I honestly hope that they are not going to make it so that if you go bust on a materia enhancement you lose the gear on top of whatever materia that you have already successfully attached to the item.

Here's the situation that is going to play out. Let's say Fafnir get's added to the game and will drop the double attack sword Ridill. Everybody who can wield that sword is going to have dreams of adding 5 pieces of materia on top of it. People involved with endgame LSs are going to have to watch and people continuously explode the sword while they try and go for the 5 materia mega sword. I hope that maybe something was lost in translation here and we just need a bit of clarification because this would just cause more problems then it's worth.

Overall I think the system they've worked out with crafting and materia is awesome. I just hope that little detail there is not actually true.