[dev1017] Materia crafting system & Materia: A Matter of Mystery (08/26/2011)

[Xenor]

People hate risk in games. They just want everything handed down to them with no effort involved. If most mouth breathers got their way the system would be dumbed down to the point where there's no quests to get started, you can desynth equipment into materia and then go trade 5 bits of materia to an NPC along with an item and get your 5 slotted gear.

I've bitched quite a lot about the other crafting changes but this whole materia system is made of win. It even makes sense now why items will be easier to produce. I'm still against removing training books and taking quality out of the HQ equation however. But considering how many HQ crab bows I'll be blowing up for that crab bow +5 materia I'll be glad that each hard earned HQ coral equates to an HQ bow.

[Astray]

People hate risk in games. They just want everything handed down to them with no effort involved. If most mouth breathers got their way the system would be dumbed down to the point where there's no quests to get started, you can desynth equipment into materia and then go trade 5 bits of materia to an NPC along with an item and get your 5 slotted gear.

I've bitched quite a lot about the other crafting changes but this whole materia system is made of win. It even makes sense now why items will be easier to produce. I'm still against removing training books and taking quality out of the HQ equation however. But considering how many HQ crab bows I'll be blowing up for that crab bow +5 materia I'll be glad that each hard earned HQ coral equates to an HQ bow.

That crab bow will be worth $$$$.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

People hate risk in games. They just want everything handed down to them with no effort involved. If most mouth breathers got their way the system would be dumbed down to the point where there's no quests to get started, you can desynth equipment into materia and then go trade 5 bits of materia to an NPC along with an item and get your 5 slotted gear.

I've bitched quite a lot about the other crafting changes but this whole materia system is made of win. It even makes sense now why items will be easier to produce. I'm still against removing training books and taking quality out of the HQ equation however. But considering how many HQ crab bows I'll be blowing up for that crab bow +5 materia I'll be glad that each hard earned HQ coral equates to an HQ bow.

Well said, and this is why it's usually best to wait until we have all the info before critizising something.

The training books are being temporarily removed out of the crafting equations but they are not going away completely, they will have their uses later so you can consider that you will be ready for it if you bought them already.

Also it's not really taking the quality out of the equation for a HQ item, it's rather removing the luck factor and RGN out when trying to HQ something. You spent time gathering HQ mats? then you should get the HQ craft. Plus like you said, they need to do that if we are going to break lots of them trying to pack them with materias.