does elemental materia have a point?

[Lemuria]

The only thing it is exists for right now is pretty much to be transmuted into other kinds of materia. I have no idea if they were any good or not in 1.0 but they certainly aren't right now.

FTFY. Transmutation is far from 'good' and can, more often than not, just give you another elemental materia for your troubles. Converting 5 T4 earth materia into a T4 fire materia made me want to strangle a moogle. I wish they'd kill the randomness of transmutation, so that alike materia produce like identical results. After all, why would 5 battledance materia suddenly turn into a Quickarm materia? They're not even remotely close in ability or hue!

[Silkerin]

tbh i think the momment they decided to make elemental attributes not relevant for us and the monsters, the elemental materias should have been erased.

but... at least they can be melded to gear to make spirt bonding faster and not waste a possibly good enough materia for this...

[Felis]

It increase the speed of spiritbounding by 10% for the melded gear. And you can use 5 elemental materias to get one random materia.
The stat of the elemental materias need to get increased to make it also for combat useful. For now it is your "it failed" drop.

[Canadane]

FTFY. Transmutation is far from 'good' and can, more often than not, just give you another elemental materia for your troubles. Converting 5 T4 earth materia into a T4 fire materia made me want to strangle a moogle. I wish they'd kill the randomness of transmutation, so that alike materia produce like identical results. After all, why would 5 battledance materia suddenly turn into a Quickarm materia? They're not even remotely close in ability or hue!

Mutamix will not give you back a materia you've given him.
So don't give him 5 of the same type. For example, give him an earth, fire, wind, water, vit. He should return some realm saving materia rather than something useless.

[Waffilicious]

well yoshida did said at the beginning of 2.0 that he might return the elemental system and other old systems later on in the game but it is all in the air as a dim possibility

[Ryans]

1.0 elemental materia affected elemental potency. As a BLM, for instance, you could put on a bunch of lightning materia (thunder used to be the main single target spell instead of a dot) to boost your thunder magic damage. Some BLMs had a set of fire potency gear to increase their aoe damage, as well. WHMs were known to put wind materia on to increase their aero damage. Unfortunately, they did away with elemental based damage and made a very sought after type of materia into the most useless of materias.

I miss a lot of the features from 1.0...

[Recaldy]

Saving for the -ONE- chance that they would be relevant for relic upgrade.
Turns out I'm wrong but I'm still saving all mine just in case. <_<;

[Leowilde]

I actually wasn't aware that melding materia to equipment speeds up the spiritbonding process. Guess I must've slept through that class lol. Well now, that changes a lot...

Does the speed boost increase with each materia? And is it higher with higher lvl materias?

1.0 elemental materia affected elemental potency. As a BLM, for instance, you could put on a bunch of lightning materia (thunder used to be the main single target spell instead of a dot) to boost your thunder magic damage. Some BLMs had a set of fire potency gear to increase their aoe damage, as well. WHMs were known to put wind materia on to increase their aero damage. Unfortunately, they did away with elemental based damage and made a very sought after type of materia into the most useless of materias.

I miss a lot of the features from 1.0...

Yeah, I miss that some monsters were susceptible to different elements. It's been a regular thing in the Final Fantasy franchise that I was already well accustomed to before XIV, and I kinda took it for granted back then. Now they've removed it all together from ARR, which I think is a big shame. I see how it's kinda useless with the current spells available to mages, since fire is the only dd ability for BLM (because really; ice doesn't count, since it's mostly there for mana purposes). You wouldn't have any options.
Perhaps with later updates and a higher lvl cap, we could get more spells to choose from, that are all there for dd purposes. One of fire, one of ice, water, earth etc. And then give monsters their place in the elemental wheel again. This could also apply to weapons, for all classes/jobs, so as not to affect only mage players.

I dunno, just rambling down my thoughts here.

[Leigaon]

From my understanding the elemental resists give you a small chance to resist an attack entirely, so you would have something like Thunderstorm and take no damage. It would be nice for them to make these useful.

I always wanted to try it out too, get a set of ilv crafted gear. Pimp it out with elemental resistance gear and see what happens. It would be nice to give a elemental reduction in general rather than a chance at resisting entirely.

[Deifact]

They could perhaps be useful if they got their own seperate materia slots on gear. At least then you would have no reason to not use them, besides laziness I guess.