3.x+ endgame gear

It would be interesting to see materia slots (but no possibility of overmelds) on new endgame equipment that cannot utilize existing materia types. It would be interesting to see gear diversity by means other than the few stats we have currently on equipment. Adding options such as: DEF, MDEF, Slashing/Blunt/Piercing resist, evasion, food duration+, Conserve/Save TP, Conserve/Save MP, Occasionally annulls magic/physical damage taken. These materia could come from spiritbonding and converting old raid gear (Binding Coil, Second Coil, Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, etc) which would also keep people doing them.

For example:
Lv60, Item Level 150 body
DEF+ MDEF+
stat+ VIT+
substat+ substat+

O Magic Defense V materia (+5)
O Magic Defense V materia (+5)

Lv60, Item Level 150 feet
DEF+ MDEF+
stat+ VIT+
substat+ substat+

O Conserve TP IV materia (+4% chance to use half TP on a weaponskill)
O Food Duration III materia (+90 seconds)

You will mostly get objections here. People here like choosing how they look like but don't want to be told they can choose how to gear their stats.

It scares them.

I don't mind the slotting items for more customizable stats.

The only issue I have with it is if certain materia becomes ridiculously expensive, as raiding on its own is already a gil sink unless you are selling runs. Most raiders I know are actually quite poor, with many having less than 500,000 gil, but also don't mind not having lots of gil. If it came up that we do need lots of gil, we would probably resort to run selling to make ends meet.

Food and pots are already expensive, and raiding takes a lot of time as is. I would rather spend my non-raid time helping others through stuff they are stuck on than have to grind gil.

I am expecting Yoshi to start taking more and more risks with systems such as stats since the game has become fairly successful. They played it safe the first year so they could get a good base. Honestly, I am thinking an overhaul of the class system and the addition of new stats in Heavensward.

If they were to do something like this it could also bring some life to older content if they were to make converting previous raid gear (First, Second, Final Coil and CT/ST) the way to get said materia.

I'd definitely like to see a broader range of options for what effects materia would give, I was a big fan of the way they did gear in XI (pre-Abyssea) though...so yeah.

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Originally Posted by Ryans

I am expecting Yoshi to start taking more and more risks with systems such as stats.

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Just like how all my multi melded materia gear is now useless in any ilvl synched dungeon...even if that gear is only Ilvl70.

I for one welcome more options and more stats. Right now there isn't even the illusion of choice when it comes to your stats, or anything really...

I'd rather they scrap the materia system entirely, the way it is now. Novel secondary perks like that would make it far more interesting, but I have no illusions that they're going to undo the stat whitewashing.