Materia changes wishlist

I've seen discussions about materia changes in tank, dps and healer wishlist and I thought why not creating a thread to regroup your wishlist.

I'll start with mine (they are obivously strongly influented by what I saw)

• Crit now only increase crit chance.
• DH change name and now increase crit bonus damage.
• Piety change name and now increase MP and HP natural recovery
• Tenacity now increase HP pool and reduce damage taken enough to compensate lower level gear. (ilvl 640 with full tenacity melted protect as much as ilvl 660 without tenacity melted for example)
• Det now only increase damage done while an new stat increase healing done.
• Separate materia in two categories so they don't compete with each other.

I just see materia as a gil/time sink. Outside of Speed (which is more personalized to the user and their system), there tends to be a "right" answer. Personally, I find that boring, because you're not really customizing as much as you are putting the square block in the square hole. I wish there were some manner of compelling side-grades, though that's likely unrealistic given the nature of combat in FF14.

I think skillspeed/spellspeed need to be merged for the sake of us Paladins and even dark knights, Tenacity I'd like to see it also Increase healing, as well as a major defensive and hp increase.

I think if you split melds it could be interesting, one being damage, your crit's DH, Det and all that DPS stuff and the other being other stuff (such as defensive, even Utility CD's, healing, hp ect.) Honestly something a little bit more spicy with melds would at least make the game feel a bit more fresh.

I would like tenacity removed as a stat and just baked into base tank stats( ie health and defence).

Skill speed and spell speed combined into one materia called haste

DH either removed or reworked to stop the crazy crit RNG.

Add in a few new melds

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Originally Posted by Derio

I would like tenacity removed as a stat and just baked into base tank stats( ie health and defence).

Skill speed and spell speed combined into one materia called haste

DH either removed or reworked to stop the crazy crit RNG.

Add in a few new melds

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I think adding more DPS melds really doesn't do a whole lot for the game other then making melding slightly more annoying. It's better off if we either had a few melds, let Crit, DH, Det, speed rather then more melds that already achieve the same thing, I do think DH should be crit bonus damage, while Crit should be crit rate, that will nerf them both and make RNG crits less of a requirement.

I think the issue is more or less how boring "meld crit/dh" is, it's just a money sink, at least if haste (merged skill/spell) was on par with those stats you'd have some fun builds like speed builds, Defensive/utility builds can't really work on the current Endwalker design either, but could work as separate melds.