I bet you think converting level 90 gear gives level IV materia 100% of the time.

[givemeraptors]

Useless:
Dex / Int / Mind - All naturally capped on gear.

This bugs me the most... why can we get these kinds of materia when they're not even cross-class. I mean, I guess you could make Dex accessories to increase block rate on a tank but the game is programmed to make that super inefficient versus just stacking parry.

I don't get it...

[Felis]

This bugs me the most... why can we get these kinds of materia when they're not even cross-class. I mean, I guess you could make Dex accessories to increase block rate on a tank but the game is programmed to make that super inefficient versus just stacking parry.

I don't get it...

For gears where these stats are not capped (crafted NQ gear, like from quest rewards)

[Nutz]

This change just doesn't make much sense in my head. SBing is faster now if done in ideal places, sure, but for i70 stuff the cost of materials can be very high. They need to adjust the recipes to require fewer GC bought/ dungeon found materials and/or add acquisition methods (ie. put them on unspoiled nodes). The biggest concern I'd have with the i70 stuff is that I could easily lose money SBing it.

Moreover, i55 stuff has the same rate of tier IV conversion as before, is much cheaper to buy/ make, and SBs faster now against ideal targets.

The only way the change to tier IV conversion would make sense to me is if the recipes/ materials for i70 stuff were changed to make them much cheaper and i90 stuff was still either 100% conversion or at least a very high rate. At this point I think the i90 stuff is actually cheaper to make with better materia yields, though from what I've seen they're still pretty low.

[Coatl]

This change just doesn't make much sense in my head.

I'm just as confused! The SB limitations make sense to me. You can and SHOULD SB stuff whose ilevels correspond with the dungeon. But now that i70-i90 crafts don't guarantee IV materia, who in their right mind would buy those crafted armors? This might devalue the crafting armors even more than they already are.

No one is being vocal about it but thist change doesn't seem to help anyone at all. No one will SB i70-i90 stuff and if they do they will be gambling a large amount of gil. You are better off only SBing i55 stuff now as they are cheap and easiest to SB, and still give you a chance at an IV.