Materia post Novus

[Eggnook24]

That would be a foolish illusion of choice, like the job stat point allocation system. Novus did its job of being actually customizable because secondary stats aren't as clear-cut, but melding main stats would only ever result in the exact same weapon across all characters, unless they are deliberately being contrarian. It would be nice to have anything worth using main stat materia on, but this is not the solution.

This is SE we are talking about. The choice of free will is an illusion to min/maxers anyway. As a SCH, Mind is a no brainer, but which if the other main stats would you choose after that? VIT, maybe parry(lol)?

[Barboron]

VIT, maybe parry(lol)?

Parry as a main stat? what?


And come on, if anyone has browsed these forums for any amount of time they should know that most speculation is just nonsense.

I have to agree with Triston. Any deviation off the current main stats would just be ridiculous. A tank with DEX instead for the parry? And replace STR to lose aggro? No tanks. How about Replace VIT and die? Again, no thanks. If SE makes it that you have to meld the main stat, it would just be idiotic because there would be little to no deviation from that which would be expected...the current main stats. And if speculation is anything to go by, then what about when NIN comes along? It's been confirmed to use DEX+ traits but it also has melee attacks. Then what? Weapons always, if not almost always, have VIT and one other main stat. This is the only place I could see it being used to give NIN STR and DEX instead of one those and VIT