Quote Originally Posted by Kitkat View Post
Sadly you can't continue to use lower grades of materia, at least it won't let me. After I got to 11 on Tier one for crit it forced me to do Tier II, and same for when I got 11 in Tier II, now I have to do Tier III. I've yet to confirm if you can have 3 stats though. All I've see is just speculation/talk. I haven't seen an actual screen shot where someone put work into 3 different stats.
you can.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ystem-findings