you don't think they purposefully designed it like that lol.

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Of course no, but just because they are bringing gearsets into game doesn't mean they will let you change midfight because they have said before that they are against the idea of changing clothes midfight. Will they change their mind? maybe, but there was this long thread before anyway where majority says they do not want mid-fight gearswap.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

He was probably sarcastic, though people do glorify FFVII beyond what it deserves.

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Too much truth in this statement...

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Originally Posted by Elexia

You do know in ARR they confirmed we're having gear swapping, right? He even talks about it.

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Link it to me, please.

It would be nice if the upcoming crafter's AF added +Materia Meld Success a certain percentage.

Personally, I'd like to see a materia system that's a bit less complex. Limit 1 materia per slot, if you remove it from your gear, it breaks. For it to really work, the dev team would have to add new, better materia options.

Another idea is that they could add a fifth tier of materia that is more powerful, limit materia to one piece per slot, and have it to where there is a chance of breakage on death kind of like crystals in TERA.

Something about having to fight Knights of the Round has me rather excited...

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

"Gearsets" is basically what gearswaps was in FFXI.

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They also mentioned maybe 1 or 2 gearsets per class/job. So It's hardly gear swapping. It's more like having a DD and a healing build for WHM, "DD" and tanking build for WAR/PLD. Not "use this for invigorate" builds.