Bring Back the Soul To FFXIV:ARR

[Welsper59]

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The materia thing is a tricky beast to take on. You can't make new skills a part of it for two reasons (one of which is simply a contradiction to the way you feel about scrolls). The first being that something like new abilities/skills essentially make that materia a mandatory thing. Unless it were simply cosmetic, that is. When it comes to stats and abilities, customization does not exist in MMORPGs no matter how much we like to dream it possible. It just... isn't going to happen in those situations. The other reason being that you would essentially have the exact same situation as the scrolls in FFXI. Want to be a DPS? No ones going to take you unless you buy this expensive/important materia for your weapon.

[Kelg]

The materia thing is a tricky beast to take on. You can't make new skills a part of it for two reasons (one of which is simply a contradiction to the way you feel about scrolls). The first being that something like new abilities/skills essentially make that materia a mandatory thing. Unless it were simply cosmetic, that is. When it comes to stats and abilities, customization does not exist in MMORPGs no matter how much we like to dream it possible. It just... isn't going to happen in those situations. The other reason being that you would essentially have the exact same situation as the scrolls in FFXI. Want to be a DPS? No ones going to take you unless you buy this expensive/important materia for your weapon.

Not quite, in FFXI you couldn't have your most basic spells if you didn't buy them(Cures, Raise, Sleep II, etc.), and knowing this, people would game the system and charge many millions of gil for spells like Raise III, and stuff.

These skills would have to be skills that the players could live without, like perhaps a long CD off GCD attack, or something similar to the PVP skill that removes status ailments on long CD. Things that can be useful, but aren't needed.