Can Someone Knowledgable or a Dev Please Address This Materia Question/Concern?

As iLv70 items are usually what people care about for stat caps, here you go:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1707712

BULL.
This needs to be fixed.
It's terrible flaw in the UI and a constant frustration.
Please put it SOMEWHERE, or is this more PS3 limitations?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

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Then display it in the Lodestone and/or Lodestone app. Then it would still be available, if only sorta convenient, at least.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

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How about not on the gear, but in the meld window when the gear is selected. This way it is not superfluous.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

As iLv70 items are usually what people care about for stat caps, here you go:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1707712

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Firstly, thank you for your post! That was very helpful and nice of you to share your findings with everyone.

That said, IMPO you shouldn't have to do what you did. We shouldn't have to hop on forums to obtain this sort of basic information regarding equipment. Strategies, bugs, opinions, etc. Those are the sort of things I'd expect to use the forums for. Not basic information like equipment stat caps.

Why these caps are kept secret up until the attempt to meld materia to an item makes zero sense to me and I hope SE changes this in the near future.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

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Redesign the Meld menu, it needs an overhaul in any event, and add the information there when clicking on any given item that can be melded.

I never know what materia to buy because I have no way of knowing what materia (grade level and variety) I can actually apply to something I wish to meld. This has made me shy away from the melding system entirely. This information really does need to be displayed somewhere prior to the actual acquisition of the materia. I like the previously mentioned idea of gear surveyor NPC.

I presently have PLD at 49, all DoH at 45, and all DoL over 40. Due to the hidden stat caps, I have yet to bother with melding my own gear. I'm waiting until level 50 with the best gear I can get, before dealing with it. I keep hoping SE will realize how frustrating the present system is and eventually fix it. Sadly, I may have to accept that this will not be the case :(

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Originally Posted by Zeddy

Where does the game provide this information? Thanks for sharing I didn't know that?

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It doesn't. People had to figure it out on their own. Raldo put up a post of his test here. The formula he derived from it is a couple posts down from that one and is [Base] / (1 + .25 * [# of materia (+1 if HQ)])

Does someone have a good point on why SE keeps these caps/thresholds secret? Not only for materia, I'm talking all of them (parry/acc etc).

It's been about 4 months now since original release, so of course there is a lot of information regarding this because of great people who try to help the community.

Shouldn't SE provide us with information on: acc caps per content, parry thresholds, secondary stat melding caps and whatnot?

I'm starting to think they don't even know, it's really bugging me.