2.28 patch notes

[Urielparadox]

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I'm going on the assumption that you will have limited slots and have to meld the right amount of materia, not use unlimited lvl 1's
The materia exchange is an awful system , you can't choose what you get back, it's a negative exchange, and as I said you chance of getting a secondary stat(or one worth gil) are extremely rare esp in this method(it's simple math), and every materia has a different value so I can't trade with players, so I have no idea what you are talking about trading materia.
you are less likely to get a level 4 materia from 45 gear compared to i70 so yeah i'm not going to waste time with 45.
Your ignoring a hundred other factors, largely this is a weapon quest line for people whom play a disciple of the war class and are working on a weapon. I shouldn't be forced to go level a craft to lvl 50 so you can do this potion of the question without spending gil large amounts of gil, oh wait leveling a craft to 50 takes millions of gil.

I'm largely annoyed more so because this means gill sellers are going to be worse then ever and SINCE SE doesn't do anything to stop gill sellers they are going to be spamming the chat log even more. it's hard enough to play this game outside of DF now days thanks to gilseller spam this is just going to make it worse.