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.
Even if wearing gimp gear is promoted with this system the community can always like trail weapons reject people wearing crap gear. Tearing up your materia sounds more like a solo activity anyways.