Please help clarify if this is correct or not

Materia effects active during PvP only.

During PvP, Materia bonuses are also ignored.

Here's a test I tried: My crit rating is 768, synced and inside the feast it's 658.

Then I melded a Savage Aim IV Materia Critical Hit Rate +9 into my PvP Gauntlets.

Melding showed a successful gain of +9 crit rating on the gauntlets.
After melding my crit rating is 768 still which is to be expected so far.

Synced and inside the feast my crit rating is 658 still. No change.



Finally My question and maybe I need to do further testing is pvp materia will only work on pvp gear and inside pvp instances only, no exceptions? No non pvp materia inside to gain extra crit on my enemy. Also outside questing or farming or doing alexander bosses melding crit + 9 into my halone's gauntlets won't do anything.


Basically boiling it down to you can't use pvp gear for pve, and pve gear/materia for pvp? Do I have this all correct?


My brain hurts just trying to figure this out.:confused:

PVP materia is literally useless trash everywhere. You cannot use PVP materia in PVP nor in PVE. Why they havent removed it from the game yet idk. Materia in general will not work in any PVP instance (regardless of whether its PVP or PVE materia they will not work in PVP). It will not work in frontlines, feast nor the fold.

It was great for leveling desynths, but outside that, pvp materia or PVE materia in pvp hasn't been utilized since patch 2.4 hit.

I still don't understand. I feel so stupid. Can someone explain this to me like i'm an eighth grader?

Can anyone give in an example: Funguar Shriek Materia 1 Sleep Resistance +2

How this item is to be used and an example of how it is not to be used?

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Originally Posted by Bloodb

I still don't understand. I feel so stupid. Can someone explain this to me like i'm an eighth grader?

Can anyone give in an example: Funguar Shriek Materia 1 Sleep Resistance +2

How this item is to be used and an example of how it is not to be used?

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It can't be used at all period.

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Originally Posted by Bloodb

Materia effects active during PvP only.

During PvP, Materia bonuses are also ignored.

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You're not reading anything wrong. Materia effects only work in PvP, and during PvP, materia effects are ignored.

So it doesn't work.

Basically, things used to work differently. Like Morale. And then they revamped everything, but left all the stuff that was still there, without dealing with it.

Good GRIEF! This is like April fools on steroids.

I can't be the only one who has been fooled by this.



So in the future can the pvp gear please be made WITHOUT materia slots and WITHOUT Morale Rating..... PLEASE!!


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Not that anyone does it anymore but doesn't materia still work in lvl 50 (unsynced) Fold?? ..that is, if the option's still up there..haven't looked ina while.

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Originally Posted by Vaeria

Not that anyone does it anymore but doesn't materia still work in lvl 50 (unsynced) Fold?? ..that is, if the option's still up there..haven't looked ina while.

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Nah this mode doesn't exist anymore.

Materia doesnt work when ilevel sync is in effect, ever. It doesnt matter if, for example, you wear all ilvl 150 (or below) gear, you're still considered to be "synced". Same with wolves den, even if you're level 50, and wearing all ilvl 80 or below gear, you're still "synced" and materia gets disabled.

Yeah its crazy, and idk why pvp gear has sockets that never work, or why pvp materia is still in the game. Both are 100% pointless. (ok with the exception of desynth/spiritbonding xD very clever whoever pointed that out)

One question the OP asked that hasn't been clearly answered yet is - do standard materia (ie Heaven's Eye) work in the normal world if melded to PVP gear?

It seems that he melded a materia that many of us use every day onto PVP gear but it had zero effect on his stats *anywhere*, even if standing doing nothing in Idyllshire. Or at least that's how I interpreted his statement.

All pvp gear states, "materia active during pvp only", so no, it'll never be active during PVE.

The thing is, in the df listings for all pvp duties it also states, "During PvP, materia bonuses are ignored"

What often happens is people assume that the statement on pvp gear overrides the duty finder statement, because it'd be pretty absurd for the game to tell us "materia in this gear doesnt work outside pvp, except materia doesnt work in pvp either". So you'll sometimes hear people say that "only materia socketed to pvp gear works in pvp" or "only pvp materia in pvp gear works in pvp", but neither of these is the case. PvP gear having materia sockets, and the wording surrounding them, is easily the most absurd thing in the game imo.

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Originally Posted by Enlial

All pvp gear states, "materia active during pvp only", so no, it'll never be active during PVE.

The thing is, in the df listings for all pvp duties it also states, "During PvP, materia bonuses are ignored"

What often happens is people assume that the statement on pvp gear overrides the duty finder statement, because it'd be pretty absurd for the game to tell us "materia in this gear doesnt work outside pvp, except materia doesnt work in pvp either". So you'll sometimes hear people say that "only materia socketed to pvp gear works in pvp" or "only pvp materia in pvp gear works in pvp", but neither of these is the case. PvP gear having materia sockets, and the wording surrounding them, is easily the most absurd thing in the game imo.

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Well put, this whole concept boggles my mind >__<

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Originally Posted by Enlial

All pvp gear states, "materia active during pvp only", so no, it'll never be active during PVE.

The thing is, in the df listings for all pvp duties it also states, "During PvP, materia bonuses are ignored"

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Wow, that's an utter cluster of a mess! So basically there's no reason to meld anything PVP related at all as it will never work! GG, SE.