Coverting gear

With the new converting gear change thingy that's coming up, does that consume materia we have on the piece already? (The change, as I understand it, is that it just drops the SB back down to 0%, right? but doesn't consume the item.)

Id still remove the materia anyway. This change is mostly so you can convert and still desynth, GC turn in, or use for a glamour.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

Id still remove the materia anyway. This change is mostly so you can convert and still desynth, GC turn in, or use for a glamour.

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Yes and no.

I often have gear at 100% spiritbond long before I'm finished with using it as actual gear, especially when levelling through quests.

It will be great to be able to siphon off that 100% charge and keep using it. Perhaps even reach 100% a second time.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It will be great to be able to siphon off that 100% charge and keep using it. Perhaps even reach 100% a second time.

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That's what I'm thinking. Pentamelded crafting/gathering gear gets to 100% "quickly". It would be nice to convert it and stay pentamelded. LOL. Probably won't happen though. That would be too nice.

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Originally Posted by Alisi

That's what I'm thinking. Pentamelded crafting/gathering gear gets to 100% "quickly". It would be nice to convert it and stay pentamelded. LOL. Probably won't happen though. That would be too nice.

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I think it's quite possible for it to work that way if it isn't changing the item at all.

Test it out first with something less precious than pentamelded crafting gear, though!

Yeah. This is easily testable day one by putting some cheap materia into a cheap item and seeing what happens.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

This change is mostly so you can convert and still desynth, GC turn in, or use for a glamour.

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I think it's more so that crafters and gatherers get a steady trickle of Materia by simply crafting and gathering. Remember it resets spiritbond, so you can technically repeat over and over.

I gain something like 10% spiritbond on one current timed node with a spiritbond potion. In less than an hour doing your rounds on timed nodes you'd get 12-13 grade VII and VIII's. That would build up to a fair amount of free materia over the duration of several patches and when the next set came out, you'd have a stockpile ready.

Same for an active crafter, if you use a lot of bulk mats you'd get bonus materia quick-synthing with a potion running.

just if you converted an item though that's pentamelded - would you lose the pentamelds? that's my question.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

just if you converted an item though that's pentamelded - would you lose the pentamelds? that's my question.

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We discussed it just above - we can't answer that. We have to wait and see.

We'll be "extracting materia" rather than "converting gear into materia" though, so my best guess is that it wouldn't affect melds.

Now that it's here, to answer the OP's question:

The materia attached to a piece is not removed or lost when you convert to materia. This change is huge.

I started off by converting materia from all of my gear. A handful of nodes for the new items later, and my Lignum Vitae accessories were at 100% again. I'm essentially printing materia now. Expect prices to drop drastically.