Is grade V mind materia useful in anything?

I don't think it could be melded into any healer gear, so is it useful at all?

If you have 5 "useless" materia, bring them to the goblin in Central Thanalan and combine them. You will get another random V materia, which could be very useful.

There is also a chance of getting a V materia by combinging 5 IV materia. I've gotten at least 10 V this way before there was Mhach.


Another use, thought I wouldn't recommend it with V materia is to increase spirit bond rate or desynthesis rate. Equipping any materia to any piece of gear will increase the spiritbond rate and increase chance of successful desynth as well. But, of course, grade I materia are preferable because they are so cheap.

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Originally Posted by FinaSel

If you have 5 "useless" materia, bring them to the goblin in Central Thanalan and combine them. You will get another random V materia, which could be very useful.

There is also a chance of getting a V materia by combinging 5 IV materia. I've gotten at least 10 V this way before there was Mhach.


Another use, thought I wouldn't recommend it with V materia is to increase spirit bond rate or desynthesis rate. Equipping any materia to any piece of gear will increase the spiritbond rate and increase chance of successful desynth as well. But, of course, grade I materia are preferable because they are so cheap.

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So it doesn't have any actual use in battle? Why, SE, why...

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Originally Posted by platorepublic

So it doesn't have any actual use in battle? Why, SE, why...

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I heard that people would meld crafting gear with main stats and then use that to kill stuff faster (like urth's font). However, at this point, the amount of main stat you lose by equipping a piece of crafting gear instead of normal gear is way too high to be made up with materia, especially now that you can't overmeld main stats.

I think its mainly there for sake of complement. If it wasn't, people would likely complain, that it isn't there. On the other hand, it can be usefull if you wan't to play a BLM or SMN who can decently heal himself. If this would be fun or efficient is another matter, but I thought for some time about this, as think it is a shame, that dps classes have almost no means to heal themself, making them hard to use for soloing contend that isn't supposed to be soloed.

I suppose you could meld MND onto VIT accessories....

Otherwise take them to the gobbie.

Of the primary stat materia (Str, Vit, Dex, Int, Mnd) only Str and Vit have any real use.

Any tank worth his/her salt will meld Str to their Vit accessories.

Raiders may meld Vit to their non-tank accessories in order to boost their HP, enabling them to survive just a little bit longer.

Otherwise, no use for the primary stat materia.

On another note, given the availability of grade IV materia through beast tribes now, and grade V through Mhachi matter/demimatter and PotD, is there any reason to hold on to grade I - III materia? We've already had the stat mod step on the anima questline so no chance of the Zodiac scroll melding mess.

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Originally Posted by Ninster

On another note, given the availability of grade IV materia through beast tribes now, and grade V through Mhachi matter/demimatter and PotD, is there any reason to hold on to grade I - III materia? We've already had the stat mod step on the anima questline so no chance of the Zodiac scroll melding mess.

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I have a lot of grade 1-3 materia, and I don't know what to do with them too! I guess I could just go over to mutamix, but am too lazy, I think I will just horde them for now, maybe will be useful in the future?

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Originally Posted by Shadygrove

I suppose you could meld MND onto VIT accessories....

Otherwise take them to the gobbie.

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i actually did that back in 2.0 xD i did not liked the look of the healer earrings, but the glamour system was not implemented at that time. so i got the ilvl 70 tank earrings for my healer and melded them with mind materia ^^

can you use it to raise a main stat on a piece of NQ crafted gear? It's niche but it's another use.

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Originally Posted by Ninster

On another note, given the availability of grade IV materia through beast tribes now, and grade V through Mhachi matter/demimatter and PotD, is there any reason to hold on to grade I - III materia? We've already had the stat mod step on the anima questline so no chance of the Zodiac scroll melding mess.

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Depends on the materia and what you may want to do. Crafting and gathering can be hit by mixing some low level materia in so if they're cheap, they're cost effective for the last overmelds. I've also tossed some III's into battle gear when overmelding when I get tired of blowing up IV's. III's can be fairly cheap thanks for airships.

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Originally Posted by platorepublic

So it doesn't have any actual use in battle? Why, SE, why...

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Because for something to be called good there has to be options that aren't as good.

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Originally Posted by Griffey

can you use it to raise a main stat on a piece of NQ crafted gear? It's niche but it's another use.

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Yes.

If you use normal quality crafted gear you can use main stat materia to make it almost-as-good as high quality. That's the only legit use for it unless you are a tank.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

If you use normal quality crafted gear you can use main stat materia to make it almost-as-good as high quality. That's the only legit use for it unless you are a tank.

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This is true, but as someone else mentioned, getting VIT accessories, and adding primary stats to them. This used to be very common for healers in PvP back in 2.1, idk about now, as i dont PvP, but maybe this still applies, as having enough HP to live through some stuff really helps, but then again, it might be better to heal more.

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Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon

This is true, but as someone else mentioned, getting VIT accessories, and adding primary stats to them. This used to be very common for healers in PvP back in 2.1, idk about now, as i dont PvP, but maybe this still applies, as having enough HP to live through some stuff really helps, but then again, it might be better to heal more.

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Materia doesn't work in PvP anymore.

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Originally Posted by aesteval

Depends on the materia and what you may want to do. Crafting and gathering can be hit by mixing some low level materia in so if they're cheap, they're cost effective for the last overmelds. I've also tossed some III's into battle gear when overmelding when I get tired of blowing up IV's. III's can be fairly cheap thanks for airships.

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Also, the lower the grade of the materia is, the better chances it has for overmelding. At least in craft and gather gear most of them are possible to max meld with using lesser grade materias on the last spots.When materia I a) costs about tenth of IV, and b) has better chance to stick, not to mention it still fills the stat, sure I rather go with the lower grade.