Quote Originally Posted by Daniolaut View Post
i70 and i90 gear previously could grant tier IV materia as well as i45~ and above (i know i have gotten tier IV from i48 gear.)

The change that they are implementing is, when you convert i70 into materia in relation to converting i90, the i90 gear now has a higher rate at which you can obtain tier IV materia.

Since no one is able to test the new information we dont know the % at which you can obtain tier IV from i90.

The wording states specifically, that the higher the ilvl the greater chance at which you can obtain tier IV.
I am confused with what the patch notes meant here. I am pretty sure part of it meant that IL45-IL69 gears will have lesser chance to convert to Tier IV materia, in conjunction to the revised SB rate/rules to prevent people from wearing IL45-55 gears into ST and dungeons to SB as it caused quite some QQ and complaints in forums.

But the notes seems to also hint that IL70 will no longer give a 100% Tier IV conversion rate, and probably only IL90 guarantees Tier IV.

This would have a hit on the supply of Tier IV materia and cause it likely to rocket even higher.

If true, it might also hint that there might not be Tier V materia in Patch 2.4 (since IL70 guarantees Tier IV, I was expecting IL90 to guarantee Tier V), or IL90 doesn't give 100% Tier V for the new IL110 crafted gears and cause creating and pentamelding IL110 gears extremely expensive than ever.