Materia prices

[RaideDuku]

Supply has outpaced demand. Normally a consumable, as more people get end game armors that don't allow melding, the less people will need to buy, which will cause supply to increase. Sellers will sell at a lower rate in attempt to get their materia to sell for -something-.

[Ksenia]

What RaideDuku said.
And they are being farmed like everything else.

Sargatanas has MB sell orders for 50 Materia III stacks. If I can't sell the 55 DoM suits, I can SB them and rather quick if I do it in WP speed runs. I can SB a full 13 piece set killing 49's in a few hours.

[zdub303]

Materia prices are going down because the demand for i70 crafted gear (the only gear making use of materia) is crashing (I don't know how it is on other servers but over this last week philo mats have dropped from 19k a piece to around 7k a piece, in only seven days). This is mostly due to the availability of easily acquired i80 gear come 2.1. Thank god CT has a loot lockout or there would be literally zero demand for i70 crafted gear at all except for vanity purposes.

[KamikazeMan]

Because of the uselessness of crafted gear. Dungeon and Darklight gear won't cost you any gil...besides you gil you waste on repairs.

[snipski]

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

[Waliel]

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

Allagan is better for raw healing or damage, but the VIT you can get out of crafted accessories is nice.

[Black91CRX]

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

Heck, even il55 accessories fully melded are quite nice. I run them over DL.

[Billzey]

Allagan is better for raw healing or damage, but the VIT you can get out of crafted accessories is nice.

The accuracy on some of the crafted accessories is needed to hit cap for some jobs. In these cases, crafted accessories are actually BiS. It is also possible to put accuracy, skill/spell speed, determination, and critical hit rate all on one accessory (gryphonskin ring for example), whereas allagan/dl have only 3 secondary stats. That's not even to mention the extra vitality you can meld on them. In some sense, you can meld 5 extra stats to crafted accessories if you count vitality as one of them.

As a BRD, the only major upgrade for me accessory-wise is the mythology ring and now the wrist (I believe?) just released. However, I may not use ANY of the ilvl 90 accessories with the new bow as the new bow has no accuracy whatsoever.

[Kirhs]

Pretty soon it might actually be a good time to start *buying* materia when the prices drop low enough. Might be nice to be sitting on a little nest egg of materia for when the new batch of recipes is released in 2.2.