Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Again, the system should not incentivize the wearing of B-grade gear just to turn it into materia.
That'd generate a bunch of gimps showing up to the SP group with their trial weapons.
And that is counter-spirit to Matsui's new battle emphasis of rewarding effort and innovation.

The goal of the system is to eliminate GARBAGE gear.
The mechanism can't be that everyone wears that GARBAGE gear around to everything they do.

We WANT a system where a crab bow NQ isn't a very stellar bow, and a player that shows up with a NQ crab bow should have a harder time succeeding than one who shows up with a +2 or 3.

Matsui's toughened battle system+players bringing their trash out to party with=people getting sent back to town when they show up gimp to party.

I didn't allow trial weapon use in xp parties in XI, and I was pretty forgiving. I'm not going to tolerate someone showing up with a trash weapon and trash gear just so they can leech some sp and grow their materia.

And a stupid system that makes you do skill up sessions just so you can grow materia is archaic and inferior.

Just don't require that the attachment be on a piece of equipment that you wear. There is NO point in doing so.
Considering the details we do know are scarce, give it a little time before you pass judgment on the system before we even know exactly how we'll have to go about it. For all we know, growing the "bond" with your weapon to be able to upgrade it might be something that comes naturally during, for instance, Raptor grinds.

I do agree with the first part of your post though, garbage gear needs to be eliminated quick. And, considering all we have in the game is garbage stat-wise (barring Dodore Doublet lol?), it'd be a big step in the right direction.